Japan Press Weekly

JCP Chair Shii encourages union leaders to fight mass layoffs using existing laws

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo emphasized the importance of invoking the current laws in fighting mass layoffs without waiting for the Worker Dispatch Law to be revised.

  Radical change is required to get out of Japan’s minus growth of 12.7%

The government should immediately stop the business community from arrogantly throwing people’s livelihoods and the country’s economy into a vicious circle. The need is for the government to thoroughly amend the worn-out policy of making money from exports or foreign demand at the expense of the household economy.

In no sense was postal services privatization a ‘reform’: JCP Koike

On an NHK “Sunday Debate” program aired on February 15, Japanese Communist Party Policy Commission Chair Koike Akira criticized the government in connection with discord within the cabinet over the issue of the privatization of the postal services.

JCP asks other parties to cooperate to force corporate heads to testify in Diet

JCP proposes redrafting national budget

 Suspicions deepen on sale of Kanpo no Yado inns

In no sense was postal services privatization a ‘reform’: JCP Koike

Serious crimes by U.S. soldiers increasing in Okinawa

Peace organizations protest against U.S. destroyer’s collision with private boat

JCP Chair Shii encourages union leaders to fight mass layoffs using existing laws

Unionists hold rally demanding that Toyota secure jobs for workers and suppliers

Symposium held to discuss ways to prevent mass dismissals of contingent workers

Honda contingent workers form a labor union

 Radical change is required to get out of Japan’s minus growth of 12.7%

Rallies held against ‘National Foundation Day’

World Conference against A & H Bombs to be held as historical event toward NPT Review Conference

Hibakusha say they want to relate to President Obama their tragic stories

JCP issues Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election policy

JCP criticizes Tokyo’s bid for 2016 Games

Consultancy firm president and others involved in construction of major Canon plants arrested for avoiding taxes

Arrested consultancy firm president took 500 million yen in slush funds from Kajima Corp

Arrested suspect boasted of his pull with Canon President Mitarai

 It’s time for Japan to fulfill its international responsibility to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions