Japan Press Weekly

(January 17 & 19, 2014)

Peace groups protest against SDF warship’s fatal collision with fishing boat

(January 17, 2014)

‘Comfort women’ trial questions Abe gov’t’s historical interpretation

(January 16, 2014)

194 Okinawans go to court to reverse decision to approve landfill for new US base

(January 16, 2013)

Candidates other than Utsunomiya cannot put stop to runaway Abe

(January 16, 2013)

Court orders Tokyo to pay 17 Muslims Y90 mil for defamation

(January 15, 2014)

TV helps Abe out of crisis

(January 15, 2014)

Marines parachute onto land outside designated training site

(January 15, 2014)

US servicemen arrested for trespassing

(January 15, 2014)

Journalists call for joint action to demand revocation of secrecy law

(January 7, 2014)

JCP to support pacifist lawyer in Tokyo gubernatorial election

(January 6, 2014)

Reduce energy and ‘develop’ society: environment researcher

(January 6, 2014)

Tokyo should prepare for 2020 Olympics under slogan of ‘people first’

(January 5, 2013)

Shii in New Year address: Turn fledgling JCP advance into full-fledged trend to change politics

(January 4, 2014)

Japan’s major companies impose on workers more than 80 hours of overtime every month

(December 26, 2013)

JCP Chair Shii comments on Abe’s shrine visit

(December 26, 2013)

JCP calls on career service company to cooperate in regulating ‘black corporations’

(December 26, 2013)

High court orders state to compensate asbestos-damaged workers

(December 25, 2013)

Citizens file suit for shutdown of 11 nuclear reactors in Fukui

(December 25, 2013)

Disaster victims win resumption of free medical care program

(December 24, 2013)

Gov’t decides to supply ammo to S. Korean military on UN mission

(December 24, 2013)

Minato Ward calls for removal of US heliport

(December 24, 2013)

Yokota base holds practical parachute drills

(December 24, 2013)

Inviting of opinions on gov’t nuclear energy policy begun unnoticed

(December 24, 2013)

To our readers

(December 22, 2013)

Abe pressures NHK to be non-critical: former NHK director

(December 22, 2013)

Number of Japan-US joint military drills marks record high in 2012

(December 22, 2013)

Ishihara also has close ties with Tokushukai

(December 21, 2013)

An ally of PM Abe elected as NHK President

(December 21, 2013)

31.8 billion yen in state subsidies granted to political parties with JCP refusing the subsidy

(December 21, 2013)

Police monitors citizens observing pref. assembly meeting

(December 21, 2013)

Education Ministry wants schoolbooks to include gov’t opinions

(December 21, 2013)

Parties other than JCP turn blind eye to Tokyo governor’s money scandal

(December 20, 2013)

JCP works to grill Tokyo governor about money scandal

(December 20, 2013)

Rengo-affiliate union surveys their members’ political leanings

(December 20, 2013)

JCP Ichida: Tokyo Governor Inose’s resignation does not end money scandal

(December 19, 2013)

Increase in non-regular jobs drives down overall wage level

(December 18&19, 2013)

JCP in Kanagawa protests against US military copter crash

(December 19, 2013)

Shii meets with CPV delegation head

(December 18, 2013)

JCP opposes government’s new defense policies

(December 18, 2013)

Labor ministry conducts first ‘black corporation’ survey

(December 18, 2013)

5,000 teachers take sick days due to emotional distress

(December 18, 2013)

Pollution-caused itai-itai disease case settled

(December 18, 2013)

JCP-CPV theoretical exchange meeting ends

(December 17, 2013)

JRP in Osaka shocked at internal party division

(December 17, 2013)

US military helicopter makes forced landing in Kanagawa

(December 17, 2013)

Hibakusha disappointed with new criteria

(December 17, 2013)

Okinawans launch sit-in against landfill for US base construction

(December 17, 2013)

High court supports abolition of additional welfare benefits for elderly

(December 17, 2013)

JCP-CPV theoretical exchange meeting begins

(December 16, 2013)

Pachinko machine vendor seeks to install casino in Miyazaki