Month: December 2012

[Nikkan Gendai] Far from having no independence, the Bank of Japan is already dead.

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The monetary easing policy the Abe administration is going to take is basically right.  However, as I have mentioned so many times, a combination of issuance of government bonds and monetary easing policy as Mr. Mitsubashi proposes will not help pump money into real sector of the economy unless banks lend money to corporations.  This is because banks will pump the money gained through monetary easing policy into the financial market.
Direct assumption of the country’s debt by BOJ makes it possible to lend money to corporations contributing to GDP.  If this is mentioned, some people immediately claim the nonsense that it would give damage to the central bank’s independence.  However, if the central bank take a monetary policy to benefit bankers and their families, that really gives a remarkable damage to its independence.  The central bank cannot be an organization which works for the profit of a specific family or group, or politician.  Any monetary policy should be fair and transparent and should entail accountability.  Regrettably, there seems to be no such a central bank at all.

Masatoshi Takeshita
December 24, 2012
Bank Of Japan (photo from Wikipedia)

English translation of a Japanese article: Nikkan Gendai – December 21, 2012 –

Far from having no independence, the Bank of Japan is already dead.
Abe’s threat makes BOJ easily raise the white flag

<Complete acceptance of additional monetary easing measures and inflation target>

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has already completely surrendered to the Abe “administration.”  Whereas Abe has blatantly urged the BOJ to accept an inflation policy, BOJ at the monetary policy meeting on 20th unanimously decided on an additional monetary easing package worth 10 trillion yen and virtually decided to introduce a 2 percent price hike Abe proposes.  In a word, “Abenomics” has been swallowed.  Although it has spoken about the central bank’s independence, the BOJ has been back to its old palace waiting woman.

The BOJ has aimed for a 1 percent hike as a tentative “goal” for price stabilization.  However, Abe criticized that “the goal is not set in the stone.”  He has clearly claimed to “have the BOJ target” a 2 percent price hike.  At first, BOJ President Shirakawa resisted such blatant political intervention.  He said that “we want the government to respect the central bank’s independence” and with regard to a 2 percent inflation target, he rebutted by saying that “the people don’t simply want an inflation.”  However, after the LDP won a landslide victory, he bothered to visit Abe personally and yielded to him so easily at the monetary policy meeting on 20th.  It is far from the BOJ’s independence.

“Before the Lower House election, there were some BOJ old boys who got furious about (the way how Shirakawa let Abe say whatever he wanted to say) and President Shirakawa kept on resisting Abe.  However, with two-thirds of the seats gained by the LDP and New Komeito, revision of the Bank of Japan Law, which will strengthen the invention by the government, is about to become realized.  Such being the case, an atmosphere (that no response should be allowed) has been created within the BOJ.  As they were worried that revision of the Law might make it possible for the government to intervene in the personnel relations about positions lower than the president, they tried to tentatively show their allegiance.  This really shows a bureaucratic approach to defending the organization.”  (BOJ informant)

This is involved with the election of president planned for April next year.  Personnel relations on decision of BOJ president require the approval of the Diet; approval of the Upper House and the Lower House, respectively.  The LDP and New Komeito have 102 seats in the House of Councilors, which fall short of the majority by 16 seats.  The BOJ was too optimistic.  Seeing the House of Councilors, however, there are many political parties which can agree on monetary easing policy with the LDP and New Komeito.  This seemed to scare the BOJ.

<Mr. Kazumasa Iwata as Next President to be Decisive?>

Combined with Your Party (11 seats), Nihon Ishin no Kai (3 seats) and Kokumin Shinto (3 seats), all advocates for revision of the BOJ Law, they get the majority.   However hard President Shirakawa may resist, an aggressive advocate for monetary easing policy will be nominated a new president as Mr. Abe expects.  Mr. Kazumasa Iwata, director of Japan Center for Economic Research, is considered to be the most likely candidate.　　President Shirakawa has given up.  This indicates that the BOJ wants the government at least to grant it a right to choose its vice president.”  (Kasumigaseki official)

President Shirakawa, completely in constraint state, made an excuse, saying “if we deepen the understanding that there is a framework to carry out monetary policy flexibly, it has no meaning to discuss prospect or target.”

