Japan Press Weekly

Shii answers questions from foreign journalists about JCP

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo answered questions raised about the JCP by foreign journalists after giving his luncheon speech on dangerous nature of ‘security’ legislation.

UN experts: TPP will have adverse impact on human rights

PM Abe said that he will take the lead ‘together with the U.S. in swiftly concluding the TPP’ following the enactment of TPA legislation in the U.S. Senate, but a group of UN experts are expressing concern about adverse impact of free trade on human rights.

News media raise voices in opposition after ‘Destroy Okinawa newspapers’ remark at LDP study meeting

Voices of opposition have been raised from the press after a revelation that at a study meeting of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, guest speaker Hyakuta Naoki and participating lawmakers suggested the need to suppress free speech.

News media raise voices in opposition after ‘Destroy Okinawa newspapers’ remark at LDP study meeting

Onaga demands halt to US base construction at memorial ceremony

Diet echoes with 30,000 people’s voices against war bills

Nobel Peace Prize-seeking civic group asks JCP to work hard to bury war bills

Abe prioritizes ‘guns’ over ‘butter’

LDP lawmakers encourage reprisals against media criticizing war legislation

Crush Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo newspapers: Hyakuta

JCP Akamine: residents displaced by US Futenma base

Kadena Town Assembly resolves to protest noise pollution caused by F-16 fighter jets from Vermont

Flight attendant takes Alitalia to court for ‘maternity harassment’

Court rejects claim by ex-workers at liquidated JAL subsidiary

High court allows Osaka mayor’s removal of Zenroren-affiliated union offices from city hall

UN experts: TPP will have adverse impact on human rights

Public junior high school invites students for SDF’s live-fire drill

City sued for arbitrary refusal to publish ‘haiku’ on Article 9

The proposed 252-billion-yen Olympic stadium is too costly

Shii answers questions from foreign journalists about JCP

Shii speaks to foreign journalists about dangerous nature of war bills

Mothers in Tokorozawa sue city gov’t for discriminatory childcare policy regarding child-rearing leave

12,800 elderly penalized for nonpayment of nursing-care insurance premiums