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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Earthquake: Lessons from the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake
Summary of a conversation between CNIC's Baku Nishio and Chihiro Kamisawa 

IAEA Releases Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
There were some misleading comments in the IAEA's August 17 report.
Appeal by the Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant The Appeal was released to coincide with the formation of the group on 21 August 2007. 

Active Tests Recommence at Rokkasho
The delays in the commencement of full operations of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant have had a big impact on the finances of Aomori Prefecture and Rokkasho Village.
Worker Exposure Data for 2006 and the Workers' Compensation Case of the Late Tadashi Kiyuna Tadashi Kyuna was a victim of the push to reduce costs through longer consecutive operation of nuclear power plants and shorter periodic inspections. 

Abolition 2000 US-India Working Group sends letter to NSG governments
ZENROREN LABOR NEWS
* Stop the extension of the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law; stop new legislation for Japan’s military assistance to retaliatory war * Zenroren General Council Meeting calls for an offensive taking advantage of the emerging situation offering chances for winning change * Let us achieve a minimum wage raise to 1,000 yen per hour using the power of social solidarity 
    * Local unions share experiences
    * 60th anniversary of the Japanese Constitution celebrated
    * Stop the labor ‘big bang’ and establish rules for decent work
    * 2007 Spring Struggle
    * Zenroren adopts general plan for 2007 Spring Struggle
    * Stop the attempt to destroy laws to protect workers
    * Assembly calling for rights of temporary and contract workers
* The government forced to give up submitting a bill to deny overtime pay in the coming session of the Diet * Zenroren criticizes Nippon Keidanren for continuing with the path of further widening income in complete disregard of corporate social responsibility 
    * Defend the Fundamental Law of Education to save children
* Temporary workers fought and won their status as full-time employees * Statement　Zenroren condemns Nuclear Test by North Korea and demands peaceful settlement of this issue. 
    * Statement　Zenroren will face off against New Prime Minister Abe
* Unions join forces against the closure of local lifelines: Meteorological observatory and post office services * Zenroren Convention calls for greater common action to put new strength into the trade union movement * 30,000 people rally to oppose deployment of US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Tokyo Bay 
    *
      We need minimum worker compensation that supports decent life



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People’s Plan Quarterly English Magazine

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JAPAN FOCUS
Arudou Debito Japan's Future as an International, Multicultural Society: From Migrants to Immigrants 


        Chietigj Bajpaee        India Looks Toward East Asia
Gavan McCormack North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order
Stephen S. Roach The Great Meltdown? A Subprime Outlook for Asia and the Global Economy
CRS & John Feffer The Kaesong North-South Korea Industrial Complex and the Future of Northeast Asia 


        Fujiwara Akira  The Nanking Atrocity: An Interpretive Overview
Kaveh L Afrasiabi Caspian Summit a Triumph for Iran and a Victory for Russia
Jeff Kingston & Tom Hyland Japan's Nuclear Disaster and Plans to Export Reactors to Indonesia 


JAPAN PRESS SERVICE NEWS
JCP calls for suprapartisan cooperation in return of Korean cultural asset
- JCP publishes appeal for cancellation of introduction of harsh medical-care system for the elderly
- Government scenario on future tax burdens uses tricks to compel consumption tax hikes: JCP Koike 

Special measures bill
- Government's deceptive rhetoric justifying Japan's refueling mission is unacceptable - Akahata editorial 

- Fukuda Cabinet submits new bill to continue MSDF refueling operations
- Refueled ships may carry out operations in Iraq as long as they are active in Afghan: defense minister 

- Diet must discuss basic prerequisite for ending terrorism: JCP Shii

- MSDF covered up 'mistaken' amount of oil supplied to U.S. ships

- MSDF was aware that government used wrong data about amount of fuel


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ミシガン大学出版　右派の批判を受け停止していた ジョエル・コヴェル著 Overcoming Zionism （『シオニズム を超えて』）の出版継続を決定
ミシガン大学出版は先週、ロンドンに拠点を置くプ ルート出版社が発行する本の流通配布を、満場一致で 継続することを決定しました。同大学出版はこの夏、 ジョエル・コヴェル著Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine（『シオニズムを超えて： イスラエル=パレスチナにおける民主国家の構築』） の取り扱いを中止したことで議論を呼びました 

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フランスの変身
　
強いが弱いイスラエル
　

米利下げが通貨多極化を誘発する？

ロッカビー事件・はめられたリビア
　

強まるドル崩壊の懸念
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テロ戦争の意図と現実

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Not Just Our Minds and Hearts But Our Bodies
It was gratifying, I have to admit, to get a fairly long phone message from Nancy Pelosi's Policy Director at the end of last week, the latest in a series of back-and-forth calls since I visited Pelosi's office on the 17th day of my climate emergency fast over three weeks ago. On that day I visited 15 offices of key people in the House and Senate who are dealing with the global warming issue, making efforts, their staffers indicated, to come up with legislation to address this deepening crisis.
I wasn't able to speak to any policy people in Pelosi's office but I was given a name and number to follow up, and I did so. The call last week was the most recent in a game of telephone tag. 

Psychologists and Torture in Iraq, Afganistan and Guantanamo
On May 18, the Department of Defense (DoD) declassified an August 2006 report by the departments' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) entitled Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse. In this report is conclusive evidence from the oversight division of the DoD confirming that psychologists played a central role in the development of the regime of psychological torture used at the US detention facilities at Guantánamo and in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Alexander Cockburn and George Monbiot debate climate change issue
2 from Z: Abunimah- Hamas and Hizballah and Miles- Israeli-Palestine Question Indian ‘slave’ children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap (by Dan McDougall ZNET)
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using child labour. It announced it had withdrawn the garments involved while it investigated breaches of the ethical code imposed by it three years ago. 

Putting the ‘Israel Lobby’ in Perspective (Alternet)
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's 82-page paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" has entered the canon of contemporary political culture in the United States. So much, positive and negative, has been written about the March 2006 essay that the phrase "the Mearsheimer-Walt argument" is now shorthand for the idea that pro- Israel advocates exert a heavy—and malign—influence upon the formulation of U.S. Middle East policy. To veteran students of Middle East affairs, this idea is hardly new, of course. But the fact that two top international relations scholars affiliated with the University of Chicago and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, respectively, have espoused this analysis has lent it unprecedented currency. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish a book- length version of the professors' argument in late 2007. Along with President Jimmy Carter's volume Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, "The Israel Lobby" (as the paper is commonly known) has opened up a debate that many members of the lobby have long sought to suppress. 

Weapons Industry Dumps Republicans, Backs Hillary (from Alternet)
The U.S. arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/ 
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