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Japan: Future for Abe uncertain after electoral setback

August 23, 2019 Simon Cole, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

The Upper House elections held on 21 July in Japan were a minor set-back for the Shinzō Abe government. Along with their coalition partners, the Buddhist Komeito, they lost their two thirds majority in the […]

Japan

G20: Storm clouds over Osaka as world leaders meet

July 2, 2019 Carl Simmonds (CWI), Osaka

The G20 meeting which took place in Osaka on 28th and 29th of June was another indication of the severity of the present crisis facing the capitalist class internationally. While issues of equality, women’s empowerment […]

Japan

Japan: Ready Mixed Concrete workers punished for militancy

July 1, 2019 Simon Cole, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

Over the last eight months, in an attack upon a labour union unprecedented in the recent past in Japan, the prefectural police of Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama have arrested over seventy members of the Kansai […]

Japan

Japan: Charting the long decline

May 6, 2019 Robin Clapp for Socialism Today – the monthly journal of the Socialist Party England and Wales (CWI)

On 30th April, Emperor Akihito abdicated and handed over to his son Naruhito – something that has not happened for 200 years. But it will change nothing for the vast majority of the population in […]

Japan

Japan: Misery of capitalism to continue into ‘new era’

October 10, 2018 James Clement and Carl Simmonds for Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

Japan’s Heisei Era – which began on January 8th, 1989, in line with Emperor Akihito’s ascension to the throne – will end next April with his abdication. This will be a purely symbolic ‘end of […]

Japan

Japan: Election victory does not mean smooth sailing for prime minister Abe

October 26, 2017 Carl Simmons, CWI, Osaka

The victory of Abe Shinzo in the October 20 general election opens up the possibility of him becoming the longest serving post-war Japanese Prime Minister. However, appearances can be deceptive, and his overwhelming victory does […]

Japan

Japan: Social and political unease after “twenty lost years”

February 3, 2016 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength

Japan

Japan: 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb

August 6, 2015 Geoff Jones and Kate Jones, from <i>The Socialist</i> (newspaper of the Socialist Party – CWI England & Wales)

Can a future nuclear conflict be avoided?

Japan

Asia-Pacific: Majority of Chinese expect war with Japan

September 13, 2014 Dikang, <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info">chinaworker.info</a>

Warmongering governments ratchet-up national tensions in struggle for regional dominance

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Japan: ‘Abenomics’

April 22, 2013 Carl Simmonds, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

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