July 4, 2025

Japan Press Weekly No. 3415

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/

IN THIS ISSUE

Shii talks with Iranian ambassador

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15817

JCP Central Committee Chair Shii received a visit from Iranian Ambassador to Japan Peiman Seadat at the JCP head office in Tokyo, and exchanged views on the situation associated with military attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel.

Hibakusha angry at President Trump likening US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to 1945 A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15818

Japanese A-bomb survivors voiced their outrage over U.S. President Trump's remarks equating the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities with the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Unified opposition candidates to be put up in 17 single-seat districts in upcoming Upper House election

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15819

JCP Secretariat Head Koike announced that the JCP will withdraw its candidates in selected districts and work hard for a victory of unified opposition candidates in 17 single-seat constituencies.

POLITICS

Gov't kept last summer's joint Japan-US-Australia military exercise secret https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15820

JCP Yamazoe calls for 18-year-olds to have right to run for office

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15821

Need is to make diplomatic efforts to prevent 'Taiwan contingency', not construct shelters on Sakishima Islands

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15822

Unified opposition candidates to be put up in 17 single-seat districts in upcoming Upper House election

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15819

US FORCES

310 criminal cases involving US military personnel in Japan not taken to court

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15823

PEACE

Hibakusha angry at President Trump likening US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to 1945 A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15818

Hiroshima Hibakusha protest Trump's 'A-bombings ended war' remarks

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15824

SOCIAL ISSUE

US gov't will quadruple nuclear energy production by 2050

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15825

Scholars' group set up to promote campaign for increasing number of childcare workers

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15826

Supreme Court: Cuts in public assistance payments are unconstitutional

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15827

JCP

Shii talks with Iranian ambassador

https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15817