Japan Press Weekly

JCP: Cash benefits of 100,000 yen per capita practical

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that the government plan to provide 100,000 yen in cash benefits to each individual is practical in terms of speediness and fairness.

Tokyo-based taxi firm uses the coronavirus crisis as pretext to force 600 drivers to accept early retirement

Workers in the Tokyo-based taxi company Royal Limousine Group are fighting against the company plan to force 600 drivers to take early retirement by using the spread of the coronavirus as a pretext.

  LDP’s use of COVID-19 crisis for constitutional revision to introduce ‘emergency provision’ unforgivable

It is unacceptable for the LDP and PM Abe to go forward with their constitutional revision attempt while the ongoing corona crisis is threatening people’s lives and livelihoods.

 LDP’s use of COVID-19 crisis for constitutional revision to introduce ‘emergency provision’ unforgivable

JCP: Cash benefits of 100,000 yen per capita practical

 Compensate businesses for loss of earnings before it's too late

 US military in Japan should disclose information about coronavirus infection cases in its bases

JCP submits proposal in order to stop explosive spread of COVID-19 and collapse of medical system

Suprapartisan lawmakers urge Health Ministry to strengthen and broaden PCR testing system for coronavirus

SDF units in Djibouti do not have coronavirus testing equipment

Pushed by opposition parties, gov’t revises supplementary draft budget to strengthen anti-corona efforts

Okinawa demands on-site probe over leakage of PFOS-containing fire foams from US Futenma base

Okinawa prefectural assembly adopts statement protesting against leakage of toxic fire foam from US base

Tokyo-based taxi firm uses the coronavirus crisis as pretext to force 600 drivers to accept early retirement

Union urges gov’t to support welfare facilities struggling to continue providing services during coronavirus crisis

Min-iren lab 'based on its own sense of mission' will give people access to PCR testing

JCP urges gov’t to purchase medical-grade masks to address stock shortages among coronavirus frontline health workers

Abe gov’t intends to turn Japan’s heirloom seeds into profits of multinational agribusinesses

Japan Gensuikyo ready for online antinuke World Conference