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  • 2011 World Conference for a total ban on nuclear weapons

    The 2011 World Conference against A & H Bombs begins on August 3 in Hiroshima. Yasui Masakazu, secretary general of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), speaks on the features of this year’s conference.

  • Shifting of plants abroad due to power shortages has no grounds

    Japanese business leaders are threatening to move their companies’ production bases to other Asian countries unless power shortages are resolved. However, Asian nations are facing even more severe electricity shortages.

  • Shii speaks to commemorate 89th JCP founding anniv.

    Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo speaks on the JCP founding spirit - work to reduce people’s hardships - displayed in the 3.11 disaster relief activities.
  • POLITICS

  • Whoever the prime minister is, we will stand side by disaster victims: JCP chair
  • LABOR

  • Zenroren: substantial minimum wage increase needed to restore disaster victims’ lives
  • JCP

  • Shii speaks to commemorate 89th JCP founding anniv.

  • All JCP assembly members in Fukushima City reelected

  • JCP international activities
  • WELFARE

  • Basic law for disabled persons revised
  • NUCLEAR CRISIS

  • Shifting of plants abroad due to power shortages has no grounds

  • TEPCO cuts electricity to Fukushima-affected farmers who are in arrears of past due bill

  • editorial Business circles are in no position to complain of government request to reduce power consumption

  • NISA’s manipulation of public opinion must be thoroughly investigated: JCP Ichida

  • Interim report on national energy policy shows gov’t’s reluctance to shift from N-energy
  • GREAT EAST JAPAN DISASTER

  • JCP urgent proposal to solve disaster victims’ ‘double loan’ problem

  • Gov’t restoration policy ignores victims, favors businesses
  • ANTI-N-ARMS

  • 2011 World Conference for a total ban on nuclear weapons
  • EDUCATION

  • Tokyo approves war-justifying textbooks for junior high schools
  • WOMEN

  • 8,500 mothers resolved to save children from nuclear power
  • TERRITORIAL ISSUE

  • Takeshima question should be resolved based on historical facts and international law: JCP Ichida
  • To Our Readers

  • NOTE: for one week of summer holidays, the next update will be on August 19


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