Former newspaper sales agent employees join JCP

Three former newspaper sales agent employees joined the Japanese Communist Party in January in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture. They had run away from the manager’s violence, low wages, and other harsh working conditions, when they discovered the JCP. They are now actively involved in party activities.

‘Bikini Day’ events will be start of new efforts toward 2010 NPT Review Conference

Taka Hiroshi, Japan Council against A & H Bombs secretary-general, talks about the meetings and workshops to be held in Yaizu City, the homeport of Daigo Fukuryu Maru, as well as in Shizuoka City, to commemorate the Bikini tragedy and renew the commitment to increasing the movement to get nuclear weapons eliminated from the world.

Shii urges government to stop large companies from firing temporary workers

Questioning the government at the House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said, “Large corporations put the interests of large shareholders, seeking easy profits, before the interests of workers who labor diligently. Isn’t this corruption even by capitalist standards? Won’t this also deprive corporations of their own future viability?”