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In Japan, part-time and temporary workers account for nearly 40% of the workforce but have historically been ignored by the country’s trade unions. This spring, 16 unions came together to demand a collective wage increase for nonregular workers.
The Spring Offensive, an annual campaign in which (...)
In May last year 28 German intellectuals published an open letter in the feminist journal Emma calling on Chancellor Gerhard Scholz to refrain from sending heavy weapons to Ukraine, and to help negotiate a ceasefire in the Russo-Ukrainian war. The letter expressed anti-war convictions dear to (...)
Delivery workers in Japan are fed up with Amazon Japan’s practices that make accidents and injuries more likely by increasing delivery volume and speed. They are now organising unions to take on Amazon. Here is their story.
In his 40s, Susumu Adachi (not his real name) has been delivering for (...)
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English
The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a “new way of living”, according to a (...)
The nation’s largest trade union group announced it would not support a specific political party in the Upper House poll this summer, a decision that will have a huge impact on the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s electoral strategy.
Ever since it was formed in 1989, (...)
On July 1st, 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its hundredth anniversary, and duly received congratulatory messages from political leaders and parties around the world. Japan was no exception. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) vice-secretary, Nikai Toshihiro, a veteran (...)
Century-old body shuns Beijing’s ’hegemonism’ in echo of clash with Soviets
TOKYO — Which of Japan’s political parties has the longest history? The answer may come as a surprise.
It is not the Liberal Democratic Party, for all its decades in power, but the Japanese Communist Party.
More than (...)
What kinds of Asianist tendencies, or attitudes towards Asia, are visible in the post-war Japanese radical left? Is Pan-Asianism a useful framework for thinking about aspects of post-war left-wing activism in Japan? Drawing on a range of case studies, including a mass movement and several (...)
Most strikes by public transport workers follow a similar pattern - the workers protest, the government accuses them of betraying the public, the public sides with the government. In Okayama, Japan, bus drivers are using a different strategy. They continue plying their routes except they do not (...)
The growing youth movement against Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is disrupting Japan’s conservative status quo.
Since the earthquakes and a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima hit eastern Japan in March 2011, fissures have opened up across the surface of the Japanese archipelago — and across the surface (...)
Japan is on the brink of changing from a pacifist state to one prepared to go to war if necessary. Now, more than ever, we must refocus international scrutiny on the country’s social movements.
What do you know about Japan ? Answers to this question vary, but I can guess how familiar someone (...)
Protest in front of Pakistani embassy in Tokyo
June 27th, 2012, Asian Solidarity School of Japan did solidarity action with Hunza 5 and Faisalabad 9 in front of the Pakistan embassy in Tokyo.
Kenji Kunitomi spoke to second secretary of the Pakistan embassy in Japan, Mr. Nadiem Bhapti inside a (...)
Osaka Social Forum 2012
September 15-16, 2012
Another World is Beginning! Another Osaka is Possible!
The first Osaka Social Forum (OSF) was held in March 2010 . More than 1,000 people joined the two-day forum featuring speeches, musical performances, “distant exchange” over internet, (...)
The Occupy Wall Street protests spreading across the United States landed in Tokyo on Saturday, as hundreds of people gathered to protest against corporate greed and social inequality.
In addition to decrying the widening wealth gap between the nation’s haves and have-nots, demonstrators spoke (...)
Osaka Social Forum 2010
Date:March 21-22, 2010
Venue:
March 21 (Sun): Kita Kumin Center (Osaka Municipal Kita Ward Center) (http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/shimin/page/0000016598.html)
March 22 (Mon): L-Osaka (Osaka Prefecture Labour Center) (http://www.l-osaka.or.jp/pages/access.html)
Main (...)
How many participants found that the venue was a historical site where the first declaration of Independence of Korea contributing to March 1 Independence Movement was announced in 1919? Possibly, some, but exactly, the Korean YMCA in JAPAN situated in central Tokyo, also turned out to be a (...)
Dear comrades,
Japan Revolutionary Communist League(JRCL), a permanent observer organization of Fourth International in Japan, held its 21st national congress in late March 2009. 40 delegates and observers attended the congress from all over the country.
Along with discussions on situation of (...)
The founding congress of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA : Nouveau Parti Anti-Capitalist) was held February 6-8, 2009.
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Japan Revolutionary Communist League
To NPA congress Dear comrades, Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL), a supporting (...)
JOB SECURITY, SOCIAL INSURANCE DEMANDED Foreign workers rally in Shibuya for equal rights
Foreign workers staged a rally in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday as part of their annual spring labor offensive, calling for proper and equal treatment on par with Japanese working conditions.
Hundreds (...)
A small publisher is struggling to expand the circulation of its biannual English-language magazine, which features hard-hitting stories on controversial issues, including the overseas deployment of the Self-Defense Forces and gender equality.
“We aim to deliver high-quality, critical stories (...)
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