Even LDP and Komei lawmakers express concern over Diet seat reduction (April 28, 2016)
 Over 70% of secondary school students feel Article 9 has contributed to Japan’s peace (April 28, 2016)
 Shii speaks to businesspersons about opposition alliance (April 28, 2016)
 More than 500 citizens sue gov’t over war laws (April 27, 2016)
 Japan’s unsuccessful bid for Aussie submarine project is good chance to re-impose arms embargo (April 27, 2016)
 Shii urges PM to improve living conditions in temporary shelters for Kyushu quake victims (April 27, 2016)
 Koike: joint opposition candidate’s fight in Hokkaido by-election raises hopes for victory in future elections (April 26, 2016)
 99% of Japanese subsidiaries in Cayman Islands are shell companies: JCP Daimon (April 26, 2016)
 Ex-leprosy patients reject apology from Supreme Court over special courts (April 26, 2016)
 US Kadena AB leaked harmful materials 13 times over 6 years (April 25, 2016)
 Urgent support for SMEs in quake-hit region in Kyushu needed (April 24, 2016)
 JCP Motomura demands gov’t support for Kyushu quake victims to secure housing (April 24, 2016)
 Amid growing criticism, Tokyo governor takes another luxurious overseas trip (April 24, 2016)
 JCP Kokuta opposes bills to slash number of Diet seats (April 23, 2016)
 High court recognizes suicide of city bus driver as work-related (April 23, 2016)
 JCP in Nirasaki urges mayor to not give citizens’ personal information to SDF (April 23, 2016)
 This week’s JCP international activities (April 21 & 23, 2016)
 Political parties, with exception of JCP, continue to accept state subsides amid ongoing quake disaster in Kyushu (April 22, 2016)
 Opposition parties-proposed bill to increase childcare allowances rejected in Lower House (April 22, 2016)
 Use of foreign trainees to cover Japan’s labor shortages is unacceptable: JCP Shimizu (April 21, 2016)
 UN human rights expert shows concern over independence of the press in Japan (April 21, 2016)
 91% of imported food left uninspected (April 21, 2016)
 NRA declares aged reactors at Takahama NPP meet safety standards (April 21, 2016)
 4 opposition parties jointly submit a bill to regulate working hours (April 20, 2016)
 Uniformed SDF officers have drafted proposals disregarding traditional gov’t constitutional interpretations (April 20, 2016)
 JCP Kumamoto & civil groups work to prevent ‘economy class syndrome’ (April 20, 2016)
 JCP strives hard to relieve victims of earthquakes in Kyushu (April 19, 2016)
 JCP lawmakers to gov’t: direct utmost efforts to disaster relief (April 19, 2016)
 Sending US Ospreys to affected areas increase sufferers’ anxiety (April 19, 2016)
 Former JCP Secretariat Head Kaneko Mitsuhiro dies (April 19, 2016)
 Top 40 Japanese billionaires double value of their assets under Abe government (April 19, 2016)
 JCP collects donations for disaster victims in Kyushu (April 18, 2016)
 JCP demands suspension of Sendai NPP in quake-hit Kyushu (April 17, 2016)
 LDP lawmaker holds fundraising party during aftermath of natural calamities in Kyushu (April 17, 2016)
 Abe Cabinet spokesman expresses his intent to use powerful Kyushu quakes as reason for constitutional revision (April 17, 2016)
 Young Japanese workers join in global day of action for minimum wage hike (April 16, 2016)
 Videotape entire interrogation process to prevent fabrication of false charges: JCP Nihi (April 16, 2016)
 Riddled with active faults, Japan is in no condition to have NPPs (April 16, 2016)
 JCP sets up taskforce to assist victims following Kumamoto earthquake (April 16, 2016)
 Steep rise in Engel’s coefficient indicates quality of living crisis (April 15, 2016)
 Gov’t seeks to register Okinawa forest utilized as US military training field as world heritage site (April 15, 2016)
 Local residents sue gov’t to decommission aged nuclear reactors (April 15, 2016)
 Tokyo JCP declines to go on assemblypersons’ trip to Rio Olympics (April 15, 2016)
 Antiwar opposition parties field joint candidate in PM’s hometown for Upper House election (April 14, 2016)
 Some prefectures estimate Japan’s rice production would fall due to TPP (April 14, 2016)
 Tokyo & Washington put priority on military exercises over rescue and relief operations (April 13, 2016)
 Hokkaido by-election campaign over war legislation kicks off (April 13, 2016)
 After 20 years, Japan-US agreement on return of Futenma base has yet to be implemented (April 13, 2016)
 Hibakusha criticize G7 Hiroshima Declaration (April 13, 2016)
 JCP 5th CC plenum resolves to work for success of opposition parties’ cooperation and major advance in elections (April 12, 2016)