Japan Press Weekly

Unified opposition candidates to be put up in 17 single-seat districts in upcoming Upper House election

JCP Secretariat Head Koike announced that the JCP will withdraw its candidates in selected districts and work hard for a victory of unified opposition candidates in 17 single-seat constituencies.

Hibakusha angry at President Trump likening US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to 1945 A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Japanese A-bomb survivors voiced their outrage over U.S. President Trump’s remarks equating the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities with the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Shii talks with Iranian ambassador

JCP Central Committee Chair Shii received a visit from Iranian Ambassador to Japan Peiman Seadat at the JCP head office in Tokyo, and exchanged views on the situation associated with military attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel.

Unified opposition candidates to be put up in 17 single-seat districts in upcoming Upper House election

Gov’t kept last summer’s joint Japan-US-Australia military exercise secret

JCP Yamazoe calls for 18-year-olds to have right to run for office

Need is to make diplomatic efforts to prevent ‘Taiwan contingency’, not construct shelters on Sakishima Islands

310 criminal cases involving US military personnel in Japan not taken to court

US gov’t will quadruple nuclear energy production by 2050

Scholars’ group set up to promote campaign for increasing number of childcare workers

Supreme Court: Cuts in public assistance payments are unconstitutional

Hibakusha angry at President Trump likening US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to 1945 A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima Hibakusha protest Trump’s ‘A-bombings ended war’ remarks

Shii talks with Iranian ambassador