Hankyu Travel Support should immediately compensate unpaid overtime wages and pay the same amount of fines! The company is not to include overtime hours in regular work hours. Tokyo District Court ruled as such on May 11 in the lawsuit filed in October 2008. The plaintiff (a member of National Union of

“No Time for Dying—Sumiko Masunaga, 86,” produced by Video Press, was to be screened on May 12 in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward, prior to enactment of law to revise Japan’s constitution. Sumiko Masunaga (photo) was made to believe she was one of “Emperor’s child” by militaristic education and holds bitt

Tetsuya Kuroyabu (photo/ freelance journalist and member of Union Nettsu) won the lawsuit on April 27 at Tokyo High Court, which upheld the lower court’s decision. The high court dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal. Yomiuri Shimbun West Headquarters sued Kuroyabu for defamation. This is the second time Kuroy

More than 1,600 people came to a 5.3 rally in Tokyo on March 3, the Constitution Day. People overflowed the Hibiya Open Air Music Hall with capacity of 1,900 and watched the procession on a large screen outside the hall. The event of this scale has been held for the past 10 years, and that by itself is proo

About 12,000 people gathered at Tokyo’s Hibiya Open Air Music Hall on the sunny May 1 (photo). “Okinawa does not need another base,” Social Democratic Party President Mizuho Fukushima said at the rally. “We should not pound another stake into Henoko.” Narinobu Uehara, who is protesting against US ba

Ssangyong unionist sentenced to four years jail On February 13, 2010 Mr. Han Sang Kyun the Chairman of the Ssangyong Motor Company Union was sentenced to four years in prison. AAWL is campaigning for his release. See the Free our Comrades page here. Mr Han led a 77 day strike at the Ssangyong