Mothers shorten child-care leave so their babies can enter day nurseries (April 4, 2013)
 Non-profit group to work to enable the disabled to enjoy theater art (April 3, 2013)
 58 died from delay in seeking medical care due to economic reason (March 30, 2013)
 JCP Dietman talks with groups against child poverty (March 29, 2013)
 Tokyo turns down parents’ call for more authorized childcare centers (March 29, 2013)
 Give tax credits to all mother-child households: JCP (March 26, 2013)
 Make use of Tokyo public land for more childcare centers: JCP (March 14, 2013)
 NPO conducts weekly night activity to support the homeless (March 9, 2013)
 Lifting ban on mixed-medical services will deny equal access to medical treatments[Editorial] (March 4, 2013)
 Another action for more child-care centers in Tokyo (March 8, 2013)
 Residents push city to fund children’s vaccinations  (March 6, 2013)
 City gives up challenging court ruling on illegality of turning away welfare assistance applicants (March 5, 2013)
 Ordinance bill to ‘keep an eye on’ welfare recipients attracts popular criticism (March 2 & 5, 2013)
 Court finds denial of application for welfare assistance to be illegal (February 21, 2013)
 Mothers push mayor to provide daycare services to more children (February 23, 25 & 26, 2013)
 Training of guides to Hansen’s disease sanatorium urgently needed (February 26, 2013)
 Japan should make law banning discrimination against disabled and ratify UN treaty (February 26, 2013)
 JCP Tokyo assemblyperson demands more certified childcare centers (February 27, 2013)
 Mothers take action to demand increase in child-care centers (February 19, 2013)
 Medical groups in the 3.11-affected region seek continuation of medical fee exemption (February 15, 2013)
 Handicapped protest state move pressing local gov’t to abolish free medical service (February 6, 2013)
 Welfare benefit is last safety net to defend lives and human rights: Bar representative (February 6, 2013)
 Gov’t will cut benefits for wartime orphans and leprosy patients’ families (February 3, 2013)
 100,000 signatures submitted against lowering welfare benefits (January 23 and 28, 2013)
 Welfare benefits recipients barely able to survive  (January 25 and 27, 2013)
 1995 quake victims in Itami can continue living in public housing (January 26, 2013)
 Abe Cabinet to shelve small-class size plan (January 27, 2013)
 Abe seeks the largest-ever cut in public assistance payments[Editorial] (January 28, 2013)
 Legal trainees call for reinstatement of scholarship program (January 31, 2013)
 More than 70% of sick-child care centers operate in red (January 30, 2013)
 More than 1,000 Hanshin-quake victims died in solitude  (January 17, 2013)
 Kobe Earthquake victims fight against local governments’ relocation order (January 17, 2013)
 People on welfare to be forced to accept low wage jobs (January 17, 2013)
 LDP gov’t will go forward with cuts in livelihood protection (January 15, 2013)
 Gender gaps still exist after 27 years of equal job opportunity law (December 25, 2012)
 Asbestos victims appeal lower court decision in Tokyo  (December 19, 2012)
 Niigata court rejects claim to reinstate additional benefits for elderly (December 16, 2012)
 Court orders state to compensate asbestos victims (December 6, 2012)
 Which party can improve pension program? (November 21, 2012)
 More people sinking into poverty under DPJ’s rule (November 14, 2012)
 Fund people on welfare for advanced medical treatments: JCP Takahashi (October 29 and November 8, 2012)
 90 percent of local governments subsidize 5 or more regular gynecologic checkups (July 4, 2008 )
 Ex-Hansen’s disease patients need more sanatorium staff (November 4 & 6, 2012)
 Kanagawa JCP protests against local gov’t plan to close public ranch (October 28, 2012)
 Support single-parent households[Editorial] (October 31, 2012)
 Give relief to all patients: intractable disease sufferers  (October 22, 2012)
 People with disabilities unavoidably dependent on their parents (October 20, 2012)
 Persons with disabilities want to lead normal lives in their communities (September 30, October 1, 2012)
 Don’t deny more needy citizens of social welfare benefits[Editorial] (September 30, 2012)
 Majority prefers gov’t to focus on relief for people in need of public assistance (September 19, 2012)