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4,800 Japanese youth bring 99%ers’ protest to Japan
About 4,800 Japanese young people on October 23 shouted, “End the disposable use of labor!” and joined in the worldwide 99%ers’ movement against poverty and social inequality that began on NYC Wall Street.
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Use NPP-related firms’ reserve funds for nuclear damage compensation
The JCP has requested the government to use 80 trillion yen of the internal reserves of major corporations benefitting from the nuclear power generation industry to compensate for damage and clean up the radiation contamination caused by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.
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Internet viewers support JCP’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy
75.7 % of viewers of an Internet broadcast program on October 18 expressed their support to an idea to have the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes proposed by Japanese Communist Party Dietmember Kokuta Keiji.
- POLITICS
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Dietmembers forcibly selected to discuss constitutional revision
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Shii speaks to JCP Dietmembers stance to take at extraordinary Diet session
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Small-constituency system distorts public will: JCP Kokuta
- SDF
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Majority of residents oppose US military exercise at Mageshima Island
- ECONOMY
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Major papers whip Noda gov’t to enter TPP
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Internet viewers support JCP’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy
- JCP
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Ichida talks with Nepalese ambassador
- NUCLEAR CRISIS
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Use NPP-related firms’ reserve funds for nuclear damage compensation
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JCP local assembly members in Chiba request state support for radioactive decontamination
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A memo by US assistant to secretary of defense
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TEPCO’s manuals fail to deal with full power loss
- OKINAWA
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Nago mayor requests retraction of plan for US base construction to foreign minister
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Okinawans’ court action opens over US military aircraft noise pollution
- ANTI-N-ARMS
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Nihon Hidankyo celebrates 55th anniversary
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Hibakusha work for compensation of A-bomb damage and closure of nuclear plants
- EDUCATION
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Osaka governor uses abusive words toward P.E.N. Club
- TOKYO
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Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly approves 2020 Olympics bid
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DPJ, LDP Tokyo assemblypersons go on Olympics-study trips
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Outsourced tide gates remained open during 3.11 tsunami
- FOREIGN POLICY
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Japan returns cultural assets to South Korea
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Proactive diplomatic strategy needed to resolve Japan-DPRK issues: Kasai
- CIVIL RIGHTS
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Democratic lawyers group marks 90th anniversary
- YOUTH
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4,800 Japanese youth bring 99%ers’ protest to Japan