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January 27, 2012
Japan Press Weekly No. 2753
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IN THIS ISSUE
Workers kick off 2012 Spring Struggle
http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=2542
Unions of the 2012 People’s Spring Struggle Joint Committee on January 17 kicked off this year’s spring wage offensive calling for expansion of domestic demand through a wage increase and putting a halt to a consumption tax hike.
Most of Japan’s payments for USMC relocation plan to Guam remain unspent
http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=2540
Most of the over 830 million dollars the Japanese government paid to the United States to transfer a part of the U.S. Marine Corps units from Okinawa to Guam remains unspent. Japan’s payments even earned 3.81 million dollars in interest.
After 17 years, Hanshin-Awaji quake victims still suffering
http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=2539
It has been 17 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that caused 6,434 deaths and the partial or complete destruction of 470 thousand houses. As the 17-year long struggle of quake victims suggests, restoring livelihoods and jobs must come first in any post- reconstruction process.
POLITICS
* DPJ moves to cut proportional representation seats by 80
* Japan-U.S. military alliance lies behind a secret protection bill
* Japan starts prior consultation on participation in TPP
* Panel proposes ‘peace purpose only’ provision be deleted from space law
* Diet seat cuts must not be used as tool for tax hike
* Conservative critics start praising PM Noda
* Local papers criticize proposal to eliminate 80 Diet seats
* LDP unable to show itself to be different from DPJ
* Many assemblies in Akita come out against consumption tax hike
* Only local business leaders invited to gov’t ‘public’ meetings on tax reform
NUCLEAR CRISIS
* Noda Cabinet promoting NPP resumption
* Over 110,000 signatures for decommissioning of Hamaoka NPP submitted
WELL-BEING
* After 17 years, Hanshin-Awaji quake victims still suffering
US FORCES
* Most of Japan’s payments for USMC relocation plan to Guam remain unspent
LABOR
* Unionized school teachers win retraction of disciplinary action
* Workers kick off 2012 Spring Struggle
* Receiving gov’t grants, large firms hire temps on fixed terms
* Only 4% utilization of corporate internal reserves will create 4.66 million new jobs
* Keidanren refuses to consider wage hike demands
WORLD
* Efforts needed to peacefully solve alleged Iranian nuclear issue
JCP
* JCP vice chair meets with PLO official
* This week’s JCP international activities
