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  • Antinuke world conference in Nagasaki calls for proceeding to next stage after the adoption of UN treaty

    The 2017 World Conference against A and H Bombs on August 7 began in Nagasaki City with 6,000 people, including Hibakusha, UN and government representatives, and overseas delegates, taking part.

  • 2017 World Conference in Hiroshima resolves to put to use UN treaty calling for total elimination of nuclear weapons

    The 2017 World Conference against A and H Bombs related events in Hiroshima ended on August 6 with a resolution to utilize the fact that the first ever UN treaty making nuclear weapons illegal was adopted as a tool to achieve their total elimination.

  • JCP Koike: In a phrase, it’s a ‘scandal cover-up Cabinet’

    JCP Secretariat Head Koike Akira said that he regards the reshuffled Cabinet as a Cabinet formed to divert public attention from the ongoing allegations by removing the scandal-tainted ministers in question.

  • POLITICS
  • JCP Koike: In a phrase, it’s a ‘scandal cover-up Cabinet’

  • Abe reshuffles his Cabinet without reflecting on scandals

  • More than half of reshuffled Abe Cabinet members belong to pro-Yasukuni parliamentarians’ group

  • Ministers’ 1st press conferences confirm Abe’s intent to cover up scandals through Cabinet shake-up

  • US FORCES
  • US Forces to use mobile cluster bomb launchers 1st time ever in joint drills with SDF

  • JCP in Hokkaido Assembly urges governor not to accept Osprey flight drills

  • editorial Latest crash verifies there is no place for defective US Osprey in Japan

  • Okinawa presses state gov’t to halt Osprey flights

  • JCP demands halt to Osprey flight drills in response to latest crash in Australia

  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • Secure labor adequate to meet Olympic stadium’s construction deadline: JCP

  • JCP to Tokyo governor: Metropolis-owned Olympic venues should be constructed under decent working conditions

  • Bikini H-bomb test victims urge Fisheries Minister to respond to their compensation demand

  • Civil group urges Education Ministry to improve ‘grant-type’ scholarship program

  • editorial No municipality should be placed under gov’t pressure to accept disposal sites for nuclear waste

  • PEACE
  • 2017 World Conference in Hiroshima resolves to put to use UN treaty calling for total elimination of nuclear weapons

  • Antinuke world conference in Nagasaki calls for proceeding to next stage after the adoption of UN treaty

  • ECONOMY
  • Hollowing out of domestic SMEs accelerated

  • PEACE
  • Learning about inhumanity of nuclear weapons promotes realization of nuclear-free world

  • 2017 nationwide antinuke peace march arrives in Nagasaki



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