SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1084 January 1, 2023
Contents
Page 1
Picture“Hell in the chicken swarm” (1973) by YAMASHITA Kikuji (1919-1986)
PoemThe road to the perdition
ISHIKAWA Itsuko
Page 2-3
HOWS lecture and discussion
For the workers and trade unions to rise up now
From the activities of the Executive Committee of the Trade Unisons against Wars
SUDA Mitsuteru (General Secretary, National Union of General Workers Tokyo Tobu)SHŌJI Masanori (Deputy General Secretary, ZENRŌ (All Workers) Union of National
Union of General Workers
Page 4Essay
At the beginning of the year
Reconstruction of the Japanese labor movement is the key to break down the current
situation and to advance the social change!
NIHEI Hisakatsu (Joint representative, Liaison Conference “NO to breakdown of theConstitution: Against Amendment to Article 96”)
Struggles against amendment to the Constitution of the Liaison Conference “NO tobreakdown of the Constitution: Against Amendment to Article 96”
Call for free dispatch of the lecturers in the Kantō Region
Let us organize the study meeting at the workplaces and communities to stop theamendment to the Constitution
Editorial office
Liaison Conference held the rally against amendment to the Constitution with thegroups for peace in Gunma Prefecture at Takasaki CityExposing the essence of the draft amendment to the Constitution of the Liberal
Democratic Party
DOMATSU Katsunori
Workers’ and Citizens’ Rally will be held on the issue of the poverty and wage gap
under rising prices on February 14, 2023
Page 5Major change of the Japan-US Security Treaty visible from Miyakojima
DO NOT turn Okinawa and outer islands on the national border into a battlefield
SHIMIZU Hayako (Joint representative, Liaison Council of People in Miyakojima(Okinawa) against the missile unit base)Three books to read now to think about the war and peace recommended“War or Revolution” (Written by HANADA Kiyoteru) /“The Lessons of the ParisCommune” (Written by TAKEI Teruo) /“Five difficulties in writing the truth” (Writtenby Beltolt Brecht)

INO Shigeo (Cultural activist)“I want to live in the peace” (Edited by the Association in Miyazaki for the suit about
constitutionality of the Japan-US Security Treaty) / “Pollution of the Liberal Democratic
Party by the Unification Church” (Written by SUZUKI Eito) / “How do we face with theexistence of the Self-Defense Forces” (Edited by IIJIMA Shigeaki et al.)
IIJIMA Shigeaki (Vice General Secretary, 1000 People’s Committee against allowingwars)“The Button” (Written by William J. Perry and Tom Collina) / “The WeimarConstitution and Hitler) (Written by IKEDA Hiroshi) / “What Is to Be Done?“ (Writtenby Nikolay Chernyshevsky)
ZAIMA Hidekazu (Lawyer)“Indian society in the Mughal Empire Era” (Written by ONA Yasuyuki) / “FromColumbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492–1969” (Written by EricWilliams) / “Battles of Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan Incident)” (Written by TANAKAKatsuhiko)
TOMIYAMA Eiko (International Exchange Peace Forum)“The spiritual history of the generation after Defeat in War in Okinawa” (Written byNAKAZATO Isao) / “Power and the exchange style” (Written by KARATANI Kōjin) /“UKIGUMO (The floating cloud)” (Written by HAYASHI Fumiko)
MARUKAWA Tetsushi (Professor of Meiji University)“The destruction of the European Jews” (Written by Raul Hilberg) / “Reading “Thestretto”” (Written by Péter Szondi) / “After the Last Sky: Palestinian lives” ‘Written byEdward Said)
SUGIBAYASHI Yūki (English poetry researcher)Page 6We DO NOT allow “the major change of the nuclear power generation policies” of theKISHIDA administration!
Criticizing the policies utilizing the nuclear power plants of the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry absolutely
YAMASAKI Hisataka (Joint representative, No Nukes Plaza Tokyo (Tanpoposha))
Voices of the victims of the nuclear power plant accident (37)The damages of the nuclear power plant accident will continue across the generations
Arguments for justifying to dump the radioactive contaminated water into theOcean ridicule the people
KOKUBU Tomio (“So-So (Soma and Futaba) Association” of the victims of Fukushima
nuclear power plant accident)
Page 7
Essay
Promotive policy of the nuclear power plants of the KISHIDA administration isretrogression of the history
SUGAI Masurō (Professor Emeritus, Kokugakuin University)
Why is the refugee recognition rate low in Japan?
Working as the refugee examination counselor
HIROSE Yoshio (Lawyer)

Headlight column
Figures of “the opposite”
Page 8Poem
We stand here
Heo Oknyeo
Equal right to learn for all children
Tuesday actions counted 500 times
NAGASAKI Yumiko (Executive Director of Ōsaka, Association against exclusion ofKorean schools from the free tuition system)
Is Tokyo a cheerleader for the hate crime?
Denial of the massacre of Korean residents at the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
MAEDA Akira (Lecturer, Korea University)
Page 9How we watch the situation of the Korean Peninsula (16)Road to the development seen in the construction of the complex of the industrial
plants in Kimhwa-gun
Lee Jun-Sik (Professor, Korea University)
Visiting the OKA Masaharu Memorial Museum for the Peace in Nagasaki
Meaning to study the history of the offense by JapanKOTANI Eri (Doctoral course, Hitotsubashi University)
International brief note - Now in the world
The Republic of Korea
Cargo Solidarity Headquarter of the National Union of Public Transport and Social
Services Workers launched the nationwide strike
DOMATSU Katsunori
Page 10The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Labor Relations Commission recognized theright to collective bargaining for the union of the Uber Eats delivery workers
Workers’ right for “the gig workers”
TUCHIYA Tokashi (Film director)
Illustration report
About the issue of the free transfer of the copyright
HIROHAMA Ayako
Worker’s report
On the derailment accident of the Keisei Train
What did the quick response hide?
MIYAGAWA Toshikazu (Former General Secretary, Keisei Electric Railway Union)
Movement activities guide
Page 11“Shinsei Kigeki” (“The Divine Comedy” by ŌNISHI Kyojin): Accounts of Journeys -Travels to Tsushima (6)Letter from the beyond

TATENO Masahiro (Professor Emeritus, School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University)
Page 12From the readers’ questionnaires
Issues of November 1 and December 1
Piercing Reproach column
Hōichi the Earless and “Works of the Naval Battles between the Genji and HeikeClans”
Art review
About the exhibition of “Picasso and His Time”
How “Picaso and his time” should be talked about
KANAYAMA Akiko (Painter)
From the editorial office