Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo held a press conference in the Diet building and published the party’s election platform for the approaching House of Representatives general election.
The Tokyo High Court judged that to have deported asylum seekers without the opportunity for a fair trial is a violation of Article 32 of the Japanese Constitution which guarantees the right of access to the court.
This year's Novel Physics Prize will be awarded to Manabe Shukuro, a senior meteorologist at Princeton University for groundbreaking contributions to the prediction of climate change.