Video goes viral showing Tamura urging gov’t to improve anti-epidemic measures in Diet last year

Amid growing concern over the new coronavirus pandemic, a video has gone viral where JCP Vice Chair Tamura at a Diet meeting criticized the government for cutting the number of staff and the budget of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Shii expresses his strong condemnation of Abe’s unjust attack on JCP at Lower House plenary session

JCP Chair Shii, regarding PM Abe’s response to a Nippon Ishin no Kai party lawmaker’s anti-JCP questions, said that the JCP has never had an official policy of engaging in “terroristic, destructive activities” and never carried out such a policy.

Shii speaks on revised-JCP Program and coalition gov't in magazine interview

JCP Chair Shii in a magazine interview said, "What's going on in China has nothing to do with socialism. There is no longer a rationale for us to see China as a country seeking socialism, so we decided to clarify in our Program how we view China."