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The 5th Light the Peace Torch, Light the Darkness of Yasukuni! Candle Night Demonstration was held on August 14 at Tokyo’s Shakai Bunka Kaikan Hall, with about 700 people participating.  Tokyo University Professor Tetsuya Takahashi criticized that Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan only implied South

 Some 50 people went on a tour to Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant on August 5 as a part of 65th anniversary campaign to eradicate A- and H-bomb World Conference. The struggle against Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant in Yamaguchi Prefecture continues for 28 years mainly with the people on Iwai Island, about

 The cement industry in Osaka Prefecture has been on a general strike for more than a month by now. Due to the strike, construction around Osaka Station has been suspended. The strike was launched by about 1,000 owners of small to medium-size companies, and workers and members of cement industry trade un

Our “August 28 Action to Siege the Tokyo Metropolitan Education Board” made a success with 150 participants despite scorching heat! We started appealing and collecting petition signatures at the west and east entrances of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo from 2 PM, and marching the downtown area from 3:15 PM. We

A lawsuit in which part-time employees (members of the Tokyo Young Contingent Workers’ Union) of a beef bawl restaurant chain “Sukiya” sued Zensho, which manages the chain, for its failure to pay for overtime ended with a victory for the plaintiffs. The management of the company accepted their claims. At

“Don’t close down the factory! Don’t fire!” Energetic chants covered the Omori Factory of Davenroy, a cleaning company based in Ota City, Tokyo. On August 26, 2010, the Davenroy local and the Seven’s Cleaner division of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Tobu went on a joint strike in scorc