NOV 7-NOV 13 JPS ISSUE

SDF SETS INITIAL STEP INTO UNLIMITED PARTICIPATION IN WARS
Sending Self-Defense Forces abroad is contrary to the will of the Japanese people who have defended Article 9 for more than 50 years.

SHAMELESS JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
It's a shame that the Koizumi Cabinet is acting as a vassal to the U.S. Bush administration's persistence in maintaining nuclear weapons.

ZENROREN ACTIVISTS DISCUSS STRUGGLES FOR JOB SECURITY
About 1,100 union activists met in a national meeting to discuss ways to develop their activities in the workplace and local communities.

STOP 'WAR ON TERRORISM'

*JCP urges government to call on the U.S. to stop using inhumane weapons

*JCP Dietmembers give eyewitness report

*JCP Dietmembers call for immediate halt to air strikes

*Japan's religious community speaks against military attacks

*JCP to prime minister: Tell the United States to end air strikes at once

SDF
*SDF sets initial step into unlimited participation in wars

*MSDF ships dispatched to Indian Ocean

*Urgent protest rally held against MSDF ships' departure for war

*Ruling parties move to revise law to send more SDF units abroad

U.S. FORCES
*Misawa will have another runway to be paid from Japan's 'sympathy budget'

NUCLEAR WEAPONS ELIMINATION
*Shameless Japanese government

OKINAWA
*1,400 people bid farewell to Senaga Kamejiro

*Peace organizations call for support of Nago citizens in struggle against new U.S.
base

AGRICULTURE/WTO
*Japan must work to get WTO agricultural treaty revised

*Farmers call for full-fledged safeguards

GLOBAL WARMING
*Move now to ratify Kyoto Protocol

LABOR
*Retired bus drivers in Okinawa unionized to get retirement allowance

*JCP develops dialogue with Rengo local branches on mass restructuring

*Government should act responsibly to regulate worker dismissals: JCP in Lower
House

*Former JAL flight attendant achieves recognition of her disease as work-related

*Zenroren activists discuss struggles for job security

*Government is to blame for NTT shifting losses abroad on to workers: JCP

CJD SUIT
*CJD victims stage sit-in calling for early compensation

STUDENTS
*High school students are hard hit by recession under Koizumi government

JCP
*JCP Fuwa meets Korea-Japan Cultural Exchange Council chair

*Cuban Communist Youth Union secretary visits JCP head office

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