Japan Press Weekly

Video goes viral showing Tamura urging gov’t to improve anti-epidemic measures in Diet last year

Amid growing concern over the new coronavirus pandemic, a video has gone viral where JCP Vice Chair Tamura at a Diet meeting criticized the government for cutting the number of staff and the budget of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Shii expresses his strong condemnation of Abe’s unjust attack on JCP at Lower House plenary session

JCP Chair Shii, regarding PM Abe’s response to a Nippon Ishin no Kai party lawmaker’s anti-JCP questions, said that the JCP has never had an official policy of engaging in “terroristic, destructive activities” and never carried out such a policy.

Shii speaks on revised-JCP Program and coalition gov't in magazine interview

JCP Chair Shii in a magazine interview said, "What's going on in China has nothing to do with socialism. There is no longer a rationale for us to see China as a country seeking socialism, so we decided to clarify in our Program how we view China."

Rightists and constitutional revisionists seek to impose 'national origin myth' in disregard of historical facts

Most nursing-care facilities force workers to work two shifts

Unionized media workers rally to oppose TV Asahi’s unfair dismissal of temporary workers

Non-regular postal workers sue Japan Post for its discriminatory treatment

Central labor authority orders Emirates Airlines to reinstate 3 dismissed workers

Aviation workers exchange views on ways to improve working conditions

Video goes viral showing Tamura urging gov’t to improve anti-epidemic measures in Diet last year

Koike speaks to Japanese and South Korean journalists

JCP in a city in Fukuoka Pref. combat rightwing lawmaker's hate speech

Workshops for disabled demand continuation of gov’t subsidy for facility meals

Japanese gov’t under criticism over its poor handling of new coronavirus outbreak

Mayors against nuclear power oppose ocean release of radioactive water

Koike: GDP drop caused by consumption tax hike to 10%

Shii speaks on revised-JCP Program and coalition gov't in magazine interview

Shii expresses his strong condemnation of Abe’s unjust attack on JCP at Lower House plenary session