Workers at major online printing company form union local

Young workers at Kyoto-based Printpac Corporation, a leading company in the Internet printing industry in Japan, organized a labor union, winning improved working conditions.

JCP opposes revision of gov’t statement offering apology to ‘comfort women’ victims

Japanese Communist Party Kokuta Keiji expressed his opposition to an attempt to set　up a body in the Diet to “re-examine” the Kono Statement which admits to the Japanese Army’s involvement in the wartime “comfort women” system.

Russia should refrain from military intervention in Ukraine: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo visited the Russian Embassy in Tokyo and requested that Russia refrain from taking military action in Ukraine.