Japan Press Weekly

Former JCP Chair Fuwa encourages young people to ‘make friends with Marx’

“Let’s make friends with Karl Marx,” Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute Director Fuwa Tetsuzo said at a lecture meeting on scientific socialism, encouraging young people to learn more about the 19th-century political philosopher.

JCP urges China to drop its demand to delete visit proposal for A-bombed cities from NPT final text

JCP Vice Chair Ogata Yasuo on May 19 met with the Chinese Embassy political counsellor and requested that China withdraw its request to delete a proposal for world leaders’ visit to the two A-bombed cities from a draft final statement of the NPT Review Conference.

PM Abe: I’ve not read 1945 Potsdam Declaration

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo, referring to the Potsdam Declaration as the starting point of Japan’s postwar democracy, said, “A person who has not read such a fundamental document is not fit to serve as prime minister.”

Abe overturns official view that use of force is not allowed under Article 9

PM Abe: I’ve not read 1945 Potsdam Declaration

Pro-Article 9 citizens launch weekly demonstration against Abe’s war legislation

JCP Shimizu reveals 85% of police wiretaps have nothing to do with crime

JCP demands complete removal of US Ospreys from Okinawa

Federation of municipal leaders’ A9As in Tohoku region adopts appeal calling for scrapping of war bills

Abe wants to export more arms by establishing an additional defense-related agency

Anti-base human chain in Tokyo shows solidarity with Okinawans

Hit-and-run case involving US serviceman sent to prosecutors

National stadium construction may not be finished by 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Protests follow NRA draft report claiming Ikata nuclear power plant to be safe

Petition calling for disclosure of the facts on 1923 massacre of Koreans in Tokyo submitted to Diet

Welfare cuts lead to fatal fire accident in Kawasaki

Tokyo ordered to pay 2 million yen each to ex-public high school teachers over ‘Kimigayo’ lawsuit

Japanese historians criticize argument denying forcible recruitment of ‘comfort women’

 Gov’t data proves sales tax hike caused Japan’s negative growth

JCP urges China to drop its demand to delete visit proposal for A-bombed cities from NPT final text

Gensuikyo representative director issues statement on result of NPT RevCon

Japan AALA holds international symposium on ‘East Asian community’

Former JCP Chair Fuwa encourages young people to ‘make friends with Marx’

JCP Hatano calls for more evening junior high schools