Four former executives of the Liberal Democratic Party on June 12 voiced their opposition to the enactment of the war legislation the Abe administration is determined to have passed in the current Diet session.
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a major semiconductor company, is calling back many of its former employees as temporary workers who the maker itself pressured into early retirement.
A group in Fukuoka City, which has long been publishing the audio version of Akahata Sunday edition for persons with visual disabilities, received from the national government a Green Ribbon Medal in May.