As for an inflation target, he had good deception, saying “we will give a conclusion at the next meeting next year.”  He is just putting off the inevitable.

“How deplorable the BOJ is!  The Abe administration has not yet been formed.  Mere “unofficial approach” has made the BOJ move around.  I can only say that the BOJ itself gives up its independence.  It does not seem that they live up to their responsibility to take a monetary policy for the people.  The BOJ, which plays ostrich, makes a fool of us.”  (Doshisha University Professor Noriko Hama specializing in international economics)

The common people had better be prepared for hyperinflation and protect their life. 

[The Voice of Russia] Wikileaks to Release Massive Amount of New Secret Documents

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I think that Mr. Julian Assange is not a false image like Osama bin Ladin created by the media, but a real warrior.
In view of the fact that Ecuador president has protected him, we know Mr. Assange is fighting for justice.


Masatoshi Takeshita
December 24, 2012
  
English translation of The Voice of Russia (Japanese version) – December 21, 2012 –


Wikileaks to Release Massive Amount of New Secret Documents

Photo:EPA
  
AFP quoted Mr. Julian Assange as saying that Wikileaks will release a series of secret documents including “those affecting every country in the world” sometime soon.

According to AFP, Mr. Assange spoke to his supporters from the balcony of the Ecuador embassy in London to celebrate his half-year life in the embassy.  Mr. Assange says that Wikileaks is preparing to release over one million secret documents in 2013.

The Wikileaks project specializing in release of secret documents started in 2006.  In particular, for more than four hundred thousand documents relating to the Iraq war attracted public attention and more than quarter-million U.S. diplomatic correspondences released at the end of 2010 also attracted similar attention.

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[Shinshu no Izumi] I don’t know why, but I cannot help but be skeptical about the election returns. (I have a hunch that the dark ages are coming.)

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I think that things will go like this at least temporarily.  However, they have tried too hard because they have been driven to the edge of the ring.
Soon, they will be destroyed even if we leave them alone.  At present, this world is completely controlled by deities.

Masatoshi Takeshita
December 22, 2012

LDP Shigeru Ishiba & Shinzo Abe
photo from google image search

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Monju Bosatsu - December 17, 2012 –

I don’t know why, but I cannot help but be skeptical about the election returns.  (I have a hunch that the dark ages are coming.): Shinshu no Izumi – December 16, 2012 –

Seventy or eighty percent of the people think they dislike operating nuclear power plants.  In spite of this, why did the election returns make the LDP led by Abe win a landslide victory?

I wonder if many people who voted for LDP thought that it would help things change for better to entrust everything to the LDP without confronting the three pending problems which put Japan in danger, namely, the dangers of nuclear power, accelerated deflation and the downturn in economy due to consumption tax hike.

And the consumption take hike was decided by an agreement of the three parties – LDP, New Komeito and JDP.  As the consumption tax hike is what originally the LDP asked for, the repugnance people have for JDP which tries to destroy their life should also be directed to the LDP in terms of nuclear power and consumption tax hike.  Speaking of a coalition government of the LDP and New Komeito, a nightmare of structural reform strategy Koizumi and Takenaka adopted would be resurrected.

In a word, as explained by the Fujisankei Communications Group and others, did votes heavily go to LDP as pendulum effect or backlash against the DPJ-led politics?  If so, it turns out that the people were almost never concerned about the above-mentioned “nuclear power,” “consumption tax hike” and “TPP.”  However, this writer does not feel so intuitively.  At least I feel that people around me had a sense of crisis about nuclear power and consumption tax hike.  It is consistent with those massive demonstrations in front of the prime minister’s official residence.

I can hardly think that the people have neglected the above-mentioned three issues and their interest changed over revision of the Constitution and national defense force.  This transition seems to be too queer.  Suppose the number of votes is counted normally and the election returns are right as the mass media reported, it turns out that majority of the people were agitated by the mass media and followed blindly what the LDP had said without questioning.  Does it mean brainwashing of the major mass media had a profound effect on the people?  Or was large-scale ballot-counting manipulation involving the Board of Elections operated?  This reminds me of the case of Al Gore and George Bush Jr.  What happened in the U.S. happens in Japan, too.

