Japan Press Weekly

LDP Dietmembers make discriminatory remarks about LGBT people

Japanese Communist Party Diet Policy Commission Chair Tamura Tomoko criticized discriminatory remarks Liberal Democratic Party Dietmembers made against LGBT people that infringe on their fundamental human rights.

LDP bulldozes through hospital bed reduction bill in midst of expansion of COVID-19 emergency

Prior to the vote at the plenary session, JCP lawmaker Kurabayashi Akiko said that the government should stop using tax revenues to reduce hospital beds and instead spend more to support struggling medical institutions and frontline workers.

Unified efforts by opposition parties working with public movement activists block adverse revision of immigration law: Shii

Amid growing public criticism over inhumane issues at immigration detention centers in Japan, the government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have given up enacting a bill to revise the Immigration Control Act in the current Diet session.

Unified efforts by opposition parties working with public movement activists block adverse revision of immigration law: Shii

DefMin puts pressure on critical media reporting on vaccine booking system flaws

LDP bulldozes through hospital bed reduction bill in midst of expansion of COVID-19 emergency

Bill that hinders juvenile offenders from reentering society enacted

IOC’s stance clinging to holding Tokyo Games damages ideal of Olympic movement

200K signatures calling for better medical, nursing-care and welfare programs submitted to Diet

Union workers at Osaka hospital win settlement in lawsuit in dispute over 230 million yen in unpaid overtime wages

Agreement concluded between plaintiffs and government in construction asbestos lawsuits

LDP Dietmembers make discriminatory remarks about LGBT people

60% of young workers struggling to make living amid pandemic

JCP Inoue joins online international forum to discuss creating world without nuclear weapons

Shii issues statement regarding latest Israel-Palestinian crisis