Thursday, March 23, 2006

三月19日の記事

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MAIN STORY (below): KIMIGAYO AND THE HINOMARU? JUST SAY NO!

Other Asian Stories: Release Korean Human Rights Activists; Bashing Gender Equality,講演会「WTO香港からどこへ？～グローバル化と世界貿易」; 西パプアの人々に対する秘密戦争: ジョン・ピルジャー;Iwakuni residents say ‘No’ to U.S. forces relocation; Korean Forced Laborers; Inequality and Japanese Education; Yomiuri and Asahi Editors Call for a National Memorial to Replace Yasukuni; After Kyoto: Japanese firms rush to cash in on gas emission reductions; The Nago Mayoral Election and Okinawa’s Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence; Mitsubishi, Historical Revisionism and Japanese Corporate Resistance to Chinese Forced Labor Redress…

Other News and Activism: WATER: Activists, Global Forum Do Not See Eye to Eye; RIGHTS: U.N. Creates New Watchdog Over U.S. Opposition; AGRICULTURE: Social Movements Call for “New Agrarian Reform;”

OUR MAIN STORY
“If Germany did this they would call it what it is: Nazism"-school teacher

In the 17 March 2006 issue of The Independent, “Japan cracks down on rebel pupils who refuse to sing,” David McNeill talks about the heavy-handed authoritarianism used against students and teachers who refuse to sing the nationalist anthem and stand for the Japanese flag at school ceremonies. There is another way to look at it, however, as hundreds have already been disciplined, meaning that the spirit of resistance is alive and well in Tokyo. One could argue that the harder xenophobes like Gov. Ishihara push, the more people will push back.

日の丸／君が代門だいについて日本語いろいろなあるけど、たとえば:君が代問題：不起立の女性教諭を処分−−都教育庁。

However, many are not so optimistic about the spirit of resistance in Japan. One such person is ODA Makoto, who--in an IndyMedia interview with Japan’s Brian Covert--lays blame squarely on the press for much of the apathy towards issues such as war and peace that one finds on the streets of most cities among the post-war generation. If he is right, we can understand the desperation of the nationalists with their flag and anthem rules. Hopefully it will backfire and a new generation of anti-authoritarianism will unwittingly be spawned by the very people seeking to force Japan’s young to march in lock step with its increasingly beligerant attitudes toward Koreans, Chinese and other former colonials as well as its greater collaboration with George Bush and Tony Blair’s death machine in the Middle East.

So what can YOU do if you are a student or a parent who does not want to see your kid forced to obey rules that have nothing to do with learning to think and everything to do with learning NOT to think?

Some pretend to be sick, the braver refuse to stand, and some even wear peace ribbons to school ceremonies. (When this writer was at student at John Adams High School in New York, we were set upon by members of the football team, apparently encouraged by their pro-Vietnam war coach, and so it brings back fond memories to see a new generation learning to say “NO!” to power even if their numbers are relatively small.) A few brave people like music teacher, Sato Miwako sued the government after she was suspended for refusing to play the anthem on her piano. But the authorities are not getting the message, or perhaps they hope their strong-armed tactics will stop the resistance from growing. One retired teacher has already been arrested for encouraging people not to stand up.

While the number of people protesting has decreased, there is some hope that the increasingly brutal crackdown against those who continue to resist will ignite a fire in those who have until now stood helplessly by, sparking greater resistance. In this light you can see why history textbooks have been censored by the very same people behind the forced patriotism; if kids knew what evils Japan had done in their name in the past, they too would refuse to stand up and sing praise to an Emperor system which caused such misery to Japanese and non Japanese alike for so many years.

There is another hope. Legal scholars say there is no legal obligation to sing the national anthem, and kids have legal rights too (maybe!). In an article one year ago, Eriko Arita of the Japan Times quotes law professor Yoshifumi Tawara of Rissho University as saying that the curriculum guidelines have no legal power over the content of education that students receive, noting that “while ‘Kimigayo’ is legally recognized as the national anthem, no law obliges teachers to force students to sing it”. This is also true for paying NHK fees, by the way.

Finally, Norimitsu Onishi writes in an article from just over a year ago on the punishments metered out for refusing to obey the orders on the song and flag. Noteworthy is an exchange between a rightist politican and the current Emperor on the notion of forcing kids to be patriotic, which seems to be a contradiction in terms. It seems that this Emperor is himself not being patriotic enough in the eyes of those nostalgic for Japan’s dark days of fascism.

Meanwhile, McNeill, in a letter to a Korean web site makes some interesting observations, this time in the context of a dispute between Japan and Korea over Dokdo/Takeshima. (What you call it depends on whose country’s media you read, just more evidence confirming ODA Makoto’s premise that the media --and probably both the media here and in South Korea--are not interested in the real issues of life and death, war and peace. They are just playing the nationalist card.) As McNeil says, “for us gaijin (foreigners) here in Japan, the depth of feeling in these disputes with Korea and China over what look like rocks in the middle of the ocean can be difficult to grasp, so as I often do in cases like this- I turned to my neighbors to gauge popular opinion”.

