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  • 1953 Japan-US secret deal condones 80% of crimes committed by US military personnel in Japan

    Only 17.2% of U.S. military personnel who committed crimes last year in Japan were indicted and the remaining 80% were not indicted.

  • We will never extinguish anti-base 'All Okinawa' flame: Okinawans on the death of Gov. Onaga

    Okinawa Governor Onaga Takeshi, a man who held firm to his conviction to resist the construction of a U.S. base in Henoko in Okinawa's Nago City, died of pancreatic cancer. He was the symbol of an "All Okinawa" bond.

  • UN chief declares his willingness to send no-nuke message to the world in collaboration with Hibakusha

    UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Nagasaki City expressed his solidarity with the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and said that he will send an antinuke message to the world jointly with Hibakusha.

  • POLITICS
  • We will never extinguish anti-base 'All Okinawa' flame: Okinawans on the death of Gov. Onaga

  • 70K Okinawans in rally mourn Onaga’s death with renewed determination to block Henoko base construction

  • Abe spurs his party to submit its draft constitution to Diet this fall

  • US FORCES
  • 1953 Japan-US secret deal condones 80% of crimes committed by US military personnel in Japan

  • LABOR
  • Record high of 44.6 billion yen paid in back pay for overtime in 2017

  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • Medical workers’ union protests against medical university’s discrimination against women

  • University discriminating against women received 80 million yen in subsidies for women’s careers support

  • Reactor under construction in Shimane will undergo approval process

  • What made Fukushima residents accept nuclear power plant?

  • PEACE
  • UN chief declares his willingness to send no-nuke message to the world in collaboration with Hibakusha

  • ECONOMY
  • editorial 1st round of FFR trade talks ends, Japan should rebuff unfair demands from US

  • PEACE
  • Nagasaki mayor in peace ceremony urges Japanese government to support antinuke UN treaty

  • Nagasaki Hibakusha urge Abe to join UN nuclear weapons ban treaty



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