JCP publishes July Upper House election platform

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo held a press conference in the Diet building to announce the party’s platform for the House of Councilors election next month.

Ex-Upper House members’ group calls on political parties to work to send more women to Diet

A cross-party group of former House of Councilors members submitted a proposal calling on political parties to make efforts to put up the same number of male and female candidates in this summer’s Upper House proportional representation election.

Refusal to participate in 1st TPNW conference is shameful behavior as only A-bombed nation in the world

The first Meeting of States Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) which came into force in January 2021 will take place for three days from June 21 in Vienna, Austria.