UPDATED JUNE 23
Japan & Asia-related/日本とアシア関係
【不法なイラク戦争を拒否する合州国軍将校への支援を】Thank you Lt. Ehren Watada(2006/6/2)不法なイラク戦争に加わる命令を米軍将校としては初めて拒否することになる人物に、貴方の緊急支援と助力が必要です。既に抗議を込めた任務拒否を試みていたEhren Watada中尉は、6月7日に全国に向けた記者会見を通じて出征拒否を公にしました。On June 22, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the unlawful Iraq War and occupation. Link in Japanese and English below.
「私は最早黙っていることが出来ないのです。大統領が私たちに「戦争完遂( stay the course)」を唱える一方で家族がバラバラになっていくのを、私は傍観することが出来ません。侵略される謂れ無き人たちに対する不法かつ反道徳的な戦争に参加することを、私は拒否します。以前は戦友たちのために現地に往きたいという気持ちがありました。然し、砲弾を撃ち込む側の一員となって殺しと破壊を更に増大させる要因とならないことこそ、最上の手段です。この戦争に反対する側の一員となり戦争を終結させたなら、全ての兵士たちは家に帰ることが出来るのです。」—合州国陸軍中尉Ehren Watada: Thank you Lt. Watada/不法なイラク戦争を拒否する合州国軍将校への支援を
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SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at ‘illegal’ American tactics in Iraq/【イラクでのアメリカのやり方は「不法」として、SAS隊員が軍を除隊】
US Miltary Destroying Ramadi, Impose Media Blackout/ラマディを破壊する米国軍、報道管制を課する
反戦ネットワーク/ストップ浜岡原発@ブログJapan-U.S. military alliance increasing its aggressive nature
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自衛隊イラク撤退の意味
【2006年6月20日】 イギリスが日本やオーストラリアと協議し、日本のサマワ撤退計画が浮上したのは、ブレアの訪米が失敗し、米政界が撤退否定に向けて議論をしていたときである。ブレアの訪米の失敗により、イギリスがアメリカを協調主義に引き戻す計画は失敗で終わり、英日豪はアメリカより先に撤退に動くことになった。
文明の衝突と東チモール
【2006年6月17日】 冷戦時代には、インドネシアは「反共」でアメリカの味方であり、左翼的傾向が強い東チモールのゲリラ組織は味方ではなかった。しかし、冷戦後の次の50年戦争となるべき「文明の衝突」では善悪が逆転し、インドネシアはイスラム教徒の国なので「敵方」であり、東チモールは住民の90%以上がキリスト教徒なので「欧米側」である。東チモールは、オーストラリアに守られつつインドネシアから独立を勝ち取ることで「イスラム包囲網」の一部となった。だが、話はここで終わらなかった・・・
アメリカの「第2独立戦争」
【2006年6月13日】 アメリカは、領土的には1783年にイギリスから独立している。しかし、アメリカの世界戦略の中に、イギリスにとって都合が良い半面、必ずしもアメリカ自身の国益に沿っていないものが多いことを考えると、アメリカは特に第二次大戦後、イギリスによって傀儡的に動かされているような印象を受ける。ヒットラー敵視や冷戦(ソ連・中国敵視)など、正義感の強いアメリカ人の世論がイデオロギー的に動かされて採られた戦略は、いずれもイギリスに大きな利益を与えている。
つぶされるCIA
【2006年5月30日】・・・ハイデンがNSA長官として行った「失策」は、うまくやろうと思ったのに失敗したのではなく、故意にNSAの機能を潰したのであり、これからCIA長官になったら、こんどはCIAの機能を潰しにかかるのではないか、と推測される。ハイデンを長官に迎えるにあたって「もうCIAは終わりだ」という声がCIA内部から出ていると報じられている。
Nurse with baby forced to retire for being unable to work midnight shift
A Week of Israeli “Restraint”
n Israeli discourse, Israel is always presented as the side exercising restraint in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam rockets were falling on the Southern Israeli town of Sderot, it was “leaked” that the Israeli Minister of Defense had directed the army to show restraint….
The Great Grain Robbery by Agribusiness Multi National Corporations
Indian people’s health is being sacrificed to create markets for U.S agribusiness….[its] food sovereignty is being given up to hand over India’s food system to global agribusiness….The corporate hijack of wheat is a recipe for increasing farmers suicides, inviting famine and public health and environmental hazards.
Japan’s Official Record of Chinese Forced Labor
These days, NHK’s programming schedule is long on nature programs and favorable coverage of the imperial family. The problem of Japanese abducted by North Korea also gets plenty of air time, while shows highlighting Japan’s atomic victimization have become an August ritual. The reputation of NHK as the media entity least likely to challenge the nation’s conservative government was cemented last year, amid revelations that the public broadcaster had bowed to political pressure in sanitizing a 2001 program about military sexual slavery….
