Japan Press Weekly

  Traditional arts need public support to carry on

The traditional performing art, Bunraku (puppet theater), will face further cuts in subsidies from the Osaka City government in the coming fiscal year. The whole city should maintain support for this traditional art form despite its lack of profitability.

LDP assemblyman: Crush JCP with power equivalent to A & H bombs

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly on January 23 referred to atomic and hydrogen bombs to call on people to vote against a Japanese Communist Party candidate in the coming gubernatorial election.

Public anger growing at NHK president’s remarks

Momii Katsuto, the new president of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, told reporters on January 25 that the practice like Japan’s wartime “comfort women” system was “common to any country at war”.

LDP assemblyman: Crush JCP with power equivalent to A & H bombs

Shii calls on JCP lawmakers to conduct Diet debates to assist the public in their struggles against Abe’s runaway policies

PM offers runaway policies on his menu

Keidanren really accepts pay hikes?

Teachers suffer from long working hours

Joint effort against adverse change in nursing-care insurance growing in Hokkaido

More than 100,000 elderly file complaints about cuts in pension benefits

Cuts in welfare benefits in Oita was unfair: court ruling

Nuclear accident may isolate residents on peninsula in Ikata

Gov’t invites bids for US base construction project against local will

Okinawa’s town assembly unanimously adopts resolution against US base construction

Osprey flights over residential areas in Okinawa increases

Public anger growing at NHK president’s remarks

NHK chair justifies Japan’s wartime sex slavery system

Shii calls for reversing of Tokyo and national politics through a win in the gubernatorial race

Former ministers in Tokyo gubernatorial race support Abe intent to ease labor laws

Lawyers’ group opposes stiffer penalties for young offenders

‘Human chain’ surrounds Diet demanding abolition of state secrets law

Traditional arts need public support to carry on