Japan Press Weekly

(January 22, 2015)

A Tokyo municipality sued for outsourcing family registration service

(January 22, 2015)

Osaka Mayor Hashimoto’s political belief survey unconstitutional: court

(January 22, 2015)

NRA OK’s discharge of radioactive water into ocean

(January 22, 2015)

Osaka high court: dancing is not crime

(January 21, 2015)

JCP 3rd CC Plenum sets target of obtaining 8.5 million votes in next national election

(January 21, 2015)

JCP issues 5-point proposal for Japan’s basic stance to promote friendship in Asia

(January 20, 2015)

Gov’t considers gaining rapid Cabinet approval over phone to dispatch SDF

(January 20, 2015)

Japan has no obligation to offer ‘sympathy budget’ to US military in Japan

(January 20, 2015)

Okinawans rally in protest against US helipads construction

(January 19, 2015)

All DPJ presidential candidates fail to face off against LDP

(January 19, 2015)

Pachinko parlors with ATMs would exacerbate gambling addiction

(January 18, 2015)

US military helicopter drops items in sea near Okinawa

(January 18, 2015)

Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake marks 20th anniversary

(January 17, 2015)

Labor ministry panel begins discussing zero-overtime payment system

(January 16 & 17, 2015)

1995 Hanshin-Awaji quake victims still struggling to find place to get settled

(January 17, 2015)

Court revokes punishment on teachers for refusing to sing ‘Kimigayo’

(January 10, 2015)

Terror attack on French weekly is unforgivable

(January 16, 2015)

Gov’t forcibly resumes on-sea project for new US base construction

(January 16 & 17, 2015)

Ex-PM Nakasone encouraged US to bring N-arms into Japan

(January 16, 2015)

Human rights NGOs move Uniqlo to improve working conditions at China factories

(January 15, 2015)

Yamashita criticizes PM Abe for proposing anti-people 2015 budget plan

(January 15, 2015)

2015 Spring Labor Offensive starts

(January 15, 2015)

Half of public childcare staff in Tokyo work under non-regular contracts

(January 15, 2015)

NHK refuses to air comedians’ political jokes

(January 14, 2015)

LDP Dietmembers accumulate political party subsidies

(January 14, 2015)

Public opposition growing in the world against TPP

(January 14 & 16, 2015)

Progressive farmers work to stop Abe’s policy of bullying family farmers

(January 14, 2015)

Uniqlo’s altruistic sounding corporate philosophy contrasts with its poor working environment

(January 14-17, 2015)

This week’s JCP international activities

(January 12 & 13, 2015)

Gov’t transports base construction materials under cover of darkness

(January 13, 2015)

Gov’t rejects finance ministry’s request to increase class size

(January 12, 2015)

Abe shows his desire to rewrite previous gov’t statement on past war of aggression

(January 12, 2015)

Japanese watch repairers suffer from Swatch Group monopoly

(January 12, 2015)

Hitachi workers form union to resist company’s downsizing measures

(January 10, 2015)

JCP Dietmembers call for measures to protect dairy farmers

(January 10, 2015)

Japan’s media community protests anti-press terrorism in France

(January 9, 2015)

Anti-base Okinawa governor given cold shoulder treatment by Tokyo

(January 9, 2015)

People on welfare protest planned slashes in welfare benefits

(January 9, 2015)

Democratic medical organizations call for increase in compensation for nursing-care facility operators

(January 8, 2015)

Union presence helps IBM workers resist unfair dismissals

(January 8, 2015)

JCP Dietmembers initiate activities to benefit the general public

(January 8, 2015)

Abe’s economic policy ignores concern over rising inequality

(January 8, 2015)

Abe’s favorite scholar: Let’s eliminate full-time regular jobs in Japan

(January 7, 2015)

Abe’s push for ‘proactive pacifism’ will damage Japan’s reputation

(January 7, 2015)

Hibakusha determined to have nukes abolished in 70th year since A-bombings

(January 7, 2015)

Half of special nursing-care homes in Tokyo are shorthanded

(January 6, 2015)

Shii in New Year address: Let’s put end to Abe’s runaway policies

(January 6, 2015)

Abe makes New Year resolution to force through all his policies

(January 6, 2015)

JCP to submit bill to abolish political party subsidy system

(January 6, 2015)

SDF officials again visit war shrine in Hokkaido