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  • China's leadership still doesn't reflect on 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

    Asked by reporters about the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said, "The Tiananmen Square massacre is not just a thing of the past but is related to China's current problems."

  • Demonstrators in Tokyo and Osaka: Discrimination can happen to us, too

    In response to the "Black Lives Matter" movement spreading from the United States to the rest of the world, anti-racism demonstrations took place in Tokyo and Osaka.

  • All 7 JCP candidates win in Okinawa pref. assembly election

    All seven Japanese Communist Party candidates won in the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly election. Forces supportive of anti-base Governor Tamaki Denny won 25 seats in total, securing the majority in the 48-member assembly.

  • POLITICS
  • JCP issues urgent proposal on reopening of schools

  • JCP Shiokawa calls for lowering 10-trillion-yen reserves in supplementary budget

  • JCP releases proposal regarding ways to revive social and economic activities under continued coronavirus risk

  • Government compiles support measures covering a wide range of sports clubs

  • editorial Government should be accountable for corruption allegation regarding coronavirus-related subsidy program

  • US FORCES
  • US soldier and base worker in Okinawa indicted for armed robbery

  • LABOR
  • Non-regular workers account for half of coronavirus-caused dismissals

  • 110K signatures submitted for minimum wage hike and for demand to protect workers’ livelihoods from corona recession

  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • Demonstrators in Tokyo and Osaka: Discrimination can happen to us, too

  • Almost half of welfare facilities for disabled suffer loss in income due to corona crisis

  • editorial Let us work to create a society without racial discrimination through international solidarity

  • JCP opposes Education Ministry’s move to impose higher tuition on national university students

  • Opposition parties jointly propose bill to ban sexual harassment at work

  • National Institutes of Natural Sciences decides to refuse government subsidies for military research

  • JCP
  • All 7 JCP candidates win in Okinawa pref. assembly election

  • China's leadership still doesn't reflect on 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown



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