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  • JCP calls for proportional representation election system

    The Japanese Communist Party on April 3 in a meeting of secretaries general of political parties proposed that the House of Representatives election system be changed to one adopting only the proportional representation system.

  • Bangladeshi ex-trainee sues for unpaid wages

    A 24-year-old female former trainee, who came from Bangladesh under the state internship program, filed a lawsuit over her unpaid wages with the Kyoto District Court.

  • Radioactive water escapes from Fukushima plant

    The recent leak of radiation-contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has again shown that the government’s declaration in late 2011 that the nuclear accident has been brought under control is out of touch with reality.

  • POLITICS

  • JCP calls for proportional representation election system

  • Constitution’s perspective of the world is ‘preposterous’?

  • JRP, itself heavily dependent on gov’t funds, calls for cuts in funding for needy

  • Second-generation Hibakusha lawmaker calls for nuclear-armed Japan
  • US FORCES

  • US civilian employee of US military arrested for hit-and-run drunk driving
  • LABOR

  • Bangladeshi ex-trainee sues for unpaid wages
  • SDF

  • Exposure of children to SDF ranger training exercise violates Geneva treaty
  • WORLD

  • editorial  ‘Yes’ from biggest arms exporter US is key to global arms pact
  • JCP

  • Ogata talks with ex-Mozambican diplomat
  • WELFARE

  • Non-profit group to work to enable the disabled to enjoy theater art

  • Top court relieves state of responsibility to provide compensation for ‘Iressa’ victims

  • Mothers shorten child-care leave so their babies can enter day nurseries

  • Parents’ financial support to private univ. students falls to record low

  • Disabled demand reduction in support service fees
  • NUCLEAR CRISIS

  • Radioactive water escapes from Fukushima plant

  • Nuclear power generation is not advisable in quake-prone area: Russian lawmaker

  • JCP criticizes nuclear safety standard draft for allowing radioactive leak
  • OKINAWA

  • US base to be built at Henoko in 2022 in spite of Okinawans’ opposition
  • EDUCATION

  • No personal alarms provided North Korean students in Machida City
  • NORTH KOREA

  • editorial North Korea should not play its ‘nuclear card’


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