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[Aobadai Life] Probably Japan Cannot Evade Rearmament

As I have often pointed out, it would be natural that future is like what is written in this article. People who have listened to my lectures since early times know that I had called attention to this kind of stuff long before.

Being short of time, I have provided various kinds of information through Unity Design (now: Shanti Phula) to let as many people as possible know it since March 11, 2011.

Unless you acquire intelligence not to be deceived by false information and sensitivity to discriminate between truth and falsehood, you will be manipulated by bad guys as they wish.

Piecing together all information I have provided, you will understand that the future direction I have shown you is mostly true.

I do want to avoid war by all means. Some of you may remember what I talked about in a lecture held in Fukuoka long time ago: “Your son may get drafted.” Reading this article now, you will understand that I did not say it in joke at all.

Masatoshi Takeshita

Photo from Wikimedia

English translation of a Japanese article: “Monju Bosatsu” – August 15, 2012 –

Source: Aobadai Life – August 15, 2012 –

Probably Japan Cannot Evade Rearmament

As I have to write this kind of text on the anniversary of the end of World War II, I have mixed feelings about it. I feel that considering the trend around Japan, neo nationalism has gained power and remilitarization cannot be avoided.

Basically, looking back to history, when a country suffers depression, nationalism gains power and the country tends to be exclusivist. Some of typical examples are the Nazis and prewar Japan. The bigger mistrust toward the established political party becomes, the more greatly people lean towards new political clout, military and religion which insist on their radical stance. As a result, minority community in society will be targeted.

In Japan now, the fever of Ishin-no-kai (Osaka Restoration Group) led by Osaka Governor Hashimoto has gained momentum. However, regrettably, antipathy to South Korea, which itself has problems and often sees demonstrations occur, may be reaching boiling point. Their view on what they consider power, including vested interest related to the pachinko industry, cult religions and conspiracy theories, seems to be horrifyingly similar to the hostile view of Jews by the Nazis. As seen in the London Olympic Games, South Korea in question does anything for Japan-bashing; not only anti-Japanese education but also acquittal of anti-Japanese riots. And now President of South Korea Lee-Myung-bak made remarks that Japanese Emperor can visit Korea if he begs forgiveness. As you know, the Emperor is a holy existence like religion for Japanese and the Japanese public exploded with wrath. Additionally, as automakers and home appliance makers have been severely beaten by Korean counterparts, for which Japan is to be blamed, many Japanese feel quite bitter about their rise.

Under these circumstances, a Hong Kong private organization landed on the Senkaku islands on the anniversary of the end of the World War II. I wonder what the spirits of the war dead might think in the heaven on this August 15. The very thought of it makes me sad and miserable. As Japan was insulted on the anniversary, nationalism of Japanese will inevitably gain power.

However, what China and Korea want to avoid most for their security should be Japan’s rearmament. Their excessive provocation seems to worsen the situation.

If the Ishin-no-kai holds a casting vote in the next election, they might take tough measures in foreign policy such as rushing into rearmament, with such forceful attitude for good or ill as seen in Osaka.

The LDP is considering restoration of conscription. It is the only thing I do not want to be realized.

[Ichiro Iiyma] Being At Odds With Each Other Not Wise, etc.

That’s it—this sense is it. If we fall for the plot of bad guys, we will get involved in a war.

Masatoshi Takeshita

English translation of two Japanese articles:Ichiro Iiyma’s Little HP – August 15 and 16, 2012 –

Being At Odds With Each Other Not Wise – August 15, 2012 –

Today, I am busy with socializing with people at this time of Bon holidays.

In the meantime, I posted the following text on a bulletin board “Hou-chi-gi.”

Please read it.

I never talk about neighboring countries or neighbors, depending on my likes and dislikes.

Some Koreans are bad and others are very good-natured.

I superficially make friends with even people I dislike regardless of nationality.

One of those I dislike even helped me make a lot of money.

When I gave him some money in reward for it, he sent me very expensive Korean seaweed.

Well, the Lee Mung-bak administration shows the terminal disease of worst approval rate.

To cover up this lame-duck condition, the administration tries to have their people direct attention toward a foreign enemy Japan.

This is a conventional way of second-rate politics in which the government tries to have the people hate a foreign enemy to cover up inner contradiction.

It is exemplified by the “visit to the Takeshima islands by the South Korean president” and his comment that “Japan should sincerely apology for us if the emperor wants to visit South Korea.”

What silly words and actions! However, my anger will make no difference.

