Japan Press Weekly

(September 4, 2018)

Large corporations’ internal reserves increase by 22 trillion yen while workers’ wages decline

(September 4, 2018)

US marine arrested for donation box theft

(September 4, 2018)

All 15 JCP candidates win in 5 local elections

(September 2, 2018)

Tokyo Governor again refuses to send annual condolences to Korean victims of 1923 massacre

(September 1, 2018)

Henoko reclamation approval revoked

(September 1, 2018)

2.5 trillion yen in arms-related debts will be rolled over to future

(August 31, 2018)

Fukushima fishermen oppose release of tritium-tainted water into ocean

(August 31, 2018)

Economy Ministry instructed staff to not include individual remarks in meeting records

(August 30, 2018)

‘All Okinawa’-backed gubernatorial election candidate: Get Henoko base project stopped

(August 30, 2018)

Citizens stage protest against Israeli defense expo in Kawasaki City

(August 30, 2018)

JCP Tokyo presses agriculture minister to not permit fresh fish market in contaminated site

(August 29, 2018)

Gov’t ministries list number of disabled employees at double actual figures

(August 29, 2018)

2018 defense report excessively stresses N. Korea's 'threat'

(August 28, 2018)

JCP Koike on LDP presidential race: Abe's victory won't mean public approval of constitutional revision

(August 26, 2018)

Ceremony held to mourn Korean war dead whose remains are still kept in Japan

(August 26, 2018)

Central gov't padded the number of employees with disabilities to make it look like it achieved its numerical target

(August 25, 2018)

Labor Ministry finds labor law violations at over 18,000 business establishments

(August 23 and 24, 2018)

Ospreys will be officially deployed to US Yokota base in Tokyo in October

(August 24, 2018)

Memorial held for ex-POWs in Siberia and Mongolia

(August 23, 2018)

Japan must abandon nuclear fuel cycle project

(August 23, 2018)

Okinawans remember victims of US attack on Tsushima-maru during WWII

(August 23, 2018)

Occupational bladder cancer eligible for worker's compensation

(August 23, 2018)

Abe gov’t new policy on foreign workers increases concern in regard to human rights violations

(August 22, 2018)

Legal expert team formed to deal with discriminatory scoring against female applicants in med school entrance exams

(August 22, 2018)

Overcrowded schools undermine disabled children’s right to learn

(August 21, 2018)

Japan's food self-sufficiency rate remains below 40%

(August 20, 2018)

Half of petition signatures submitted to Diet from JCP

(August 19, 2018)

Aging bridges serious problem also for Japan

(August 19, 2018)

JCP Koike demands probe into government ministries’ alleged falsification of disabled employed

(August 18, 2018)

Gov’t new policy hints at use of foreign workers as cheap, disposable labor

(August 18, 2018)

Workers exploited under Amazon's glory (Part 7)

(August 17, 2018)

Okinawa elementary school pupils evacuated 671 times out of fear of US military aircraft accident

(August 17, 2018)

NHK contractor sued for wage theft

(August 16, 2018)

Female workers quitting their jobs to give birth results in economic loss of 1.2 trillion yen

(August 15&16, 2018)

Current status of process for peaceful Korean Peninsula

(August 16, 2018)

Koike attends ceremony celebrating 73rd anniv. of Korean independence from Japan

(August 15, 2018)

Koike issues statement on 73rd anniversary of end of WWII

(August 15 and 17, 2018)

3 US Ospreys make emergency landings within one day

(August 14, 2018)

Abe spurs his party to submit its draft constitution to Diet this fall

(August 14, 2018)

1st round of FFR trade talks ends, Japan should rebuff unfair demands from US

(August 12, 2018)

70K Okinawans in rally mourn Onaga’s death with renewed determination to block Henoko base construction

(August 12, 2018)

Record high of 44.6 billion yen paid in back pay for overtime in 2017

(August 11, 2018)

Reactor under construction in Shimane will undergo approval process

(August 11, 2018)

What made Fukushima residents accept nuclear power plant?

(August 11, 2018)

Workers exploited under Amazon's glory (Part 6)

(August 10, 2018)

We will never extinguish anti-base 'All Okinawa' flame: Okinawans on the death of Gov. Onaga

(August 10, 2018)

Nagasaki mayor in peace ceremony urges Japanese government to support antinuke UN treaty

(August 10, 2018)

Nagasaki Hibakusha urge Abe to join UN nuclear weapons ban treaty

(August 9, 2018)

UN chief declares his willingness to send no-nuke message to the world in collaboration with Hibakusha

(August 9, 2018)

1953 Japan-US secret deal condones 80% of crimes committed by US military personnel in Japan