And what was his discovery? That the average citizen couldn’t care less about country-country reivalry. He gives as evidence that ‘the majority of Japanese oppose changes to history textbooks that whitewash the past with thousands of teachers, unionists and others fighting a magnificent campaign against the New History textbook which ended up being used in just 0.01 % of Japanese junior high schools’. He also notes how hard it has been for the LDP--thus far--to change Article 9 of the Constitutiom, something they have been trying to do for the last half century. And Japanese people are overwhelmingly, if not vocally, opposed to sending troops the war in Iraq. Hopefully he is right, because as seen above, the State is employing ever more forceful methods to achieve compliance. It is no accident that the very same people who support the right wing “Tsukurukai” textbook are those trying to force kids to stand for the flag and anthem.

Not just kids being forced to obey

日本の新聞においては、私が次のトピックに関してそれをめったに見つけることができませんでした。長崎の政府の国家主義者は、原子爆弾犠牲者の政治思想を検閲しようとしました。原子力、イラク、アメリカの軍事基地などについて話すべきでないとき、彼らはそれらを伝えました。結果は原子爆弾犠牲による憤慨でした:

被爆体験：講話“規制”撤回を　市民の会、平和推進協に申し入れ　／長崎

It is not just the kids who are being whipped into line by latter-day versions of the thought police of another era. In Nagasaki, a "city-funded peace group here has asked atomic bomb survivors to keep mum on thorny political issues, including Emperor Showa's role in World War II and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine". This according to Kazuyo NAKAMURA in the Asahi newspaper.日本の

In the article, we learn that the Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace has warned Hibakusha to steer clear of a number of issues, claiming in the face of bitter crticism by the atomic bomb victims that it is for reasons of “effectiveness” in getting the peace message across, rather than some kind of censorship. And what issues are the hibakusha supposed to avoid talking about?

-Responsibility of Emperor Hirohito for World War II

-Koizumi’s visits to the openly revisonist/rightwing Yasukuni Shine

-Proposed revisions of the Constitution’s war-renouncing Article 9

-The Self-Defense Forces’ mission in Iraq

-Legislation to prepare Japan for a military attack

-The introduction of school history textbooks that China, South Korea and many Japanese educators say whitewash Japan’s militarist past.

-Nuclear power generation, the environment and human rights issues

Human rights issues? Yeah, sure! And what else but a human rights issue is it when politicians and bureaucrats attempt to silence those whose sickness and hardships are the direct result of a fanatically rightist colonial policy that led the U.S. to engage in wholesale murder with its two atom bombs, a country which is now ironically pushing Japan to remilitarize and make Japan an even bigger part of its “sphere of infkuence”. Even though Japan’s rightists claim that they want a home-grown Constitution instead of one ‘imposed on them by the victor nation in World War II”, the fact is that it is to this victor nation, the U.S., that Koizumi and company are beholden to on every issue from the import of questionable food products tainted with GM organisms, mad cow or agricultural chemicals, to nuclear proliferation, the war on the citiziens of Iraq, the neoliberalist detsruction of jobs and job security, and so much more. And now, in the name of being a modern, democratic nation, like its big Uncle Sam, Japan is going back down the road of repression and historical coverup. Talk about ironies.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Feb 7 のニュース

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Anti-Nuclear News Japan/原子力資料情報室のNews

書籍・論文 : 『原子力市民年鑑2005』発行

書籍・論文 : JCO臨界事故総合評価会議『青い光の警告－原子力は変わったか』（再入荷）

Ken Masuoka’s Translations
「対テロ戦争」の核心には「テロ」の馬鹿げた定義がある

「対テロ戦争」の核心には「テロ」の馬鹿げた定義がある

イラク・ファルージャ最新情報は『ファルージャ2004年4月』ブログへ

Debito Arudou
マクガワン氏人種差別訴訟
THE STEVE McGOWAN COURT DECISION
A LOSS FOR HIM, A BAD PRECEDENT FOR EVERYONE

LABOR NEWS

レイバーネット日本のニュース

From Nambu/NUGW and General Union
Female on throne could marry foreigner, Hiranuma warns

Court rules English language school Nova billed student illegally

DOES ECC OWE YOU MONEY?

Japanese union members of IHT/Asahi Shimbun are full-time workers! They should be recognized as such and treated fairly.

