Former JCP Central Committee Chair Fuwa Tetsuzo dies

Former Japanese Communist Party Central Committee Chair Fuwa Tetsuzo (birth name Ueda Kenjiro) died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 95.

US under Trump aiming for colonial rule over Venezuela

The January 5 issue of daily Akahata featured an article by Sugawara Hiraku, the paper’s foreign news editor, in which he condemned the United States for kidnapping Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife.

Tamura at New Year meeting calls for JCP that stands firm on principle, not swayed by the flow of times

JCP Executive Committee Chair Tamura Tomoko at the party’s New Year assembly urged all JCP members to uphold sound principles, expand national cooperation, propel the party forward, and not be swept away by the tide of the times.