At a proper time I spoke softly, “Everything your country’s president has recently done is not so wise.”

“You’re right. I am ashamed as a Korean. I am sorry” was the response of my Korean friend.

“Never mind,” I promptly answered.

I think this is the way to get along with a neighboring country.

Antagonism between Japan and South Korea, and Japan and China just pleases the U.S. warmongers.

I can keep good company with anybody whoever he/she is South Korean, Chinese or American.

That makes me happy and above all, helps me get a lot of business! And it is mutually profitable.

The more happier and profitable life we can often enjoy under a win-win situation, the better it is.

I feel as if I were a Horie-mon.*

Wrote by Ichiro Iiyama under a pen name of Night Raccoon

Spoken Mantra in the Last Day of Bon Holidays – August 16, 2012 –

Well, when Japan and South Korea build a friendly and cooperative relationship, U.S. warmongers cannot take the lion’s share. So they always plot out “a policy to put distance between Japan and China” and “a policy to have Japan and South Korea hate each other.”

Narrow-minded people who cannot understand this simple fact and show their hatred of South Korea and China are species despised as “Netouyo.”**

Such people, including epigones of Netouyo like Yoshie Sakurai and Satsuki Katayama, cannot get along with neighboring countries and so cannot live a happy life in wide and affluent Asia. How poor they are!

Note)

* Horiemon – Mr. Takafumi Horie, popularly known as Horiemon, the former Livedoor CEO

** Netouyo – (Internet slang) People who post rightist messages on an Internet bulletin board

[Ichiro Iiyama] I Do Impeach and Denounce American Faithful Dog Shintaro Ishihara!

Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – August 12, 2012 –

English translation of a Japanese article: Ichiro Iiyama’s Little HP – August 12, 2012 –

I Do Impeach and Denounce American Faithful Dog Shintaro Ishihara!

With regard to landing on Takeshima islands by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said at a regular press conference on 10^th, “It cannot be helped, but it is frustrating.”

Despite of the incursion by South Korea into Japanese territory, he responded merely “It cannot be helped.”

This remark proves that Shintaro Ishihara is a “genuinely fake patriot.”

This has also made it clear that acquisition of the Senkaku islands is not manifestation of “patriotism.”

Acquisition of the Senkaku islands is the strategy of the U.S. Empire which maneuvers to deteriorate the Japan-China relations. Shintaro Ishihara, an American faithful dog, has no patriotism in the slightest!

The U.S. Empire has a plot to skim the lion’s share in China’s vast market while deteriorating the Japan-China relations and excluding Japanese corporations from the market. Being fully aware of it, Shintaro Ishihara tries to cooperate with the Empire.

Shintaro Ishihara is exactly the same traitor as DPJ’s Noda.

If Tokyo Governor Ishihara has a slight spirit of “patriotism,” he must be able to say No to the existence of the Yokota base even in a small voice.

More than ten years ago, Shintaro Ishihara took the Tokyo Governor’s post with his pledge of “Reversion of Yokota to Japan.” He is the same chronic offender against political pledge as the DPJ.

I have never heard Shintaro Ishihara say disconsolately about the present situation of Japan, in which vast airspace over the Tokyo Metropolitan area is under control of U.S. forces.

I can tell you that Shintaro Ishihara is really an American faithful dog with no patriotism!

Yoshio Kodama, a right-wing leader, who looked so scary that he made even gangsters speechless with fear, put airs like a patriotic political bully. He, however, was no more than a CIA agent. Just like him, Shintaro Ishihara is no more than a comprador politician who sells out Japan, Tokyo and Senkaku islands to U.S., I can tell you!

Buy the Senkaku islands in order to protect the territory of Japan? There seems to be many Tokyo residents who cannot spot such a monkey trick. I am afraid that proberbly they will not spot it forever.

[Monju Bosatsu] End of American Dream by Yoshihisa Yamaura (August 2nd issue of “Monthly Nippon”)

People who have listened to my lectures since I started lecture activities in Fukuoka know that from the beginning, I completely denied the American dream. From long before the September 11^thterrorist attacks, I had advised that you should realize the fictitiousness of the American dream and be careful not to get involved in it. After reading this article, you will precisely understand what I mentioned you should be careful about. It is excellently summarized by this article.

When Koizumi yelled out “I’ll break up the LDP!” and enjoyed popularity among people, I had often mentioned “The gap between the rich and the poor will be wider and we’ll see many homeless people. The reform toward this direction is a path to war.” You understand the current situation is exactly what I said. Please be very careful not to have us pave the way for war.

