Tokyo’s massive nuclear power plant suffered about 50 problems after a recent earthquake. The company initially stated that the quake only resulted in the release of a small amount of radioactive water.

There was a disturbing article in the New York Times recently concerning the expansion of the Japanese military's role in East Asia and the Pacific.

The 2007 World Conference against A & H Bombs is coming up. Representatives of governments taking part in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) or the New Agenda Coalition (NAC) that are working for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef’s prolonged detention in Brisbane, in the absence of any charges against him under counter-terrorism laws amounted to indefinite detention "by stealth."

Former Defense Minister Kyuma Fumio’s remark that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki “couldn’t be helped” has offended many Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) and put a damper on the international efforts for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

he Howard Governments military campaign to seize control of 73 remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory is meeting stiff resistance.

Contrary to Philippine government claims, the mid-term May elections sounded a dirge to the Arroyo regime’s barbaric repression of its citizens and its subservience to U.S. imperial dictates.

August 6, 1945, was a terrible day, in which the first atom bomb in history was dropped by the Truman administration on Hiroshima, Japan, to be a followed by another atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

The mayors of the atom-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivors), and representatives of peace organizations on June 30 staged a protest against Defense Minister Kyuma Fumio’s remark that the U.S. atomic bombings on the two cities “couldn’t be helped.”

The departure of Japan's defense minister on Tuesday dealt another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, adding to the specter that the ruling coalition could lose its majority in the upcoming upper house election.

On June 23, Okinawans protested the Education Ministry recent order to high school textbook authors to delete the account that “the Japanese military had forced civilians to commit mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa.”

Taking advantage of the Japan-U.S. agreement that Japan will pay for U.S. military realignment costs, the U.S. forces want to have Japan construct as many new facilities as possible.

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday once again stressed the importance of implementing the scientific concept of development, promoting social harmony and building an overall well-off society, ahead of the 17th national congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) later this year.

The Japanese Communist Party on June 14 held an assembly in Tokyo protesting the unconstitutional and illegal activities of the Self-Defense Forces monitoring citizens’ activities that the JCP had revealed recently.

On Monday evening last week, a documentary news program went to air on the Australian Broadcast Corporation containing material of a sort that used to bring down governments or at least cause some of their ministers and senior public servants to fall on their swords.

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said the JCP obtained copies of Ground Self-Defense Force’s internal documents showing that a GSDF unit has illegally gathered information on the activities of ordinary citizens as well as popular movements and opposition parties, including the JCP.

The Liberal Democratic, Komei, and Democratic parties used their majority at the House of Councilors plenary session on June 1 to enact a Self-Defense Forces Law revision bill to establish the Central Readiness Regiment in the Ground SDF Central Readiness Group that was established late March.

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) at its general session held in Paris on May 22 adopted a resolution categorizing the United States as a “controlled risk” for BSE [aka mad cow disease].

The government on May 18 held the first meeting of an advisory panel led by former Ambassador to the United States Yanai Shunji to consider ways for Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense that the Constitution prohibits.

Since coming to power in 1996, the Howard Government has increased spending on the military by 46 per cent in real terms.