4,800 Japanese youth bring 99%ers’ protest to Japan

About 4,800 Japanese young people on October 23 shouted, “End the disposable use of labor!” and joined in the worldwide 99%ers’ movement against poverty and social inequality that began on NYC Wall Street.

Use NPP-related firms’ reserve funds for nuclear damage compensation

The JCP has requested the government to use 80 trillion yen of the internal reserves of major corporations benefitting from the nuclear power generation industry to compensate for damage and clean up the radiation contamination caused by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.

Internet viewers support JCP’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy

75.7 % of viewers of an Internet broadcast program on October 18 expressed their support to an idea to have the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes proposed by Japanese Communist Party Dietmember Kokuta Keiji.