Japan Press Weekly

JCP and CPV hold 9th theoretical exchange session

A Japanese Communist Party delegation and its Vietnamese counterpart on December 3 held their ninth theoretical exchange session at the JCP head office in Tokyo.

Survey by broadcast workers’ union shows male-dominated TV industry

The broadcast industry is still largely male-dominant. A recently-released survey shows that women accounted for only 23% of workers, 5% of board members, and 0% of chiefs of program production and news divisions in Tokyo-based TV stations.

Opposition parties’ collaboration makes epoch-making progress in extraordinary Diet session: Shii

Pro-constitutional opposition forces, including the JCP made a request to extend the 200th extraordinary session of the Diet by 40 days with the aim of further questioning the government in regard to the “cherry blossom-viewing party” scandal.

Opposition parties’ collaboration makes epoch-making progress in extraordinary Diet session: Shii

JCP Daimon: Tax the rich

Disputed bills regarding Japan-US trade pact and teachers’ excessively long working hours forcibly enacted

Media uncritically reported former PM Nakasone’s death

US flares fall on private land in Okinawa just 50m from house

2 years after US military’s part-drop accident on Okinawa kindergarten, parents make fresh call for flight ban

Removal operation of US dummy bomb in Aomori suspended

Survey by broadcast workers’ union shows male-dominated TV industry

Gender activist: Gov’t anti-workplace harassment guidelines should include sexist dress codes

Group to protect local public hospitals formed

Indonesian environmental NGO calls for end to Japan’s financing of coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Dr. Nakamura embodied spirit of war-renouncing Article 9: Shii

A9A in Gifu town works so townspeople’s memories of war won't be forgotten

JCP and CPV hold 9th theoretical exchange session

Shii talks with CPV Central Committee Secretary Thang

CPV delegation learns about JCP activities centering on Akahata in Kyoto