The Akahata Sunday edition won the grand prize of the 67th JCJ Awards for its series of reports on the Liberal Democratic Party factions’ alleged falsification of accounting records and creation of off-the-book funds.
JCP EC Chair Tamura, commenting on the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, said that the race is turning into an event to preserve money-tainted LDP politicians and old-fashioned LDP politics.
JCP CC Chair Shii, moderated by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Chair Heinz Bierbaum, had a theoretical exchange in Berlin on the theme of “Communism and Freedom” with the foundation’s experts in the fields of theory, labor, and society.