Masatoshi Takeshita

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: “Monju Bosatsu” – July 24, 2012 –

Source: Article by Yoshihisa Yamaura written for August issue of “Monthly Nippon”

End of American Dream by Yoshihisa Yamaura

There seems to be dumb Japanese who still believe that the U.S. is the country of the American dream. The problem is that some corporate managers are included in such people.

But actually the American dream has already collapsed. Correctly speaking, the American dream itself was an elaborately concocted illusion.

American economy after the war has been favorably led by globalization of financial capitalism which the notorious military-industrial complex and Jewish financial capitalists advocate. Especially after the September 11^th terrorist attacks, the U.S. forces have been influenced by the speculation of right-wing Zionists and have continued wars intended to accomplish “Great Israel Doctrine” while Jewish financial capitalists have worked for centralization of global finance.

Failure in such centralization was the economic downturn precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

As a result, contradiction in American society, which had been covered up by expansion of financial capitalism, came to the surface at once. To sum up, it is a big gap-widening society in the country.

According to statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Census, whites have 22 times as much asset as blacks and the gap was widened approximately twice due to the recent great recession.

Miki Tsutsumi points out in her book “Reportage: Big Poor Country U.S.” that the U.S. government has established a mechanism with which it uses shrewd tricks to draft young people who have come down to economic refugees. She strictly criticizes the U.S. government for bringing about the social situation where such young people are forced to join the armed forces to survive.

And the number of suicides in the armed forces is rapidly increasing.

They have realized that the war for their country is too far away from justice and is manipulated by some different power. They feel hopeless to know the fact that it is meaningless and empty to fight at the cost of their lives.

The poor become much poorer and an air of despair is covered with American society. And now there are 43 million people who will be starved to death without food stamps (coupons provided by the government for living assistance). On the other hand, the exceptionally rich and upper class people who have extorted financial assets from the poor have gained power. These “new upper class people” occupy wealth and live exclusively in the gated communities (walled cities).

Such extreme social stratification has simultaneously invited destruction of social ethics and morality. If no measures are taken to fight poverty and corporate managers have a hand in economic crimes to make big profits, nobody wants to live honestly. We can say that virtues such as “diligence” and “honesty” American workers used to have and place value on do not exist any longer.

Materialism and worship of money is the real culprit of collapse of American society.

This is no fire on the other side of the river.

Japanese society after the war, which has naively embraced American values, has the same disease. The current situation of the U.S. is the future of Japan.

Unless we Japanese come back to what we should be, Japan will inevitably collapse.

[Jiro Motozawa] Security Bill Noda Aims At Is Related to War

Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – August 8, 2012 –

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Jiro Motozawa “Japan’s Landscape” (1121)

Source: “Media Association” Organ Bulletin – August 8, 2012 –

Security Bill Noda Aims At Is Related to War

I was asked by an editor of a monthly “The Funai” to “write on security bill the Noda administration aims at.” The bill, a rehash of the prewar Peace Preservation Law, is a terrifying bill. At the time of a war this kind of bill is always enacted.

Rehash of Peace Preservation Law

As is the case for the Peace Preservation Law, both the anti-spy bill the LDP administration proposed after the war and a security bill Noda/DPJ aims at now should be recognized as part of legislative proposal for war. It is a serious challenge against peaceful people.

Many Japanese never forget the fact that innocent citizens like liberalists were detained and killed under these bad laws in the prewar period. This is also remembered by the people and researchers on Japan of neighboring countries. This is the law to arrest and detain opponents of war in order to wage a war. It is a trick an evil state power uses.

I have got angry with Noda who tries to establish a bad law. This is the last target of the Noda/Matsushita NATIONAL PANASONIC administration, which has misgoverned the country as it likes.

I cannot hold anger at jurists who never say or do anything about this important, problematic bill.

As for the anti-spy bill, LDP liberalists including Katsuhiko Shirai united themselves within the party and killed it. I wonder whether we can expect the DPJ to do the same. It is impossible because the bill is too serious issue. The Matsushita School of Government and Management administration is an ultraright-wing administration and the liberalist within the party are too week.

This bill should also be killed by the demonstration that citizens come together for in front of the prime minister’s official residence.

[Hibi Tantan] Future of People’s Life Likely To Be Determined　Next Week – Destiny of Noda Administration and Consumption Tax Hike

I think this is sure proof that Friday demonstrations have given considerable damage to Noda administration.

