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  • 50,000 citizens near Diet building shout out for PM Abe to resign

    Amid growing public anger against the Abe government which is tainted with a pair of school-related scandals and the Self-Defense Force cover-up scandal, 50,000 citizens filled the streets in front of the Diet building, shouting in chorus, “Resign, PM Abe!”

  • editorial  Unilateral attack on Syria will only complicate situation further

    The United States, Britain, and France on April 14 JST carried out military attacks on several R&D facilities and military sites in Syria. The three countries’ act will not help solve the Syria crisis but may add fuel to the civil war.

  • Notes taken by Ehime Pref. official: Kake Gakuen new faculty is matter of interest to Prime Minister

    Akahata recently obtained notes which suggest the fact that the school corporation Kake Gakuen had received a strong boost from the PM Office for the establishment of a new veterinary school as "a matter concerning the Prime Minister".

  • POLITICS
  • Notes taken by Ehime Pref. official: Kake Gakuen new faculty is matter of interest to Prime Minister

  • 50,000 citizens near Diet building shout out for PM Abe to resign

  • Onus of proof over school scandals lies with gov't: JCP Miyamoto

  • Osaka Ishin assembly persons use 46 million yen in taxes for luxurious casino trips

  • Daily logs on SDF mission in Iraq: Battles escalated

  • JCP Takeda in Diet brings up ICAPP regarding Japan’s diplomacy

  • US FORCES
  • US military parachute falls on junior high school grounds in Tokyo

  • US soldier in Okinawa sentenced to 4 years in prison for drunken driving accident that resulted in fatal casualty

  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • METI head promises JCP to abolish program criticized for causing state interference in school education

  • Sports organization works on ensuring law's stipulation, 'sport is human right'

  • JCP Koike demands dismissal of financial ministry's top bureaucrat over sexual harassment allegations

  • Shinto priest stands firm against Shinto association’s move to revise Article 9

  • ECONOMY
  • JCP Kami: Japan should refuse negotiations for Japan-US FTA

  • WORLD
  • editorial Unilateral attack on Syria will only complicate situation further

  • JCP
  • This week’s JCP international activities

  • JCP protests against military attacks on Syria staged by the US, Britain, and France



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