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  • All 9 JCP candidates win Higashiosaka City Assembly election

    The election results show that voters delivered a severe verdict against those assembly members that forcibly passed the motion of no-confidence in the mayor who is a JCP member.

  • LDP’s presidential election shows its political degeneration: JCP Shii

    “The JCP is strongly opposed to Japan’s continued assistance to the retaliatory war in Afghanistan primarily because waging a retaliatory war in dealing with terrorism is fundamentally wrong,” said Shii.

  • Newly formed Fukuda Cabinet clings to policy framework rejected by the public

    “Mr. Fukuda is also a member of pro-constitutional revision forces and subservient to the U.S., and there is no basic difference between Mr. Fukuda and his predecessor, Mr. Abe,” JCP Chair Shii stated.

  • POLITICS
  • Newly formed Fukuda Cabinet clings to policy framework rejected by the public

  • LDP’s presidential election shows its political degeneration: JCP Shii

  • Prime minister’s office dysfunctional since Abe hospitalized

  • Election defeat and Abe’s resignation: Double shock to pro-constitutional revision forces

  • Fukuda elected as LDP president

  • LDP faction leaders appointed to its leadership

  • US FORCES
  • U.S. Navy to deploy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Yokosuka next August

  • LABOR
  • New prospects are opening to achieve workers’ demands

  • SDF
  • Bill to continue refueling in the Indian Ocean will be submitted to extraordinary Diet session: Fukuda

  • SDF uses resident register to recruit youth

  • Stop deploying PAC-3 to Chiba Prefecture: JCP

  • ECONOMY
  • Keidanren seeks higher consumption tax rate and lower corporate tax rate

  • JCP
  • Fuwa attends reception for outgoing Chinese ambassador

  • Ogata meets with Venezuelan ambassador

  • WELFARE
  • National convention of elderly calls for struggle to repeal adversely revised healthcare system

  • ANTI-N-ARMS
  • Rally held in memory of U.S. H-bomb test explosion victim

  • EDUCATION
  • Japan’s public expenditure on education ranks second to last: OECD report

  • ELECTION
  • All 9 JCP candidates win Higashiosaka City Assembly election

  • TOKYO
  • Governor Ishihara breaks his election promises



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