Japan Press Weekly

(August 28, 2019)

Lack of disposal site for radioactive waste casts cloud over planned decommissioning of nuclear reactors

(August 27, 2019)

Shii: Japan’s remorse for its colonial rule essential to ease tensions with South Korea

(August 27, 2019)

Joint opposition candidate wins in Saitama gubernatorial election

(August 25 & 26, 2019)

On-site study of Minamata disease takes place in Kumamoto

(August 26, 2019)

Yokohama mayor may need to know what Marx said about casinos

(August 23, 2019)

End of Japan-ROK GSOMIA represents worsening in bilateral relations

(August 23, 2019)

Abe gov’t clings to system criticized as hotbed of unfair dismissals

(August 22, 2019)

Emperor Hirohito repeatedly justified himself regarding war

(August 22, 2019)

Tokyo labor relations office recognizes Meikai University's unfair labor practice

(August 22, 2019)

Decline in food self-sufficiency rate points to failure of Abe’s agriculture policy

(August 21, 2019)

Governor Tamaki continues his efforts to get Okinawa’s base burden issue discussed nationally

(August 20, 2019)

Labor dispute over Nissan dismissals of 5 contingent workers fully settled

(August 20, 2019)

Rules on companies’ customer profiling necessary to safeguard privacy

(August 19, 2019)

Gov't wants to end Moritomo scandal with overseas transfer of core officials involved in the scandal

(August 19, 2019)

Animation industry workers’ decades-long efforts for better working environment

(August 17, 2019)

Broadcasters' group criticizes anti-NHK political party

(August 17, 2019)

Nearly 70% of nursing-care providers face labor shortage

(August 16, 2019)

Koike in Gwangbokjeol ceremony calls on Japanese and South Korean governments to hold talks in cool-headed manner

(August 15, 2019)

Remember lessons of history on 74th anniversary of war’s end

(August 15, 2019)

Citizens in birthplace of ‘Freedom of Expression’ exhibit call for reinstatement of closed artworks

(August 15, 2019)

Tokyo metropolitan gov’t works to invite casino as if it were prearranged policy

(August 14, 2019)

1,768 firms instructed to pay 12.6 billion yen in back pay for overtime

(August 12, 2019)

Violations of work hour rules by transportation firms increase for fourth year in row

(August 12, 2019)

Investment earnings of GPIF shows \8 trillion yen decrease

(August 11, 2019)

Number of elderly experiencing asset seizure due to arrears in public health insurance premium increases eightfold

(August 10, 2019)

Nagasaki Day rally demands that Japan sign and ratify nuclear weapons ban treaty

(August 10, 2019)

PM Abe’s speech in Nagasaki ceremony copy-pasted from text for Hiroshima ceremony

(August 10, 2019)

Koike talks with representative of Austrian government

(August 9, 2019)

Shii in 97th anniv. speech calls on pro-constitution forces to hold discussions on coalition government

(August 9, 2019)

Tokyo JCP protests against Transport Minister’s decision on new Haneda flight routes

(August 8, 2019)

Public call for legalization of same-sex marriage is growing

(August 7, 2019)

Abe shuts his ear to Hibakusha’s call for Japan’s ratification of UN N-ban treaty

(August 7, 2019)

Majority of Aichi Triennale artists call for reopening of ‘shuttered’ exhibition

(August 7, 2019)

Hiroshima Day rally calls for strengthening international joint actions to achieve a world without nuclear weapons

(August 4-6, 2019)

Antinuke International Meeting calls for making year 2020 turning point toward abolition of nuclear weapons

(August 6, 2019)

JCP members of Nagoya City Assembly protest against mayor’s pressure for closure of exhibition

(August 6, 2019)

Japanese and S. Korean students attend memorial ceremony for Korean victims of wartime forced labor

(August 4&5, 2019)

Political pressure on exhibit of ‘statue of Korean girl’ in Aichi Triennale violates Constitution banning censorship: Koike

(August 5, 2019)

Linear motor Shinkansen project company hides detection of uranium in soil excavated during tunnel construction

(August 5, 2019)

3-month nationwide Peace March arrives in Hiroshima

(August 3, 2019)

JCP calls for withdrawal of Abe cabinet approval of expanding export trade controls against South Korea

(August 3, 2019)

Abe gov’t drops South Korea from ‘white list’ of preferential trade partners

(August 2, 2019)

Newly-elected parliamentarians with severe disabilities attend their first Diet meeting

(August 1, 2019)

LDP frustrated by deadlocked talks on constitutional revision

(August 1, 2019)

JCP urges Abe gov’t to refrain from expanding export restrictions against South Korea

(August 1, 2019)

Dialogue in sincere manner is important: JCP Kokuta in meeting with S. Korean parliamentarians

(August 1, 2019)

Labor Ministry’s panel turns its back on workers’ demand for minimum hourly wage increase to \1,000 nationwide

(August 1, 2019)

JCP Dietmembers investigate hunger strike at immigration detention center

(July 31, 2019)

Tokio Marine & Nichido Ltd. decides to stop illegal use of flexible work schedule

(July 31, 2019)

148,000 signatures submitted to oppose construction of palm oil power plant in Miyagi