Gov’t should stop harsh collection of scholarship loans: JCP Miyamoto

Japanese Communist Party representative Miyamoto Takeshi requested the government to create a grant-type scholarship system without delay by presenting examples of harsh scholarship loan collection tactics used by a government-funded organization.

JCP gets 1st assembly seat in conservative town of Yamagata

The Japanese Communist Party has successfully sent its first ever representative to the local assembly of a conservative town in Yamagata Prefecture, known as the hometown of two former Lower House members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Hard to evacuate residents living within 30km-zone in nuclear accident

Most of the 21 prefectures in designated evacuation zones have recently drawn up an evacuation plan in the event of a nuclear accident, but they are all worrying about how to evacuate their residents to safer areas.