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THE Japanese Communist Party (JCP) has warned that detailed information on Covid-19 infection rates among US troops in the country is being concealed.
The issue was raised by JCP deputy Akamine Seiken at the House of Representatives security committee last week.
He said that there was “a considerable number” of infected US troops on bases in Japan, risking civilian employees and those in communities where many soldiers live off-base.
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
