Japan Press Weekly

Large corporations close plants after accepting subsidies from local gov’t

Large corporations across Japan are shutting down or selling their factories after receiving generous financial support from local governments. This delivers a heavy blow to the local employment situation and economies.

  Japan needs closer ties with East Asia, not with US and TPP editorial (excerpts)

Prime Minister Kan Naoto at the World Economic Forum in Davos said that Japan will reach a decision in regard to joining the TPP free-trade pact by June as well as placed emphasis on the important role of the Japan-U.S. alliance. The linkage he made between the TPP and the bilateral alliance clearly reveals what the TPP is all about.

Shii: Gov’t should defend life and safety of public

In the House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on February 2, JCP Chair Shii Kazuo urged the government to change its policy toward protecting people’s livelihoods and their safety. He took up the issues of the dismissals of employees at the Japan Airlines (JAL), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade pact, and the overly high national health insurance premiums.

Your Party’s policy goes even further than LDP structural reform policy

Shii: Gov’t should defend life and safety of public

JAL Inamori: founder of two-party system for ‘safe’ business interests Akahata, ‘current’ column

DPJ mired in Ozawa’s scandal

Business circles call for constitutional revision

22,000 Okinawans to join lawsuit on US base noise

State continues forcible construction of US helipads in Okinawa

US Marines deployed in Okinawa in order to take prompt action in Western Pacific region: US documents

Okinawa saddled with increased military burden

Ex-Honda worker fighting in court

My husband’s suicide was work-related: wife of a teacher

Gov’t must push major firms to hire more college graduates: JCP

Gov’t downsizes support for SMEs

TPP is for stronger Japan-US ties: Japan and US think-tanks

 Japan needs closer ties with East Asia, not with US and TPP editorial (excerpts)

Large corporations close plants after accepting subsidies from local gov’t

Shii talks with Iraqi ambassador

The visually challenged call for safer train platforms

Use budget to achieve smaller class size, not for US forces: JCP

More local gov’ts seize residents’ properties to collect health insurance premiums

Successor of progressive administration elected as mayor in Iwate