Japan Press Weekly

(March 31, 2016)

Osaka governor calls for debate on Japan’s N-arms or perfect collective self-defense right

(March 31, 2016)

Diet discussion on bill to repeal war laws refused by LDP and Komei

(March 31, 2016)

Farmers & citizens take to streets to block TPP ratification

(March 31, 2016)

PM expresses his intention to create grant-type scholarship program

(March 30, 2016)

Yamashita to high school students: power of youth can change politics

(March 30, 2016)

FY2016 budget with record military spending approved

(March 30, 2016)

One so-called super rich owns as much wealth as 100,000 average income households in Japan

(March 30, 2016)

Bereaved family of worker who committed suicide from overwork sues box lunch franchise

(March 30, 2016)

Shii to DPJ-Ishin new party: let’s continue working together based on agreement among opposition party leaders

(March 29, 2016)

Citizens protest enforcement of war laws

(March 29, 2016)

More than \100,000 in annual wages of part-timers might not be calculated at 7-Elevens

(March 29, 2016)

Court invalidates IBM Japan’s dismissals of union workers

(March 29, 2016)

Welfare Ministry intends to make childcare centers accept children beyond their capacity

(March 27, 2016)

Osaka Ishin favors constitutional revision

(March 27, 2016)

35,000 people take part in ‘No Nukes Day’ action

(March 26, 2016)

JCP Nihi calls for withdrawal of gov’t plan to mobilize commercial vessels in emergency situations

(March 26, 2016)

Ikata No.1 reactor to be decommissioned

(March 26, 2016)

Ex-Osaka Mayor Hashimoto’s survey of workers’ beliefs and affiliations is unconstitutional: high court

(March 25, 2016)

Opposition alliance proposes measures to increase childcare workers’ wages

(March 25, 2016)

Large corporations’ restructuring scheme using state subsidies is unacceptable: JCP Koike

(March 25, 2016)

JCP urges gov’t-funded bank to not finance Indonesian project that is causing human rights violations

(March 25, 2016)

Abe should acknowledge failure of ‘Abenomics’ and cancel consumption tax hike plan

(March 24, 2016)

Terror attacks are unpardonable barbarous acts

(March 24, 2016)

Tokyo & Okinawa resume negotiations on US base construction issue

(March 24, 2016)

US soldier accidentally parachutes onto private land

(March 23, 2016)

JCP Yamashita: Take JCP off list of subversive groups

(March 23, 2016)

Eligibility investigations under secrets protection law will promote discrimination against people with mental illnesses

(March 23, 2016)

JCP Kami: Crimes won’t be eliminated as long as US bases remain in Japan

(March 23, 2016)

After union’s 40-year-long efforts, animation studio contract staff win worker status under Labor Standards Law

(March 23, 2016)

Nation unwilling to establish good relations with its neighbors will be left behind

(March 23, 2016)

63 people died due to delays in seeking treatment at hospitals because of poverty

(March 23, 2016)

Rally for better scholarship program joined by both opposition and ruling party lawmakers

(March 22, 2016)

Electoral cooperation among opposition parties gains momentum

(March 22, 2016)

Total of 11,400 housing units for US military personnel in Japan built using ‘sympathy budget’

(March 20, 2016)

Public movements to repeal war laws continue even with enforcement date approaching

(March 20, 2016)

Refusals growing among new graduates of defense academy to become officers

(March 19, 2016)

US serviceman arrested for sexual molestation on JAL plane

(March 19, 2016)

Aichi police considers people having private talk to be possible terrorists

(March 19, 2016)

Newly-authorized schoolbooks colored by far-right Abe regime

(March 19, 2016)

JCP Vice Chair Koike protests N-Korea’s missile launch

(March 18, 2016)

Bill to increase financial support for single-parent families jointly submitted by 5 opposition parties

(March 18, 2016)

JCP proposes to halve university tuitions

(March 18, 2016)

Unions protest against corporate response of giving only 1/2 of last year’s base pay hike

(March 18, 2016)

Every US soldier & family member needs their own bathroom: state minister of defense

(March 17, 2016)

Labor minister to JCP Takahashi: subsidy program to help corporate downsizing should be revised

(March 17, 2016)

JCP Okinawa protests US sailor’s rape of Japanese woman

(March 17, 2016)

Court rejects state compensation claims filed by Okinawa Battle victims

(March 17, 2016)

City’s plan to close all public childcare centers provokes fierce backlash from public

(March 17 & 18, 2016)

This week’s JCP international activity

(March 16, 2016)

Signature drives for scrapping war legislation held across Tokyo