Japan Press Service Co., Ltd. is the only news agency providing information of progressive, democratic movements in Japan
2009 NOVEBER 11 - NOVEMBER 17
Government's budget-slashing measures raise many questions: JCP Ichida Commenting on the Democratic Party-led government’s budget-slashing measures to scrutinize the budget requests from government offices for the next fiscal year starting April 1, 2010, Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi criticized the screeners for avoiding moves to cut the most wasteful spending program.
New government cannot break away from traditional stance toward U.S. One of the major pending questions between Japan and the U.S. is the “relocation” of the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma base in Ginowan City, Okinawa. The topic is a touchstone for the new Japanese coalition government to show whether it can break away from the course of the former government led by the Liberal Democratic and Komei parties, which had forced Okinawans to shoulder excessive U.S. base burdens and worked to perpetuate the bilateral military alliance.
