The Japanese Communist Party carried out a street campaign near Shinjuku Station as an effort to promote the 20 million signatures drive which also began on this day with the aim of repealing the unconstitutional war legislation.
A third-party organization in the broadcasting community which handles issues related to the ethics in journalism published a statement criticizing the Liberal Democratic Party for having put pressure on NHK in connection with one of its TV programs.
The Japanese government has sent a scholar denying the Nanjing Massacre to UNESCO meetings where discussions on whether to add Nanjing Massacre-related materials to the Memory of the World Register list were being conducted.
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