Bikini Day National Rally held

Japan Gensuikyo Taka called on participants to increase the movement to force the government to make a “Declaration of a Nuclear Weapon-Free Japan” to the United Nations.

Labor ministry to instruct firms using ‘disguised contract workers’ to directly employ them

This constitutes a major achievement for workers’ struggles and the efforts that the JCP made in the Diet demanding that corporations put an end to their illegal practice of “disguised contract labor” and directly employ temporary workers.

Coercion clearly used in forcing foreign women into wartime sex slavery: JCP Ichida

Ichida pointed out that the then government and military had clearly used coercion in forcing foreign women into sexual servitude and stated, “The government must stick to the position of admitting to the wrongdoing and offering an apology.”