JCP criticizes bill to revise Broadcast Law (December 13, 2007)
 Japan’s request for substantial ‘sympathy budget’ cut rejected by U.S. (December 13, 2007)
 2nd round of JCP study lectures on Scientific Socialism ends (December 13, 2007)
 Tokyo High Court abandons responsibility for protecting freedom of speech: JCP (December 12, 2007)
 SIA estimates 20 million pension records as hard to identify (December 12, 2007)
 Business circles push major parties for consumption tax hikes (December 12, 2007)
 Ichida meets with Vietnam workers union delegation (December 12, 2007)
 Forum calls for solidarity for establishing food sovereignty (December 11, 2007)
 LDP decides to extend Diet session again (December 11, 2007)
 JCP protests U.S. forces’ exercises with F-16s and FA-18s at Atsugi (December 11, 2007)
 Stop deployment and practice of PAC-3 (December 11, 2007)
 Plaintiffs in hepatitis C lawsuits demand relief for all victims (December 11, 2007)
 Activists take to the streets declaring no to war calls (December 9, 2007)
 DPJ lawmaker: There was no Nanjing Massacre (December 9, 2007)
 Arms industries regard 3-trillion-yen U.S. military realignment as business opportunity (December 8, 2007)
 Japan is forced to pay unusually high cost for U.S. military housing construction (December 8, 2007)
 Government must face up to past on occasion of 66th anniversary of Pacific War[Editorial] (December 8, 2007)
 Shii attends UAE National Day reception ( December 8, 2007)
 Spanish prime minister expresses support for starting negotiations for total ban on nuclear weapons (December 7, 2007)
 JCP Shii: Japan should not obstruct U.S. removal of N. Korea from its list of countries sponsoring terrorism (December 6, 2007)
 Former Defense chief and Diet members used tax money to attend private conference in U.S. (December 6, 2007)
 Ruling parties agree to review law on disabled persons’ ‘self-support assistance’ (December 6, 2007 )
 JCP delivers donation to Bangladesh cyclone victims  (December 6, 2007)
 Labor Ministry has neglected illegal corporate practice of not directly hiring temp workers (December 5, 2007)
 JCP demands full revelation of defense scandal (December 5, 2007)
 Hibakusha urge Health Ministry to drastically revise system to recognize A-bomb related illnesses (December 5, 2007)
 Citizens and history textbook authors petition Education Ministry for retraction of order (December 5, 2007)
 JCP requests government to take urgent measures to deal with rise in oil prices (December 5, 2007)
 Stage performers achieve improvement in working conditions (December 5, 2007)
 Stop consecutive cuts in medical treatment fees (December 5, 2007)
 U.S. Air Force and Marines conduct major joint exercises at Kadena base; local town protests (December 4, 2007)
 Rally held to demand revocation of education ministry instruction on wartime accounts in textbooks (December 4, 2007)
 Japan-proposed U.N. resolution will not be effective for abolition of nuclear weapons[Editorial] (December 3, 2007)
 Defense lawmakers crowd around weapons procurement (December 3, 2007)
 Stop relocation of U.S. War Headquarters to Zama; 13,000 participate in rally (December 3, 2007)
 U.S. sailor arrested for attack on 2 women near naval base in Yokosuka (December 3, 2007)
 Intractable disease patients demand budget increase for treatment (December 3, 2007)
 11,000 rally against government cut in subsidies for Iwakuni City in retaliation for city’s opposition to deployment of U.S. fighter jets (December 2, 2007)
 Japan’s second PAC-3 deployed near Tokyo (December 1, 2007)
 Welfare Ministry intends to reduce livelihood protection benefits (December 1, 2007)
 Court rules Toyota worker died from overwork (December 1, 2007)
 Rally held in Tokyo demanding government redress discrimination against 1,047 railway workers (December 1, 2007)
 Yamada Corp. has won defense contracts at 99.9 % upper limit for spending (November 30, 2007)
 Upper House passes bill to withdraw SDF from Iraq (November 29, 2007)
 2 labor laws enacted; JCP votes against (November 28 & 29, 2007)
 Newly enacted labor contract law will not protect labor rights (November 27 & 29, 2007)
 Ex-vice defense minister arrested for bribery (November 29, 2007)
 Shii meets with Nicaraguan Ambassador (November 29, 2007)
 Scandal-tainted arms dealer bought a total of 15.6 million yen of fundraising tickets from 17 politicians in 12 years (November 28, 2007)
 JCP mayor reelected for 4th consecutive term (November 28 & 29, 2007)