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  • A lot of bad policies by ex-Tokyo governor Ishihara

    Ishihara Shintaro has abandoned his position as the Tokyo metropolitan governor two years and a half before his term expires. He was a figure who ruthlessly discarded welfare programs while eagerly promoting large development projects.

  • editorial  Japan hampers international efforts to ban nukes

    The governments of 34 countries have recently issued an initiative calling on all the countries of the world to intensify their efforts to outlaw nuclear weapons and achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. Japan, however, refused to join the efforts.

  • Shii urges US Embassy Minister-Counselor to remove all US bases from Japan

    JCP Chair Shii Kazuo in talks with U.S. Embassy Political Minister-Counselor Robert Luke on October 29 protested against the recent rape of a woman by U.S. sailors and the forcible deployment of Ospreys in Okinawa, and demanded the complete withdrawal of U.S. bases from Japan.
  • POLITICS

  • Yakuza-connected justice minister resigns

  • Ishin no Kai Matsui received illegal corporate donations: citizens’ ombudsmen

  • Business world: 10% consumption tax is still not enough

  • JCP Shii calls for snap general election to seek public verdict
  • US FORCES

  • editorial Japan-US military exercise to retake occupied isle would be unconstitutional and harm attempts to solve territorial issue

  • Rape cases by US servicemen concentrated in Okinawa and Kanagawa

  • Ex-PM confesses he knew about secret nuclear weapons agreement

  • Shii urges US Embassy Minister-Counselor to remove all US bases from Japan
  • LABOR

  • Top court acknowledges NTT’s unjust transfer of workers

  • Ex-Nissan worker sues gov’t for workers’ compensation

  • Political support for corporate restructuring-I: End of life-time employment system
  • WELFARE

  • Kanagawa JCP protests against local gov’t plan to close public ranch
  • NUCLEAR CRISIS

  • Provide Fukushima children with long-term medical checkups: mothers’ group

  • Armitage & Nye tell Japan to keep nuclear power generation
  • GREAT EAST JAPAN DISASTER

  • Consulting firm selects corporate recipients of gov’t subsidy for post-disaster recovery
  • HISTORY

  • Academic demands retraction of Osaka mayor’s remark on ‘comfort women’

  • High court rejects appeal by ‘Red Purge’ victims

  • Air raid survivors unite to seek new assistance law
  • ANTI-N-ARMS

  • editorial Japan hampers international efforts to ban nukes
  • TOKYO

  • Tokyoites protest against Governor Ishihara’s remark over US military noise pollution

  • A lot of bad policies by ex-Tokyo governor Ishihara

  • DPJ members resigning from party in Tokyo assembly
  • ENVIRONMENT

  • Nara residents strive to block plan to concrete over world heritage site


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