Japan Press Weekly

I can’t recall: Okinawa governor at prefectural assembly on base relocation

Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu repeated that he “cannot recall” the process of his approving the national government application for a landfill project to construct a new U.S. military base, at a special committee meeting in the prefectural assembly.

Abe seeks boards of Education that will allow authorities to control education: Shii

Abe’s educational reform policy is moving ahead in parallel with the scheme to enable Japan to use the collective self-defense right by reinterpreting the Constitution in order to change Japan into a nation fighting wars abroad.

JCP Yamashita: lifting Japan’s embargo on arms exports opens gates for ‘merchants of death’

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Yamashita Yoshiki on February 24 criticized the Abe Cabinet’s move to lift the embargo on arms exports for paving the way for the creation of a “country of death merchants”.

JCP Yamashita: lifting Japan’s embargo on arms exports opens gates for ‘merchants of death’

Not meeting quota for new members will result in fine in LDP

Gov’t should spend more money in repairing aging infrastructure: JCP Kokuta

PM will classify state secrets all by himself: JCP Akamine

US military repeatedly conducts flight drills in western Japan

Labor earnings decrease for 19 consecutive months

 Block Abe’s attempt to destroy labor laws in 2014 spring struggle

Labor Commission orders Osaka mayor to apologize to union

JCP seeks to regain its assembly seat in NPP-hosting town

All 5 JCP candidates win in Tokyo’s Machida City election

This week’s JCP international activities

Maizuru city trampled on resident’s right to receive public assistance: Welfare ministry

Parents’ movement for more childcare centers growing

More municipalities give tax credit to all single-parent households

Yokosuka residents demand release of information regarding nuclear facility accident

I can’t recall: Okinawa governor at prefectural assembly on base relocation

Anti-base lunch hour demo marks 30th anniversary in Okinawa

JCP Kira urges NHK chair to resign

PM assistant: disappointed in US about its Yasukuni criticism

 March 1st, sixty years after Lucky Dragon nuclear fallout incident

Abe seeks boards of Education that will allow authorities to control education: Shii

6.9-million citizens want tuition-free private high schools

Student loan collection agency like a cold-blooded debt collector

NGOs question Defense Ministry’s holding of personal info

Gov’t aims to provide people’s personal data to security authorities

GHG-emitting solvent used in Japan for dry cleaning runs counter to Europe’s move to ban it