Japan Press Weekly

Ex-Nissan chair Ghosn rearrested

Tokyo prosecutors rearrested former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn on suspicion of underreporting his remuneration by a total of 4.2 billion yen in the company's securities reports for three years until BY2017.

2 US military aircraft collide with each other and crash into sea off Kochi

A U.S. fighter jet and a U.S. aerial refueling aircraft collided with each other and crashed into the sea 100 km off the coast of Kochi Prefecture, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.

  Extraordinary Diet session materializes failure of Abe’s high-handed policies

The 197th extraordinary Diet session ended with controversial bills to accept more foreign workers, adversely revise the fisheries law and the law on water supply services, and approve the Japan-EU EPA railroaded through.

 Extraordinary Diet session materializes failure of Abe’s high-handed policies

Upper House committee passes bill on water privatization

Japan swimming against global tide of return to public management of water services

Abe gov't forcibly enacts controversial bills

2 US military aircraft collide with each other and crash into sea off Kochi

A Sharp factory in Japan fired 3K foreign workers within one year

Foreign workers in building industry under special measures scheme used as cheap labor

85% of runaway Vietnamese trainees conned out of unfair commissions to come to Japan

174 foreign trainees died in eight years

Ex-Nissan chair Ghosn rearrested

Court prohibits rightist group from disrupting screening of film on ‘comfort women’

Settlement of wartime forced labor issue is possible

Japan to give up export of nuclear power plant to Turkey

Nationwide peace actions held to protect Article 9 on 77th anniversary of start of Pacific War