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Whatever he may say, Mr. Hatoyma is always made fun of.  But I place my hopes on him.

English translation of a Japanese article from Yukio Hatoyama’s Official Website – June 26, 2012 -

On Vote on Bills Related to Social Security and Tax Reforms

I voted against the bill for revision of the consumer tax rate submitted by the government, which will be urgently submitted to a plenary session of the House of Representatives.

I think that it was change of Japan’s politics that the public hoped for most when a change of administration took place three years ago.  And what we should have had to do most to live up to their expectations was to fight against vested interests.  We insisted that we make a better society in which each citizen can feel affluent with no sense of unfairness, by changing the politics and economics trapped by vested interests.  We also insisted that we shift from the politics left entirely up to bureaucrats to the politics in which politicians take the initiative in policy-making, and more importantly the politics led by the people.

Then I was raised even to the position of prime minister to achieve this mission and made efforts to rework the groups spoiled by vested interests with overwhelming support of the people.  However, bureaucrats, Finance Ministry officials and major mass media which surmised the intentions of the U.S. fiercely resisted our efforts.  I am deeply sorry for my fault that I failed to survive such resisting forces.

I still believe the direction I tried to go to was not wrong.  However, subsequent administrations made an about-face on the party’s stance, for they took me as a negative example and thought “Mr.Hatoyama failed because he resisted bureaucrats and the U.S.  We will have no trouble as long as we get along with them.”  For what did the change of administration take place?  I am strongly indignant with them.  They had the same way of thinking about the issues on nuclear power plants including their restart, and TPP.

And this time the consumption tax hike bill!  The consumption tax hike is a long-cherished desire of the Treasure Ministry, the biggest bureaucratic organization.

I asked voters in my constituency about this consumption tax hike bill.  Seventy-nine percent of them opposed to it.  There are many people who think it is necessary to raise the consumption tax at some future day.

However, people, especially those living in rural areas will have difficulty managing the household budget with a tax increase of one hundred thousand yen per person.  The top priority should be given to economic recovery.

I am the very person who fought in the campaign with a manifesto that “it is not necessary to raise the consumption tax for four years.”  As Prime Minister had said, we should exterminate white ants during the years.  Implementation of a consumption tax hike without exterminating white ants will attract a swarm of white ants taking the lion’s share of it.

Though social security and tax reforms are murmured, we cannot get clear image of social security.  If the guaranteed minimum pension program and medical care system for people aged 75 and over, which DPJ strongly appealed to the public, is submitted to the National Council, it is not late to discuss from what source of revenue to finance them after conclusions have been reached.

What is needed most for DPJ is its philosophy and policies as the ruling party, which should return to the starting point.


Now we Japanese must be in the midst of working together as one under the slogan of unity and ‘kizuna’ to recover from the unprecedented disaster which hit the Tohoku district.
In reality, however, the lesson we should use for future is going to be forgotten as the past incident.  Politicians are responsible for never having the March 11 forgotten.  The current DPJ executives have forgotten the mission as the ruling party and appear to have been reduced to the old-fashioned LDP, of which the people showed disapproval in the last election.  

Even now as many as one hundred sixty thousand people are forced to live the lives of refugees away from their homes which have not been decontaminated.  In spite of this fact, with the firm commitment to economic activities, the Noda cabinet has decided to restart nuclear power plants while many people question their restart because the cause of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident has not yet determined.  It is inexcusable to try to implement a consumption tax hike by talking among LDP, New Komeito and DPJ behind the closed door.  What should DPJ as the leading party do to live up to the expectations of the people?

Mass media is also of a problem.  Their news coverage is focused on counting the number of votes for and against the bill on consumption tax hike.  They should realize what to discuss with the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident as a lesson because we are in the midst of restructuring the Tohoku areas.  It is not the time for mass media to forecast the political situation.  We should not forget the fact that many people all over the world were impressed by the Japanese seriously working for the recovery.

Some members within the party have asked me to behave confidently as the founder of the party.  I love DPJ more than anyone and I have intended to work for the party.  Now, my role is to have the party return to the right direction.  I’d like to work with a strong resolve to do nothing wrong.

The letter of Mrs. Ozawa seems to be a significant damage to Mr. Ozawa because not only the problem of lovers but the fact that “he ran away out of fear of radiation” can be fatal to a politician.  Though I don’t intend to speak for him, I think his action as an ordinary person was proper and reasonable.  If I had lived in Tokyo, I would have instructed my family to immediately leave there.

Nevertheless, speaking of a man who can put into practice such a sneaky behavior of sending so many letters to so many people in this form at such a time, the only person I can call to mind is Sengoku.  I don’t know whether it is legal or not to publicize and send such a private letter without permission of Mrs. Ozawa.

In either case, no doubt he has used his trump card.  Being viewed from the opposite side, I think that Sengoku will be brought to bay if Mr. Ozawa can endure this personal attack.  It is the best policy to make a wrongdoer disappear soon.

This article literally shows how I feel about Mr. Hatoyama.  I quite agree with Mr. Yamashina.

