Japan Press Weekly No. 2786
September 28, 2012
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IN THIS ISSUE
Solve Senkaku issue through diplomatic negotiations: Shii talks with China’s ambassador
http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=4133
Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo held talks with Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo and called for the need to solve the issue of the Senkaku Islands through calm and rational diplomatic negotiations.
US should stop developing new type of nuclear weapons
http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=4134
U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed soon after he was elected that he would seek to achieve “a world free of nuclear weapons”. However, he is now putting forward a policy that allows the U.S. to keep possessing “safe, reliable, and efficient” nuclear weapons as long as nuclear weapons exist in the world.
Not the existing political parties but the ‘two major parties’ are to blame
http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=4135
Can we no longer rely on existing political parties? The answer is “Yes.” The one to blame is not the established parties but the “two major party system” consisting of the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party.
POLITICS
* Not the existing political parties but the ‘two major parties’ are to blame
* All 5 LDP presidential candidates are money tainted
* Noda reelected as DPJ leader
* Political parties’ attitudes toward TPP
US FORCES
* Gov’t safety declaration on Osprey arouses people’s anger
* US Osprey training not conducted in US
* Osprey to fly over habitats of endangered species
* Japan-US secret pact lies behind Osprey deployment
* Local citizens protest US Ospreys’ test flights
NUCLEAR CRISIS
* Clean-up of radioactivity slow in Fukushima
* Regulations for NPPs had no teeth: NSC head
* Noda Cabinet postpones approving ‘zero’-nuclear policy
* New nuclear regulation agency lined with nuclear promoters
TERRITORIAL ISSUE
* JCP urges gov’t to settle Senkaku dispute through diplomacy
* Solve Senkaku issue through diplomatic negotiations: Shii talks with China’s ambassador
WELL-BEING
* Majority prefers gov’t to focus on relief for people in need of public assistance
ANTI-N-ARMS
* US nuclear test arouses protests from various organizations
* US should stop developing new type of nuclear weapons
JCP
* Video streaming website features JCP on live program
* This week’s JCP international activities
