Japan Press Weekly

(December 26, 2024)

Only in peace can Japanese sake-brewing be developed and passed down to future generations

(June 28, 2025)

Supreme Court: Cuts in public assistance payments are unconstitutional

(June 27, 2025)

Scholars’ group set up to promote campaign for increasing number of childcare workers

(June 26, 2025)

US gov’t will quadruple nuclear energy production by 2050

(June 22, 2025)

On 60th anniversary of Japan-ROK diplomatic normalization, Japan should express remorse for its past brutal colonial rule

(June 18, 2025)

Minamata lawsuit plaintiffs ask for JCP cooperation with submission of bill to fully relieve Minamata disease victims

(June 17, 2025)

How long will major media outlets continue to support Japan-U.S. alliance?

(June 12, 2025)

Children rank JCP 1st in education policies they most agree with

(June 11, 2025)

Japanese and UK NGOs point to loss of wetland habitats for waterbirds due to construction of Osaka Expo site

(June 10, 2025)

JCP Kira speaks at Tokyo Pride 2025 event

(June 5, 2025)

Shimizu to high school students: You may be indifferent to politics, but you can’t be irrelevant to it

(June 1, 2025)

JCP calls for increase in use of regional airports, rather than relying solely on Haneda Airport

(May 30, 2025)

JCP Dietmembers and EU parliamentarians exchange views on climate change and social media

(May 22, 2025)

Civil group asks JCP for cooperation in removing statute of limitation for child sexual abuse claims

(May 22, 2025)

Resigning Minister of Agriculture embodies male-centered LDP

(May 21, 2025)

JCP Koike calls for gov’t support for efforts to collect remains of victims of wartime undersea coal mine disaster

(May 17, 2025)

Politics should be changed in order to eradicate hate speech

(May 15, 2025)

Finally, Expo 2025 association to issue press card to Akahata

(May 14, 2025)

ILO and UNESCO recommend that Japan pay public school teachers proper overtime

(May 10, 2025)

Japan bar association asks JCP for cooperation in realizing introduction of selective dual surname system

(May 5, 2025)

Toward a Japan that values each child’s personality and promotes their happiness

(May 5, 2025)

JCP Koike participates in student group-hosted X-Space event

(April 25, 2025)

Public infrastructure building for Expo was with view of post-Expo casino resort in mind

(April 24, 2025)

High homeownership rate and poor tenant-protection measures in Japan LDP’s fault

(April 24, 2025)

JCP Tatsumi urges METI to instruct Expo 2025 association to issue media pass to Akahata

(April 16, 2025)

JCP Yamashita presses gov’t to instruct Expo association to take thoroughgoing safety measures

(April 14, 2025)

Osaka JCP protests against forced opening of Expo 2025

(April 13, 2025)

JCP Koike calls on geriatric neurosurgeons to speak out for an increase in funding for health care for elderly

(April 10, 2025)

Expo 2025 association bars Akahata and other media critical of Expo from on-site news-gathering activities

(April 7, 2025)

Explosible concentration of gas detected during Expo 2025 rehearsal

(April 6, 2025)

Japan’s CCS project in Southeast Asia criticized by 90 international NGOs

(April 4, 2025)

Death threats against JCP Mie prefectural assemblymember is legally unacceptable

(April 2, 2025)

Bereaved families of former Korean Class-B/C war criminals rally to push Japanese gov’t to establish law on compensation

(March 26, 2025)

JCP Koike: Diet should act swiftly to legalize same-sex marriage

(March 22, 2025)

Claim of ‘No data’ on wartime Unit 731’s human experimentation turns out to be a lie

(March 22, 2025)

Radio should be remembered for its role in having mobilized general populace to fully support Japan’s war of aggression

(March 21, 2025)

JCP Kira participates in ‘Democracy Youth Festival 2025’

(March 18, 2025)

Japan assumes ‘scenario’ where it cannot meet its CO2 reduction target

(March 13, 2025)

JCP promises to work hard to scrap gov’t plan to increase patients’ share in high-cost medical expenses

(March 12, 2025)

Fukushima’s Namie Town is deserted with few returnees

(March 11, 2025)

Citizens rally to commemorate 80th anniversary of Great Tokyo Air Raids

(March 8, 2025)

International Women’s Day 2025 marks 30th anniversary of Beijing Declaration

(March 8, 2025)

Yamazoe criticizes top court for acquitting ex-TEPCO executives of their responsibility for Fukushima disaster

(March 3, 2025)

Over 930 Japanese firms under METI oppose EU PFAS restriction proposal

(February 25, 2025)

DPP head’s remarks attacking elderly and foreigners aimed at cutting public spending on social welfare

(February 22, 2025)

Four civil organizations request JCP to resolve postwar compensation issue

(February 11, 2025)

Myth-based prewar Empire Day oppressed free expression and academic freedom

(February 8, 2025)

JCP EC Chair Tamura to lawyers: JCP will push further for Diet debates on dual-surname option

(February 4, 2025)

Unlike Japanese gov’t, S. Korean gov’t sends its representatives to memorial event for wartime mine disaster victims

(January 31, 2025)

JCP EC Chair Tamura demands withdrawal of Japan’s countermeasure against CEDAW