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  • Agriculture minister to JCP Kami: gov’t will lessen farmers’ anxieties

    Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councilors Kami Tomoko at a House agricultural committee meeting on October 16 demanded that the government take measures to urgently deal with the collapse in the price of rice paid to farmers.

  • Foreign Ministry deletes ‘comfort women’ documents from its website

    The Foreign Ministry has deleted some documents related to Japan’s wartime “comfort women” system from the archives list on its website in mid-October.

  • Moneyed politics is specialty of LDP

    Money-power politics is more than just scandals involving Industry Minister Obuchi Yuko and Justice Minister Matsushima Midori because this is a distinctive characteristic of the Liberal Democratic Party.
  • POLITICS

  • Moneyed politics is specialty of LDP

  • Law hiding security-related info will come into force in December

  • JCP Shiokawa criticizes bill to ‘revitalize’ local economies

  • JCP Akamine grills gov’t on construction plan of quarters for US soldiers in Okinawa

  • Nago City Assembly demands halt to preparatory work for US base construction

  • PM Abe again sends offerings to war-glorifying shrine

  • Three female Abe Cabinet members visit Yasukuni Shrine

  • 2 female ministers’ resignation delivers blow to Abe Cabinet

  • New Japan-US agreement may be tactic to secure Okinawa governor’s reelection
  • US FORCES

  • US wants its airspace over Okinawa to be expanded for F-35s

  • Kochi residents hold rally to commemorate 20th anniversary of US military aircraft crash

  • MV22s show up at prefectural disaster drill
  • SOCIAL ISSUES

  • Foreign Ministry deletes ‘comfort women’ documents from its website

  • JCP Dietmembers join legal trainees’ petition for reinstatement of scholarship program

  • Radiation levels at Fukushima NPP hit all-time highs

  • Justice minister’s panel proposes ‘reform’ enabling police to bug citizens’ communications

  • JCP in Diet calls for early settlement of asbestos cases

  • JCP criticizes gov’t for approving maglev railway construction

  • JCP Daimon in public meeting opposes legalization of casino operations
  • ECONOMY

  • Agriculture minister to JCP Kami: gov’t will lessen farmers’ anxieties

  • Welfare ministry seeks to impose heavier burden of medical costs on public
  • JCP

  • This week’s JCP international activity
  • WELFARE

  • 155K signatures opposing pension cuts submitted to gov’t


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