Mr. Toru Hashimoto and Mr. Shintaro Ishihara are supported by the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) behind the scene.  If they form a coalition government with the LDP, the Abe-LDP-led coalition government will be a puppet government of international financial mafia, which will pave the way for fascist regime soon.  In view of major mass media’s abnormally biased coverage and strategy to manipulate people, using psychology, it is possible that they will use a dirty trick to secure victory in a House of Councilors election slated for next year.

What I am most deeply concerned about is a great possibility that the Abe-led coalition government will follow in the footsteps of Mr. Yoshihiko Noda and put in place a system for extensive suppression of free speech.  Once such a huge network of political organizations led by the government is created, it is impossible to break down unipolar domination network in the House of Councilors, which is obedient to Washington.  International financial mafia is sure to order Abe, the president of LDP, to enact the Japanese version of “Patriot Act.”

[Mr.Naoto Amaki] Advocators of denuclearization, rally together for Town Mayor Idogawa!

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I wonder what the town assembly members who voted non confidence against Mayor Idogawa would do when their children or grandchildren are adversely affected by radiation in years to come.
How can human beings act as a tool of the bad, yielding to the temptation of immediate profits?
I have thought that law should require half of lawmakers to be women, but it might not be good.  This is because most of people who desire to be lawmakers are greedy, regardless of gender.

Masatoshi Takeshita
December 21, 2012

Naoto Amaki - a former Japanese diplomat


 English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Blog of Amaki Naoto – December 21, 2012 –


Advocators of denuclearization, rally together for Town Mayor Idogawa!


Katsutaka Idogawa, town mayor of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, was voted non-confidence unanimously in the town council on December 20, 2012.

It is not unusual that a town head is voted non-confidence in the town council.

The head must have a quarrel with the town council again in a small town of Fukushima.  However, unanimous consent is quite unusual.  The town mayor must have done something extremely wrong.

Such a small article must be read in this way without attracting a lot of attention from people.

However, that is not true.

This incidence has a symbolic meaning that advocators of denuclearization in this country will be expelled or eliminated one after another.

Mayor Idogawa is one of the few heads who have accused the government of taking no countermeasures against radiation contamination in Futaba and continued encouraging the residents to evacuate the town to save their life.

He resolved to go to Geneva, where he tried to make known to the world the relief of exposed residents and the incompetence of the Japanese government in the UN Commission on Human Rights.

The media that did not report about Mayor Idogawa’s words and deeds in Geneva don’t try to report about him correctly now.

As you know, the government has consistently discouraged evacuation of the residents in Fukushima Prefecture to hide the seriousness of the Fukushima accident from the people.  It has tried to cope with radiation contamination by spending a huge amount of money and energy for decontamination.

The government has plotted together with the local government.  They take skillful advantage of the sentiment of residents who cannot abandon their hometowns.

Of course, vested interests and money are involved behind this problem.

Advocators of denuclearization should rally together in Futaba town, Fukushima, and appeal for reelection of Mayor Idogawa.  Unless realizing it, they are deceitful.

It is fine to voice objections against restarting nuclear power plants in front of the Diet building.  It is fine to promote development of new energy.  It is fine to sue TEPCO.  It is fine to chant a slogan of denuclearization in the election.

However, what matters most in the issue of nuclear power is relief of exposed residents and compensation to them.  To this end, we have to fight against the oppression of state power.  We have to confront the bureaucracy, an executor of power.

Just now with a defeat in the general election of political parties which advocated abandonment of nuclear power, politics is about to head in the direction of maintaining it at once.

The non-confidence motion on Mayor Idogawa has been passed right on cue, which seems to symbolize this move.

Advocators of denuclearization after the general election should start fighting here.

