220,000 workers protest against timid corporate response to pay raise demand

More than 220,000 union workers rose nationwide on March 13 in protest against companies’ insincere responses to their pay raise demand in the ongoing spring labor offensive.

Don’t falsify historical facts: Shii at press conf. on comfort women issue

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo released the party’s view refuting the recent move against the 1993 Kono Statement regarding the so-called comfort women issue.

Annul Russia’s Annexation of Crimea - Hegemonic overturning of world peace order impermissible: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on March 19 published a statement in regards to Russia’s annexation of Crimea at a press conference in the Diet building.