JCP Chair Shii Kazuo held talks with French Communist Party national secretary Pierre Laurent at the JCP head office in Tokyo. They confirmed that the two parties will develop their cooperation and solidarity relations in regard to common global tasks.
In the Peace Memorial Ceremony for victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Hibakusha and the Nagasaki City mayor expressed their opposition to the Abe government-proposed war legislation.
In the mayoral election of Ichikawa Town in Hyogo Prefecture, a Japanese Communist Party candidate defeated the incumbent. With this, the number of JCP mayors in the prefecture increased to two.
Read more
Maritime SDF documents conflict with gov’t argument regarding constitutionality of war bills
Gov’t tries to lure universities to participate in military research projects by offering enticement of subsidies
Territorial Issues