[Nikkan Gendai] Immaturity of Japanese Who Worship Junichiro Koizumi, a Fraud

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Information from Mr. Masatoshi Takeshita posted on his blog – December 20, 2012 –

Junnichirou Koizumi ^ 
(*fake photo - source unknown)

English translation from a Japanese article: “Hibi Tantan” Document Blog – December 18, 2012 –


Immaturity of Japanese Who Worship Junichiro Koizumi, a Fraud

Koizumi Ranks Second in Questionnaire Survey of “Ideal Leader” for High School Students

High school students today like Junichiro Koizumi.   Such survey result has been released.   When Nagase (Musashino City, Tokyo) operating “Toshin High School,” a prep school for university hopefuls, asked 3,535  high school students in their first to third years about “who is an ideal leader,” Steve Jobs ranked first (with 250 votes), followed by Junichiro Koizumi (226 votes).

Third place went to Ryoma Sakamoto (180 votes), followed by Barack Obama (102 votes) and Abraham　Lincoln (96 votes).

I am not satisfied with these results.  Koizumi imposed new liberalism, market fundamentalism and relaxation of regulations on the people after becoming prime minister in 2001, saying “I will destroy the LDP.”  The reason for an increase in the working poor is because the people fell for his propaganda.

So why do the youth in their teens highly evaluate Koizumi?

“Because their parents have no spirit of criticism,” Mr. Shinya Gaku, a sociologist and writer, points out.

“It was seven years ago that the Koizumi administration won a big victory in an election held after the House of Councilors was dissolved because the postal privatization bill was rejected in the House.  Seventeen-year-old high school students now were still ten.  At that time their parents praised Koizumi without thinking deeply and frantically supported him.  Then children of such adults got to worship Koizumi under the thumb of them.  They have inherited a negative asset of “uncritical acceptance” and are unconscious of Koizumi’s deceit.  In fact, university students today have weakened spirit of criticism.”

By curious coincidence, the LDP has won a big victory in the House of Representatives election.  Shinzo Abe, president of LDP, has a plot to revise the Article 9 of the Constitution and change the SDF into a “National Defense Force.”  In spite of that, many people have no sense of crisis.

“Parents and children cannot make a connection between different things – it has become difficult for university students to get jobs, for which Koizumi is blamed and it is likely that they will be drafted if Abe should go out of control.  Such people are easily controlled by the policymaker of the day.  “Immaturity” of both parents and children seems to make Japan all the more go headlong into danger.”  (Mr. Shinya Gaku)

It is likely that we will see a restoration of the pre-war Dark Ages.

[You Tube] New Financial System – Neil Keenan

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Neil Keenan appears at the latter half of the video.
According to him, the Elders knew three decades ago that he would appear some day and have been waiting for him ever since then.
We should think that apparently they had been informed about it by deities.
This video helps us get a glimpse into the fact that deities have made careful arrangements behind us for him to appear.  It also lets us know that the information Benjamin Fulford gives us is accurate.

Masatoshi Takeshita
December 19, 2012

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Source: You Tube - December 14, 2012 –

New Financial System – Neil Keenan #keizai #seiji Fulford

  
 (Reference)


[Terrifying Truth Unknown to Japanese] Unification Church + Soka Gakkai = Coalition Government of LDP and New Komeito

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This article was posted in October 2006.  Only now we realize what was written in the article.  Reading the article, everybody must understand the meaning of a landslide victory of LDP and New Komeito in the House of Representatives election.  Incidentally, the people are foolish enough to have made such a choice.

Masatoshi Takeshita
December 17, 2012


English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: “Terrifying Truth Unkown to Japanese” – October 25, 2006

Unification Church + Soka Gakkai = Coalition Government of LDP and New Komeito

Mr. Masatomo Yamasaki, former vice chief director of Soka Gakkai who also served as legal advisor, has made an accusation: “Soka Gakkai is not only a religious group.  It is a colossal powerful   conglomerate unique in the world which expands into different areas of politics and economics.  It has mighty power, outstanding financial power and an elite bureaucracy occupied by graduates of Tokyo University and Kyoto University.  Furthermore, it has its own intelligence agency with division units, which have the mission of operating “special activities,” both legal and illegal.  Soka Gakkai has a legal team consisting of over 100 lawyers.  Most of them entered the legal profession after they had been offered special education for gifted children and ingrained with ‘Hail Ikeda!’ since the days of elementary school, junior high school and senior high school.  They put Soka Gakkai profits before order of state law; they don’t care about committing perjury in court.  They put pressure on the police, tactfully lobby prosecutors or judges to favor them, and in some cases bribe an attorney of the adverse party with money.”

