Japan Press Weekly

(September 4, 2015)

JCP: expansion of use of ‘My Number’ system will invite risk of serious privacy breaches

(September 3 and 4, 2015)

Large corporations’ internal reserves hit record high under ‘Abenomics’

(September 4, 2015)

Resident Korean in Osaka sues a home builder for racism

(September 4, 2015)

JR East's unmanned wicket project disregards the socially disadvantaged

(September 3, 2015)

SDF top to Washington: War bills will be enacted by this summer

(September 3, 2015)

Pay gaps between regular and non-regular workers in Japan greater than in EU

(September 3, 2015)

VJ Day should be reminder to Japan of what it did to Asian countries in WWII

(September 2, 2015)

Dwellers under threat of Olympics-related eviction send request to IOC: we don’t want to move out

(September 2, 2015)

Organizing committee responsible for alleged design theft of Olympic emblem: sports journalist

(September 2, 2015)

Memorial ceremony held for foreign victims of massacre that occurred 92 years ago

(September 1, 2015)

Abe’s move to create war-fighting Japan will give US weapons maker greater business opportunities

(September 1, 2015)

Okinawa gov’t starts undersea environmental survey at US base construction site

(September 1, 2015)

JCP parliamentarian urges Kyushu railway company to eliminate unstaffed stations

(September 1, 2015)

This week’s JCP international activity

(August 31, 2015)

Diet surrounded by 120,000 people seeking to kill war bills

(August 30, 2015)

NGO: Abe’s war bills will turn humanitarian aid groups into targets of armed attacks

(August 30, 2015)

Imabari City decides to stop using war-glorifying textbooks

(August 29, 2015)

Musicians: Put a final double barline to war bills!

(August 29, 2015)

High school students request Dietmembers to kill war bills

(August 28&29, 2015)

Yamashita demands cancellation of ‘My Number’ program

(August 29, 2015)

Revised Olympic stadium with 155 billion yen price tag still costly

(August 27, 2015)

JCP Tatsumi criticizes war bills for dragging private sector workers into wars

(August 27, 2015)

Dockworkers oppose war bills

(August 27, 2015)

Lawyers & scholars unite to scrap war legislation

(August 27, 2015)

Sagamihara City and US military will jointly investigate cause of explosions and fire at US depot

(August 26, 2015)

Abe gov’t takes no action to protect people from US base dangers

(August 26, 2015)

Okinawa assemblypersons protest drill resumption of US MH-60 chopper flights

(August 26, 2015)

Pension data leakage reports fall short of easing public distrust

(August 25, 2015)

Yamashita pushes PM Abe to admit to Japan’s aggression & colonial rule during WWII

(August 25, 2015)

Fire occurs at US base in Kanagawa’s residential area

(August 25, 2015)

All 5 JCP candidates win in Morioka City Assembly election

(August 24, 2015)

400 million yen spent on SDF drills near Mt. Fuji

(August 24, 2015)

Memorial service held for ex-Japanese POWs in Siberia and Mongolia

(August 23, 2015)

FM: Japan doesn’t regard China as ‘threat’

(August 23, 2015)

Defense Ministry to request record-high 6 trillion yen budget for next fiscal year

(August 23, 2015)

Okinawans commemorate 71st anniversary of Tsushima-maru sinking tragedy

(August 23, 2015)

Small stone statue in Kyoto temple symbolizes memory of war orphans

(August 22, 2015)

Expansion of police wiretapping is unconstitutional: JCP Nihi

(August 22, 2015)

Gov’t-proposed revisions to criminal procedure rules cannot prevent human rights abuses

(August 22, 2015)

JCP Akamine investigates into Agent Orange pollution at former US base site

(August 22, 2015)

Operation of problematic Sendai NPP should be stopped without delay

(August 21, 2015)

International lawyers’ organization voices objection to Japan’s war bills

(August 21, 2015)

Oil industry think tank: Possibility of Hormuz Strait crisis is ‘close to zero’

(August 20 & 21, 2015)

JCP backs antiwar-bills candidate in Iwate gubernatorial election

(August 19 & 20, 2015)

Okinawa municipalities and fishermen angry over US helicopter crash

(August 19, 2015)

Thorough investigation into MOD documents is essential

(August 19, 2015)

Temporary workers earn 500,000 yen less than 12 years ago annually

(August 18, 2015)

Okinawans call on governor to revoke landfill approval for US base construction

(August 18, 2015)

MOD admits it prepared for enactment of war bills which are still under Diet discussion

(August 16, 2015)

3 ministers, 161 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15