Abe’s control over media receives criticism from UN expert on free speech (June 1, 2017)
 Struggle for the poor strengthened his belief (May 29, 2017)
 Visually impaired persons’ group in national conference celebrates its 50 year history (May 29, 2017)
 Bill to impose further burden of nursing-care services on elderly enacted (May 27, 2017)
 30% of elderly people in FY2035 will be in poverty (May 25, 2017)
 Employee salaries go down by \500,000 from peak (May 25, 2017)
 Cross-party lawmakers and NGOs rally for early ratification of optional protocol for gender equality (May 25, 2017)
 NRA OKs plan to reactivate Oi NPP in defiance of public concern over safety (May 25, 2017)
 Abe government’s arrogance leads LDP lawmaker to display insulting behavior (May 24, 2017)
 Gov. Koike’s local party in campaign promise says nothing about Tokyo’s fish market issue (May 24, 2017)
 Benzene 100 times higher than legal baseline detected again in groundwater in Toyosu (May 19, 2017)
 Amid popular protests, Takahama NPP No.4 reactor is restarted (May 18, 2017)
 Gov’t should stop promoting coal-fired power generation[Editorial] (May 16, 2017)
 Ex-high school teacher reveals reality of Koreans’ wartime forced labor in Fukushima (May 9 & 10, 2017)
 Increase in surveillance of mentally-disabled people is unacceptable[Editorial] (May 10, 2017)
 Abe’s political exploitation of Tokyo Olympics evokes nightmare of Hitler (May 9, 2017)
 2-day event for LGBT rights in Tokyo attracts over 100k people (May 3, 7 and 9, 2017)
 JCP Kami obtains documents showing Japanese Army’s involvement in wartime sex slave system (April 27, 2017)
 Osaka’s bid for 2025 World Expo disguises its intent to attract casino businesses (April 26, 2017)
 Citizens discuss how to guarantee right to vote for people with disabilities (April 23, 2017)
 Why the right to life is considered a fundamental human right? (April 23, 2017)
 Bill to support home education is part of Abe-style education reform (April 21, 2017)
 Persevering movements successfully restore grants program to legal apprentices (April 19&20, 2017)
 Under Imperial Rescript on Education wives were subordinate to husbands (April 17, 2017)
 Machida city gov’t refuses to accept statue to commemorate US crash tragedy (April 17, 2017)
 Saga citizens protest against assembly’s consent to Genkai NPP restart (April 14, 2017)
 Abe’s wife not in the Diet but on Facebook page argues against criticism of her involvement in ‘Moritomo’ scandal (April 12, 2017)
 Remittances to private university students hit record low: union survey (April 6, 2017)
 Court rulings permitting restart of NPPs are irresponsible[Editorial] (April 5, 2017)
 30% of foreign residents in Japan experience discriminatory remarks: gov’t survey (April 3, 2017)
 ‘Bayonet techniques’ to be taught to junior high school students (April 2, 2017)
 Weekly protest against nuclear power generation continues for five years (March 31 & April 1, 2017)
 Min-iren survey: Poverty holds people back from seeing doctors, resulting in 58 deaths (April 1, 2017)
  ‘Tsukiji bashing’ by LDP faces fierce counterattack (March 31, 2017)
 Court rejects injunction request against restart of Ikata NPP (March 31, 2017)
 High court reverses lower court ruling and gives go-ahead to Takahama NPP restart (March 30, 2017)
 Women’s struggles change sports history (March 30, 2017)
 Tokyo JCP presses Gov. Koike to halt move of wholesale market to contaminated site (March 25, 2017)
 SCJ adopts statement reaffirming 50-year-old military research ban (March 25, 2017)
 District court: Fukushima nuclear accident could have been prevented (March 18, 2017)
 Akahata survey illuminates gap in recovery between Fukushima and other disaster-affected prefectures (March 10, 2017)
 Supreme Court: GPS tracking by police without warrant is illegal (March 16, 2017)
 Major media losing critical perspective after repeated wining and dining with Abe (March 16, 2017)
 70% of seafood traders in Tsukiji call for cancellation of relocation to polluted Toyosu district (March 15, 2017)
 Firms constructing 2020 Olympic village offer golden parachutes to Tokyo gov’t officials (March 14, 2017)
 JCP efforts help reduce metropolitan univ. tuition for needy students (March 14, 2017)
 Tokyo Assembly’s special commission launches investigation into Toyosu scandal (March 12 & 13, 2017)
 Japanese women call for ‘No War’ on International Women’s Day (March 10, 2017)
 27% of high school students from low-income households work at part-time job five days a week: Okinawa survey (March 8, 2017)
 Panel of Japan’s science council decides to maintain ban on military research (March 8, 2017)