Japan Press Weekly

(March 23, 2024)

Racist LDP lawmaker refuses to answer Akahata inquiry

(March 21, 2024)

Uruma citizens oppose gov’t plan to build GSDF training field near youth center

(March 20, 2024)

Tamura: Ishin party and DPFP are unacceptable partners in opposition parties’ joint struggle

(March 20, 2024)

Shiokawa calls for scrapping bill to expand state secret protection law to economic field

(March 20, 2024)

Deaths due to refraining from seeking medical care increase for 3rd year in row

(March 19, 2024)

Kasai joins in cross-party parliamentarians’ petition to Kishida gov’t for efforts to settle N. Korea abduction issue

(March 19, 2024)

IBM Japan’s refusal to explain unfairly-low wages for over 60-year-old workers ruled as illegal

(March 19, 2024)

Nissan bullied subcontractors by reducing its payments by more than 3 billion yen

(March 13 and 17, 2024)

Unionized non-regular workers at famous sushi chain ‘Sushiro’ go on strike for higher wages

(March 17, 2024)

\260 million in relief donations for Noto earthquake victims entrusted to JCP

(March 16, 2024)

High court: ban on same-sex marriage is against equality under the law

(March 16, 2024)

LDP ‘indecent feast’ exposes the party’s disrespectful regard of women

(March 15, 2024)

JCP Motomura opposes hasty introduction of post-divorce ‘joint custody’

(March 14, 2024)

Foreign Minister to JCP Kokuta: Israel’s acts violate international humanitarian law

(March 14, 2024)

Yamazoe criticizes Kishida gov’t for putting mock brake on export of jointly developed next-gen fighter jets

(March 14, 2024)

Local body in quake-hit Ishikawa Pref. asks Nihi to help foreign workers continue working in fishing industry

(March 13, 2024)

JCP Yamazoe: Stop introducing Israeli-made drones, benefiting Israeli war industry

(March 12, 2024)

Local dockworkers go on strike to protest call of USS Rafael Peralta at Ishigaki Port

(March 12, 2024)

Cross-party parliamentarians’ league formed to reform retrial system to save victims of wrongful convictions

(March 11, 2024)

Amid fierce protest from Okinawans, anti-ship missile equipment deployed in SDF base in Uruma City

(March 10, 2024)

Okinawa Governor and residents living near Yokota AB in western suburbs of Tokyo oppose restart of Osprey flights

(March 9, 2024)

On International Women’s Day in Japan, rally calling for legalization of selective dual surname system held

(March 8, 2024)

Rally held to promote gender quota system in Diet

(March 7, 2024)

Yamazoe: Gov’t should not accept US plan to lift Osprey flight ban

(March 6, 2024)

Union urges Tokyo gov’t to withdraw its unfair dismissals of 250 school counselors

(March 6, 2024)

Decade after Japan’s ratification of UN treaty for persons with disabilities

(March 5, 2024)

US military-related expenses paid by Japan amount to more than one trillion yen

(March 5, 2024)

Shii talks with Indonesian ambassador

(March 4, 2024)

Environment Minister: Japan will no longer shoulder US military’s PCB waste treatment

(March 3, 2024)

Miyamoto: Study-now-pay-later program nothing to do with tuition-free higher education

(March 2, 2024)

‘Bikini Day’ commemoration participants protest against Putin’s nuclear war warning to the West

(March 1, 2024)

US military chopper flies at very low altitude over Saga airport runway

(March 1, 2024)

Let’s step up campaign for a Japan without nuclear weapons!

(February 29, 2024)

Gov’t keeps hidden documentation of deal with US over release of Japanese war criminals in exchange for settlement of US H-bomb test incident

(February 29, 2024)

Compensation for noise pollution at US bases totals about \70.4 billion

(February 29, 2024)

Fukushima citizens protest against 4th ocean discharge of radioactive Fukushima water

(February 28, 2024)

‘Ishin’ lawmaker makes hate speech against foreigners on provisional release from detention as asylum seekers

(February 26 & 27, 2024)

Kishida gov’t seeks to introduce contingency legislation forcing flower growers to plant potatoes

(February 27, 2024)

\135.3 million in back taxes be levied if LDP slush funds are regarded as income

(February 25, 2024)

Japanese banks invest or loan \7 trillion to N-weapons companies

(February 22 & 25, 2024)

This week’s JCP international activities

(February 23, 2023)

JCP creates center in Noto region to support quake-affected people

(February 22, 2024)

Motomura: Revised ‘three principles’ allowing arms exports will increase likelihood of international conflicts

(February 22, 2024)

Shiogama, Japan’s major tuna fishing port, was adversely affected by US H-bomb test 70 years ago

(February 22, 2024)

Motomura demands that Japan resume its contributions to UNRWA

(February 21, 2024)

No-confidence motion against minister having close ties with Moonies rejected

(February 21, 2024)

Nagasaki ‘black rain’ victims urge gov’t to recognize them as ‘Hibakusha’

(February 20, 2024)

MSDF evades 1974 notice by calling worship of Yasukuni Shrine ‘history learning’

(February 20, 2024)

Unlike Japan, international standards for air accident investigations focuses on prevention of recurrence

(February 19, 2024)

Majority of major countries put ban or restrictions on political donations from businesses and interest groups