Japan Press Weekly

(March 9, 2012)

Next budget funded by tax hike and cuts in welfare spending

(March 9, 2012)

House passes boneless rules on the use of temps

(March 9, 2012)

Day of Action in 2012 Spring Struggle demands pay hikes to boost economy

(March 7, 2012)

Osaka mayor Hashimoto criticizes Article 9

(March 7, 8 & 12, 2012)

This week’s JCP international activities

(March 6, 2012)

Osaka City mayor Hashimoto harms local arts and cultures

(March 6 and 8, 2012)

JCP Yoshii calls on gov’t to stick to ban on arms exports

(March 4, 2012)

Osaka’s education ordinance imposes control and competition (Part 3)

(February 28, 2012)

\270 million in donations from securities firms to LDP and DPJ for extending tax breaks

(February 28, 2012)

Residents protest PM’s visit to Okinawa

(February 27, 2012)

Former Tokyo gov’t officials rehired by firms involved in Tsukiji transfer project

(February 27, 2012)

Ogata attends Filipino People Power Revolution ceremony

(February 26, 2012)

Small part of US base will be returned to city, partly at the city’s expense

(February 26, 2012)

Shii sends condolences to Chongryun

(February 25, 2012)

Fukushima residents submit 120,000 signatures for free medical care for children

(February 25, 2012)

Accounts of ‘comfort women’ and ‘bloodshed’ erased from Okinawa Battle monument

(February 24, 2012)

National gov’t workers suffer pay cuts while having no right to collective bargaining

(February 24, 2012)

JCP Takahashi calls for countermeasure against closure of factories

(February 23, 2012)

JCP Nagoya City Assembly members protest against mayor’s denial of Nanjing Massacre

(February 23, 2012)

Companies headed by local assembly members receive contracts from KEPCO

(February 23, 2012)

JCP Miyamoto demands that gov’t introduce grant-type scholarship programs

(February 22, 2012)

US corporate interests in TPP overshadow Japan’s economy

(February 22, 2012)

Consumption tax hike will lead to decrease in GDP and jobs

(February 22, 2012)

Top court recognizes Victor Co. independent contractors as workers under the Labor Union Law

(February 22, 2012)

Osaka City education board forgoes survey on political beliefs of teachers

(May 26, 2009)

JCP Chair Shii protests North Korea’s nuclear test

(May 26, 2009)

Furies over North Korea’s nuclear test

(May 20, 2009)

Shii answers reporters’ questions at a news conference he held to release U.S. government letter responding to his letter to Obama

(May 21, 2009)

JCP Shii meets Prime Minister Aso to request that Japan take the initiative in launching international talks

(May 22, 2009)

Shii talks with Lower House Speaker and Upper House President

(May 22, 2009 )

JCP representatives visit embassies

(May 21-22, 2009)

Promising signs for abolition of nuclear weapons

(May 26, 2009)

Organizing Committee calls for major success at this year’s World Conference against A and H Bombs

(May 26, 2009)

Hibakusha call for JCP’s cooperation for settlement of their lawsuits against government

(May 20, 2009)

Appointing Ozawa as acting president shows DPJ has no sense of accountability regarding receipt of illegal funds from Nishimatsu: JCP Shii

(May 25, 2009)

LDP and DPJ call for cut in proportional representation seats

(May 21, 2009)

Court fails to recognize state responsibility over murder by U.S. serviceman

(May 21, 2009)

Many Okinawans are critical of environmental impact assessment of planned U.S. air base

(May 23, 2009)

Bilateral ‘secret agreement’ is preventing U.S. servicemen committing crimes in Japan from being prosecuted

(May 24, 2009 )

Government diverting farm budget to construct U.S. Marine barrack on Ie-jima, Okinawa

(May 21, 2009 )

It’s time to break away from ‘capitalism without rules’

(May 22, 2009)

Panasonic created list of workers to be forced to quit job

(May 24-25, 2009 )

Non-regular workers discuss ways to increase their struggle in national meeting in Kyoto

(May 25, 2009)

Alarm at business-led agriculture and massive food imports

(May 20, 2009)

JCP calls for establishment of emergency system to address H1N1 flu infections

(May 24, 2009)

Tokyo’s high schools cannot afford to buy library books

(May 21, 2009)

JCP holds rally aiming to achieve victory in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election and the general election

(May 20, 2009)

U.S. government appreciates JCP Chair Shii’s letter on elimination of nuclear weapons

(May 15, 2009)

JCP Vice Chair Ogata meets with Cuban Ambassador Fernandez de Cossío

(May 16, 2009)

Ogata meets with Egyptian ambassador