Japan Press Weekly

UNGA resolves to launch negotiations for NWC in March

The UN General Assembly with an overwhelming majority support adopted a resolution to convene a conference to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention in 2017. A-bomb sufferers welcomed the resolution but criticized the Japanese government’s ‘No’ vote.

No reflection on past war, no reconciliation: Shii on Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor

Regarding Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that diplomacy without reflecting on the past war will never be able to bring about a true reconciliation and friendship with the peoples of Asia and the rest of the world.

Sympathy among people is vital to secure the right to live

As the Abe government is pushing ahead with its runaway policies, people’s fight for the right to live, which is guaranteed under the Japanese Constitution, is likely to further intensify in 2017.

No reflection on past war, no reconciliation: Shii on Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor

Okinawa governor: Top court’s approval of Henoko base construction is disappointing

Residents in Tokyo area: Their cities illegally dispatch riot police officers to Okinawa

Gov’t initial budget draft epitomizes its hardline policy of arms expansion: JCP Koike

Abe gov’t helps fuel civil war in South Sudan

Yasukuni visit by Inada after her Pearl Harbor visit peels off Abe gov’t ‘reconciliation’ mask

US landing drills in Okinawa may quintuple in exchange for ‘partial’ return of training area to Japan

US P-8 patrol aircraft crashes at Kadena base in Okinawa

‘Crashed Osprey pilot should be decorated’ remark by US brass provokes Okinawan anger

US soldier in Okinawa arrested for drunk driving

Broadcast workers fight back against pressure from Abe gov’t

Low-pay, long hours are becoming common among dental technicians

Dentsu accused of violating work hour rules

Sympathy among people is vital to secure the right to live

Grant for legal trainees will be reinstated thanks to persistent movement

Fukushima prefectural assembly demands decommissioning of Fukushima Daini NPP

Education council’s report seeks to cultivate children who will support government’s pro-business policy

Construction of police station on court house premises will produce cozy relationship between two authorities

Citizens sue Gifu Police for its illegal collection of their personal information

Number of teachers having mental problems hovers above 5,000 mark

Eugenic thought led to mass murder of the disabled: welfare expert

Japan has become a health gap society: health care expert

UNGA resolves to launch negotiations for NWC in March

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