Japan Press Weekly

Court: July Upper House election invalid due to vote-value disparity

The Hiroshima High Court ruled that the results of the July Upper House election in Okayama were invalid because a vote-value disparity in that constituency was unconstitutionally excessive.

Political donations from utilities to LDP increase threefold after Fukushima accident

Political donations from electric utility company executives to the Liberal Democratic Party in 2012 increased threefold from 2011, the year witnessing the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

State secrets law closely resembles 1941 national defense security law

As criminal law experts have noted, a state secrets protection law looks conspicuously like the prewar security law which brutally restricted free speech and took away citizens’ right to know.

State secrets law closely resembles 1941 national defense security law

Court: July Upper House election invalid due to vote-value disparity

Secrets bill forcibly passed through Lower House

Public anger mounting at passage of secrets protection bill

Weather forecasts banned under wartime secrets law: ex-weather station worker

JCP Nihi calls on Upper House members to throw out secrets bill

Diet enacts NSC law

Secrets bill promoters have war criminals and wartime police officials in family trees

Artists voice protest against secrets protection bill

JCP Ichida condemns LDP bigwig for labeling protesters as ‘terrorists’

Abe paves way to the dispatching of fully armed SDF abroad

Parties, other than JCP, depend on state subsidies

How best to respond to China: Shii on BS TV

This week’s JCP international activities

Elderly disabled man in court demands equal public support regardless of age

More than 40,000 yen a month will be imposed on severe intractable disease patients

Political donations from utilities to LDP increase threefold after Fukushima accident

8,000 people voice opposition to restarting nuclear reactors

Okinawa assembly members demand resignation of LDP parliamentarians

LDP lawmakers in Okinawa supporting US base relocation receive money from contractors of relocation-related projects

JCP opposes abolition of free high school education program

Tokyo JCP calls for committee to look into governor’s scandal

Tokyo governor tries to hush up his involvement in money scandal

60-year-old Fudanren resolves to create society where women can play active roles

Nuclear Fuel Company colludes with police in monitoring employees using excuse of antiterrorism