JCP proposes the bill for revision of the Worker Dispatch Law

The Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said, “If we do nothing about employers treating workers as disposable units without respecting their human dignity, there will be no bright future either for workers or for Japan’s economy and society on the whole.”

Japan should take up the issue of abolishing nuclear weapons at G8 Summit: JCP Inoue

Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councilors Inoue Satoshi said that Summit agreements have been bound by the “non-proliferation” framework and that the agenda for the upcoming Toyako Summit only refers to the implementation of the goal of the NPT.

Stop U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier from being deployed to Yokosuka

A citizens’ group in Yokosuka City submitted to the local Election Administration Committee more than 50,000 signatures bearing citizens’ call for an ordinance to hold a referendum on the planned deployment of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the U.S. base in Tokyo Bay.