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  • editorial  Colombia’s cross-border attack into Ecuador

    A week after Colombia’s cross-border attack into Ecuador, the tension that increased in the area subsided thanks to regional efforts to settle the matter diplomatically.

  • Government must propose a BOJ governor candidate acceptable to opposition parties: JCP Shii

    Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said, “Since the BOJ governor’s responsibility is to steer the nation’s monetary policy, the government should nominate a candidate who can be acceptable to opposition parties.”

  • No respect for elderly, no future –JCP in Diet criticizes government

    At a House of Councilors Budget Committee meeting on March 14, Japanese Communist Party representative Koike Akira demanded that the new medical system that will put the elderly at a severe disadvantage be revoked.

  • POLITICS
  • Transport minister promises to stop research for 6 highway-bridges

  • US FORCES
  • Six lawyers’ groups together protest against U.S. crimes

  • Japan’s ‘sympathy budgets’ include wages for bartenders at U.S. military bases

  • LABOR
  • Large corporations are greedy

  • Workers, small business operators, and farmers stage protests against tax increases

  • Union members take action throughout the country in protest against unacceptably small wage increase offers

  • Flight attendants fight for their freedom of speech

  • WORLD
  • editorial Colombia’s cross-border attack into Ecuador

  • JCP
  • JCP Chair Shii meets Vietnam National Assembly Chair Trong

  • WELFARE
  • No respect for elderly, no future –JCP in Diet criticizes government

  • FINANCE
  • editorial Muto should not be appointed central bank governor

  • Government must propose a BOJ governor candidate acceptable to opposition parties: JCP Shii

  • ANTI-N-ARMS
  • Hibakusha lobby the JCP chair for recognition of having A-bomb related diseases

  • Hibakusha says they cannot accept new government standards for recognizing patients with diseases caused by A-bombing

  • AGRICULTURE
  • JCP Chair Shii explains JCP agriculture revitalization plan to major agricultural organizations

  • TOKYO
  • Governor Ishihara should be held responsible for failure of ShinGinko Tokyo: JCP

  • Defective bank plan led to large amounts of bad loans

  • CIVIL RIGHTS
  • High Court dismisses elementary school teachers’ appeal over hoisting Hinomaru flag

  • editorial Stop the illegal SDF surveillance of the public

  • More than half of Tosashimizu City population have signed call for defense of Article 9

  • Supreme Court dismisses appeal to clear five in ‘Yokohama Incident’

  • ENVIRONMENT
  • Japan fails to drum up support for its proposal on global warming



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