Japan Communist Party
The Japan Communist Party (JCP) was founded 15 July 1922, with the encouragement and financial support of the Soviet Union. Throughout most of its history, the JCP has had a clos...
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Kenji Miyamoto, who held leadership positions in the Japanese
Communist Party for about 50 years, died Wednesday of old age at a
Tokyo hospital. He was 98.
Miyamoto, as...
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The Japanese Communist Party on Sunday adopted a proposal to
revise its strategy for the next House of Representatives election in
a move that may end up working in favor to the main oppositi...
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Voters in Kumamoto and Iwate prefectures are casting their
ballots for lower-house by-elections held in these electoral
districts as well as for the upper-house election held nationwide on
S...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cast absentee ballots at Tokyo's
Chiyoda Ward office on Sunday ahead of the July 29 House of
Councillors election.
Abe cast his ballots for the Yamaguchi prefectu...
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Incumbent Osaka Mayor Junichi Seki and three newcomers filed
their candidacies Sunday for the Nov. 18 Osaka mayoral election, the
first such election in a major city following the launch of P...
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Four newcomers filed their candidacies Thursday for the Nov. 25
Kochi gubernatorial election, as the incumbent Gov. Daijiro Hashimoto
has decided not to seek re-election.
Candidates are Ma...
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Four independent political rookies filed their candidacies
Thursday for the Nov. 25 Kochi gubernatorial election to succeed
outgoing Gov. D...
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The mayoral election campaign in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture,
kicked off Sunday with two people filing their candidacies and
differing over the planned relocation of U.S. ...
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Campaigning began Thursday for the April 22 by-elections to fill
two vacated House of Councillors seats in Fukushima and Okinawa
prefectures, contests that will serve ...
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Candidates took to the streets Thursday to mark the beginning of
the campaigning for the April 22 by-elections to fill two vacated
House of Counc...
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Japan Communist Party
3RD LD: Ex-Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto dies
