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  • column  Let’s make COP29 Baku momentum to change Japan’s climate policy

    Japan has been criticized for having a low reduction target (a 46% cut by 2030). The Japanese government has been trying everything in the book to preserve coal-fired power generation, and continues to depend on fossil fuels.

  • JCP supports CDPJ leader in prime ministerial election

    Following the general election last month, the 215th special session of the Diet was convened to choose a new prime minister. The Japanese Communist Party voted for the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader in the second-round of vote.

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

    Former U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, was elected to the U.S. presidency for a second term. Is it prudent for Japan to continue to take a diplomatic stance that places absolute importance on the Japan-U.S. military alliance?

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

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

  • JCP supports CDPJ leader in prime ministerial election

  • US FORCES
  • US Navy seeks to commission Japanese shipbuilders to maintain US nuclear carrier at Japanese shipyard

  • LABOR
  • Unionized medical workers take to streets to demand sufficient bonuses to overcome rising living costs

  • SDF
  • SDF frequently holds joint drills with foreign military forces other than US forces without legal grounds

  • JCP assemblypersons in Chiba Pref. demand that GSDF Ospreys be grounded

  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • Nouminren urges gov’t to improve support for dairy and livestock farmers struggling to survive

  • JCP EC Chair Tamura expresses her intention to utilize CEDAW findings to realize selective dual surname system

  • Let’s make COP29 Baku momentum to change Japan’s climate policy



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