Shii criticizes Hatoyama for ignoring Okinawans' demands Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo criticized the Hatoyama government decision as betraying the promise to move the Futenma base "outside the prefecture or even outside the country" and disregarding the Okinawans' determination to oppose the relocation within the prefecture.
JCP members are there for you Do you know that there are 406,000 Japanese Communist Party members in Japan? This means that about one out of every 250 people of the population aged 18 or over is a JCP member. Akiba Shigeru, 61, is one of them.
