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Nippon TV's responsibility under question for airing discriminatory joke targeting Ainu
JCP Kami Tomoko promised the head of an Ainu association that the JCP will demand an apology for and reflection on the history of discrimination against the Ainu and on the past government policy of forced assimilation.
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Union’s strike succeeds in forcing NTT to promise to provide equal treatment to non-regular workers
In response to a JMITU strike, NTT announced that it will narrow the gap between regular and non-regular workers in terms of paid leaves and allowances in line with JMITU demands.
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JCP Yamazoe questions presidents of Tohokushinsha and NTT in regard to wining-and-dining scandals
JCP Yamazoe Taku questioned the Tohokushinsha Film Corp president and the NTT president, who were called to the Upper House as unsworn witnesses, about the recently-exposed wining-and-dining scandals involving the government officials.
- POLITICS
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JCP Yamazoe questions presidents of Tohokushinsha and NTT in regard to wining-and-dining scandals
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Opposition parties agree to summon key persons to testify in Diet about lavish entertainment of communications officials
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JCP Hatano demands termination of Japan-US special agreement regarding 'sympathy budget'
- LABOR
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Union’s strike succeeds in forcing NTT to promise to provide equal treatment to non-regular workers
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NTT workers: NTT should provide pay hike, not lavish dinners for gov't bureaucrats
- SOCIAL ISSUES
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Nippon TV's responsibility under question for airing discriminatory joke targeting Ainu
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An 18-year-old Fukushima evacuee speaks his mind
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Tokyoites' medical resources may go to for-profit 'medical tourism'
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Data aggregation in Amazon Cloud is risky: expert
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Japanese academic associations call for retraction of article denial of ‘comfort women’