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  • Unionized youth hold street action against disposable use of young labor

    In protest against corporate use of young workers as disposable labor, 120 unionized young workers carried out a street action in front of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.

  • Intelligence assessments influenced by policy makers: former cabinet official

    Prior to the Iraq War, the then Koizumi Cabinet’s intention to support the U.S. in its call for war prevented itself from gathering independent information regarding the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a former cabinet official revealed in the Diet.

  • What the secrets protection bill is all about

    The Abe Cabinet, in order to receive military information from the U.S., submitted to the Diet a bill to punish anyone who leaks secret information. The bill, if enacted, will impact our daily lives. What kinds of dangers will this produce?
  • POLITICS

  • What the secrets protection bill is all about

  • Intelligence assessments influenced by policy makers: former cabinet official

  • Harsher corporate competition will worsen people’s living conditions: JCP Shiokawa

  • Ex-US senior officials concerned over PM Abe’s hawkish stance

  • Shii determined to block cuts in all social security benefits
  • LABOR

  • Unionized youth hold street action against disposable use of young labor

  • Nationwide campaign starts for Constitution-based workplaces

  • Union fights against unfair labor practice at Isuzu

  • Top court dismisses ex-JAL contract CA’s appeal seeking reinstatement
  • SDF

  • SDF training will raise tensions with China: JCP Akamine
  • WORLD

  • editorial US has lost face in wiretapping scandal
  • JCP

  • Ogata speaks at socialism forum in Beijing
  • WELFARE

  • Another 379 hepatitis B patients and families sue gov’t for compensation

  • Court finds city illegally turned down applications for welfare benefits of Osaka couple
  • NUCLEAR CRISIS

  • TEPCO should instruct Fukushima subcontractors to pay hazardous duty allowance to workers: JCP Shiokawa

  • Over 7,000 rally in Fukushima for the decommission of nuclear reactors
  • ANTI-N-ARMS

  • Hibakusha protest against new-type of nuclear tests by US
  • SCANDAL

  • Mizuho Bank unkind to ordinary people and kind to crime syndicates
  • WOMEN

  • Women NGO Shinfujin resolves to fight against Abe’s militaristic policies
  • CIVIL RIGHTS

  • All bar associations protest against secrets protection bill

  • Teachers are committing offense by not singing ‘Kimigayo’: JRP representative in Kyoto


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