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Another drunken US marine arrested
Another drunken U.S. marine was arrested at the scene. He allegedly trespassed on an apartment in Okinawa’s Naha City after drinking all night while under curfew.
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Ex-Tokyo governor denies Nanjing Massacre
Regarding the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, ex-Tokyo Governor Ishihara said, “Give us evidence showing that the Japanese Imperial Army killed 400 thousand people. It was Shina-jin (discriminatory word referring to Chinese residents) who killed Shina-jin.”
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Job cuts won’t restore electronic industry: Shii
Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting demanded that the government put a stop to the plan to downsize 130,000 jobs in the electronic and information industry by arguing, “The employment-cutting way of corporate restructuring can never contribute to industrial recovery.”
- POLITICS
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Job cuts won’t restore electronic industry: Shii
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Hashimoto again looks down on anti-nuclear weapons movement
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JA-Zenchu president expresses support for anti-TPP Lower House candidates
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Law to step up Japan-Australia ACSA enacted in dissolution chaos
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3rd political pole no different from LDP policies
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Let’s change 60-year-old LDP style policies: Shii
- US FORCES
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Another drunken US marine arrested
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Okinawa prefectural assembly protests ‘endless’ US crimes
- LABOR
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Cancellation of contract with pilot found illegal: court
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Women endure more exploitative working conditions (Part 1)
- JCP
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This week’s JCP international activities
- WELFARE
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More people sinking into poverty under DPJ’s rule
- FINANCE
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Special public bonds law will distort fiscal discipline
- OKINAWA
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Half of Okinawa’s local gov’ts rally against Osprey deployment
- HISTORY
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Ex-Tokyo governor denies Nanjing Massacre
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Historian criticizes Osaka mayor’s abusive remarks on ‘comfort women’
- EDUCATION
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Private college teachers and students call for lower tuitions
- ELECTION
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Shii calls for doubling JCP seats in election in street speech soon after dissolution of Diet
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JCP to propose bill to cancel consumption tax hike after election
- TOKYO
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Sports groups: Give up Tokyo’s bid for 2020 Olympics
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JCP to support anti-nuclear lawyer in Tokyo gubernatorial election
- ENVIRONMENT
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Don’t concrete over world heritage in Nara: JCP
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Japan increasingly isolated before COP18