Pushed by JCP, Tokyo gov’t will improve financial support for care facility operators (August 1, 2014)
 Residents in public housing refuse eviction due to new stadium for Tokyo Olympics (July 31, 2014)
 Japan’s juvenile training school law revised based on UN treaty (July 25, 2014)
 Longstanding effort helps create more evening junior highs (July 24, 2014)
 Japanese children’s poverty rate hits record high (July 17, 2014)
 DYLJ calls on Education Ministry to provide aid for students facing economic difficulties (June 20, 2014)
 Abe’s policies heighten public concerns about aging (June 19, 2014)
 New law will impose reduced welfare services on the public (June 19, 2014)
  ‘Revision’ of nursing care insurance program will force more workers to quit their jobs (June 17, 2014)
 Osaka drives welfare applicants away using illegal methods: anti-poverty group (June 7, 2014)
 Deregulation of childcare licenses will affect children and careworkers (June 2, 2014)
 Moneyless 57 people died due to delay in seeing doctor (May 20, 2014)
 Bills stripping the elderly of access to necessary care rammed through Lower House (May 15 & 16, 2014)
 Gov’t should create childrearing-friendly environment, not set national birthrate target[Editorial] (May 12, 2014)
 Poor gov’t support drives young people away from entering university (May 11, 2014)
 JCP efforts bring about construction of more nurseries on vacant national land (May 9, 2014)
 Academic freedom in danger (May 8, 2014)
 Pushed by JCP, city subsidizes rental housing owners hit by 2011 disaster (May 5, 2014)
 Public opinion stops gov’t welfare program from shutting out the needy (April 20, 2014)
 Use of unlicensed help will reduce quality of childcare services: JCP Tamura (April 9 & 15, 2014)
 524,000 aged people are waiting to enter nursing care homes (March 30, 2014)
 JCP city mayor decides to extend free medical service to 18-year-old children (March 27, 2014)
 JCP assemblyman: Separate female elderly from mixed-sex bedrooms at nursing homes (March 26, 2014)
 Court unfairly rejects claim for extra benefits for the elderly on welfare (March 25, 2014)
 Welfare Ministry should not discourage welfare payment applicants[Editorial] (March 18, 2014)
 Nagano Prefecture will launch grant-type scholarship program (March 16, 2014)
 State’s deregulation policy causes distress to children (March 11, 2014)
 City asks citizens to spy on welfare benefit recipients (March 11, 2014)
 JCP wins Tokyo governor’s support to utilize public land for more care facilities (March 5, 2014)
 JCP urges Tokyo to provide 26,000 children on waiting lists with childcare services (March 4 and 6, 2014)
 More municipalities give tax credit to all single-parent households (February 25, 2014)
 Maizuru city trampled on resident’s right to receive public assistance: Welfare ministry (February 22, 2014)
 Parents’ movement for more childcare centers growing (February 22, 2014)
 JR East will accelerate installation of platform gates (February 6, 2014)
 Civil symposium reveals insufficient public support for DV victims (February 7, 2014)
 JCP efforts result in municipal subsidies in Nagano for low-income families’ purchase of heating oil (February 9, 2014)
 JCP clashes with LDP over social security policies (February 3, 2014)
 City’s cuts in social security payments were illegal: court decision finalized (February 1, 2014)
 Over 110,000 elderly protest against cuts in pension benefits (February 1, 2014)
 More than 100,000 elderly file complaints about cuts in pension benefits (January 28, 2014)
 Cuts in welfare benefits in Oita was unfair: court ruling (January 28, 2014)
 Joint effort against adverse change in nursing-care insurance growing in Hokkaido (January 23, 2014)
 Akita Pref. will subsidize low-income families’ purchase of heating oil (January 21, 2014)
 High court orders state to compensate asbestos-damaged workers (December 26, 2013)
 Disaster victims win resumption of free medical care program (December 25, 2013)
 Pollution-caused itai-itai disease case settled (December 18, 2013)
 High court supports abolition of additional welfare benefits for elderly (December 17, 2013)
 Japan bar association opposes adverse amendment to livelihood protection law (December 4, 2013)
 Law to cut social security services enacted (December 7, 2013)
 Adversely-revised public assistance law enacted (December 7, 2013)