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  • JCP Ogata urges CPC to retract its ADIZ

    Japanese Communist Party Vice Chair Ogata Yasuo on December 12 urged a delegation of the Communist Party of China to retract the air-defense identification zone (ADIZ) that the Chinese government designated over the East China Sea.

  • Police encouraged internal spying in nuclear energy agency

    The security police had encouraged a nuclear energy-related organization to have its workers spy on colleagues who were members of the Japanese Communist Party, revealed Akahata recently.

  • Okinawans launch sit-in against landfill for US base construction

    Okinawan residents on December 16 launched a sit-in in front of the prefectural government office calling on the governor to turn down the national government’s request for an approval to reclaim waters off Nago City in order to build a new U.S. base.
  • POLITICS

  • Secrets law faces increasing number of protests from scholars

  • Gov’t plans to abolish three principles banning arms exports

  • Gov’t seeks to impose severe penalties for conspiracy

  • JRP in Osaka shocked at internal party division
  • US FORCES

  • US sailor arrested for not paying taxi fare

  • US military helicopter makes forced landing in Kanagawa
  • LABOR

  • Zenroren provides labor counseling service across Japan

  • PM’s panel will propose introduction of white-collar exemption

  • Ex-life insurance company worker wins compensation for power harassment

  • Parents sue home appliance chain for their son’s overwork suicide

  • Japan bar association holds rally to oppose relaxation of labor laws
  • ECONOMY

  • editorial TPP ignoring each country’s economic sovereignty is unacceptable

  • Pachinko machine vendor seeks to install casino in Miyazaki
  • JCP

  • Former JCP chair talks with Vietnamese poli-sci researchers

  • JCP Ogata urges CPC to retract its ADIZ

  • JCP Shii comments on execution of North Korean leader’s uncle

  • JCP-CPV theoretical exchange meeting begins
  • WELFARE

  • Pollution-induced disease patients call for continuation of free medical care

  • High court supports abolition of additional welfare benefits for elderly
  • NUCLEAR CRISIS

  • Fukushima farmers seek liability for damages from TEPCO

  • 1,800 citizens rally to oppose restart of Sendai NPP

  • Fukushima people form group to have all local nuclear reactors decommissioned
  • OKINAWA

  • Okinawa women say ‘No’ to reclamation of Henoko

  • Okinawans launch sit-in against landfill for US base construction
  • HISTORY

  • Historical facts refute attempts at sophism: Nanjing Massacre researcher

  • Nanjing Massacre survivor talks about her experiences
  • ANTI-N-ARMS

  • Hibakusha disappointed with new criteria
  • EDUCATION

  • Gov’t panel recommends control of education by power
  • CIVIL RIGHTS

  • Anti-conspiracy law will allow emergence of increase in police surveillance

  • Police encouraged internal spying in nuclear energy agency


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