Japanese Rearmament, War, Constitutional Revision, Repression & the Japanese Working Class

2/25 Japanese Rearmament, War, Constitutional Revision, Repression & The Japanese Working Class

Sunday February 25, 2017 7:00 PM
518 Valencia St./16th St.
San Francisco, California

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The 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.

There 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.

Finally, 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.

Initial Speakers:
Seto Tadashi, Japanese Railroad Doro-Chiba International Support Committee
Carole Seligman, Labor Committee To Free Mumia

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