Fighting Unfair Dismissals at the ASAHI/INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Read more

Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School Union of Foreign Teachers

University Teacher Union

Sophia University Union

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L
READ ALL HERE
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DEMOCRACY NOW
EXCLUSIVE: National Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Police State”

Democracy Now! in Doha...The Story Behind the Other Downing Street Memo Where Bush Told Blair He Wanted to Bomb Al Jazeera

Media Channel
Media Incitement Inflames the Middle East

Common Dreams
Kurt Vonnegut: A Requiem for the USA
‘All the other species are dying and so will we. I’m whistling as I walk past the graveyard… whistling as beautifully as I can’

ZNET

Hamas and Palestinian Democracy

Opposition to the Vietnam war included many anti-war songs, and that is a good reason to include links to songs from that era as well as some from some even newer. if you of any good songs being written about Iraq, let us know:

Antiwar songs

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Friday, January 27, 2006

一月の記事

英語のペイジ/English page

JAPAN RELATED

縄のプロ軍事基地候補勝利
Pro Military Base Candidate Wins in Okinawa

Singapore Newspaper: Koizumi’s Obstinacy Could Isolate Japan: Yasukuni and Asia
シンガポール新聞:小泉のYasukuni問題についての頑固さは日本を孤立させることができました。

East Timorese Demand Justice for Repression
Which Japan Was Also responsible For
日本は、東ティモールの抑制を支援しました。東ティモール人人々は公正を求めます。

Japan Aided Dili Massacre
日本はジリ大虐殺を援助しました

Peace and Justice/平和と公正

Hamas Victory

The media says the victory of the militant Hamas group in Palestinian elections is a bad thing. Some commentators point out that the pro-occupation policies of Israel and the United States are responsible for the rise of Hamas.

メディアは、パレスチナの選挙での攻撃的なハマス・グループの勝利が悪いものであると言います。何人かのコメンテーターは、イスラエルとアメリカの占領政策支持がハマスの上昇の原因であることを指摘します。

Mother and Peace Activist, Clare Grady, Sentenced in Federal Court
イラクとの戦いを止めようとした母親は刑務所に投げ込まれます。

Vietnam War Veteran Also Jailed
ベトナム戦争のベテランも刑務所に入りました

先住人々について/Indigenous Peoples News

US Native People Take Land Dispute to UN
米国の在来人々は国連に土地論争を持っていきます

Bolivia: Indigenous Leaders and Women Head Government
ボリビア:固有のリーダーおよび女性主要部統率

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Indigenous People Demand More Central Role
世界の社会フォーラム:先住人々はより中心的な役割を要求します。

‘War on Terror’ Causes Exodus From Pakistan’s Tribal Areas
「恐怖との戦い」は、パキスタンの種族エリアからの退去を引き起こします

遺伝子組み換え作物@: 「自殺種子」は、自作農業の死を綴るかもしれない、と国連の会が伝えました。
GM Agriculture: ‘Suicide Seeds’ Could Spell Death of Peasant Agriculture, UN Meeting Told

3月の月:外国・日本人労働者はアクションを結合します。
Foreign-Japanese Workers Action March 5

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

1月の終了および2月の始めからのニュース

英語のペイジ/English page

２００６春闘を組合員の総力で闘おう！外国人労働者に安定した雇用の確

生活と権利の闘争に勝利しよう！
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　３．５　渋谷の街のデモ行進（Job Security March）を支援しよう！　外国人労働者に安定した

雇用の確保を！３.５大行進金破壊...雇用破壊: 全国一般労働組合東京南部　・　なんぶ外国人分科会! 安心して働きたい！

日本で働く外国人の９割以上が非正規労働者です。長く働いても、いつ「明日から来なくていい」と言われるかわかりません。外国人はさらにひどい状況に直面しています。ビザがないため、いつ警察や入管に捕まるのかビクビクしながら働いているのです。ですが、こうした人たちが日本の経済を底辺で支えています。
　　
外国人労働者の状況は日本人労働者の問題と重なります。彼らもまた、安心して働ける場を求めているのです。同じ働く者として日本人と外国人が協力し、３月５日、東京、大阪、福岡、札幌で同時に、外国人労働者に安定した雇用の確保を求めるデモ行進を取り組みます。＜雇用不安、使い捨ては許されない！＞

「最近、解雇された方、手を上げて！」
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NUGW-NAMBU
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新聞：
http://nambufwc.org/voice/Issue20easyformat.pdf

Use the map on the Berlitz page to find your nearest union:
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Monday, December 12, 2005

ニュース&ヘルプ (12月)

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ADDED December 13, 2005

JAPANESE (UN)DEMOCRACY
Locking peace activists away for more than two months, as Japan has done in the case of several citizens who distributed anti-war literature to a Self-Defense Forces housing project, which has now been approved by the morally bankrupt Tokyo High Court, is certainly evidence that the Japanese government is on the same page as that of the more open repressive governments it pretends to disdain.
Articles and links here

IRAQ
Harold Pinter on U.S.-U.K (and Japan by default) War Crimes
The Nobel Prize winner did not mention Japan by name, but he included those who went along with the Bush-Blair deceptions and helped to prop up the lies.

