Japan Press Weekly

Imabari City decides to stop using war-glorifying textbooks

Pushed by citizens’ movements, the board of education of Ehime’s Imabari City decided that next year public junior high schools in the city will stop using textbooks published by a rightist publisher, Ikuhosha.

NGO: Abe’s war bills will turn humanitarian aid groups into targets of armed attacks

The war legislation aiming to enable the SDF to guard NGOs abroad ignores the fundamental principle of NGOs’ conduct as well as the real dangers facing them, said a staff of the Japan International Volunteer Center engaging in activities in South Sudan.

Diet surrounded by 120,000 people seeking to kill war bills

On the last Sunday in August (30th), at more than 1,000 locations in all 47 prefectures, hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously staged protests against the government-sponsored war bills.

Diet surrounded by 120,000 people seeking to kill war bills

NGO: Abe’s war bills will turn humanitarian aid groups into targets of armed attacks

Abe gov’t takes no action to protect people from US base dangers

JCP Tatsumi criticizes war bills for dragging private sector workers into wars

Dockworkers oppose war bills

Lawyers & scholars unite to scrap war legislation

Musicians: Put a final double barline to war bills!

High school students request Dietmembers to kill war bills

Yamashita demands cancellation of ‘My Number’ program

Abe’s move to create war-fighting Japan will give US weapons maker greater business opportunities

Okinawa gov’t starts undersea environmental survey at US base construction site

Okinawa assemblypersons protest drill resumption of US MH-60 chopper flights

Sagamihara City and US military will jointly investigate cause of explosions and fire at US depot

Imabari City decides to stop using war-glorifying textbooks

 Pension data leakage reports fall short of easing public distrust

Revised Olympic stadium with 155 billion yen price tag still costly

JCP parliamentarian urges Kyushu railway company to eliminate unstaffed stations

This week’s JCP international activity