Like Mr. Motozawa, I have great expectations for Mr. Hatoyama.  I feel Mr. Hatoyama and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter are very much alike.  Now many people have got to understand the greatness of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.  He followed the same fate as Mr. Hatoyama: he was also thrown out of power because his policies put the interests of people with authentic power at risk.

* Posted by Mr. Takeshita on his blog - June 21, 2012 -

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese web article: Jiro Motozawa “Japan's Landscape” (1079) posted on “Media Association” Organ Bulletin - June 21, 2012 -

Betrayal of Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Bowing to U.S. Pressure

Japan's politics has finally entered the final stage by addressing a significant tax increases with a bucket having no bottom.  They try to introduce a new cause of recession into the global recession.  Workers are already under harsh conditions and some of serious workers are brought to the verge of depression or suicide.  A tax increase is a stupid plan which will give further impetus toward worsening this situation.  An agreement on a tax increase secretly discussed by the three parties, which bow to the pressure of Washington/CIA and obey them, is a betrayal to the nation.  I wonder what would come after the bad government.

Betrayal of major media

I wonder why every political party is shameless and so is every politician.  This is because journalism which is supposed to keep an eye on the Diet does not leave it incompetent and irresponsible but rather it itself has become insane, too.

In such a turbulent political situation, the confidential funds in the Cabinet Secretariat are being used and the moderates within the DPJ inexplicably have got shaky.  This shows something is working behind the scenes.

Even if the media should have honest reporters, their sound arguments would not be reflected on papers or pictures because of executives of editing office and management executives blindly following authority.

Mass media manipulated by money of the zaibatsu conglomerates

Influential figures in the business world become executives of editing office or management executives.   It is quite natural that mass media becomes corrupt.  On the other hand, bureaucrats actually control Japanese politics and the mass media's collusive relationship with them will naturally lead to money.  They will know how much the government's annual advertising budget is without checking it out.

Behind this phenomenon is the mass media which never reflects public opinion.  Newspapers and TV stations, which never serve the nation, are also rushing into corruption.  In Japan today truth comes out as part of Internet information.

Newspapers and TV stations bowing to pressures from CIA

I was a little bit surprised at the policies the Hatoyama administration announced in 2009.   One of them was about a plan to transfer the Futenma base, Okinawa.  He pledged to transfer the base from the prefecture and from Japan. He presumably thought of Guam.  I applauded for his sound argument.

However, the mass media which was supposed to support it reported only the claim by Washington which openly opposed his argument, and finally drove him to resign.  This clearly showed that Japan's mass media did not stand for Tokyo and Okinawa but for Washington.

Mr. Hatoyama's plans of an equal Japan-U.S. partnership, priority to Asia, and formation of an East Asian Community seemed to give an impression of return of the liberal Tanaka and Ohira administrations

That was the very reason why CIA, Kasumigaseki (bureaucrats) and Otemachi (business world) reacted strongly against his plans by mobilizing the prosecutor and the mass media.  When we pay attention to the development of the mass media controlled by CIA, it is found that some figures appearing in the CIA list have slipped into major mass media.

If we doubt of the close ties between the journalists with experience as foreign correspondents in Washington and CIA, such people can be found not only in Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbuns but in NHK.
Japanese have been forced to share values from Washington, not from Tokyo.


Noda, LDP and New Komeito Prevents No-nuke Movement

Yesterday at the metropolitan assembly, a ballot measure on anti-nuke, the legislation of which more than three hundred thousand Tokyo residents call for was rejected mainly by LDP and New Komeito, promoters of the use of nuclear energy.
Unless the structure of a coalition of LDP, New Komeito and Noda is changed, I can tell that another Fukushima disaster will occur.  A grand coalition of the conglomerate puppet government, LDP and New Komeito has already started up.  They all promote a significant tax increase, the use of nuclear energy and TPP.  They seem to underestimate Japanese citizens.  The public is sometimes foolish but clever in other cases.

Unification against the three parties

Form a new party with campaign slogans of abolition of nuclear power, anti-10% consumption tax and anti-TPP!  The anti-mainstream faction of DPJ focuses its campaign strategy on such slogans.  Take to the street after a forced vote for a 10% consumption tax!  Appeal to the public to get public trust!
If a new party gets united and conduct a general election campaign against the three parties, it will definitely get a new administration.  Declaration of Japan as a nation to promote the use of natural energy will serve as a catalyst for rebirth of the nation.  It will also give birth to a new administration independent of the U.S.  Small parties will disappear.  Unification of the public opinion will be exactly the surefire way for promising future of Japan.  Hatoyama, never take down your own flag!

As you see in the issue of return of nuclear reactors, politicians obey major banks’ intentions. With a two-fold increase in consumption tax, major banks, the owners of non-banks, would make massive profits because people in need get to depend on credit cards.

This is a bombshell statement, almost fatal to Ozawa admirers.  Strangely, however, it sounds very understandable to me.  As posted in my blog dated June 20, 2011, I am cautious and suspicious about Mr. Ozawa because his real intention is apparently to get power, not public opinion.  Coincidentally, this article has disclosed this fact.