Japan

Class forces behind U.S. genocide in Hiroshima, Nagasaki

This article, which has been slightly excerpted, was first published in Workers World, August 13, 2015. On the 70th anniversary…

August 8, 2025

No more Hiroshimas and Nagasakis!

This article was first published in Workers World on August 14, 2016. August 6 and 9, 1945, went down in…

August 5, 2025

Bhopal: Hiroshima of the chemical industry

Almost 40 years ago, on Dec. 3, 1984, some 27 tons of poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, 500 times more…

September 24, 2024

Release of Fukushima wastewater threatens workers

The Japanese government began releasing wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 24. The controversial…

September 4, 2023

Camp David summit outlines military alliance against China

August 22 — U.S. war threats against China heightened this week. On Aug. 18, President Joe Biden framed an aggressive…

August 25, 2023

Global solidarity with Writers Guild strike

The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG), Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) and UNI Global Union (UNI-MEI) organized global…

June 23, 2023

G7 in Hiroshima: a War summit

Written by Jorge Cadima and published May 25 in Avante!, weekly newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. Translation by John…

May 29, 2023

Japan rearms under Washington’s pressure − a wake-up call to the antiwar movement

The Dec. 16 announcement by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of a new defense strategy, while doubling military spending by…

December 28, 2022

Assassination spotlights Japan’s global role

Shinzo Abe, the right-wing former Japanese prime minister, was assassinated July 8 during an election campaign rally in the city…

July 11, 2022

Protest targets discrimination against Koreans living in Japan 

  A demonstration in front of the Japanese Consulate in New York City on Oct. 28, with drums, chants and…

November 4, 2021