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  • Ex-Tokyo Gas worker: Toyosu plant had 120 tainted-rain every day for 20 years

    A former Tokyo Gas employee Ino Tadayuki said that he everyday witnessed clouds of steam rushing out from steam digesters. The steam containing charcoal powder turned into water drops showering down on the plant workers 120 times everyday.

  • editorial  US, 2nd biggest carbon polluter, should share responsibility for fight against climate change

    U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement which sets a framework of countermeasures against global warming after 2020.

  • More than 80% of crimes committed by US servicemen not indicted

    Out of non-traffic Penal Code offenses involving U.S. military personnel in Japan, only 16.9% went to trial last year, and 83.1% were exempted from prosecution.
  • POLITICS

  • Ex-Education Ministry bureaucrat: PM Abe’s aide exerts pressure to open veterinary school

  • Gov’t should sincerely respond to UN expert’s letter on ‘anti-conspiracy’ bill: Lawyer

  • Liaison council of independent unions submits 140,000 signatures opposing Article 9 amendment to Diet

  • Ex-Lower House Speaker: Article 9 must not be revised

  • JCP Kokuta : Diet should summon PM’s aide and ex-Vice Education Minister over ‘Kake Gakuen’ scandal

  • JCP endorses bill to enable aging Emperor to step down

  • Justice Minister: Public Order Maintenance Law was lawful

  • PEN International issues statement opposing ‘anti-conspiracy’ bill

  • Opinion poll on ‘Kake Gakuen’ scandal: 70% are not convinced by gov’t explanation

  • editorial PM Abe should stop taking a ‘so-what’ attitude toward ‘Kake Gakuen’ scandal
  • US FORCES

  • More than 80% of crimes committed by US servicemen not indicted
  • LABOR

  • Trainee doctor’s suicide recognized as caused from overwork

  • Teachers’ union survey: More than 30% of pregnant teachers hesitate to take maternity leave
  • SDF

  • 70% of Ishigaki residents sign petition opposing SDF deployment
  • SOCIAL ISSUES

  • editorial US, 2nd biggest carbon polluter, should share responsibility for fight against climate change

  • Ex-Tokyo Gas worker: Toyosu plant had 120 tainted-rain every day for 20 years

  • 4 companies monopolize controversial ‘My Number’-related contracts with local governments

  • Ex- Tokyo vice governor to be accused of giving false testimony over Toyosu scandal

  • Abe’s control over media receives criticism from UN expert on free speech

  • Memorial service for ex-Okinawan POWs will take place in Hawaii

  • We must cut GHG emissions now to turn from uncertain future to better future

  • 80 years on, what does Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ mean for us today?
  • PEACE

  • Veterans for Peace JAPAN founded


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