Takeshita Masatoshi

English translation of an excerpt of a Japanese article: “Hibi Tantan” Document Blog – August 7, 2012 –
(Source: Nikkan Gendai – August 6, 2012)

Future of People’s Life Likely To Be Determined – Destiny of Noda Administration and Consumption Tax Hike

It was not supposed to turn out like this. I suppose that Prime Minister Noda and Finance Ministry bureaucrats have been taken aback with the situation.

Seven opposition parties* confirmed their resolve to submit a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet within 7th. This is of course to kill the consumption tax hike bill. Therefore, they will submit it before voting on the bill. This also aims at having LDP reveal their political stance. If LDP rejects the no-confidence motion, it turns out that the party puts trust in Noda. Common sense tells us that the LDP which has criticized the Noda administration cannot put “trust” in the Noda Cabinet.

Mr. Hirotada Asakawa, a political analyst, says:

“The LDP has been convinced that the House of Representatives will be dissolved immediately after the tax hike bill is established by the three-party agreement.
However, Prime Minister Noda mentioned the budget compilation for the next fiscal year and showed his intention to postpone the dissolution in a blatant way. If the tax hike bill is enacted, the prime minister will evade the dissolution. How stupid of LDP to have been cooperative with him! They have been on the horns of dilemma; they want to enact the bill and also want to force the prime minister to dissolve the House of Representatives. At that time the seven opposition parties expressed to submit a no-confidence motion. But if LDP gets into line with them, LDP will completely lose face as the largest opposition party. Therefore, they have begun efforts to independently submit a no-confidence motion as early as the beginning of next week.”

Although other opposition parties submitted a no-confidence motion to kill the tax hike bill, the LDP, which is unwilling to tune to them, is going to find another reason for no-confidence motion. However, if the LDP submits a no-confidence motion, other opposition parties will go along with them regardless of difference in reason.

*Public anger starts getting Noda maladministration cornered.

Noda ignores the nation’s economic conditions, the people’s will and DPJ’s campaign pledge for the sake of a big consumption tax hike. How insane he is! To enact a bill on the hike, he joins hands with the political enemy LDP and shelves every issue on social security simply to pass the bill into legislation in the Diet. What a confused person he is!

Although such gammon cannot go unmentioned, he used sophistry that “At this rate Japan will go bankrupt and so a tax hike is necessary” and bragged about his self-claimed “decisive politics.” Finally, he talked tall about the compilation of the next fiscal budget and the review of right to collective self-defense. Silly, incompetent prime minister put on airs like a great prime minister.

Even now Noda says about the no-confidence motion, “We will hold together within the ruling party and form alliance with considerate opposition parties, LDP and New Komeito and then solemnly defeat the motion. The focus is on whether the no-confidence motion is passed or not.

Mr. Minoru Mori, a political analyst, says.

“It is safe to say that an election will surely make the country better. The ultimate decision maker of politics is the people. Lawmakers who support tax hikes or promote nuclear energy will never come back to political world any longer. The LDP intends to come to power again and organize a coalition government with the remnants of defeated DPJ, but such scenario is no chance. No-confidence motion is not the only problem. If the opposition camp submits a censure motion against Noda in the House of Councilors, deliberations on the tax hike bill will be stopped. Prime Minister Noda will have no way out. This situation will be desirable for the people.”

On the other hand, a misfire of no-confidence motion will make a great difference and get this country into a mess, the above-mentioned Mr. Yaroku Kobayashi points out.

“If the three-party agreement is valid and the consumption tax hike bill is forced to be passed, economy will be terribly deteriorated. With corporate restructuring proceeding, ordinary people cannot live decently and the number of the poor and needy will increase. Politics will turn back to the prewar “yokusan” system, a totalitarian system. Everything will be decided by a grand coalition government as it pleases. Nuclear power plants will be restarted one after another. Under the name of fortifying the Japan-U.S. alliance and TPP, subservience to U.S. will be accelerated. Not only will People’s life be completely destroyed but state sovereignty and democracy will collapse. I wonder whether incumbent lawmakers have the good sense to fight back such tidal stream. We are about to reach a major historical crossroads.”

Probably the future of this country and people’s life will be determined this week. We are approaching such a critical stage.

Note)
The no-confidence motion in question was defeated at the plenary session of the House of Representatives on 9th.
*”Seven opposition parties” in the original text is incorrect. Correctly, it is “Six opposition parties” except LDP and New Komeito.

