Layoffs of 600 RIKEN researchers may engender 60 leading innovative studies

The labor union at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) demanded that the Ministry of Science and Technology instruct the RIKEN institute to withdraw the planned layoffs of 600 part-time researchers.

Civil Alliance calls on JCP to work to realize united opposition candidates in Upper House single-seat districts

In the talks with the Civil Alliance, Japanese Communist Party Secretariate Head Koike Akira said, "In collaboration with your organization, we will proceed to hold talks on electoral cooperation with other pro-constitutional opposition parties."

JCP Koike comments on Russian gov’t decision to suspend peace treaty talks with Japan

JCP Secretariat Head Koike pointed out that the Putin administration is conducting the invasion of Ukraine which tramples on the UN Charter, and said, “There is no requirement for Japan to sit at the negotiating table for a peace treaty with such a government.”