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Toyota fires workers even while earning one trillion dollars in profit

Amid the deepening global financial crisis that has triggered an economic downturn, the socially disadvantaged are suffering most. At the world’s leading automaker, Toyota Motor Corporation is firing a large number of fixed-term employees.

Declassified document reveals that Japan gave up primary right of jurisdiction over crimes committed by U.S. servicemen

This is the first official document to directly confirm the existence of such a secret agreement, although there have so far been various declassified documents that suggest the existence of such a document.

Shii calls for electoral verdict to be given on LDP-DPJ ‘grand coalition’ aimed at wrecking Constitution

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan have in essence formed a “grand coalition aimed at wrecking the Constitution” and stressed the need to frustrate them in their ambitions in the upcoming general election.

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