Hope found in jail: interview of ‘judicial crime’ victim

It took him 43 years to finally prove their innocence. In Akahata’s exclusive interview, Sakurai Shoji of the so-called Fukawa case talks about the judicial system that created the false charge and the hope he discovered while in jail.

112 DPJ members in Lower House backed by TEPCO union

Out of 303 DPJ representatives in the Lower House, 112 got into the Diet with the support of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. labor union in the 2009 general election, including PM Kan Naoto.

DPJ-LDP coalition promoting adverse policies: Ichida

JCP Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi criticized the DPJ and the LDP for “attempting to push through an increase in the consumption tax in one” under the cloud of the ongoing national crisis by forming a grand coalition.