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  • POLITICS
  • Finance minister urged to reconsider consumption tax hike

  • JCP Koike criticizes government panel’s cuts in tax spending

  • editorial Shii says it’s time for government to end subservience to the U.S.

  • DPJ cabinet uses secret fund, too

  • JCP protests DPJ for undemocratic steering of Diet

  • editorial Government budget screening cuts even things people need - Akahata editorial (excerpts)

  • Lawyers criticize cuts in number of proportional representation seats

  • Young researchers criticize budget-slashing measures in science technologies

  • editorial Give up new base construction in Okinawa! - Akahata editorial

  • DYLJ holds its 34th Congress

  • US FORCES
  • U.S. military personnel in private vehicles should be charged tolls to use expressways

  • Area of U.S. military bases in Japan has doubled since 1980

  • LABOR
  • Government urged to extend term of unemployment benefits

  • Zenroren celebrates its 20th anniversary

  • National group set up to help establish basic rights of contingent workers

  • ECONOMY
  • JCP Kami demands cancellation of FTA negotiations with Australia and the U.S.

  • Wages paid to wives in family-run businesses be tax-deductible expense

  • JCP
  • JCP Chair Shii and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang hold talks

  • WELFARE
  • JCP calls for resumption of additional benefits for elderly

  • Fathers with dependent children also seek child-rearing allowances

  • DPJ accepts closure of three metropolitan children’s hospitals

  • Government urged to make high schools tuition-free without delay

  • Children’s deaths in childcare centers rapidly increase

  • ANTI-N-ARMS
  • Japan Gensuikyo gives speech at International Peace Bureau



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