Next, I’d like to cite the book “Junichiro and Pathology of Japan” by Hajime Fujiwara.

Soka Gakkai is designated as a cult religious group in France.

At the end of 1996, the administrative court in Paris rendered a decision: “Soka Gakkai makes the best use of commercial activities in the form of magazines, accessories and meetings.  They do business with 50 percent of sales profit rate, using most of its income and they aim to penetrate their activities into public authority.

When Soka Gakkai formed Komeito and went into politics, Soichi Oya (1900-1970) pointed out that “Soka Gakkai has character of fascism.”  Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka criticized Daisaku Ikeda by name, saying “He is Hitler chanting the Lotus Sutra.  He rebuked Soka Gakkai, manipulator of New Komeito, for its organizational character.

Actually, Daisaku Ikeda, at a conference of presidents’ organization in 1972, said, “Now is the time of individualism and liberalism.  Actually, totalitarianism is an ideal system.”  It was around the time that Gakkai launched its activities to “rule the world.”

Thus, Ikeda’s ambition and self-righteousness made Soka Gakkai enhance its image as a cult, deviating from faith.  Soka Gakkai had been excommunicated by Nichiren Shoshu Sect in 1990 and ended up as Ikeka Religion.  Obsessed with “ruling the world”, they ventured into a “total evolution.”

Top-priority targets for total evolution are the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  One hundred Gakkai members have already become prosecutors.  A quarter of employees of official diplomatic and consulate offices abroad are Gakkai members and the fate of one-third of LDP members is held in Soka Gakkai’s grip.  Beneath them are people of lower-class traditional group.  There are a great number of secret members in the entertainment world and the Self Defense Forces.  Its organizational power is extended over a wide range of fields.

Elite Gakkai members are mainly made officials of the Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and especially remarkably penetrate into the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Justice.  Fifteen prosecutors of Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office are said to be Gakkai members.  Therefore, LDP members with vested interests who are tainted by patronage get scared in front of the “authority” of the prosecutors who monitor lawmakers tainted by corruption.  This is said to be a reason why LDP sucks around Komeito.

In “Monthly Gendai” (July 2005 issue) is posted an article on a talk between Akira Uozumi, a journalist and   Sadao Hirano, former member of the House of Councilors, entitled “When power yields to religion.”  In the talk Hirano points out terrifying state of affairs as follows:

“Hirano: The current LDP/New Komeito coalition government is composed of Prime Minister Koizumi, who excludes flexible conservatives within the LDP from inner circle of government, and New Komeito which tends to get fascistic at once.  This makes the Diet dysfunctional.  If LDL and New Komeito come to an agreement over something, they never let DPJ discuss it because they hold the majority of lawmakers.  Given this situation, Diet members who are supposed to act as a check on the government at the request of the people cannot perform their duties.

Uozumi: Ultimately, the Diet has not function well since the start of LDP/New Komeito coalition government.

Hirano:  Precisely so.  This is a problem.  What worries me most is the possibility that New Komeito will never reflect on what it has done, keep taking this tough line and form a coalition government with Shinzo Abe.

In fact, Soka Gakkai has had close ties to former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi since the times of President Josei Toda.  When Mr. Kishi passed away, Seikyo Shimbun reported his death on its front page, even carrying a written memorial.

It is highly likely that Abe, who inherits political DNA of Kishi, will be joined together with Soka Gakkai, which is under the control of Daisaku Ikeda who faithfully observes the will of Josei Toda.  I am worried about it.  Some forces within the country try to manipulate Abe.  If Soka Gakkai joins it, undoubtedly Japan’s democracy will be destroyed.”

And now the situation Mr. Sadao Hirano was worried about has appeared.

[Mr. Shinsuke Mizui] Human Being Has Sensory Perception to Sense the Movement of Other Party’s Mind in Some Way

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Information from one of our readers, Mr. Prema posted on Shanti Phula blog – December 15, 2012 –

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Shinsuke Mizui blog How to Make Happy by Purification of Heart – December 13, 2012 –



Martial Art Goes Along With Homeostasis

Human being has sensory perception to sense the movement of other party’s mind in some way.

