Japan Press Weekly

(February 13, 2025)

Yamazoe questions PM Ishiba’s stance toward President Trump

(February 13, 2025)

JCP lawmakers express critical position on OSA

(February 12, 2025)

Contract-based budget for construction of SDF camp on Mageshima Island already tops 1 trillion yen

(February 11, 2025)

Japan may expand scope of use of its right to collective self-defense to include Australia

(February 9, 2025)

JCP EC Chair criticizes PM Ishiba’s submissive stance taken at his first meeting with US President Trump

(February 7, 2025)

JCP EC Chair: Japanese gov’t should be ashamed of its failure to criticize Trump’s Gaza statements

(February 5, 2025)

JCP Tamura calls for cancellation of gov’t plan to raise high-cost medical care co-payment cap

(February 4, 2025)

JCP Shiokawa: Urgent need to lower sales tax to 5%

(January 31, 2025)

Opposition parties in unison vote for summoning of ex-Abe faction’s treasurer as unsworn witness

(January 30, 2025)

JCP Koike in interpellation calls on gov’t to spend more for disaster victims in Noto and to enhance people’s livelihoods

(January 29, 2025)

JCP EC Chair Tamura proposes 5 reforms and presents ways to secure necessary financial resources

(January 29, 2025)

JCP Koike: It is ‘Ishin’ that keeps giving helping hand to LDP

(January 25, 2025)

PM Ishiba’s policy will cause more suffering not ‘pleasure’

(January 25, 2025)

PM Ishiba: Japan will boost military spending as US gov’t demands

(January 25, 2025)

Tamura: Ishiba’s policy speech represents impasse in LDP politics

(January 24, 2025)

Shii on X comments on Japan-US Foreign Ministers’ meeting

(January 15, 2025)

LDP kickbacks had efficacy in hiding income and outflow that they didn’t want to make public

(January 9, 2025)

PM Ishiba in meeting with Hibakusha adheres to US nuclear umbrella due to current tension in the region

(January 5 & 7, 2025)

PM Ishiba, ignoring constitutional principle of separation of state and religion, visits Ise-jingu Shrine

(December 25, 2024)

Bill to abolish ‘policy activity funds’ becomes law

(December 24, 2024)

Candidate backed by JCP elected as mayor of an Osaka city

(December 22, 2024)

JCP Yamashita calls for tightening intake limits for PFAS in line with latest research

(December 21, 2024)

All LDP lawmakers in Political Ethics Committee interrogations claim they ‘Don't Know’ about kickback money

(December 19, 2024)

N-power industry donates more than 600 million yen to LDP in fiscal 2023

(December 19, 2024)

JCP urges gov’t to remove nuclear power generation from new basic energy plan

(December 18, 2024)

FY2024 supplementary budget prioritizing military buildup over support for disaster-hit Noto enacted

(December 18, 2024)

‘Political reform’-related bills passed through Lower House

(December 17, 2024)

Shiokawa raps LDP for trying to maintain system allowing purchases of fundraiser tickets by foreign corporations

(December 17, 2024)

Pro-civic candidate beats LDP-backed incumbent in Tokyo’s Kunitachi City

(December 12, 2024)

Tax the 220 trillion yen in internal reserves that big businesses accumulated thanks to ‘Abenomics’

(December 11, 2024)

On day of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for A-bomb survivors, Japan and US discuss enhancement of nuclear deterrence

(December 7, 2024)

LDP promoting military buildup while receiving 33 million yen in donations from arms company

(December 5, 2024)

JCP demands gov’t action to tackle climate crisis and to push for truce in Gaza

(December 5, 2024)

7 parties jointly submit bill to abolish ‘policy activity funds’

(December 4, 2024)

JCP EC Chair grills PM Ishiba about LDP slush-fund scandal and economic policy

(November 30, 2024)

PM Ishiba in policy speech says nothing about LDP’s slush fund scandal

(November 29, 2024)

JCP submits bills to ban corporate political donations and abolish political party subsidies

(November 28, 2024)

JCP urges gov’ to provide emergency grants to universities to cancel tuition hikes

(November 27, 2024)

Shiokawa: Cornerstone of political reform is implementing total ban on political donations from businesses and interest groups

(November 24, 2024)

JCP Yamazoe: Don’t allow USFJ to relocate its Command from Yokota AB to Roppongi

(November 14, 2024)

Increased opposition seats have great potential to improve Japan’s agricultural policy

(November 13, 2024)

2nd Ishiba administration inaugurated

(November 12, 2024)

JCP supports CDPJ leader in prime ministerial election

(November 8, 2024)

Trump’s return and Japan’s diplomacy based firmly on Japan-US alliance

(November 7, 2024)

Local peace group and JCP protest against Japan-US military parade in Sasebo City

(November 4, 2024)

2,300 citizens with renewed determination rally to defend pacifist Constitution

(November 1, 2024)

‘Freelance Act’ important 1st step, but not enough to protect freelancers’ labor rights

(October 31, 2024)

JCP EC Chair Tamura: JCP will positively consider CDPJ’s request for cooperation in PM selection process

(October 30, 2024)

Civil Alliance evaluates Akahata as a trigger to successfully block 2/3 Diet majority necessary for constitutional revision

(October 29, 2024)

JCP Standing Executive Committee issues statement on 2024 general election results