Japan Press Weekly

(July 1, 2025)

Unified opposition candidates to be put up in 17 single-seat districts in upcoming Upper House election

(June 30, 2025)

Need is to make diplomatic efforts to prevent ‘Taiwan contingency’, not construct shelters on Sakishima Islands

(June 28, 2024)

JCP Yamazoe calls for 18-year-olds to have right to run for office

(June 25, 2025)

Gov’t kept last summer’s joint Japan-US-Australia military exercise secret

(June 24, 2025)

Akamine & JCP local assemblymembers on Okinawa Memorial Day pledge to work for peace

(June 23, 2025)

Shii on X: Japan’s subservience to US ‘shameful’

(June 21, 2025)

Tamura: JCP in ordinary Diet session shows clear direction for overcoming cost of living crisis

(June 20, 2025)

JCP and CDPJ agree to work together in Upper House election

(June 20, 2025)

JCP EC Chair Tamura protests PM Ishiba’s assent to G7 Leaders’ Statement defending Israel

(June 19, 2025)

3 opposition parties submit bill to prevent refugee status applicants in examination process from being deported

(June 17, 2025)

Ex-SCJ presidents call for national academy’s independence and autonomy to be guaranteed under new law

(June 14, 2025)

Campaigning for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election officially begins

(June 13, 2025)

Tamura to Ishiba: Japan should cooperate with international community to have Trump’s tariffs withdrawn

(June 12, 2025)

Law that will deprive Japan’s national academy of its independence enacted

(June 12, 2025)

Revised law fails to eliminate teachers’ excessively long working hours and unpaid overtime

(June 11, 2025)

Civil Alliance calls on JCP to cooperate with constitutional opposition parties in Upper House race

(June 10, 2025)

JCP issues Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election platform

(June 8, 2025)

Will Japan give hand to US attempt to weaken ASEAN and to reinforce anti-China bloc

(June 6, 2025)

JCP releases election platform focusing on protecting people’s livelihoods from rising prices

(June 5, 2025)

JCP Akamine calls for halt to collection of sea sand in Okinawa’s UNESCO Heritage Site for US base construction

(June 5, 2025)

JCP Tatsumi pushes gov’t to cancel plan to purchase Israeli-made drones used in Gaza

(June 4, 2025)

Yamazoe: Gov’t should not respond to US demand for increase in Japan’s share in stationing costs for US forces in Japan

(June 3, 2025)

JCP Koike: Gov’t should increase agricultural spending to solve rice shortage

(May 29, 2025)

JCP Inoue calls for ban on military use of AI

(May 27, 2025)

US pressure may have led to SDF contract with funeral services in Japan

(May 27, 2025)

Japan should take action to stop Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza: JCP Kami

(May 24, 2025)

Yamazoe criticizes PM Ishiba for attending event displaying Israel’s weapons used in Gaza attacks

(May 22, 2025)

Citizens stage protest against arms expo in Chiba

(May 22, 2025)

Agriculture Minister resigns after making remarks insensitive to plight of people struggling with rising rice prices

(May 20, 2025)

Actual corporate tax rate for large corporations is half that of midsized companies

(May 20, 2025)

JCP member elected Tadaoka Town mayor

(May 17, 2025)

Cyber defense bill becomes law, allowing gov’t to collect information without consent

(May 17, 2025)

Criminal digital bill enacted that allows police to collect electronic data unbeknown to person in question

(May 13, 2025)

Bill on national academy may exclude academics with ideologies that are not in line with the gov’t stance

(May 9, 2025)

Yamazoe calls for restraint on both India and Pakistan

(May 8, 2025)

JCP and Japan bar association agree to defend ideal of present Constitution and rule of law

(May 4, 2025)

38K citizens in rally call for using war-renouncing Japanese Constitution to create true peace

(April 28, 2025)

Can Japan, with 130 US military bases and facilities on its land, be considered independent nation?

(April 24, 2025)

Agriculture Ministry to Nouminren expresses its willingness to resist tariff pressure from Trump administration

(April 23, 2025)

‘No’ to increase in US rice imports

(April 22, 2025)

Koike: Official confirmation of willingness of other opposition parties to join forces with JCP is essential for electoral cooperation

(April 22, 2025)

PM Ishiba’s offering to Yasukuni Shrine contradicts his past agreement

(April 20, 2025)

JCP Shiokawa calls for banning military use of AI

(April 19, 2025)

Bill on Science Council of Japan aims to take away national academy’s independence

(April 18, 2025)

JCP Koike: Japan should unite with international community to have Trump’s tariffs withdrawn, not aim to reach early agreement

(April 18, 2025)

Gov’t simulates collateral damage resulting from use of enemy base attack capability

(April 16, 2025)

JCP EC Chair in weekly magazine talks about Trump’s tariff policy

(April 15, 2025)

21 JCP candidates win assembly seats in 11 cities and 8 towns

(April 13, 2025)

Law on teachers’ working conditions should be revised to eliminate excessively long working hours

(April 12, 2025)

Yamazoe criticizes Trump’s remark that Japan does not bear costs for stationing of US military