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(September 1, 2015)
JCP parliamentarian urges Kyushu railway company to eliminate unstaffed stations
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(August 30, 2015)
Imabari City decides to stop using war-glorifying textbooks
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(August 29, 2015)
Revised Olympic stadium with 155 billion yen price tag still costly
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(August 26, 2015)
Pension data leakage reports fall short of easing public distrust
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(August 22, 2015)
Operation of problematic Sendai NPP should be stopped without delay
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(August 15, 2015)
Corporations lose in SLAPP suit
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(August 15, 2015)
New private fund established to support Chinese victims of chemical weapons abandoned by Imperial Japanese Army
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(August 12, 2015)
Local union sues city gov’t for suppression of free speech
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(August 12, 2015)
Remember lessons learned from JAL jumbo jet crash 30 years ago
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(August 5, 2015)
Tokyo JCP to Olympic Minister: Don’t demolish public housing complex to build Olympic stadium
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(August 2 and 3, 2015)
11,000 women in Mothers’ Congress resolve to scrap war bills
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(August 1, 2015)
Ex-TEPCO executives will be indicted for 2011 Fukushima disaster
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(July 30, 2015)
Nagoya City decides not to use rightist textbooks in schools
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(July 28, 2015)
Toshiba commits accounting fraud while promoting nuclear power
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(July 27, 2015)
Ex-PM Mori is not qualified to organize 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics
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(July 26, 2015)
Municipalities near Sendai NPP demand public briefing sessions
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(July 24, 2015)
Science Council criticizes gov’t policy to abolish humanities departments
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(July 24, 2015)
Dietmembers push for relief measures for non-registered people
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(July 24, 2015)
War-glorifying textbooks to be used in Tokyo-run junior high schools
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(July 18, 2015)
PM Abe gives up costly Olympic stadium construction plan
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(July 15, 2015)
JCP Tamura calls for changing main venue for 2019 Rugby World Cup
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(July 20, 2015)
Restarting of Ikata Nuclear Power Plant unjustifiable
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(July 14, 2015)
Memorial service for Chinese victims of forced labor held at World Heritage-listed Miike coal mine
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(July 11, 2015)
Mayor of nuclear-disaster-hit town criticizes gov’t for ignoring reality of Fukushima
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(July 10, 2015)
JCP Nihi pushes for Diet debate on bill to allow dual-surname system
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(July 10, 2015)
Sports minister fails to come up with sufficient financial resources to build Olympic stadium
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(July 8, 2015)
LGBT group files legal request for legalization of same-sex marriages
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(July 8, 2015)
Okinawa to enact ordinance to regulate transport of landfill materials from outside prefecture
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(July 8, 2015)
Okinawa’s Nago City starts research for buried cultural properties on US base
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(July 8, 2015)
Japan’s new World Heritage sites attract unexpected international attention to its era of colonialism
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(July 5, 2015)
Historical facts testify civilian ships in ‘rear area support’ targeted for attack during Pacific War
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(July 1 and 2, 2015)
Tokyo metropolitan assembly member guilty of sexist jeering returns to LDP group
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(July 1, 2015)
Cultural property found at construction site of new US base in Henoko
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(July 1, 2015)
Court acknowledges man’s suicide as 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster-related
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(June 30, 2015)
The proposed 252-billion-yen Olympic stadium is too costly
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(June 26, 2015)
UN experts: TPP will have adverse impact on human rights
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(June 25 & 26, 2015)
Public junior high school invites students for SDF’s live-fire drill
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(June 26, 2015)
City sued for arbitrary refusal to publish ‘haiku’ on Article 9
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(June 23, 2015)
Tokyo residents petition governor not to demolish public housing for 2020 Olympics
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(June 22, 2015)
50 years after normalization of relations with S. Korea, Japan needs to make more efforts to form true friendship
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(June 17 & 18, 2015)
Revised entertainment law leaves room for arbitrary policing in dance clubs: Yamashita
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(June 18, 2015)
Civic group pushes gov’t to abandon construction plan of gigantic Olympic Stadium
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(June 18, 2015)
Concerns over TPP negotiations on generic drugs mounting worldwide
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(June 17, 2015)
Imposition of ‘Hinomaru’ and ‘Kimigayo’ on national universities is just the beginning of gov’t interference: scholar
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(June 9, 2015)
Japanese researchers urge early settlement of wartime ‘comfort women’ issue
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(June 7, 2015)
Sex registration on ‘My Number’ cards backpedals on efforts to eliminate discrimination against LGBT people
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(May 27 & June 5, 2015)
Police collect private info of local residents objecting to power plant project in Gifu Pref.
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(June 4, 2015)
Pension data entry staff are outsourced workers
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(June 3 and 4, 2015)
Japan’s new GHG reduction target runs counter to global efforts to tackle climate change
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(June 4, 2015)
Pollution victims stage joint action seeking relief measures