Court rejects married couples’ demand for right to separate surnames (May 30, 2013)
 Japan’s convenience store chain gives fake pay raise (May 29, 2013)
 JCP calls on gov’t to support opening of community FM radio stations  (May 29, 2013)
 JCP’s voluntary tutoring services welcomed in many places (May 29, 2013)
 Record found indicating Minamata disease also affected people outside Kumamoto (May 29, 2013)
 Gov’t cancels plan to circulate ‘Women’s Handbook’  (May 29, 2013)
 JCP won’t form electoral alliance with either party: Kasai (May 28, 2013)
 JCP Ichida criticizes Hashimoto for refusing to retract ‘comfort women’ remarks (May 28, 2013)
 This week’s JCP international activities (May 28, 2013)
 Dietwomen speak out against Hashimoto at Foreign Correspondents’ Club (May 28 & 29, 2013)
 Abe’s weak yen policy damages dairy farmers (May 27, 2013)
 Monument for ‘comfort women’ tells the truth (May 27, 2013)
 Creating a Japan-US aircraft-carrier task force, the honest opinion of uniformed US official[Editorial] (May 27, 2013)
 Better working conditions needed for both men and women to raise children (May 26, 2013)
 ID number law enacted despite public criticism (May 25, 2013)
 JCP Shii criticizes S. Korean daily describing A-bombing as ‘divine punishment’ (May 25, 2013)
 Huge increase in Gov’t subsidy to LDP (May 17, 2013)
 Mega bank loans to SMEs hits record low (May 17 & 21, 2013)
 Abe Cabinet members lead parliamentarian group pushing for constitutional revision (May 20, 2013)
 JCP Yamashita points to UNIQLO as example of ‘black corporation’ (May 15, 2013)
 Cross-union unity will stand against labor deregulation (May 15, 2013)
 Half of sexual minorities receive discriminative treatment in office  (May 17, 2013)
 Chinese ex-workers demand Mitsubishi’s apology for wartime forced labor (May 15, 2013)
 Ishihara takes side of Osaka mayor on comfort women remarks (May 15, 2013)
 Abe refuses to recognize Hashimoto’s remarks on ‘comfort women’ as inappropriate (May 16, 2013)
 Abe should admit to the fact of Japan’s aggression & colonial rule: Shii (May 17, 2013)
 Only Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany had ‘comfort women’ system: modern historian (May 17, 2013)
 Protests continue against Hashimoto’s remarks on ‘comfort women’  (May 15-19, 2013)
 What past gov’ts did for return of Okinawa[Editorial] (May 16, 2013)
 Okinawa’s economic dependence on US bases drastically reduced (May 19, 2013)
 Citizens do not want flight demo of fighter jets over historical city of Nara (May 15, 2013)
 LDP aims to add Marines-like unit to SDF (May 18, 2013)
 Tokyoites hold 50th monthly sit-in protest against US base (May 19 & 20, 2013)
 Article 9 Association calls for movement opposing Article 96 revision  (May 18, 2013)
 Fukushima nuclear accident sufferers demand increase in compensation (May 21, 2013)
 JCP Ichida welcomes government’s move toward dialogue with North Korea (May 21, 2013)
 150,000 ‘Let’s Dance’ signatures submitted to Diet (May 21, 2013)
 JCP mayor works to reflect residents’ voices in administration  (May 16, 2013)
 JCP book to be published for the first time in South Korea (May 16, 2013)
 Move to destroy safety net for the needy must be blocked[Editorial] ( May 18, 2013)
 Government receives US military flight plans (May 24, 2013)
 Kyoto residents organize to block installation of US missile defense radar site (May 24, 2013)
 Japan’s scholars set up association to block constitutional revision (May 24, 2013)
 Finding of active fault is highly likely to lead to Tsuruga NPP decommissioning (May 23, 2013)
 JCP to face ‘all-ruling-party’ camp in Tokyo: Shii (May 23, 2013)
 Production of all industries will drop by Y10.5 trillion by TPP (May 23, 2013)
 UN recommends that Japan properly address ‘comfort women’ issues (May 23, 2013)
 144 billion yen paid to maintain idled reactors from consumers’ pockets (May 23, 2013)
 Abe wants more for-profit childcare services as in Yokohama (May 22, 2013)
 Japan’s anti-nuclear choir returns from successful NZ tour (May 22, 2013)