Japan Press Weekly

JCP Shii issues statement denouncing Aso’s pro-Nazi comment

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo issued a statement denouncing Deputy Prime Minister Aso Taro’s positive remarks on Nazism.

US military helicopter crash fuels Okinawans’ anger

Amid growing protests against the additional deployment of Osprey aircraft to the U.S. Futenma air base in Okinawa, a U.S. military helicopter crash stoked the anger of local residents.

Let’s arouse public opinion for nuclear abolition toward 2015: WC against A & H Bombs in Nagasaki

7,000 participants in the annual antinuke conference determined to create overwhelming public opinion seeking the abolition of nuclear weapons toward 2015, the 70th year of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the next NPT Review Conference to be held in that year in New York.

JCP Shii issues statement denouncing Aso’s pro-Nazi comment

Without the hindrance of Article 9, SDF would have shot at Chinese military ship: LDP lawmaker

Aso’s ‘learn from Nazi’ shows his failure as politician

LDP’s victory in Upper House election encourages Keidanren to demand revision of Worker Dispatch Law

Abe Cabinet aims to approve right to collective self-defense

Abe mounts ‘coup’ against Article 9 with his pick for legislation bureau chief

US military helicopter crash fuels Okinawans’ anger

Iwakuni citizens protest against arrival of another 12 Ospreys

Drunken US soldier arrested

Additional Ospreys arrive in Okinawa from Iwakuni

Okinawa Prefectural Assembly protests against US chopper crash

Okinawans protest against resumption of additional Osprey deployment

Lawyers form network against ‘black corporations’

2 union musicians sue orchestra for their dismissals

Gov’t should take lead in increasing minimum wages nationwide: Shii

JCP forms task force for elimination of ‘black corporations’

Labor ministry will inspect 4,000 ‘black corporations’

Woman in child-rearing year fights against IBM Japan’s ‘lockout dismissal’

Watami receives ‘Black Corporation’ award

JCP now holds at least one seat in all Upper House Standing Committees

Play active part in Diet to meet public expectations: Shii to all JCP lawmakers

Shii meets with CPV high official

JCP holds rally commemorating 91st anniversary of its founding

211 young lawyers in lawsuit claim abolition of scholarship program to be unconstitutional

Hansen’s disease sanatorium hosts summer camp for Fukushima kids

10 nuclear safety examiners accepted 68 million yen from nuclear-related institutions

JCP Kasai reveals 1965 foreign ministry document calling for diplomatic solution of ‘comfort women’ issue

JCP Kasai attends anniversary event of ‘comfort women’ facilities in South Korea

Citizens rally to create UN day to remember sufferings of ‘comfort women’

Let’s arouse public opinion for nuclear abolition toward 2015: WC against A & H Bombs in Nagasaki

Court orders gov’t to recognize 8 plaintiffs as victims of A-bomb disease

2013 nationwide peace march arrives in Hiroshima

International antinuke meeting in Hiroshima focuses on inhumanity of nuclear weapons

2013 World Conference held in Hiroshima amid increasing global attention to inhumanity of nuclear weapons

Abe betrays the spirit of A-bombed nation

Why is hate speech increasing in Japan?