Japan Press Weekly

‘Bayonet techniques’ to be taught to junior high school students

Many teachers and parents are raising concern over the teaching of “bayonet techniques (jukendo)” which the Self-Defense Forces use in their training, fearing that SDF personnel will be dispatched to schools as jukendo coaches.

Shii speaks for Japanese antinuke movement at UN conference

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo along with other civil society representatives spoke at the UN conference negotiating to create a legal ban of nuclear weapons.

  Antinuke UN conference historical 1st step toward N-ban treaty

While nuclear weapons states and countries relying on a “nuclear umbrella” boycotted the meeting, most participating countries agreed to create without delay a draft treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons.

Tokyo JCP votes for metropolitan gov’t budget for 2017

Sit-in protest against US base construction in Okinawa reaches 1,000th day

JCP Koike slams Abe gov’t for approving use of prewar militaristic rescript in schools

Amount of state subsidy for LDP reaches record high

Abe’s panel adopts pro-business action plan for ‘work-style reform’

District court invalidates college decision to demote visually-impaired teacher to clerical worker

‘Bayonet techniques’ to be taught to junior high school students

High court reverses lower court ruling and gives go-ahead to Takahama NPP restart

Women’s struggles change sports history

‘Tsukiji bashing’ by LDP faces fierce counterattack

Court rejects injunction request against restart of Ikata NPP

Weekly protest against nuclear power generation continues for five years

Min-iren survey: Poverty holds people back from seeing doctors, resulting in 58 deaths

30% of foreign residents in Japan experience discriminatory remarks: gov’t survey

 Antinuke UN conference historical 1st step toward N-ban treaty

Shii speaks for Japanese antinuke movement at UN conference

Shii criticizes Japanese government’s shameful attitude toward antinuke UN discussions

Shii: UN talks holds out hope for ban on nuclear weapons

Hibakusha protest against Japan’s boycott of UN talks on N-ban treaty

UN discusses a treaty banning nuclear weapons for 1st time ever

UN conference advances toward conclusion of treaty banning nuclear weapons

Shii interviewed by agricultural cooperatives newspaper