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  • 80% of all petition signatures submitted by JCP to Diet

    During the extraordinary Diet session, about 4.55 million petition signatures or 79% of the total of 5.78 million signatures were submitted to the Diet via the Japanese Communist Party.

  • Evacuees from Fukushima nuclear accident experiencing breakup of families

    Evacuees are increasingly isolated from society. It is necessary to improve their situations at places where they have been evacuated and establish a system to provide support.

  • Business and industrial circles lobby for resumption of N-power generation

    Members of energy-related advisory panels to the government are moving against public opinion calling for a halt to nuclear power generation and are pushing for further development of nuclear energy.

  • POLITICS
  • Business and industrial circles lobby for resumption of N-power generation

  • Half of Yanba dam-related contracts go to ‘Amakudari’ firms

  • editorial Noda’s tax hike plan is totally irrational

  • Gov’t decides on 10% consumption tax in 2015

  • JCP
  • 80% of all petition signatures submitted by JCP to Diet

  • JCP kicks off 2012 political campaign

  • WELFARE
  • High prescription drug prices in Japan

  • NUCLEAR CRISIS
  • TEPCO executives involved in NPP exports

  • OKINAWA
  • Ginowan mayoral election candidate: Get Futenma base site returned from US

  • GREAT EAST JAPAN DISASTER
  • Evacuees from Fukushima nuclear accident experiencing breakup of families

  • 3.11 survivors suffer from mental distress



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