Japan Press Weekly

Over 560,000 Hibakusha Appeal signatures submitted to UN

The representatives of groups promoting a Hibakusha-led signature campaign held a news conference in Tokyo and announced that they submitted to the UN 564,240 signatures calling for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Dentsu worker’s suicide recognized as work-related

A labor standards inspection office in Tokyo acknowledged that the suicide of a 24-year-old female worker at Japan’s major advertising agency Dentsu as work-related, Akahata reported.

  Koike grills key cabinet ministers over ‘blank receipt’ scandals

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira at an Upper House Budget Committee meeting revealed political money scandals involving Abe Cabinet members. This latest revelation has caused a sensation among the general public.

4 opposition parties field joint candidates in Lower House by-elections

Defense Minister: move budget from child allowance to military buildup

Tokyo’s ward assembly calls for halt to GSDF dispatch to South Sudan

Number of signatures for repealing war legislation reaches 15.8 million

 Koike grills key cabinet ministers over ‘blank receipt’ scandals

US forces unilaterally resumes Harrier flights without determining cause of crash

Dentsu worker’s suicide recognized as work-related

Gov’t inability to respond coherently revealed by JCP Koike’s questioning in Diet

JCP Motomura urges gov’t to abandon money-consuming maglev train project

Another scandal over Toyosu market issue revealed

JCP Tokyo calls for cancellation of Tsukiji fish market relocation to Toyosu

JCP Tokyo Assemblyperson raises question of bid rigging allegation over Toyosu market project

Gov’t should immediately focus on ratification of Paris Agreement rather than TPP: JCP Kokuta

Ex-Osaka mayor allows his political party to receive state subsidies while slashing cultural budgets

Over 560,000 Hibakusha Appeal signatures submitted to UN