3.76 million war deaths, big discrepancy from government statistics

A survey by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (JPSS) has found that the estimated number of Japanese war deaths during the last two years of the Asia-Pacific War in 1944 and 1945 reached approximately 3.76 million. The figure differs significantly from government statistics.

JCP Motomura demands eradication of sexual exploitation and human trafficking

JCP representative Motomura raised the case of a 12-year-old Thai girl who had been trafficked to Japan and sexually exploited. Motomura demanded that the government strengthen its efforts to eradicate sexual exploitation and human trafficking.

Restart of TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP is utterly unacceptable

The Niigata governor has approved the resumption of operations of Nos. 6 and 7 reactors at TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. They would be the first TEPCO reactors to resume their operations since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.