Naha City Mayor Onaga Takeshi at a city assembly plenary session formally announced his candidacy for the Okinawa gubernatorial election slated for November, saying, “I will do my best to meet citizens’ expectations.”
In defiance of strong public opposition, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) finalized its assessment report saying that safety measures at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima Prefecture meet the state's guidelines.
A network consisting of women workers who were dismissed or forced to “voluntarily” leave their jobs after pregnancy or childbirth requested that the government create a law to prevent so-called maternity harassment at work.
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