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  • Workers in Spring Struggle are demanding large corporations return a part of windfall profits to them

    Even though the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) unions are showing restraint in demanding wage increases, it is justifiable for workers to demand more; they are only trying to get a tiny part of the enormous profits to be returned to workers.

  • JCP publishes plan to rebuild Japan’s agriculture

    The biggest reason Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo gave for releasing the agriculture plan was that “Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate has dropped to 39 percent, the world’s lowest, driving Japan into a serious crisis in food and agriculture.”

  • Pro-constitutional revision lawmakers resolve to step up move to oppose Article 9 Association

    In a bid to step up its drive to adversely revise the Constitution, the “Parliamentarian Group to Establish a New Constitution” has carried out a shakeup by adding Democratic Party lawmakers to the executive board.

  • POLITICS
  • JCP calls for talks to normalize Diet proceeding

  • Pro-constitutional revision lawmakers resolve to step up move to oppose Article 9 Association

  • Why are LDP and DPJ lawmakers in a rush to form joint parliamentary groups?

  • US FORCES
  • Organizing committee for Okinawan rally in protest against crimes by U.S. servicemen formed

  • JCP lawmaker offers to cooperate in struggle to block U.S. NLP facility on southern island

  • LABOR
  • Workers in Spring Struggle are demanding large corporations return a part of windfall profits to them

  • Isuzu Motor workers angered by 1,500-job cut plan

  • Jichiroren in cross-country campaign to discuss defense of local health care services

  • DYLJ and JCP demand government efforts to provide jobs for youth

  • JMIU in Spring Struggle focuses on the issue of poverty

  • JCP
  • JCP Executive Committee calls for increased efforts to achieve victory in general election

  • JCP Nishiguchi greets Croatian president at reception

  • WELFARE
  • editorial Cut cozy ties between politicians, bureaucrats and pharmaceutical company in order to eliminate drug-induced diseases!

  • Opposition parties together hold rally demanding cancellation of medical-care system forcing the elderly to pay more

  • HISTORY
  • 1945 Tokyo air raid remembered

  • More people sue government for compensation for Tokyo Air Raid

  • AGRICULTURE
  • JCP publishes plan to rebuild Japan’s agriculture

  • editorial JCP proposal to revitalize agriculture

  • WOMEN
  • International Women’s Day celebrated in Tokyo

  • CIVIL RIGHTS
  • ‘Article 9 Association’ holds a speech assembly



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