Japan
Hiroshima memory stirs call for peace
August 7, 2013Peace activists joined many thousands of similar gatherings worldwide to remember the horror of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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Japanese Communists may emerge as main opposition to “Abenomics”
July 26, 2013International headlines have trumpeted Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's decisive win in Japan's upper house election July 21, but the election results indicate the potential defeat of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's economic and constitutional agenda.
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Japanese workers fight Sony “downsizing room”
April 19, 2013In Japan, large corporations are using "downsizing rooms" as a humiliating pressure tactic to force their employees to quit their jobs.
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Unions oppose letting Japan into trade pact
April 18, 2013The Steelworkers, the Autoworkers and the AFL-CIO formally oppose letting Japan join talks on the latest controversial "free trade" treaty, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Japan’s right: going nuke?
October 17, 2012Behind the current impasse over five tiny specks of land in the East China Sea is an influential right-wing movement in Japan.
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