Japan Press Weekly

  Establish a society with no ‘solitary deaths’

The rapid increase in the poverty rate in Japan lies behind a series of “deaths in solitude”. With job insecurity and cutbacks in public welfare programs increasing, it is becoming a tougher place to survive for people experiencing difficulties.

140,000 hold nationwide action opposing tax increase

On March 13, two days before the March 15 tax return deadline, a total of about 140,000 farmers, small business owners, and pensioners held rallies and demonstrations at 540 locations throughout Japan in protest against Prime Minister Noda’s plan to submit a bill to increase the consumption tax rate to the Diet by the end of the month.

Workers at Fukushima nuclear plant do not receive hazardous duty pay

Hazardous duty pay has not been provided to workers at the bottom of the multi-layered subcontract system while they are battling to end the nuclear crisis at TEPCO’s Fukushima plant.

‘Sympathy budget’ maintained using ‘eco-friendly’ rhetoric

Residents protest against building more houses for US forces

US Marines should go home

16,000 US Marines in Okinawa - largest number since 2001

Yamaguchi assembly does not want US Marines deployed there

Former JAL subsidiary workers launch court battle to win back jobs

Zenroren holds day of action demanding pay raise

140,000 hold nationwide action opposing tax increase

 Gov’t should stop promoting prior negotiations for TPP

Gov’t can’t promise to protect Japanese rice from TPP

 Establish a society with no ‘solitary deaths’

546 evacuated families file complaint to receive TEPCO compensation

Most of complaints filed for TEPCO compensation unsettled

Workers at Fukushima nuclear plant do not receive hazardous duty pay

Residents file injunction against certification of Oi NPP inspection completion

Residents request Fukui gov’t to not approve NPP restart

Residents launch campaign to shut down Onagawa nuclear plant

Takae resident ‘obstructs’ US helipads construction: court

Rightist gangsters intimidate sit-in protesters in Okinawa

Osaka school principal checked if teachers sing ‘Kimigayo’

100,000 signatures opposing Osaka governor’s attempt to control education submitted

JCP: Tokyo must spend more on disaster prevention

Tokyo governor willing to have N-plant built in Tokyo Bay

Police collect personal data on students from Islamic nations

Kyoto residents act against regulations against dancing

JCP Urges DPRK to Cancel “Rocket” Launch Plan - the DPRK should comply with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and go back to the Six-Party Talks joint statement