Japan Press Weekly

Japanese gov’t takes a professor who is denier of Nanjing Massacre to UNESCO meetings

The Japanese government has sent a scholar denying the Nanjing Massacre to UNESCO meetings where discussions on whether to add Nanjing Massacre-related materials to the Memory of the World Register list were being conducted.

Third-party organ blames LDP for pressuring NHK

A third-party organization in the broadcasting community which handles issues related to the ethics in journalism published a statement criticizing the Liberal Democratic Party for having put pressure on NHK in connection with one of its TV programs.

20 million signatures drive started to repeal war laws

The Japanese Communist Party carried out a street campaign near Shinjuku Station as an effort to promote the 20 million signatures drive which also began on this day with the aim of repealing the unconstitutional war legislation.

20 million signatures drive started to repeal war laws

Third-party organ blames LDP for pressuring NHK

Yamashita on Japan-ROK summit meeting: Japan should act based on resolution of Japanese and S. Korean parliamentarians’ unions

Okinawa files complaint against land minister’s decision on Henoko base construction

Japan & US agree to introduce permanent system for joint military operations

  ‘My Number’ system too dangerous for full-scale operation

‘My Number’ project-awarded companies gave 240 million yen in donations to LDP

US marine in Okinawa arrested for assaulting woman

Use of non-regular workers to cut labor costs clarified in government data

Japanese gov’t takes a professor who is denier of Nanjing Massacre to UNESCO meetings

Hibakusha exposed to ‘black rain’ file lawsuit seeking official certificate

 Faulty fast-breeder reactor ‘Monju’ should be dismantled

Earthenware and stoneware artifacts excavated in Henoko

Symposium on elimination of sexual violence held in Okinawa

Evacuation standard in case of radiation contamination from US nuclear ship to be tightened

Educational bodies voice opposition to reducing public school teachers

Small business owners in Fukushima urge TEPCO and gov’t to continue compensating for N-accident damage

Visually impaired urges gov’t to ensure railway stations have sufficient number of staff

Abenomics takes big bite out of public pension funds

Nobel prize-winning chemist calls for world free from nuclear weapons in scientists’ intetnational conference

Pugwash Conferences: Let Nagasaki be the last atom bombed city