Japan Press Weekly

PM Kan’s apology for DPJ manifesto courts LDP and Komei

Prime Minster Kan Naoto at an Upper House Budget Committee meeting on July 22 apologized for non-fulfillment of his party’s key promises made in the 2009 election manifesto with which the party had called upon voters to replace the old government.

Shii on how JCP views surge in the Middle East for democratic change

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo speaks on the movements demanding democratic change taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and in other Middle East countries.

Who benefits from NPP ‘community of interest’?

Yoshii Hidekatsu, House of Representatives member of the Japanese Communist Party, outlines the structure of the “community of interest” that includes both the political and business arenas benefitting from nuclear power generation.

PM Kan’s apology for DPJ manifesto courts LDP and Komei

‘Best mix’, the mantra of continued nuclear power promotion

To not show its satellite images, gov’t buys US satellite pics

Japan still wants to push NPP exports

Diet enacts 2nd supplementary budget rescuing TEPCO

DM plans to build 385 housing units for US forces

Gov’t should stop Sony’s dismissal in disaster-hit Miyagi: JCP

Foreign labor organizations pay attention to JAL dismissal

 Decent working conditions must be ensured for the disabled

Defense chief uses disaster relief to beef up military readiness

 End any attempt to strengthen SDF activities abroad

Economic white paper goes against recovery, calling for free trade

Shii on how JCP views surge in the Middle East for democratic change

Shii speaks to foreign press on nuclear power issue

Welfare Ministry to exclude aid recipients’ borrowing of money to buy air conditioners as income

Who benefits from NPP ‘community of interest’?

‘Safety myth’ instilled in primary school children

Science and Technology Agency monitored opponents of nuclear power

We are victims: livestock farmer in Fukushima

METI schemes resumption of Genkai NPP operations: JCP Yoshii

Fukushima livestock farmers: Compensate us!

Member of 3rd party body of Fukushima accident defends TEPCO in TEPCO suits

5,000 call for decommissioning of Hamaoka NPP

Hibakusha stage sit-in against US nuclear tests

Rightist civics textbooks distort constitutional principles