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  • Gov’t should stop harsh collection of scholarship loans: JCP Miyamoto

    Japanese Communist Party representative Miyamoto Takeshi requested the government to create a grant-type scholarship system without delay by presenting examples of harsh scholarship loan collection tactics used by a government-funded organization.

  • JCP gets 1st assembly seat in conservative town of Yamagata

    The Japanese Communist Party has successfully sent its first ever representative to the local assembly of a conservative town in Yamagata Prefecture, known as the hometown of two former Lower House members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

  • Hard to evacuate residents living within 30km-zone in nuclear accident

    Most of the 21 prefectures in designated evacuation zones have recently drawn up an evacuation plan in the event of a nuclear accident, but they are all worrying about how to evacuate their residents to safer areas.

  • POLITICS
  • Courts rule vote-value disparities in latest general election unconstitutional

  • Okinawa assembly adopts resolution protesting the day of ‘restoration of Japan’s sovereignty’

  • PM has dinners with heads of press to gain media support?

  • JRP includes constitutional revision in its new program

  • US FORCES
  • Tokyoites again sue for noise pollution by US military aircraft

  • US marines trespass on public areas in Okinawa

  • Higashi-Fuji residents join forces to block Osprey deployment

  • LABOR
  • Part-time teachers at universities fight back against 5-year contract limit

  • JCP
  • Ogata meets with CPV official

  • WELFARE
  • JCP Dietman talks with groups against child poverty

  • Tokyo turns down parents’ call for more authorized childcare centers

  • 58 died from delay in seeking medical care due to economic reason

  • NUCLEAR CRISIS
  • Hard to evacuate residents living within 30km-zone in nuclear accident

  • Ehime youth forms anti-Ikata NPP group

  • Power company gives up building nuclear power plant

  • HISTORY
  • Kyoto assembly calls for early resolution of ‘comfort women’ issue

  • EDUCATION
  • Gov’t should stop harsh collection of scholarship loans: JCP Miyamoto

  • Gov’t textbook screening makes many revised descriptions vague

  • ELECTION
  • JCP gets 1st assembly seat in conservative town of Yamagata

  • TOKYO
  • Inose’s first budget bill approved

  • CIVIL RIGHTS
  • State appeals court decision allowing adult wards to recover voting right

  • Lawyers request that police control violent behavior toward foreign residents

  • Wartime Tsushima-Maru tragedy victims seek state compensation in court

  • ARTS AND SPORTS
  • Cruel coaching not good for sports

  • Tokyo’s Shibuya ward calls for dance regulation to be revised



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