Japan Press Weekly

(July 30, 2012)

Tax burden ratio for corporations falls 10 percentage points in 9 years

(July 30, 2012)

Shii in Zenroren convention criticizes Noda government attack on decent work conditions

(July 29, 2012)

PM echoes LDP call for Japan’s right to collective self-defense

(July 29, 2012)

Welfare applicants concerned with requirement of kinship support

(July 28, 2012)

SDF mobilizes local gov’ts for ‘emergency’ drills

(July 28, 2012)

Workers protest against electronics companies’ massive job cuts

(July 28, 2012)

Ban on public workers political acts approved in Osaka City

(July 27, 2012)

Shii visits US embassy to demand cancellation of Osprey deployment

(July 27, 2012)

Gov’t bill to cut public services and workers attracts criticism

(July 27, 2012)

Consumption tax hike is in exchange for cuts in corporate taxes

(July 26, 2012)

Gov’t intends to increase burden on nursing-care service users in addition to consumption tax hike

(July 26, 2012)

Gov’t-recommended minimum wage falls short of boosting domestic demand

(July 26, 2012)

Kokuta calls for intensive Diet debate based on all 4 reports on Fukushima accident

(December 17, 2008)

Unionists in rally urge Keidanren to secure employment

(December 18, 2008)

Two temporary workers at Mitsubishi Fuso join labor union to oppose dismissal notice

(December 17, 2008 )

Keidanren report calls for wage restraint and goes against best way to rebuild Japan’s economy

(December 19, 2008 )

Shii requests that Keidanren urge its member companies to stop massive job cuts

(December 19, 2008 )

Large corporations should cancel massive dismissal of temporary and fixed-term contract workers and fulfill their social responsibilities: JCP’s statement to Nippon Keidanren

(December 21, 2008 )

Finance Ministry budget plan does nothing to ease public anxieties

(December 22, 2008 )

Finance Ministry proposes 3.5-fold budget increase to pay for U.S. military realignment in Japan

(December 22, 2008 )

4.7 billion yen claimed as cost to prepare constitutional revision

(December 22, 2008 )

High school students participate in sit-in demanding increase in education budget

(December 22, 2008 )

Stop government ‘reform’ of childcare services

(December 17, 2008 )

Air SDF personnel visited Class-A war criminals’ tomb

(December 17, 2008 )

JCP in Diet demands that government urge U.S. forces to end live-fire exercise in order to protect residents from stray bullets

(December 20, 2008 )

Okinawa legislature unanimously demands immediate halt to live-shell drills

Stop U.S. low-flight exercises in Japan

(December 20, 2008 )

Political parties (except JCP) receive 32 billion yen in government subsidies

(December 17, 2008 )

LDP, DPJ, and Komei party members of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly wasted tax money on ‘study tours’ abroad

(December 20, 2008 )

Okinawan assembly amends environmental ordinance to allow authorities to enter U.S. bases for investigation of pollution

(July 25, 2012)

Consumption tax hike will damage economy: private think tanks

(July 25, 2012)

Akamine discusses with local gov’t issues regarding medical services on remote island

(July 24, 2012)

Citizens and municipal leaders protest against arrival of Ospreys at US Iwakuni base

(July 24, 2012)

Work without APD at Fukushima Daiichi neglects human rights

(July 24, 2012)

Gov’t panel blames safety myth for nuclear disaster

(July 24, 2012)

Osaka lawyers oppose ordinance bill restricting city workers’ political activities

(July 23, 2012)

1,100 people hold a rally protesting Osprey deployment to Iwakuni

(July 23, 2012)

JCP posters get favorable response from NPP workers

(July 22, 2012)

Citizens concerned about possible crash of Osprey in Ikata NPP

(July 22, 2012)

Osprey brings more US military flight training exercises to Iejima Island

(July 22, 2012)

Lead-covered dosimeters underreport Fukushima workers’ radiation exposure

(July 22, 2012)

PM should follow pro-ball players’ attitude of defiance toward US

(July 21, 2012)

Tax hike advocates receive subsidies given to political parties

(July 21, 2012)

Minimum wage in 11 Japan prefectures below poverty level

(July 21, 2012)

Many disabled workers denied access to pension plan

(July 12, 2012)

Ichida sees Ozawa’s new party as reflection of public anger

(July 12, 2012)

DPJ is ‘LDP’s Noda faction’

(July 13, 2012)

PM wants to discuss on right of collective self-defense

(July 14, 2012)

Stop PM from allowing Japan to use military force abroad: Shii

(July 17, 2012 )

New parties are ‘fragments’ of two major parties