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RENGO Updates Last Updated: 21 May. 2013
16 May 2013
RENGO Criticizes Remarks on “Comfort Women” and “Use of Adult Entertainment Industry” Made by Hashimoto, Co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party)
Mr. Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and Mayor of Osaka, stated in the press conference on May 13, referring to the comfort women of the wartime Japanese military, that everybody would understand that the comfort women system had been considered necessary. He also told that he had suggested to a U.S. military commander in Okinawa that “U.S. servicemen should make more active use of the adult entertainment industry”.
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18 March 2013
Government Decides to Join TPP Free-Trade Talks
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in the press conference on March 15 that his government has decided to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks and will inform the countries concerned to that effect. Since economic partnership is really one of the important policy issues in promoting economic growth and employment creation, we can understand the decision to participate in the TPP talks. However, while sufficient discussion and understanding have not yet progressed among the people, and while apprehension for each field of the talks is not yet wiped out, it is necessary for the Abe administration to do its duty to explain how it has reached the decision to participate in the talks as well as how the decision consists with the election promise of his party at the time of the general election last year.
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11 March 2013
On the Occasion of Two Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Full two years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11 2011, causing unprecedented damages. On this occasion, we sincerely express our condolences once again to those people who have fallen to victims of the disaster. We also express our hearty respect for those people who have lost their families, friends, calm daily lives, houses and home towns but are exerting their utmost efforts even in a state of deep grief and in a sense of loss. We sincerely wish them to recover their vigor as early as possible.
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Statement by RENGO President Nobuaki Koga on Disaster from the 2011 Tohoku – Pacific Ocean Earthquake and RENGO's Countermeasures - 14 March 2011   data update
RENGO's Views on and Counterarguments to the 2010 Report of the Committee on Management and Labor Policy of Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) - 10 Feb. 2010   data update
Overtures from RENGO: Priority Policies '08-'09 - 19 May. 2008   data update
 
RENGO’s Policies for the 2008 Spring Struggle for a Better Life (Excerpts) - 12 Feb. 2008   data update

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