Japan Press Weekly

JCP efforts in Diet push major insurance company to stop imposing long working hours on workers

Japan’s , majort non-life insurance company recently decided to stop applying the so-called discretionary work system to workers in violation of labor laws, effectively reflecting Diet deliberations made by a Japanese Communist Party lawmaker.

PM Abe gets stuck answering questions on ‘Kake’ scandal

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at an Upper House session held to probe the “Kake Gakuen” scandal often got stuck in responding to questions asked by opposition lawmakers and became confused and inconsistent in his responses.

  Closing the curtain on SDF data cover-up scandal with DM’s resignation unacceptable

Defense Minister Inada Tomomi resigned from the Cabinet for the cover-up of PKO-related “daily reports” which the Ground Self-Defense Force had retained while insisting that they had already been discarded.

 Closing the curtain on SDF data cover-up scandal with DM’s resignation unacceptable

PM Abe gets stuck answering questions on ‘Kake’ scandal

JCP Koike grills Abe over scandals of ‘Kake’ and cover-up of SDF’s ‘daily reports’

Saga residents want their local airport to stay free from fisheries-threatening Ospreys

Shii on Renho’s resignation: JCP will observe DP changes in leadership

LDP’s refusal to call ex-DM to off-session Diet meeting is unacceptable: JCP Koike

US forces imposes further base burdens on Okinawans in violation of SACO agreement

JCP efforts in Diet push major insurance company to stop imposing long working hours on workers

Labor ministry council turns its back on workers’ demand for minimum wage hike to 1,000 yen

SDF aircraft drops a part

Sendai residents collecting signatures to stop coal-fired thermal power station operations

People with mental disabilities push private railway company to introduce half-price fare for them

JCP assembly members in Hokkaido urge central government to take measures to maintain local train services

Government ordered to provide tuition-free program to Korean schools in Japan

Miyagi lawmakers call for halt to delivering sexist tourism promotional video

Hokkaido JCP urges gov’t to cancel basic agreement of Japan-EU EPA

Abe gov’t left behind in global move seeking peaceful settlement of N. Korea issue

North Korea’s ICBM test affront to global N-ban trend: Shii

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