Y12.3 billion paid to workers in back wages for overtime in 2013

The Labor Ministry has recently announced that it ordered 1,417 companies to pay 114,880 workers a total of 12.3 billion yen in back pay for overtime work in FY 2013.

Osaka City will closely monitor the needy

The Osaka City government, in cooperation with a credit-card company, is seeking to monitor and control what welfare recipients spend their livelihood protection benefits on.

Shii in New Year address: Let’s put end to Abe’s runaway policies

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo at the New Year assembly expressed his determination to make full use of the JCP’s enhanced strength in parliament to thwart the Abe government’s plot to turn Japan into a war-capable nation in the 70th year following the end of World War II.