[Ryusaku Tanaka] “Opposition to Deployment of Osprey” Rally & Demonstration in Tokyo

The first step to independence is to discard feelings of dependence on somebody.
We will create the future world.

Masatoshi Takeshita

English translation of a Japanese article: Ryusaku Tanaka Journal – August 5, 2012 –

“Opposition to Deployment of Osprey”

Rally & Demonstration in Tokyo

A woman from Okinawa, who said she had her ancestral land offered for the U.S. military base, attended a protest march with tears running down her face.

- On 5th at Chiyoda Ward Photo by Suwa -

A rally of residents of Okinawa Prefecture to protest against deployment of the Osprey, U.S. marine transport aircraft which has a vertical takeoff and landing capacity, was scheduled to be held in Okinawa Prefecture on 5th. However, the rally was postponed by Typhoon No. 11. Tanana and Suwa were supposed to cover a story about Okinawa filled with anger but were forced to give it up.

However, a rally & demonstration, which had also been planned to be held in Okinawa, was held in Tokyo as scheduled. We fully understand that deployment of the Osprey is not simply a regional issue limited to Okinawa and Iwakuni because test flights of the dangerous flying object whose accidents have repeatedly occurred will be made along eight or nine routes over the Japanese archipelago.

I hear that Defense Minister Bin Morimoto, who took the trouble to visit the U.S. to take a test flight on Osprey, said proudly “It gave me a comfortable, stable flight.” The more strongly government officials emphasize “safety” of something, the more dangerous it is. The nuclear accident in Fukushima is undeniable proof of it.

Mr. Hiroshi Ashitomi, a joint representative of Anti-heliport Council, sent a telephone message to the meeting place at Kanda, Tokyo from Okinawa. “Defense Minister Morimoto should keep boarding the Osprey for one hundred thousand hours…….. We cannot trust the DPJ. Let’s wage a campaign for building a new Japanese society. We are going to create the future of Okinawa.”

Residents of prefectures where nuclear power plants are located and Okinawa are victims of the government which feels no shame about forcing a lot of burden on the weak.

Dancers dancing Eisa, an Okinawa bon festival dance, led a protest march, followed by long lines of protesters.

Photo by Tanaka

(Comment by Ryusaku Tanaka & Kyo Suwa)

[Gendai] Mr. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate for Economics “Tax Hike Policy by Noda Administration Is Wrong”

Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – July 27, 2012 –

English translation of a Japanese article: Gendai Net – July 24, 2012 –

Mr. J.E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Gives Repeated Warnings:

“Tax Hike Policy by Noda Administration Is Wrong”

This economic policy makes the 99 percent unhappy.

A rebuttal statement by the grand old man of economics to the nonsense of tax hike policy Prime Minister Noda is going headlong into has finally made an appearance. “THE PRICE OF IINEQUALITY” by Mr. Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate in economics in 2001, released in U.S. was published (entitled “Economy Making the 99 Percent Unhappy” in Japanese) in Japan on 21st.

At once paging through the book, we find it astounding. He completely criticizes fiscal austerity by means of the cuts in expenditures and tax hike which the U.S. and Europe have been obsessively devoted to.

The book is summarized as follows:

*Promotion of fiscal austerity will simply aggravate economic downturn and never produce betterment of fiscal situation as expected.

*To make the taxation system not only fairer but more graduated, it is necessary to plug up loopholes and apply tax hike and reduction in tax rate to the richest and the poorest, respectively.

*It is recommendable to abolish hidden subsidies buried in the taxation system and to delete loopholes and other special clauses which have so often enabled so many corporations to evade tax which they are supposed to pay.

*Earnings of the top 1 percent account for more than 20 percent of the whole national income. With 10 percent increase in tax rate imposed on them, tax revenues equal to approximately 2 percent of the nation’s GDP will be created.

Mr. Stigliz’s opinions and suggestions are based on the fact that this world has been divided into the richest 1 percent and the poor 99 percent. As politicians and their supporters always carry out policies only for the 1 percent, the 99 percent remain unhappy. He argues that that is fundamentally wrong. Many countries in the world have confronted the same tragedy. The Noda administration is going to follow in their footsteps.

Mr. Stiglitz served on the US Council of Economic Advisors during the Clinton administration in 1993 and served as the vice chairman of the Council between 1995 and 1997. Subsequently he took office as the World Bank’s senior vice president and concurrently chief economist until January 2000. He is also known as an active person and joined in a demonstration to protest against widened economic disparities in Wall Street, New York, U.S. in October last year.

