Japan Press Weekly

(May 29, 2014)

US increasing training drills of cargo planes over Tokyo

(May 28, 2014)

US forcibly begins X-radar construction in Kyoto

(May 28, 2014)

Anti-coup rallies continuing in Thailand

(May 28, 2014)

JCP Yamashita talks with Cuban ambassador

(May 27, 2014)

JCP Yamashita criticizes Chinese fighter jet for flying too close to SDF aircraft

(May 27, 2014)

400K books saved from war damage

(May 27, 2014)

Ruling parties aim to allow SDF to ‘rescue’ foreign troops

(May 26, 2014)

State ministries and agencies employ record high personnel from private sector

(May 25, 2014)

Japan’s peace maintained by the Constitution, not by force: ex-defense official

(May 21&25, 2014)

SDF should cancel landing drill aiming at fighting in wars abroad: JCP

(May 25, 2014)

3 ex-GSDF personnel talk candidly about the right of collective self-defense

(May 25, 2014)

SDF conducts military parade amid citizens’ protest

(May 24 and 25, 2014)

JCP Aomori urges governor to oppose deployment of US drones

(May 25, 2014)

Construction sector labor shortage should be solved through drastic improvement of working environment

(May 25, 2014)

Abe’s attempt to increase use of foreign trainees will lead to further deterioration of their human rights

(May 23, 2014)

Tokyo JCP calls for plan to demolish national stadium be cancelled

(May 23, 2014)

Local gov’ts should follow court order to keep Oi NPP offline: plaintiffs

(May 19 & 23, 2014)

Education minister uses FB to monitor school education

(May 22, 2014)

JCP and lawyers say ‘No’ to Japan’s use of collective self-defense right

(May 22, 2014)

Court bans SDF military night flights

(May 22, 2014)

Court orders KEPCO not to reactivate Oi NPP

(May 21, 2014)

Assemblypersons went sightseeing abroad using tax money: Supreme Court

(May 21, 2014)

JCP Okinawa protests to authorities over US fighter’s part drop

(May 21, 2014)

Keep record of air-raid damage: JCP Tamura

(May 20, 2014)

Gov’t should ban US military aircraft from flying over nuclear fuel facilities: JCP Kasai

(May 20, 2014)

Moneyless 57 people died due to delay in seeing doctor

(May 20, 2014)

Court rejects investment company’s claim in SLAPP

(May 18, 2014)

Japan could follow path to war: former LDP executive

(May 18, 2014)

Growing number of municipalities invite people to inform on ‘unfair’ welfare recipients

(May 17, 2014)

Abe’s initiative for legalizing use of collective self-defense right faces mounting public criticism and protest

(May 17, 2014)

JCP demands halt to SDF military parade in tourist area

(May 17, 2014)

Bill to strengthen political control over education passed through Diet committee

(May 14-16, 2014)

Shii issues statement on dispute over Paracel Islands

(May 16, 2014)

Shii opposes Abe’s attempt to enable Japan to use armed forces abroad

(May 16, 2014)

Japan’s workers join international action seeking higher minimum wages

(May 15, 2014)

Abe Cabinet interferes with magazine’s article on State Secrecy Law

(May 15, 2014)

Tottori decides to provide local milk for school meals, not accepting cheapest one

(May 15 & 16, 2014)

Bills stripping the elderly of access to necessary care rammed through Lower House

(May 14, 2014)

Ex-Tokyo gov’t officials parachute into contract-awarded firms related to Tsukiji fish market relocation

(May 14, 2014)

JCP Kira demands a closing of income gaps at Japan Post

(May 14, 2014)

In memory of Kodama Yuji, leader of leprosy patients’ movement

(May 14, 2014)

JCP publishes appeal opposing adverse revision of education-related laws

(May 13, 2014)

Angry voices against TPP increasing in rice-producing area of northeast region

(May 13, 2014)

N-warship crisis evacuation starts after radiation doses hit 20 times higher than N-power plant crisis manuals

(May 13, 2014)

Municipal leaders form A9As in all prefectures in Tohoku

(May 12, 2014)

It will take 6 days to evacuate all residents in 30km-zone during nuclear crisis

(May 12, 2014)

Gov’t should create childrearing-friendly environment, not set national birthrate target

(May 11, 2014)

Japan’s media bathed in ‘Abe color’

(May 11, 2014)

Gov’t uses power of money to have residents accept US radar base construction

(May 11, 2014)

Family who lost son to death from overwork calls for anti-karoshi law