Japan Press Weekly

Past year under Abe Cabinet

December 26, 2013 marked the first anniversary of the inauguration of the second Abe Cabinet. Akahata took a look back over the past year of his government.

JCP to support pacifist lawyer in Tokyo gubernatorial election

JCP Chair Shii met with lawyer Utsunomiya Kenji, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA), expressing the party’s full support for him in the upcoming Tokyo gubernatorial election.

Shii in New Year address: Turn fledgling JCP advance into full-fledged trend to change politics

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo gave a New Year address at the JCP head office in Tokyo, calling on all JCP members to make 2014 a year of another advance in popular movements and in expansion of party strength.

Past year under Abe Cabinet

JCP calls on career service company to cooperate in regulating ‘black corporations’

Japan’s major companies impose on workers more than 80 hours of overtime every month

Shii in New Year address: Turn fledgling JCP advance into full-fledged trend to change politics

Disaster victims win resumption of free medical care program

High court orders state to compensate asbestos-damaged workers

Citizens file suit for shutdown of 11 nuclear reactors in Fukui

Grad students survey displays their financial difficulties

JCP to support pacifist lawyer in Tokyo gubernatorial election

Reduce energy and ‘develop’ society: environment researcher

Tokyo should prepare for 2020 Olympics under slogan of ‘people first’