Great opportunity for a total ban on nuclear weapons: Gensuikyo

As the 2012 World Conference against A & H Bombs approaches next month, Akahata had an interview with Yasui Masakazu, secretary general of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), who said, “The annual World Conference has been described as a ‘historic event’ on many occasions, and this is particularly true this year.”

Social security services system will be demolished

A bill on the social security services system submitted jointly by the Democratic, Liberal Democratic, and Komei parties is aiming to build a “high pay, low return” Japan.

Major quake could cause core meltdown at Oi plant

JCP Upper House member Inoue Satoshi on July 10 warned that a core meltdown might occur at the Oi nuclear power plant, which was reactivated this month, if it is hit by an earthquake as powerful as the 2007 quake that hit the Niigata area.