Japan Press Weekly

Group formed to support blackmailed university regarding ‘comfort women’ Asahi reports

University professors and teaching staff, writers, and journalists formed a group to support a university receiving bomb threats connected to Asahi Shimbun reports on the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system.

Yamashita: Abe remarks give away his real intention to revise Kono Statement

JCP Secretariat Head Yamashita said that PM Abe wants to deny the 1993 Chief Cabinet Secretary Kono Yohei’s statement recognizing that the Japanese Imperial Army coerced women into sex slavery.

Shii criticizes Abe’s security policy for endangering country

JCP Chair Shii, during the House of Representatives plenary session, used his question time to urge PM Abe to retract the Cabinet decision to lift the ban on Japan’s use of the collective self-defense right.

Shii criticizes Abe’s security policy for endangering country

Yamashita: Abe remarks give away his real intention to revise Kono Statement

 Abe gov’t should abandon its plan to further raise rate of sales tax

Shii: Gov’t should initiate policy shift to improve people’s lives

LDP posing a challenge to int’l opinion on ‘comfort women’ issue

Yamashita demands withdrawal of revision of Worker Dispatch Law, increase in support for SMEs

Abe’s remark on easing US base burden on Okinawa is deceitful

Local residents don’t want US military base to be built in Kyoto

PM Abe defies overwhelming majority of Okinawans

US Ospreys have had their own way for two years

 Abe should renounce his attempt to increase contingent employment

Group formed to support blackmailed university regarding ‘comfort women’ Asahi reports

Stop and think if maglev Shinkansen will really enrich our lives

Local assemblies near Sendai NPP demand to be consulted regarding reactivation

Utilities refuse to buy electricity from renewable energy firms

Fukushima Prefectural Assembly protests utility’s reluctance to accept renewable energy

JCP calls for improvement in monitoring of volcanoes

Lawyers hold rally to oppose bill to legalize casinos

Ex-senior SDF official in court testifies on SDF monitoring of people

Supreme Court unfairly denies extra benefits for elderly on welfare

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