Decent work rules plus wage hike can create 7.36 million jobs

A labor think tank estimates that decent work rules and a wage hike will create 7,366,000 more jobs. Financial resources needed to achieve this would be 56 trillion yen, only 12.2% of the 460 trillion yen in all corporations’ internal reserves.

14 years of union struggle at Fujitsu affiliate factory

A factory of a Fujitsu-affiliated electric component maker was to be shut down 14 years ago, but the unity of the workers who joined the All-Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers’ Union (JMIU) has enabled the factory to continue to exist.

Abe’s intent to deny Japan’s past war of aggression invites isolation from international community

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo expressed his intent to review the 1995 Murayama Statement which displayed a remorse for pre-war Japan’s “acts of aggression and colonial rules” and the 1993 Kono Statement which offered an apology in regard to the so-called “comfort women” issue.