Japan
Japan’s prime minister resigns over U.S. base on Okinawa
June 3, 2010The prime minister of Japan resigns because of solid opposition throughout Japan to relocating a U.S. military base on Okinawa.
Read more90,000 protest U.S. base in Okinawa
April 27, 2010More than 90,000 people took to the streets in Okinawa, Japan, on April 25 to demand that a controversial U.S. military base be closed.
Read moreA-bomb survivors to hold exhibit in NYC in May
March 31, 2010Atomic bomb survivors from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, known as Hibakusha, will go to New York on the occasion of the NPT Review Conference in May and hold an A-bomb exhibition at the United Nations.
Read moreMyth of auto-giant Toyota
March 31, 2010Behind the recall is the "maximum rate of profit" law of capitalist production, Japan's Akahata newspaper exposes.
Read moreThe background behind Toyota recall
February 12, 2010The underlying cause, says a Japanese labor researcher, is the company's stress on "low cost" in pursuit of high profits, at the expense of its workers and consumer safety.
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