Yaroku Koyayashi, a professor emeritus at Tsukuba University, comments as follows:

“EU countries have escalated the fiscal austerity with too much prioritizing financial reconstruction. As a result of it, the real economy has declined. In France there was a change in president as a result of the election and they have switched over from a policy of free competition to a policy aiming for ‘improving employment situation.’ As Mr. Stiglitz says, global trend is changing to active macroeconomic policy for business recovery. On the other hand, Japan is going to take tax-hike measures. Japan has been left behind the global trend.”

If a tax hike is forced to be carried out under such conditions, only Japan will be isolated.

[Monthly Nippon] Civilization Rebels against Humanity & Noda Administration Slave of Washington Commented by Shizuka Kamei

Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – July 25, 2012 –

English translation of a Japanese article: Monthly Nippon – July 24, 2012 –

Noda Administration Slave of Washington.
Commented by Shizuka Kamei Civilization Rebels against Humanity

――　A lot of people have joined a demonstration against restarting nuclear power plants in front of the prime minister’s official residence and the demonstration has arose a big tidal wave of denuclearization movement.

Kamei:
I was also watching the demonstration. A great number of people got together in swarms in front of the prime minister’s official residence. And yet participants were only ordinary citizens like housewives who never make any political claims.

If I say this kind of think, you might think I am possessed by the supernatural. I feel God’s hand has brought about this tidal wave. We can no longer stop this tide.

Japan has been devoted only to making money for a long time without paying attention to the sufferings of others and destruction of environment. The perfect example was construction of nuclear power plants. The public spirit has continued being destroyed. The soul of the Japanese has disappeared.

Under such circumstances, a nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima occurred. Why did it occur in Japan, not in other counties? That is because Japan was given a mission to play a role as a forerunner. The mission is the voice of God who orders us to break away from dependence on nuclear power energy and lead the world.

Japan is not the only suffering country. Grass-roots movements of the same sort are occurring in Middle East, Europe, the U.S. and hinterlands of China, too. Every field, including politics, economics and culture, is fraying around the edges. Humanity is rebelled against by culture.

In Japan at the last days of the Edo Era, a movement called “Eejanaika Movement” occurred. In the movement citizens fanatically danced a dance, shouting “Eejanakai (Don’t mind dance)!” This reflects the public’s unconscious reaction to the crisis the then Japan faced.

This demonstration for abolition of nuclear energy is comparable to the movement. Japan today also faces a big crisis.

However, the DPJ administration cannot sense the crisis. I hear Prime Minister Noda gave a comment on the demonstration, saying “A lot of noise.” He has no idea of why such big-scale demonstrations are occurring in Japan where it has been said that demonstrations would never occur and why the people show anger with a loud voice.

Noda Administration Turns into Slave of Washington

―― Washington made a thorough investigation of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and took the data back home.

Kamei:
That was not the first time. Immediately after the A-bombing of Hiroshima, they constructed facilities on a hill Hijiyama to examine and record the reality of radiation damage caused by the A-bomb. They thoroughly examined the citizens exposed to radiation. I know it well because my sister worked there.

――　In the first place, the nuclear reactors developed by the General Electric Company (GE) was defective in that the volume of containment vessel as a whole was small. There exists a fact that a designer of the reactors showed concerns about the safety and later left the company for that reason.

Kamei:
Not exclusively nuclear power plants. Everything including Japan’s economic system and political circumstances is Americanized. Every one of them is defective.

To move out of such situation, a change in power was made three years ago. Its aim was to free ourselves from American values which had run rampant across the country, reconsider the Japan-U.S. relations, have a say with Washington and demand whatever is necessary.

This is not emotional anti-Americanism. Bilateral equal partnership has a positive effect on both countries. Japan has to accomplish independence from Washington in order to cooperate closely with it in the true sense of the term.

With this aim, we froze the postal privatization. We aimed to break away from market fundamentalism which never fits in the culture of Japan. And under the leadership of Prime Minister Hatoyama, we tried to solve the Futenma issue.

However, our goals and plans were met by strong backlash. Under the subsequent Kan Administration, the DPJ reverted to the conventional policy-making in compliance with Washington’s wishes, which was common practice at the times of the LDP and New Komeito. Noda Administration has also swallowed his pride to obey Washington as requested as if he were their slave.

( Please see the August issue of our monthly for continuing story. )