Art, truth and politics
Pinter`s speech at the prize ceremony

Note that a story in which former British parliementarian Tony Benn, Pinter and more than two dozen others submitted war crimes charges to both United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and British legal authorities has been deemed non newsworthy by most press outlets. TokyoProgressive has written to major news organizations asking them why they have seen fit not to print the story. That story is here.

Robert Fisk on journalism, war, terror, good/evil and “democracy.. delivered by tanks & helicopters”

WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION PROTESTS IN HONG KONG
Understanding the Anti-WTO Protests
From APEC to WTO: trajectories of protest in Korea and East Asia

Our world is not for sale!
by Vandana Shiva, scientist and glabalization activist

Chinese/English Links:民間監察世貿聯盟
Many more links inside

CULTURE
Is Europe Western?
Writer TAWADA Yoko’s essay on nation, region, identity, orientalism: Several years ago a new law was passed in Japan decreeing that the Japanese flag was to be raised at every ceremony taking place at schools and universities in the country. It determined the exact size of the flag. ..The law insisted that the flag was to be raised in the middle of the stage where it could be seen by everyone...The Academy of Foreign Languages in Tokyo… raised the national flag as instructed by the law, with one small difference: it also raised a further hundred and ten flags from other countries.....

ENVIRONMENT
Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel: the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a belief in magic....In 2003, the biologist Jeffrey Dukes calculated that the fossil fuels we burn in one year were made from organic matter “containing 44 x 10 to the 18 grams of carbon, which is more than 400 times the net primary productivity of the planet’s current biota."(1) In plain English, this means that every year we use four centuries’ worth of plants and animals....The idea that we can simply replace this fossil legacy - and the extraordinary power densities it gives us - with ambient energy is the stuff of science fiction....

ADDED December 3 2005

Japan’s Peace Constitution/映画日本国憲法

Japanese Americans and the Making of U.S. Democracy During World War II

How many people have died in Iraq?

Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance 嘘とごまかしの重ね塗り/Masuoka Ken’s latest posting

The Bush Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera: Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
(Also see The War on Al Jazeera)

Power Politics, the LDP and Willing Masses (Kato Shuichi)

Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army’s Biological Warfare Program

Hu Jintao’s Strategy for Handling Chinese Dissent and U.S. Pressure

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Other recent articles from Japan Focus are here:
Japan’s Deadly Game of Nuclear Roulette
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=460

Japan’s Hidden Arms Trade
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=459

Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=458

Compensating Colonial Lepers, Slave Laborers and Hibakusha: Troubling Legacies and Evolving Standards of Postcolonial Justice in Japan
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=457

Family Ties: The Tojo Legacy
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=445

田中宇の国際ニュース解説
http://tanakanews.com/

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The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair

Press Freedom on Trial in Japan

The Emperor and the Japan-U.S. Relationship

Peak Oil-ピーク・オイル：石油争乱と２１世紀経済の行方

Ultra Right Taking Charge in Changing Japan

EARLIER STORIES
韓共催キャンドルイベント, JOINT KOREA-JAPAN CANDLE MESSAGE FOR PEACE, Japanese activist sites, Hirsohima-the story that wasn’t, Hiroshima Ex-Mayor Opposes U.S.-Japan Nuclear and Iraq Policies, Yasukuni Visits, Japanese Court Again Rejects Germ Warfare Damages, Acknowledges Crime Itself and many others. Click a story to read it and leave comments. Japanese stories go all the way back to 2002.

OTHER STORIES

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Middle East in Conflict From the New Standard, including (1) Israeli Terror Compensation Rules Treat Jew’s Victims Differently, (2) Israel to Take West Bank Land for Settlement Barrier, (3) Gaza Disengagement, Resistance Continue Amid Tragic Incidents and more

Environment and Health Also from the New Standard, including (1) Anti-immigrant Propaganda Scapegoats Undocumented Californians, (2) Apparently part of the pattern recently dubbed “the greening of hate,” another group opposed to immigration has come on the scene using spurious reasoning to turn people against undocumented immigrants, (3) Gitmo Captives Say Medical Personnel Approved, Participated in Abuses and more

EARLIER STORIES
Introducing Radical Voice of East Asia, Arundahti Roi Essay on Tide and Ivory Snow and Empire, Seeds of Death, Tsunami in Indonesia, and Recent Stories on Tsunami, North Korea, Koizumi Era, Minamata, Toyota Suicide... all the way back to 2000. Again, you can click any story and leave a comment or post in the forum after becoming a member. And don’t forget that members may, on request, write stories for publication.

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