JCP will confront new Noda government: Ichida

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi at a press conference in the Diet building on September 2 called the new Cabinet, which was launched on the same day, “the business-linked Cabinet”.

Gov’t labeled progressive physicists as obstacle to nuclear energy development

A declassified document shows that the Japanese government in the 1950s labeled progressive nuclear physicists as “leftist” or “far leftists”, recognizing them as obstacle to the domestic promotion of nuclear power generation.

New PM rushes into honeymoon with business community

The “honeymoon” period between the newly appointed prime minister and business leaders has already started before completing the selection of ministers for his Cabinet.