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  • ‘Black part-time jobs’ exploit students

    More and more college students work part-time under illegal working conditions, the so-called “black part-time jobs”, being burdened with excessive responsibilities and assigned quotas the same as permanent employees.

  • Abe gov’t proposes new criteria to justify SDF dispatch to battlefronts

    The Abe government on June 6 presented to the ruling parties three new criteria as an excuse for dispatching Japan’s Self-Defense Forces into war zones.

  • No to restart of reactors near active volcanos: JCP Kyushu

    The Japanese Communist Party on June 3 called on Kyushu Electric Power Company to refrain from restarting its Sendai and Genkai nuclear power plants located near active volcanos.
  • POLITICS

  • Where are ‘third pole’ political forces going?

  • No to restart of reactors near active volcanos: JCP Kyushu

  • editorial Abe gov’t presents conditions for sending SDF to combat zones

  • Fukushima municipalities resolve to create a prefecture without nuclear power

  • High court rejects state appeal against court-imposed fine over Isahaya Bay dike

  • Abe gov’t proposes new criteria to justify SDF dispatch to battlefronts

  • SDF’s mine sweeping operation is unacceptable under Constitution: JCP Inoue
  • US FORCES

  • JCP local assembly members urge state to reduce noise pollution near US Atsugi base

  • US Navy copter drops a flashlight in flight

  • US C-130 transport aircraft loses a metal part

  • USMC allows Okinawan children to hold fake guns in open-base event
  • LABOR

  • High court rejects ex-JAL CAs’ appeal against their unfair dismissals

  • High court approves unfair dismissal of JAL pilots

  • Court recognizes NHK independent contractor as a worker under the Labor Contract Act

  • ‘Black part-time jobs’ exploit students
  • SDF

  • SDF holds religious ceremony ignoring principle of separation between religion and state

  • SDF top officials in uniform attend ceremony at ‘Yasukuni’ in Hokkaido

  • SDF secretly studied how to wage war abroad
  • ECONOMY

  • Personal consumption drops after sales tax is raised to 8%

  • Corporations accelerate accumulation of internal reserves

  • Nissan Motor pays only 10.9% in corporate taxes and not the 35% normally imposed
  • JCP

  • This week’s JCP international activities
  • WELFARE

  • Osaka drives welfare applicants away using illegal methods: anti-poverty group
  • ENVIRONMENT

  • Local residents and JCP near steel plant join hands to fight for fresh air


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