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DESCRIPTION:2/25  Japanese Rearmament, War, Constitutional Revision, Repression  & The 
 Japanese Working Class\n\nSunday February 25, 2017 7:00 PM\n518 Valencia 
 St./16th St.\nSan Francisco, California\n\nDonation $5.00 No one turned 
 away due to lack of funds\n\nThe growing threat of war in Asia and the 
 "Asian Pivot" by the United States. The key ally of Trump and US 
 imperialism in Asia is the Japanese Abe administration. This forum will 
 look at the effort by Abe and he supporters to remilitarize Japan by 
 eliminating Article 9 of the Constitution and passing a secrecy law and 
 conspiracy law that will and is being used to intimidate journalists and 
 the people of Japan from opposing the restarting of the Japanese nuclear 
 plants and opposition to full scale militarization. We will also hear a 
 report on the struggle of Fumiaki Hoshino who has been imprisoned in Japan  
 for over 40 years in a frame-up by the Japanese government over a protest 
 against the US-Japanese Security Agreement. This allowed for the US 
 military occupation of Okinawan and nuclear weapons being illegally brought 
 into the island. The people of Okinawa are still fighting against US 
 military bases and their expansion. The US Democrats and Republicans have 
 both backed the militarization of Japan and for the continued construction 
 of new bases in Japan despite the opposition of the majority of people in 
 Japan.\n\nThere is also a major attack on unions and the privatization of 
 transportation and education in Japan by the Abe government  and this will 
 be addressed as well.\n\nFinally,  the  forum will also look at the effort 
 of Japanese Abe  government to spend $500 million worldwide to oppose 
 memorials to the ‘comfort women’ including in San Francisco   and to 
 support the “denialists”  who say that these women were not sexual 
 slaves of the Japanese Imperial Army but were “prostitutes”. The 
 growing xenophobic attacks on the Japanese of Korean descent in Japan as 
 well on rising nationalism are dangers to people in Japan and the 
 world.\n\nInitial Speakers:\nSeto Tadashi, Japanese Railroad Doro-Chiba 
 International Support Committee\nCarole Seligman, Labor Committee To Free 
 Mumia\n\nSponsored by United Public Workers For Action UPWA and No Nukes 
 Action Committee\nFor more 
 information\nhttp://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/\nwww.upwa.info\ninfo@upwa.info\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/16/18806772.php
SUMMARY:Japanese Rearmament, War, Constitutional Revision, Repression & the Japanese Working Class
LOCATION:518 Valencia St./16th St.\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/16/18806772.php
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