Court rules Isuzu’s layoff of contingent workers as illegal ( October 21, 2009)
 Japan’s poverty rate of 15.7% is highest level  ( October 20, 2009)
 DPJ members complain lack of inner-party policy-making body ( October 20, 2009)
 Hokkaido Gensuikyo opposes USS Patriot entry into civil port ( October 20, 2009)
 Peace organizations demand U.S. Marine Corps drill canceled (October 20, 2009)
 JCP requests measures to solve Yanba dam issue (October 20, 2009)
 NGOs call on ICNND to reflect momentum for nuclear-free world ( October 18 & 19, 2009)
 Supreme Court must ensure proceedings over handbill posting case - Akahata editorial (excerpts) [Editorial] ( October 19, 2009)
 National rally marking Matsukawa Incident’s 60th anniversary ( October 18, 19, 2009)
 DPJ policies criticized as inadequate in responding to people’s demands (October 18, 2009)
 FY 2010 budget request reaches record-high level ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP lawmakers and Kin mayor discuss ways to stop U.S. forces ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP demands a halt to U.S. low-altitude flight training  ( October 17, 2009)
 Farmers and consumers launch ‘Green Wave’ action ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP calls for cancellation of Awase reclamation project ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP demands next Diet session to break through crisis of people’s livelihoods ( October 16, 2009)
 Pensioners demand abolition of discriminatory system for the elderly ( October 16, 2009)
 Kyushu Electric Power forcibly loads a reactor with MOX fuel ( October 16, 2009)
 Court orders to stop using public funds for reclamation of tideland ( October 16, 2009)
 JCP Vice Chair Ogata meets with Vietnamese CP delegation ( October 16, 2009)
 Consumers calls on JCP to work to cut consumption tax ( October 15, 2009)
 Anti-poverty volunteers urge government to avoid setting up ‘tent village’ ( October 15, 2009)
 400 billion for Olympic should be used to improve living conditions ( October 15, 2009)
 ILO report concerns pay requirement for disabled ( October 15, 2009)
 JCP Central Committee holds its 9th Plenum ( October 15, 2009)
 Keidanren to forego assessing 2 major parties’ policies this year ( October 14, 2009)
 Governor approves of plan for new U.S. base in Okinawa ( October 14, 2009)
 BSE risky parts contained in imported U.S. beef ( October 11 & 14, 2009)
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki consider bidding to host 2020 Olympics ( October 12, 2009)
 U.S. used secret pact for nuclear subs to pass through straits ( October 12, 2009)
 Hokkaido prefecturel assembly adopts anti-FTA resolution ( October 11, 2009)
 Rally to celebrate 2000th sit-in against a U.S. military base  ( October 11, 2009)
 More young people become homeless ( Sunday edition, Octover 11,2009)
 Business of poverty should be eradicated - Akahata editorial (excerpts) ( October 11, 2009)
 JCP holds gathering to discuss Yanba dam construction  ( October 11, 2009)
 Why has Japan Airlines run into financial difficulty? ( Sunday edition, October 11, 2009)
 Obama’s Nobel Prize with recognition of‘a nuclear free world ’ ( October 10, 2009)
 Education minister decides to end academic achievement test ( October 10, 2009)
 Issues involved in Yanba dam project ( October 10, 2009)
 Scientists request to freeze plutonium-thermal power generation ( October 10, 2009)
 JCP chair attends JA assembly for the first time ( October 9, 2009)
 Sit-in against new U.S. air base mark 2000th day in Okinawa ( October 9, 2009)
 Representations made for state budgets assisting people’s livelihoods ( October 8, 2009)
 Number of households on welfare hits record high ( October 8, 2009)
 DPJ Ozawa calls for reduction in Lower House committee seats ( October 7, 2009)
 Government panel recommends abolishing minimum standards for public services ( October 7, 2009)
  ‘Relocation of flight training’ destroys residents’ peaceful lives - Akahata editorial (excerpts) ( October 7, 2009)
 63% of ASDF’s airlift in Iraq is U.S. force-related ( October, 7, 2009)
 Residents protest against dispatching P3C to areas off Somalia ( October 6, 2009)
 Court orders to halt Tomonoura project! ( October 6, 2009)