TEPCO ads buying media support

“Our advertising cost in FY 2010 is nearly 11.6 billion yen,” said TEPCO’s new president Nishizawa Toshio at the shareholders’ meeting. Not only TEPCO, the power industry has long courted media favor to endorse pro-nuclear power policy planning.

PM Kan OKs 10% consumption tax

The Democratic Party of Japan-led government on June 30 approved a plan regarding “an integrated reform in taxes and social services”, calling for doubling the consumption tax rate by mid-2010s.

On the 3rd Central Committee Plenum

The Japanese Communist Party Central Committee held its 3rd Plenum of the Central Committee (25th Congress) on July 3-4 at the JCP head office, confirming a nationwide movement to work for a swift withdrawal from nuclear power generation and the need to create a “virtuous cycle” of a stronger JCP with JCP advances in elections.