UNGA resolves to launch negotiations for NWC in March

The UN General Assembly with an overwhelming majority support adopted a resolution to convene a conference to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention in 2017. A-bomb sufferers welcomed the resolution but criticized the Japanese government’s ‘No’ vote.

No reflection on past war, no reconciliation: Shii on Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor

Regarding Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that diplomacy without reflecting on the past war will never be able to bring about a true reconciliation and friendship with the peoples of Asia and the rest of the world.

Sympathy among people is vital to secure the right to live

As the Abe government is pushing ahead with its runaway policies, people’s fight for the right to live, which is guaranteed under the Japanese Constitution, is likely to further intensify in 2017.