Japan Press Weekly

Osaka mayor defends assemblyman over fabricated anti-union data

Osaka City Mayor Hashimoto Toru keeps defending an assemblyman of the mayor’s own party “Osaka Ishin-no Kai” who presented fabricated information to the city assembly with the intent of attacking a city workers’ union.

JAL plans to hire new employees while cutting numerous jobs

Japan Airlines on April 9 announced its plan to hire 200 new employees as cabin attendants while having conducted massive dismissals of pilots and cabin crew.

JCP Yoshii criticizes TEPCO’s unilateral raise in electric rates

Japanese Communist Party Yoshii Hidekatsu on April 12 demanded that the government order Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to cancel the unilateral increase in electric rates by threatening its customers with cutting their electricity supply.

 1,700 post offices in danger of closure

Yokosuka citizens protest against transport of radioactive wastes from US warship

Noise of 100dB hits schools near US Futenma base

Pushed by JCP, Panasonic returns subsidies to Chiba

JAL plans to hire new employees while cutting numerous jobs

Retract JAL dismissals to ensure flight safety: JCP Kokuta

Dismissed JAL workers appeal court judgments

Court rejects ex-Isuzu contingent workers’ demands

5,000 people rally to stop consumption tax increase

JA-Zenchu president calls on PM to not take part in TPP

 To aggravate welfare system further increases poverty

Don’t abandon Minamata disease sufferers: JCP Ichida

Nuclear energy businesses also funded NSC members

Application for compensation from TEPCO obscure

Fukushima residents launch joint action for nuclear damage compensation

Another 70,000 anti-NPP signatures submitted to Ibaraki gov’t

Local chamber of commerce claims TEPCO’s electric rate hike to be unfair

JCP Yoshii criticizes TEPCO’s unilateral raise in electric rates

Scientists’ association opposes restart of NPP

Amid protests, gov’t judges restarting of Oi NPP reactors as valid

Not allowing N-plant restart is mass suicide: DPJ Sengoku

Fukushima’s evacuated high schools undergo hardships

A-bomb photo exhibition scheduled in Vienna

Anti-nuke group urges gov’t to take initiative in NPT meeting

Osaka mayor defends assemblyman over fabricated anti-union data

Hashimoto: City workers should curry favor with me

Residents demand reconsideration of plan to build linear motor Shinkansen

Shii issues statement protesting N. Korea’s ‘rocket’-launch