It might be perception of changes in breathing and movement by acoustic sense or reading of slight changes in facial muscles.  In any case, changes in information at the unconscious level can be sensed by perception.

Martial art is the art you risk your life on.  Therefore, it might seek most desperately for this technique.


 “Mushin” or empty-minded state in Martial Art (1)

Q: ‘Sen’ no ‘Sen’?
A: to apply technique before being attacked by sensing his consciousness


 “Mushin” or empty-minded state in Martial Art (2)

“Mushin”
When a person is in the state of empty mind, he has a feeling of identification with other party.
So he can sense the movement of consciousness of other party and make preemptive attack.


[Statement of Associate Professor Shimoji] Why do the police create lies to arrest me? The reason is I am participating in citizens groups protesting the re-start of nuclear power plants and the further spread of radiation.

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I feel another hero has appeared.  Reading this statement, you will find that the arrest of Associate Professor Shimoji was unlawful and he is a decent and intellectual person.  This unjust arrest, on the contrary, makes us know that the ruling class has been driven into a corner.
Fools who side with the ruling class have to prepare to be ruined unless they change their attitude and take a conscientious action.  I am writing this kind of thing because there are some people who barely have soul.

Masatoshi Takeshita
December 16, 2016

Masaki Shimoji

English translation of an excerpt of a Japanese article: Monju Bosatsu - December 15, 2012 –


Statement of Hannan University Associate Professor Shimoji, 
who was arrested at his home and has been detained 

  (He wants this statement to be delivered to as many people as possible); from member of “Osaka Declaration Group”

<Comment of group member>

This is a statement of Masaki Shimoji, associate professor at Hannan University.  The other day he was suddenly arrested by the police who came to his house and confiscated a total 129 item goods including PC and passbooks.  He has been engaged in a movement to protest against accepting earthquake debris by Osaka municipal government.

Associate Professor Shimoji requests us to deliver this statement to as many people as possible.

==============================

*We have received a statement of Associate Professor Shimoji unfairly under detention.*

(So in original)

What is written in my arrest warrant is untrue.  I am totally shocked that the police, who witnessed my actions that are the basis for my arrest, have created completely false statements.  Why do the police created lies in order to arrest me?  The reason is I am participating in citizens groups protesting the re-start of nuclear power plants and the further spread of radiation (through disaster area debris incineration).  In particular, I have criticized the unlawful conduct by police that I have come across through my participation in this movement.  I have not done anything wrong.

Japan and the world we live in is an extremely dangerous place.  The nuclear disaster of Fukushima is not under control, and should the spent fuel pool in reactor no. 4 collapse, the consequences would be catastrophic for not only Japan but the world as well.  Nothing has been done to deal with nuclear fallout, as food and other products continue through the distribution system.  Not only that, a campaign claiming “we don’t have enough electricity” is being waged, and use of nuclear energy is still being promoted.  This is sheer madness.

In the coming 6 to 12 months, the policies implemented by the government will determine our future.  Looking at the faces of my students on a daily basis who are about 20 years old, I think about what kind of world they will live in when in 20 years they reach the same age as me.  Each time I do, I regret that those of us of the older generation were unable to prevent the nuclear disaster.  The young are not responsible.  If anything, I want to work toward leaving an even somewhat better place for them.  The disaster has already happened and there is no much time left.  But there is hope.

Now, I cannot act but I have not given up.  I have been able to deliver this statement despite my detention.  And if enough people act and raise their voices, we might be in time.  I especially call on other university educators, doctors, scientists, and all those who are considered to be ‘specialists’: Lear from those citizens who appear to be “uneducated or emotional.”  Their voices remain unheard and ignored; speak out so their concerns can be heard.

The truth will show itself through a process of critique and dialogue.  Stand on the side of those who oppose and act so that the truth will be known, by taking to task the government and those wielding power.  You may make errors, and that is all right.  Always stand on the side of those with less power and support them.  Even if they make mistakes, use your authority to get to the truth when dealing with those in power.  It doesn’t matter what your field is; have the courage to speak out.

