Japan Press Weekly

Shii speaks on Marx on radio

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on a radio program said that Marx's theory is still alive even more clearly today with the growth of social and economic disparities and the increase in poverty.

Foreign trainees testify about harsh working conditions to opposition party Dietmembers

Foreign trainees at a hearing jointly held by Dietmembers of six opposition parties related how they had been forced to work under harsh working conditions.

PM Abe's 'Trump 1st' policy is disaster for general public: JCP Chair Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that the U.S. midterm election results (Nov. 6 local time) in which Republicans lost their majority in the House are of great significance.

PM Abe's 'Trump 1st' policy is disaster for general public: JCP Chair Shii

Opposition parties in Iwate request JCP CC for interparty talks to field a united candidate

Koike: Humiliating SOFA should be revised

Government ministries in 2017 waste 116 billion yen in taxpayers’ money: Board of Audit

Japanese Constitution committed to pacifism

Construction plan for housing units for US military in Kanagawa to be canceled: Local paper

US carrier-based airplane crashes into sea off Okinawa

Foreign trainees testify about harsh working conditions to opposition party Dietmembers

JCP Koike criticizes gov't for leaving existing problems of foreign workers unresolved

Thousands of foreign trainees run away from exploitative working conditions

JAL labor unions rally to win more workers and better working conditions

JCP announces policy to increase school teachers by 90K within 10 years

Vietnamese trainee experiences violence at host company

60% of nurses under two-shift system work more than 16 hours on night shifts

More older people living alone go on welfare due to economic difficulties triggered by Abe’s welfare cuts policy

Shii meets with lawyers for former Korean forced laborers

Shii speaks on Marx on radio