Analogue TV broadcast will stop in July 2011, when digital terrestrial broadcast starts. From July 5 this year, a black stripe with a message urging viewers to buy digital terrestrial broadcast TV set will appear on TV screens for viewers watching analogue broadcast. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu

Sauna Oujou suddenly closed down in November 2009 and the union have run the sauna autonomously for half a year. The union’s struggle ended with a settlement at the Tokyo District Court on June 17. In the settlement the company retracted the dismissal and the union agreed to an amicable retirement for compa

“No to discrimination against North Korean Schools. Don’t exclude North Korean Schools from free tuition program for high school” Citizens’ Action was held at Shiba Park, Tokyo on June 27. 1000 citizens attended the action and more than 140 organizations, more than double the number for the previous a

The tenth trial of the late Yuriko Kimura’s case seeking compensation from the Local Government Employees’ Accident Compensation Fund was held at the Shizuoka Local Court (Civil Affairs Second Department, Presiding Judge Tsutomu Yamaguchi) on June 24. More than 30 supporters attended the trial as observer

Lee Yeong-ho, who fought the 77 days strike against the mass dismissal at Ssangyong Motors in the summer 2009, visited Japan and attended a solidarity meeting held in Shibuya, Tokyo on June 20. A documentary film featuring the Ssangyong struggle “You and my war” was shown at the meeting. Lee expressed h

At 5:20 PM on June 2, 2010, Edward Panganiban, a Filipino union activist of a Japanese company Takata, was killed. Activists in the Philippines issued an international appeal calling for union activists around the world to support their campaign and protest against this killing. The appeal says, “The death