….The very future of NHK (Nihon Hoso Kyokai, or the Japan Broadcasting Corp.) has grown unclear. A string of fraud and embezzlement scandals has led 30 percent of households to withhold payment of the mandatory viewer fees that fund the 56-year-old organization. NHK’s own reform plans include steep staff cuts, while a government panel has recommended eliminating some of the eight television and radio channels. The network’s annual budget requires Diet approval.
NHK and its attitude toward Japanese war responsibility were far different in 1993. During the May 17 broadcast of its “Close Up Gendai” program, NHK exhibited the long-suppressed “Foreign Ministry Report” (FMR) that details the brutal wartime system of Chinese forced labor operated by the state and private companies.
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UPDATED JUNE 23
君が代日の丸抗議のための罰金:200,000。 次は刑務所?日本は実際に民主国家ですか。State fines teacher 200,000 for anthem-flag protest. What kind of democracy is this?
A schoolteacher who urged parents attending a 2004 graduation ceremony to remain seated during the national anthem was yesterday found guilty of disrupting the solemnity of the occasion. The Tokyo District Court fined Katsuhisa Fujita Y200,000, but stopped short of jailing him for eight months, as prosecutors had requested, on the grounds that the disruption was not severe enough. The ceremony was delayed by two minutes. Note that THIS REPORT says 90% of the graduating students then refused to stand!!! Good for them!! And shame on those who are attempting to force patriotism on kids. Shades of pre-war authoritarianism. According to the Financial Times, Hiroko Arai, “….who has been banished from teaching since she refused to sing the anthem said ‘Those in power desire to control education from above. Enforcement or coercion is inappropriate in a place of education, [which amounts to] an attempt to imprint nationalism in the hearts of children'”.
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A wide ranging essay on where we can and should put our energies as activists Contains 15 references, including:
-Howard Zinn: “To Be Neutral, To Be Passive In A Situation Is To Collaborate With Whatever Is Going On
-Pro-war Propaganda Machine:Media Becomes Branch of War Effort
-Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984
-The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation (Monsanto)
-Sept. 11, 1973: A CIA-backed Military Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende, the Democratically Elected President of Chile
-UNCHR’s misguided “Mission to Japan” The global politics of “racialization”
-Japanese activism
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Film-maker David Rothauser has created a site specifically to obtain support for his documentary. Please note that the address for sending contributions given in the film except/interview itself is incorrect, but the one listed on his site IS correct.
For people in the US or Japan who wish to send checks (usually a bank draft from Japan), here is the correct addresss:
Please remit your contribution payable to:
The Community Church of Boston
c/o David Rothauser
39 Fuller Street
Brookline, MA 02446
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Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims Sue Dow and Monsanto in US Court
Sculpture by Vietnamese students of disabled child victims of Agent Orange
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Concert for East Timor: June 2
東ティモールからの希望の歌~ フェアトレード・コーヒー&MUSIC: 6月2日(金) 18:30-20:30(open18:00)
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How the US limits democracy in Japan, Korea and around the world
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SAKAMOTO RYUICHI: STOP ROKKASHO!!!!
More anti-nuclear news. All here in English
・ストップ!六ヶ所再処理工場アクティブ試験!
『原子力市民年鑑2005』
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』
原発老朽化問題研究会『老朽化する原発-技術を問う-』
第57回公開研究会「チェルノブイリ事故-20年目に視えてきたもの」(2006/3/4)[終]
チェルノブイリ原発事故20周年シンポジウム(2006/4/16)[終]
第58回公開研究会「志賀原発2号機運転差止判決-原発は地震に耐えられない-」[終](2006/4/22)
・もんじゅ裁判
・「原子力発電の経済性に関する考察」
・原子力長期計画
・美浜原発3号事故
All here in Japanese
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From Japan Press Service/Akahata
All 9 A-bomb survivors win suit calling for their illnesses to be certified as caused by A-bomb radiation
Fingerprint requirement for foreigners entering Japan infringes on human rights
JCP publishes appeal for blocking adverse revision of Fundamental Law of Education
Foil adverse revision of Fundamental Law of Education:
It is unconstitutional to use the law to force children to be blindly patriotic
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A few more sites of interest in Japan
Oxfam Japan
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Other news and activism/その他のニュースと活動関係
Some sites of interest
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006
Just Garments: A Worker-Organized Factory Challenges Sweatshops
Global Warming Could Be Worse Than Predicted, Research Shows
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation denounces sanctions
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