Japan Press Weekly

(March 31, 2014)

Higher consumption tax pushes SMEs over precipice

(March 30, 2014)

TV stations pay no attention to public objection to sales tax hike

(March 30, 2014)

Ex-ministers oppose Japan’s use of right to collective self-defense

(March 30, 2014)

524,000 aged people are waiting to enter nursing care homes

(March 29, 2014)

‘Third pole’ Your Party actually serves interests of private company

(March 29, 2014)

5 Hibakusha in Kumamoto win court ruling on recognition of A-bomb illnesses

(March 29, 2014)

Freelance journalists take state secrecy law to court

(March 28, 2014)

National university president criticizes state secrets protection law

(March 28, 2014)

Major fast-food stores close one after another due to understaffing

(March 28, 2014)

Discarded US marine’s parachute falls from the sky in Okinawa

(March 28, 2014)

Supporters’ efforts lead to court decision to free death-row convict

(March 26-28, 2014)

This week’s JCP international activities

(March 27, 2014)

Ishihara: I want China as communist to collapse

(March 27, 2014)

Sales tax hike will plunge more people into poverty

(March 27, 2014)

Comeback JCP in NPP-hosting town assembly calls for end to nuclear power generation

(March 27, 2014)

JCP city mayor decides to extend free medical service to 18-year-old children

(March 26, 2014)

Local assemblies raise voices against PM’s move to legalize use of collective self-defense right

(March 26, 2014)

Amphibious mobile regiment will be created in Sasebo

(March 26, 2014)

Weekly anti-nuke action marks 2nd anniversary

(March 26, 2014)

JCP assemblyman: Separate female elderly from mixed-sex bedrooms at nursing homes

(March 24&25, 2014)

Hashimoto reelected with opposition parties boycotting

(March 25, 2014)

Ex-NPP worker achieves recognition of his disease as work-related

(March 25, 2014)

Court unfairly rejects claim for extra benefits for the elderly on welfare

(March 19, 22 and 25, 2014)

This week’s JCP international activities

(March 21 & 24, 2014)

Japan’s postal workers walk out to seek pay increase

(March 21 & 23, 2014)

Some opposition parties help ruling coalition to speedily pass FY 2014 budget

(March 23, 2014)

Decommissioning of reactors will produce 500,000m3 of low-level atomic waste

(March 22, 2014)

Abe on popular TV program tries to divert public eye

(March 22, 2014)

Abe does not live in official residence but budgets Y150 million for maintenance

(March 21, 2014)

Media workers call for opposition parties’ united efforts to repeal State Secrets Law

(March 21, 2014)

BOJ Governor Kuroda in line with Abe gov’t position

(March 20, 2014)

NHK union questions board’s ethics of public broadcasting

(March 20, 2014)

Domestic firms attracted by strong overseas demand, not by tax cuts

(March 20, 2014)

Agriculture should be treated as key pillar of economy: JCP Kami

(March 20, 2014)

Fukushima refugees in Tokyo want to continue living in public housing

(March 19, 2014)

Annul Russia’s Annexation of Crimea - Hegemonic overturning of world peace order impermissible: Shii

(March 19, 2014)

Ichida demands ban on illegal labor practices in Fukushima decontamination work

(March 19, 2014)

Discussions to end racism needed in Japanese football league

(March 19, 2014)

Russia’s incorporation of Crimea threatens world peace

(March 18, 2014)

Welfare Ministry should not discourage welfare payment applicants

(March 18, 2014)

This week’s JCP international activities

(March 17, 2014)

All 59 Fukushima municipal assemblies vote for decommissioning all nuclear reactors

(March 17, 2014)

Japanese CP sees Crimean referendum as invalid

(March 16, 2014)

Bus drivers’ overwork leads to fatal accidents

(March 16, 2014)

Nagano Prefecture will launch grant-type scholarship program

(March 15, 2014)

Don’t falsify historical facts: Shii at press conf. on comfort women issue

(March 15, 2014)

Gov’t should refrain from reviewing statement on ‘comfort women’ issue: JCP Shii

(March 15, 2014)

Education minister requires local town to use textbook glorifying Japan’s aggressive war

(March 14, 2014)

220,000 workers protest against timid corporate response to pay raise demand

(March 14, 2014)

Government claims regarding domestically-produced atomic energy and unstable renewable energy misleading