Finally, I address the issue that I have been most deeply involved; the debris from disaster areas.  The city of Osaka forcefully began experimental incineration of such debris at the end of November and continues preparation for the full implementation beginning in February of next year.  As I have repeatedly said, the wide-spread incineration throughout Japan of disaster debris will not benefit anyone.  Budget funding earmarked for the reconstruction of disaster areas will be funneled off for such incineration, hampering progress on reconstruction.  Radiation will be scattered, those living in affected areas will be forced to endure living in contaminated conditions, and the responsibilities of TEPCO will be lightened.  We will pay for this with our lives and that of our children and those who are yet born.  Such an irresponsible policy should not be allowed.  We must stop this.  Those of you who have studied and fought together, do not give up and continue to fight.  For those of you who were not know about the debris incineration issue, learn more and lend us a hand.  This is a fight to save our future.

I do not know when I will be released, but I will return at some point.  Even if I’m not visible, I am with you in spirit.  As for the others who were also unfairly arrested, I’m sure they feel the same way.  I look forward to seeing you again.

December 12, 2012  Masaki Shimoji

*Note) Font color changed into red in some parts for emphatic expression 

[Sankei Shimbun] Nuclear Reactor at Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant Likely to be Decommissioned – Shock to Kansai Electric Power Company

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Please stop operating as many nuclear reactors as possible.  Please decommission them.
Masatoshi Takeshita
December 11, 2012


Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant
( Fukui Prefecture in Japan )


English translation of a Japanese article: Monju Bosatsu – December 11, 2012 –
Source: Sankei Shimbun – December 10, 2012 at 21:31)


Nuclear Reactor at Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant Likely to be Decommissioned – Shock to Kansai Electric Power Company
Infoseek Rakuten News


The fracture zone directly beneath the Tsuruga nuclear power plant (Fukui Prefecture) operated by the Japan Atomic Power Co. (JAPCO) has almost concluded to be an active fault and it is likely that the nuclear reactor there will be decommissioned.  This news has posed a quite a shock to electric power companies including Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO).  This is because the KEPCO and other power companies have used the Tsuruga plant as power supply source and also have spent a vast amount of money on the operation and maintenance of the plant.  It is pointed out that the fracture zones beneath the sites of both Oi and Mihama nuclear power plants (Fukui Prefecture) operated by KEPCO and the Shiga nuclear power plant by Hokuriku Electric Power Company are also likely to be active faults.  Therefore, the possibility that reactors at these plants will be decommissioned, which depends on the decision of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), cannot be ruled out.

Revenue from power rates the JAPCO receives from electric power companies is composed of the ‘basic charge’ for operation and maintenance of the nuclear power plant and the ‘meter rate’ varying based on electric supply.  Revenue for 2010 from KEPCO alone amounted to 42.5 billion yen.  As for revenue for 2011, it reached 34 billion yen, which accounted for 8.4 percent of total payment for electricity purchased by KEPCO, in spite of the suspension of No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant.

As KEPCO expected to receive electric power from the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in the future, President Shosuke Mori told a press conference at the Kansai Economic Federation to call for restarting the plant, saying “KEPCO has paid a considerable amount of fixed costs and naturally wants to receive enough electricity commensurate with such payment.”

On the other hand, as the fracture zone beneath the Tsuruga plant has been almost concluded to be an active fault, power companies beneath which there may be active faults are seriously scared about future survey.

On-site survey is slated for 13th and 14th this month in five nuclear power plants including the Totsu nuclear power plant operated by Tohokoku Electric Power Company (Aomori Prefecture).  As for the fracture zone beneath the site of Totsu plant, Professor Mitsuhisa Watanabe, Toyo University (specialist of geomorphology) points out that “the zone is considered to be an active fault by most definitions.”  It is pointed out that the faults beneath the sites of KEPCO’s Mihama nuclear plant and the Monju fast-breeder reactor (Fukui Prefecture) and the active faults beneath the neighborhood area will be activated together.

An additional survey of the fracture zone at the site of Oi nuclear power plant where No. 3 and No.4 reactors are in operation will be made by NRA’s research team of experts on 28th and 29th this month.  KEPCO comments “we would like to explain it is not an active fault” but if it is judged to be an active fault, operation of No. 3 and No. 4 reactors is highly likely to be suspended.