CONTENTS

POLITICS
*Any difference between candidates?: Akahata on LDP presidential election
*JCP Shii talks politics on Radio Nippon

SDF
*DA admits assuming invasion of Japan by China and Russia: GSDF secret plan

*Junior high schools organize military field trips
*SDF observer participation in U.S. Forces multinational exercise is unconstitutional

U.S. FORCES
Exercises
*U.S. Forces defy local government ban on military use of airports
*Why can't Japan control its skies?: Akahata on U.S. military training
Crime
*U.S. Marine commits another hit-and-run
*Naked U.S. airman arrested

TEXTBOOK ISSUE
*History textbook that misdirects Japan: Akahata editorial, April 13, 2001
*South Korea's parliamentarian in sit-in shakes hands with JCP Yoshioka
*Analysis of "Japanese Society of History Textbook Reform": Supporters and finances

CONSTITUTION
*JCP and SDP leaders will together attend May 3 Constitution rally

ECONOMY
*Rise in unemployment is natural: Finance minister
*All 4 LDP presidential election candidates responsible for economic failure: JCP Shii
*Akahata street interviews show economy is people's primary concern

AGRICULTURE
*First import curb on agricultural produce

LABOR
*JAL workers hold demonstration for safe flights
*Gamemaker Sega confines disabled workers
*Government must take steps to improve working conditions of all workers: Akahata on gender-equal society
*JCP proposes a national movement for eliminating unpaid overtime

ENVIRONMENT
*EU Chair discusses Kyoto Protocol with Japan opposition parties

INTERNATIONAL
Taiwan question
*JCP chair stresses 'one-China policy' and disagrees with Lee's Japan visit
Japan-Russia
*Japan-Russian territorial question and peace treaty negotiations: What did Mori-Putin talks and "Irkutsk statement" show?