Japan Press Weekly

Union in Hitachi Group company wins shorter working hours

Winning shorter working hours, a labor union in a Hitachi group company celebrated the International Workers’ Day of May Day which originated in the eight-hour workday movement.

  What became of Japanese ‘comfort women’?

Wartime sex slaves of the Imperial Japanese Army included Japanese women. Even though they have not come forward, many official documents and soldiers’ diaries suggest their presence.

Supreme Court ruling cannot justify the use of collective self-defense right: ex-judge

The Abe administration often cites a Supreme Court ruling in 1959 in order to justify the exercise of the right to collective self-defense. Persons involved in the lawsuit, however, criticize the government’s claim as completely unreasonable.

Supreme Court ruling cannot justify the use of collective self-defense right: ex-judge

What became of Japanese ‘comfort women’?

Ex-SDF members oppose PM’s attempt to allow Japan’s exercise of collective self-defense right

Foreign Ministry also had evidence of forcible recruitment of ‘comfort women’

Shii criticizes strengthening of Japan-US military alliance

DefMin plans to deploy 1,252 patrol vessels to suppress anti-base protesters

Scholars’ group holds rally in protest against Abe’s attempt to revise the Constitution through new interpretations

 Caring for elderly with dementia only by family members has limitations

JCP calls for support for gambling addicts and killing of bill to OK casinos

JCP-backed candidate puts up good fight in Okinawa City mayoral election

Union in Hitachi Group company wins shorter working hours

Death from overwork not caused by long working hours according to business leader

Business world wants a no-overtime-pay system, inviting more stress-related deaths

Nursing-care workers earn Y90K/m less than workers in other industries

Truck drivers should be paid for waiting time: court

Workers in May Day rallies resolve to fight against Abe’s ‘labor reform’

Gov’t ordered to pay compensation for MSDF sailor’s suicide

National Tax Agency data shows low tax burdens on large corporations

Pressed by JCP, state grants subsidies to town suffering from cave-ins

Assembly with no JCP seat allows assemblypersons to go on travelling sprees

This week’s JCP international activities

Japan’s effort against climate change needed, but without nuclear power

‘Nuclear power-interest community’ is going on offensive

Abe gov’t proposes bill to destroy university autonomy