Japan Press Weekly

Sports gambling is not fire on someone else’s shore

The LDP and METI see sports as a tool for making money. Gambling distorts and destroys the fundamental spirit of sports. It is necessary for the general public to stop the move to legally expand sports gambling.

JCP Chair criticizes Japan-U.S. summit meeting for seeking more aggressive bilateral military alliance

JCP Chair Tamura Tomoko issued a statement after the leaders of Japan and the United States held a summit meeting in Washington D.C., condemning moves for historic transformation of Japan-U.S. military alliance into a more aggressive coalition.

Koike: Iran/Israel should refrain from military responses which may intensify tensions

JCP Secretariat Head Koike Akira said, “Of particular concern is the possibility of seeing a chain of retaliations. Countries involved must exercise restraint involving military responses.”

JCP Chair criticizes Japan-U.S. summit meeting for seeking more aggressive bilateral military alliance

JCP Chair Tamura: Uruma citizens’ fight forces gov’t to give up SDF training field construction plan

Ground Staff Office in its internal document uses the war-glorifying term ‘Greater East Asia’

Union requests OECD to push Dow Chemical to negotiate with union

Sports gambling is not fire on someone else’s shore

Labeling of health-benefits foods modeled on US law

Labeling of health-benefits foods modeled on US law

JCP Osaka: Osaka Expo should be cancelled as it will endanger children’s lives

Imperial Japanese Army created ‘comfort station’ system at time of Manchurian Incident

Hibakusha submit more than 1.1 million signatures calling for Japan’s participation in TPNW

Koike: Iran/Israel should refrain from military responses which may intensify tensions