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2008 DECEMBER 17- DECEMBER 22 JCP Chair Shii requests that Keidanren urge its member companies to stop massive job cuts Amid the ongoing massive dismissals of contingent workers, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo met with a senior managing director of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) to request that the business organization urge its member companies to cancel their massive job cut plans. Finance Ministry budget plan does nothing to ease public anxieties The need now is for the budget compilation, as presented by the JCP “proposal for emergency economic measures”, to prevent the burden of the failure of “casino capitalism” from being shifted onto workers, small businesses, and the general public; support people’s livelihoods; and increase domestic demand instead of depending on foreign demand in order to restructure the Japanese economy. Stop U.S. low-flight exercises in Japan Sonic booms from low-altitude flight training exercises conducted by U.S. military aircraft are disturbing residents across Japan and causing growing concerns about possible plane crashes. ...................................................................................................................... STRUGGLE FOR JOBS  Unionists in rally urge Keidanren to secure employmentTwo temporary workers at Mitsubishi Fuso join labor union to oppose dismissal noticeKeidanren report calls for wage restraint and goes against best way to rebuild Japan’s economyShii requests that Keidanren urge its member companies to stop massive job cutsLarge corporations should cancel massive dismissals of temporary and fixed-term contract workers and fulfill their social responsibilities: JCP statement to Nippon Keidanren...................................................................................................................... BUDGET Finance Ministry budget plan does nothing to ease public anxietiesFinance Ministry proposes 3.5-fold budget increase to pay for U.S. military realignment in Japan4.7 billion yen claimed as cost to prepare constitutional revisionHigh school students participate in sit-in demanding increase in education budget...................................................................................................................... CHILDCARE  Stop government ‘reform’ of childcare services: Akahata Editorial (excerpts)...................................................................................................................... SDF Air SDF personnel visited Class-A war criminals’ tomb...................................................................................................................... U.S. FORCES IN JAPAN JCP in Diet demands that government urge U.S. forces to end live-fire exercise in order to protect residents from stray bulletsOkinawa legislature unanimously demands immediate halt to live-fire drillsStop U.S. low-flight exercises in Japan: Akahata editorial...................................................................................................................... POLITICS Political parties (except JCP) receive 32 billion yen in government subsidiesLDP, DPJ, and Komei party members of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly wasted tax money on ‘study tours’ abroad...................................................................................................................... ENVIRONMENT Okinawan Prefectural Assembly amends environmental ordinance to allow authorities to enter U.S. bases for investigation of pollution |
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