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Opposition leaders urge Abe to sack defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Communist Party Secretary General Tadayoshi Ichida, Democratic Party of Japan Acting President Hayato Kan and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (L to R) attend a rally at the No. 2 House of Representatives Members Hall in Tokyo and demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sack Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma over remarks he made over the weekend that appear to justify the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II.

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(2)JCP policy chief Fudesaka quits over sexual harassment

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Ichida, head of the Japanese Communist Party Secretariat, speaks to reporters in the Diet in Tokyo on June 24 about the resignation of JCP policy chief Hideyo Fudesaka. Fudesaka resigned from the House of Councillors to take responsibility for a sexual harassment scandal.

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Opposition leaders urge Abe to sack defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Communist Party Secretary General Tadayoshi Ichida, Democratic Party of Japan Acting President Hayato Kan and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (L to R) attend a rally at the No. 2 House of Representatives Members Hall in Tokyo and demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sack Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma over remarks he made over the weekend that appear to justify the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. (Kyodo)

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40-yr-old museum on H-bomb test-hit boat continues nuke-free quest

Mari Ichida (L), 48, a curator of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, offers explanations to a group of students visiting the museum in Tokyo on May 27, 2016. The wooden object on display is the actual tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40-yr-old museum on H-bomb test-hit boat continues nuke-free quest

Matashichi Oishi (R), 82, a former crew member of Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks in front of students at Miwada Girls' Junior and Senior High School in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2016. Next to him is Mari Ichida, 48, a curator of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)JCP policy chief Fudesaka quits over sexual harassment

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Ichida, head of the Japanese Communist Party Secretariat, speaks to reporters in the Diet in Tokyo on June 24 about the resignation of JCP policy chief Hideyo Fudesaka. Fudesaka resigned from the House of Councillors to take responsibility for a sexual harassment scandal.

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JCP reorganizes leadership

ATAMI, Japan - Tetsuzo Fuwa (C), who became chairman of the Japanese Communist Party's (JCP's) Central Committee at a party convention that closed Nov. 24 in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, meets the press, along with Kazuo Shii (L), who replaced Fuwa as Presidium chairman, and Tadayoshi Ichida, who succeeded Shii as head of the Secretariat.