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Newly-authorized schoolbooks colored by far-right Abe regime
The Education Ministry announced the screening results of high school textbooks which are scheduled to be used from April 2017. The authorized textbooks directly reflect the view of the Abe government with its aim to turn Japan into a war-fighting nation.
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Refusals growing among new graduates of defense academy to become officers
More than 10% of the graduates this spring from the National Defense Academy of Japan are declining to accept their commissions with the increasing possibility of the Self-Defense Forces to use armed force abroad.
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JCP proposes to halve university tuitions
Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo published policy proposals to halve university tuitions in ten years and to provide scholarships of 30,000 yen a month to one in four university students.
- POLITICS
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Signature drives for scrapping war legislation held across Tokyo
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Labor minister to JCP Takahashi: subsidy program to help corporate downsizing should be revised
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Bill to increase financial support for single-parent families jointly submitted by 5 opposition parties
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JCP proposes to halve university tuitions
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Public movements to repeal war laws continue even with enforcement date approaching
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Electoral cooperation among opposition parties gains momentum
- US FORCES
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Construction of Osprey maintenance site underway in coastal area of Tokyo Bay
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JCP Okinawa protests US sailor’s rape of Japanese woman
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Every US soldier & family member needs their own bathroom: state minister of defense
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US serviceman arrested for sexual molestation on JAL plane
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Total of 11,400 housing units for US military personnel in Japan built using ‘sympathy budget’
- LABOR
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Unions protest against corporate response of giving only 1/2 of last year’s base pay hike
- SDF
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Refusals growing among new graduates of defense academy to become officers
- SOCIAL ISSUES
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Preserve Japanese public bathing culture: JCP Tokyo
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Court rejects state compensation claims filed by Okinawa Battle victims
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City’s plan to close all public childcare centers provokes fierce backlash from public
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Aichi police considers people having private talk to be possible terrorists
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Newly-authorized schoolbooks colored by far-right Abe regime
- JCP
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This week’s JCP international activity
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JCP Vice Chair Koike protests N-Korea’s missile launch