Japan
The potential merger of two steel industry titans has environmentalists worried
September 19, 2024It’s already possible to produce steel in a more climate-friendly way, but neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon Steel seems ready to adapt.
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Japanese Communists defend decision excluding Israel from atomic bomb peace ceremony
August 15, 2024Israel’s military assault in Gaza is deeply unpopular in Japan, where the majority of people are strongly anti-war.
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Daily Worker 1945: Atomic terror unleashed on Hiroshima
August 6, 2024Within days of the bombing, the CPUSA’s William Z. Foster was warning that capitalism couldn’t be trusted with atomic power.
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Japan aims to become major arms exporter; Communists slam government
April 5, 2024The Japanese government is following “merchants of death” logic, says Communist Party.
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Japan’s first strike in decades: Tokyo department store workers hit the picket lines
September 1, 2023They’re protesting the sale of their employer, the Sogo & Seibu department store, to a U.S. private equity fund.
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