Government should set goal to end poverty: JCP Koike (June 28 & 29, 2009)
 ILO for guarantee of labor rights for public service employees for fifth time ( June 29, 2009 )
 Japan pays 70% of utilities for U.S. forces in Okinawa  ( June 28, 2009)
 Small factory owners call for government support ( June 27, 2009)
 Ichida criticizes LDP for drawing curtain on Minamata disease issue ( June 25, 26 & 27, 2009)
 Parliamentary investigation urged into illegal donations involving LDP and DPJ ( June 26, 2009)
 Total ban on sending temporary workers to manufacturers is essential  ( June 26, 2009)
 Total ban on sending temporary workers to manufacturers is essential  ( June 26, 2009)
 JCP Chair Shii meets with Nicaraguan ambassador (June 26, 2009)
 Finance minister may have also accepted hidden corporate donations ( June 25, 2009)
 Welfare ministry to consider ways for low-income earners’ medical treatment  ( June 25, 2009 )
 JCP candidate campaigns in the home grounds of Abe Shinzo  (June 25, 2009)
 JCP urgent proposal to help Tokyo’s youth out of ‘working poor’ trap (June 25, 2009 )
 Government budgetary decision is actually designed to buy votes Akahata editorial [Editorial] ( June 24, 2009)
 Ad hoc council proposed to determin criteria for children’s brain death (June 24, 2009)
 2 trillion yen used to upgrade U.S. military facilities in Japan ( June 23, 2009)
 Hibakusha criticize government in recognizing A-bomb diseases ( June 23, 2009)
 Okinawa remembers victims of Battle of Okinawa ( June 23, 2009)
 Politics that cannot say ‘NO’ to financial circles’ request Akahata editorial [Editorial] ( June 22, 2009)
 JCP criticizes government goal for emissions cuts as halfhearted ( June 22, 2009 )
 Revised immigration law violates foreigners’ rights ( June 21, 2009)
 JCP Kokuta says DPJ must come clean about illegal donations ( June 20, 2009)
 LDP goes against public interest by bulldozing through ‘anti-piracy’bills ( June 20, 2009 )
 JCP chair criticizes using SDF to inspect North Korean cargo ships ( June 19, 2009)
 JCP demands that Peruvian indigenous people’s rights be protected  ( June 19, 2009 )
 JCP abstains from voting on bill to define brain death as human death ( June 19, 2009)
 JCP: Consensus must precede any decision to amend Organ Transplant Law ( June 19, 2009)
 JCP in Tokyo publishes proposal to improve services for the elderly ( June 19, 2009 )
 Aso says consumption tax increase is essential for social services ( June 18, 2009 )
 JCP; Deal with North Korea using non-military and diplomatic means (June 17 ,2009)
 Experts say ‘anti-piracy’ bill offers no fundamental solution ( June17, 2009 )
 Bill to give agribusiness freedom to use farmland enacted ( June 17, 2009)
 Japan Peace Committee to increase anti-U.S. base and nuclear arms campaign (June 16, 17, 2009)
 Senior health ministry official arrested for involvement in abuse of postage discount system (June 16, 2009)
 Members of democratic medical institutions take active part in campaign for nuclear weapons abolition (June 16, 2009)
 For an increase in Japan’s birthrate[Editorial] (June 16, 2009)
 The need now is to move away from postal privatization[Editorial] (June 14, 2009)
 North Korea must listen to world opinion[Editorial] (June 13, 2009)
 Students rally demanding reduction of tuitions ( June 13-14, 2009)
 Leader of citizens’ opposition to homeporting of U.S. nuclear carrier runs in Yokosuka mayoral election (June 13, 14, 2009)
 Shii criticizes DPJ for evading questions about Nishimatsu scandal involving Ozawa (June 12, 2009)
 Law to establish procedures for constitutional revision must be abolished[Editorial] (June 12, 2009)
 Shii says draft U.N. resolution sets forth reasoned and calm measures against North Korea (June 12, 2009 )
 JCP chair criticizes Aso’s mid-term goal for Japan’s emissions cut (June 11, 2009)
 Hidankyo calls for swift overall settlement of Hibakusha lawsuit (June 11, 2009)
 Law change sought for stronger control on taxis from deregulation (June 11, 2009)
 Shii meets with Ecuadorian ambassador (June 11, 2009)
 DPJ wants to be funded by corporations while proposing a ban on corporate donations[Editorial] (June 10, 2009)
 LDP and DPJ compete to remove Article 9 (June 10, 2009)
 Government will not appeal Tokyo High Court ruling on Hibakusha (June 10, 2009)