Japan Press Weekly

  Japan should repair relations with South Korea based on remorse over its colonial rule

To repair Japan-South Korea relations, the need is for the Japanese government not to hurl reproaches at its South Korean counterpart, but to face its past history squarely and conduct diplomacy in a cool-headed manner.

Resona HD: We won't give loans to N-arms firms

Resona Holdings, Inc., has decided to not give loans to companies developing or manufacturing nuclear weapons. The decision was made in response to the call of international NGOs to financial institutions to stop from funding N-arms makers.

Shii in New Year assembly calls for stepping up efforts to win Upper House and simultaneous local elections

JCP Chair Shii in a New Year assembly called on party members to make all-out efforts to open the way for new and hopeful politics this year by achieving a JCP advance in the upcoming nationwide local elections and in the Upper House election.

 Japan should repair relations with South Korea based on remorse over its colonial rule

JCP Koike comments on Abe government’s new defense program

Nakasone gov't in 80s feared loss of 'nuclear umbrella'

Declassified documents suggest Foreign Ministry accepted secret pact on bringing-in of US nuclear weapons to Okinawa

Okinawans’ protest against Henoko base project receives solidarity from abroad

Koike: FY2019 draft budget would ruin Japanese society

Abe gov't sells national sovereignty piece by piece

Okinawa prefectural assembly passes resolution regarding arrest of US deserter armed with a gun

Unfairly-fired art professors in Nagoya struggle in court for right to return to work

Foreign workers’ treatment at Sharp factory violates Worker Dispatch Law: Labor Ministry

Independent contractors for TEPCO subsidiary unionized

UNGA adopts declaration on peasants’ rights

Japan is running last in disinvestment from coal-fired power

 Don't lag behind the world in addressing workplace harassment

Koike criticizes LDP as being irresponsible in regard to anti-LGBTQ remarks frequently made by LDP Dietmembers

Gov’t should set safety standards on accommodations for low-income elderly people

Resona HD: We won't give loans to N-arms firms

BOJ shoulders huge amount of Japanese government bonds

Hibakusha in this year’s first monthly ‘6th and 9th action’ call for Japan’s ratification of antinuke UN treaty

Shii in New Year assembly calls for stepping up efforts to win Upper House and simultaneous local elections

JCP delegation in Vietnam