Japan Press Weekly

JCP lawmakers talk with Indonesians opposing coal-fired power plant project

Japanese Communist Party lawmakers Iwabuchi Tomo and Takeda Ryosuke met with Indonesians fighting to block the construction of a new unit at the Cirebon coal-fired thermal power plant in their country.

Women reporters from 31 media outlets form network against sexual harassment

Female journalists from 31 media organs, including newspapers, news agencies, television networks, publishers, and online media, have established a professional society to work to eradicate sexual harassment from the media industry.

  US embassy relocation to Jerusalem will undermine efforts for peace in Middle East

The international community must now make efforts to fairly tackle the problems in the Middle East based on the principles of the right to national self-determination, including the establishment of a Palestinian independent state.

JCP and bar association share view that democracy in Japan weakened under Abe regime

Ehime Prefecture’s records cast suspicion on PM Abe about false statement regarding Kake veterinary school

Karoshi victims’ families angry at Abe gov’t for intending to steamroller through bills to weaken work hour rules

Women reporters from 31 media outlets form network against sexual harassment

JCP lawmakers talk with Indonesians opposing coal-fired power plant project

Indonesian civil group: Japan should not fund coal-fired power plant in their country

Lawyers bring Internet hate targeting Korean residents in Japan to court

Forced sterilization victims sue gov't

JCP Fujino: Gov’t should take measures to prevent suicides in immigration detention centers

Chisso president retracts his abusive remark concerning Minamata disease

High court recognizes city’s refusal to publish woman’s poem on Article 9 as illegal

Over 100 foreign detainees staged hunger strike in immigration center in Ibaraki's Ushiku

GDP decline at annualized 0.6% highlights failure of ‘Abenomics’

Diet approval of bill for ratification of TPP11 forcibly passed in Lower House

 US embassy relocation to Jerusalem will undermine efforts for peace in Middle East

This week's JCP international activity

JCP position on Palestine question