Japan Press Weekly

JCP doubles its number of assembly seats in tsunami-hit Miyagi

The Japanese Communist Party on November 13 achieved a successful outcome in an election for the 59-seat Miyagi prefectural assembly, and doubled the number of its assembly seats from 2 to 4.

TEPCO’s tyrannical control promoted N-power generation

A mid-1960s internal document of TEPCO listed as labor control measures: exclude members of the JCP from union executives in order to select and foster human resources obedience to the company; and categorize communist sympathizers into three levels in order to determine suitable countermeasures. (“Overcome discrimination and oppression” - Part 1)

Counter-public DPJ gov’t has no future

About 80% of municipal assemblies expressed opposition to or need for careful consideration regarding Japan’s entry into the TPP talks. More than 11.7 million people signed anti-TPP petitions. The DPJ-led government paid no notice at all to these voices. Can this be called a democratic government?

Hold general election to raise consumption tax: LDP urges DPJ

Counter-public DPJ gov’t has no future

Nearly half of US forces’ civilian employees go unpunished after committing crimes

 Tanks on public roadways scare residents

Days of Japan-US joint military drills reach a record high in FY2010

Farmers, doctors, consumers, and lawmakers unite to block TPP entry

PM must retract decision to enter TPP talks: JCP Shii

Record-high 2 million people receive welfare benefits

Residents seek court order to shutdown Tsuruga reactors

Data on 13,000 ‘black rain’ cases discovered

612 people file lawsuit for Tomari N-plant to be scrapped

Women’s group collects 126,000 signatures to stop nuclear energy

Foundation of nuclear ‘safety myth’

‘Safety myth’ ruined

TEPCO’s tyrannical control promoted N-power generation

Okinawa pref. assembly urges state to give up final environmental assessment on Henoko

Say ‘No’ to Hashimoto’s dictatorial rule over Osaka in two local elections: JCP Shii

JCP doubles its number of assembly seats in tsunami-hit Miyagi

JCP calls for people-oriented reconstruction in Fukushima assembly election

Fukushima farmer runs local election backed by JCP

JCP mayor reelected in Nagano’s Minamimaki Village

Discriminatory inheritance rights against out-of-wedlock children in Japan