Akahata revealed that 41 candidates loyal to the Japan Conference (Nippon Kaigi), a right-wing organization often referred to as the Yasukuni sect, will run in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election slated for June 23.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, by imposing burdensome procedures on radiation-affected farmers, is paying out a lump sum of only 600,000 yen in damages for farm machinery which cost about four-five million yen each at the market price.
In an Akahata interview, Archbishop of Tokyo Okada Takeo said that people of faith are tasked to defend the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and that they share this initiative for peace with the Japanese Communist Party.
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