Japan Press Weekly

(January 26, 2016)

Abe-backed candidate wins mayoral election by tricking Ginowan voters

(January 26, 2016)

Keidanren dislikes calling proposed bill the ‘zero-overtime payment’ bill

(January 25, 2016)

PM speech on TPP cannot mask risky nature of free trade

(January 25, 2016)

Anti-base candidate puts up good fight in Ginowan mayoral election

(January 24, 2016)

News media should not tone down criticism of Abe gov’t: critic

(January 23, 2016)

High school students call for joining in demos to repeal war legislation

(January 23, 2016)

Abe in his policy speech shuts his ears to public criticism of war legislation

(January 22 & 23, 2016)

26 US fighters fly to Yokota AB, largest number since Vietnam War

(January 22, 2016)

Economy minister Amari suspected of taking bribes

(January 22, 2016)

Drivers’ union condemns deregulation in bus business

(January 22, 2016)

Court disapproves of recognizing flight mechanic as having died from overwork

(January 22, 2016)

JCP Dietmembers survey gov’t compliance in monitoring of bus companies

(January 21, 2016)

Labor think tank: monthly pay hike of 59,000 yen is possible

(January 21, 2016)

Taxi drivers with safety concerns oppose rideshare service

(January 21, 2016)

More than half of Dietmembers agree to reinstate grant program for legal apprentices

(January 21, 2016)

This week’s JCP international activity

(January 20, 2016)

Planned consumption tax hike will deliver heavier blow to people’s livelihoods

(January 20, 2016)

Sasebo most likely to become sortie base for Japanese version of marines

(January 20, 2016)

Keidanren in wage negotiation guidelines takes hostile stance toward elimination of wage gaps

(January 19, 2016)

PM Abe admits poverty spreading in Japan

(January 19, 2016)

JCP Koike: Unreasonable plan to raise consumption tax rate should be cancelled

(January 19, 2016)

Low-priced bus tours tend to have lax maintenance of vehicles

(January 19, 2016)

Local residents demand referendum on planned restart of Ikata NPP

(January 18, 2016)

Ginowan mayoral election campaign centering on Futenma base relocation kicks off

(January 18, 2016)

1995 Hanshin-Awaji quake sufferers still struggling to survive

(January 17, 2016)

Move to discourage political education in schools should be prevented

(January 17, 2016)

Deregulation underlies deadly bus crash in Nagano

(January 16, 2016)

Birthrate target at 1.8 is not viable: economist

(January 16, 2016)

Osaka City assembly adopts ordinance bill to regulate hate speech

(January 15, 2016)

Abe eyes right to impose dictatorship in emergency

(January 15, 2016)

Obama should abandon hegemonic policy

(January 15, 2016)

Yamanashi Prefecture will provide free daycare services to families with two or more children

(January 14, 2016)

Block Abe’s attempt at actual revision of the pacifist Constitution

(January 14, 2016)

Demanding pay raise, union workers surround bldg. of biggest business lobby

(January 14, 2016)

MV-22 Ospreys have worst flight accident record in Afghanistan

(January 14, 2016)

This week’s JCP international activity

(January 13, 2016)

JCP Kasai criticizes gov’t plan to expand SDF base functions in Djibouti

(January 13, 2016)

Youth stand up demanding minimum wage hike

(January 13, 2016 )

Victims of 1954 US H-bomb test will apply for seamen’s compensation

(January 12, 2015)

160 junior high school students in Saga Pref. participate in SDF experiential learning activities

(January 11, 2016)

Ginowan citizens angry at city for turning over personal data to SDF

(January 10, 2016)

After ‘sympathy budget’ started, over 20 trillion yen of taxpayers’ money given to US military

(January 10, 2016)

Religious agency conducts signature drive misleading public into supporting abolition of pacifist Article 9

(January 10, 2016)

Yokosuka City urges US military to work to prevent recurrence of crimes committed by US servicemen

(January 9, 2016)

Gov’t releases full text of negotiated TPP accord in Japanese translation following JCP request

(January 9, 2016)

Metropolitan labor authorities order company to negotiate with union

(January 9, 2016)

Both Houses of Diet adopt resolution protesting against N. Korea nuclear test

(January 8, 2016)

JCP Inoue to PM: Gov’t plan to export weapons and NPPs should be scrapped

(January 8, 2016)

First round of Diet debates highlights need to bring down Abe government

(January 8, 2016)

Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki condemn N. Korea’s nuclear test