SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1069 November1, 2021
Contents
Page 1
The way to the united front
There is no shortcut except to strengthen the labor movement
SHIBATA Kiyoshi
About the Afghanistan reports of the mass media DO NOT convey the essence
We must NOT forget the history of the April RevolutionŌYAMA Ayumu
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Call for the Tokyo Rally Celebrating the 104th Anniversary of the Russian October
Revolution on November 3!
Film “The Song of the Rivers” will be screened
Denounce the Tokyo High Court judgment on the Korean victims’ memorial stele in“Gunma no Mori Park (Gunma’s Forest Park)”!
Appalling judgement against the common sense
Hearing to TSUNODA Giichi (Representative of the lawyers of the suit on the Korean
victims’ memorial stele in “Gunma no Mori Park (Gunma’s Forest Park)” / Former
Vice-Chairperson of the House of Councillors)
Page 3
Essay
Trying to pretend the “Japanese military sex slave system” Never happened?
NAKAHARA Michiko (Professor Emeritus, Waseda University)
Reflecting on the Yokohama Mayoral Election
Many issues emerged in the mayoral election
TAKANASHI Akiyoshi (Citizen Liaison Conference in Kanagawa Ward 2 (Nishi,Minami, Kōnan))
Page 4-5Afghanistan
How to view the Taliban’s victory -- The views of a historian of Indian origin
Return of the Taliban 20 years later
Vijay Prashad (Historian and journalist)
Chronological abbreviated chart related to Afghanistan
Create two, three, and many Saigons
Vijay Prashad (Historian and journalist)
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Sunagawa Struggles against the U.S. military base in Tachikawa and the trial of theSunagawa case (1)Education and the experience in the wartime are the starting point of my peace
preservation
TSUCHIYA Gentarō (Joint representative, Association utilizing the judgement byDATE Akio)

Related Chronology
Page 7
Insatiable struggles against U.S. military bases in Okinawa
Blasts by the military aircrafts, releasing the polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) andLand Use Restriction Act
TOBARU Isao (Member, Ginowan City Council)
Government and Tokyo Electric Power push ahead dumping the tritium-contaminatedwater into the Ocean
TSUNODA Masashi (Joint representative, Peace Forum in Fukushima Prefecture)
Voices of the victims of the nuclear power plant accident (32)
Stop dumping the contaminated water into the Ocean and reusing the contaminatedsoil
We are angry about the government way lacking the respect for life and health
KOKUBU Tomio (“So-So (Soma and Futaba) Association” of the victims of Fukushima
nuclear power plant accident)
Page 8Statement
We demand to lift the economic blockade against Cuba by the U.S. and defend thesovereignty of Cuba
Association of the concerned people thinking about lifting the economic blockade
against Cuba by the U.S. and the sovereignty of Cuba
Coronavirus response by the Tokyo metropolitan government is sloppy andirresponsible
Results of the misgovernment take the toll on the workers in the workplacesŌTA Tadahiro (Worker of the Tokyo metropolitan government)
Page 9How we watch the situation of the Korean Peninsula (11)About carrying the test of the missiles by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Lee Jun-Sik (Professor, Korea University)
Discrimination to Korean resident schools under the Corona disasterJapanese people have the responsibility to struggle the colonialism in this country
AKIYAMA Shin’ya (Association of the citizens in Machida City to support the Korean
resident schools)
Headlight column
About the film “Miss Marx”
Page 10Government of the Republic of Korea refused or restricted the issuance of thepassports for the Korean Alliance for Democracy and Reunification in Japan
We went to the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to appeal for abolishment of theNational Security Act
DOMATSU Katsunori
Seeing “UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi Exhibition”
Where is the rebel Kuniyoshi in Today’s Japan
MATSUOKA Keiichi

Toward the Freedom of Expression Exhibition
Visiting the Classroom Exhibition at the Kanayama Art Institute
KOGA Kei
Page 11“Fear Forgetting: Accounts of Journeys” (Written by TATENO Masahiro)
Thinking in the hope
TSUKADA Mariko (Teacher, Meiji University)"Opening the door of Japanese literature, The second door" (Written by TATENOMasahiro)
Watching “my own problem”
ITŌ Tatsuya (HOWS class member)
Reading“Fear Forgetting: Accounts of Journeys”
Voices of the dead are still waiting
SUGITA Eri (Doujin (Coterie) of“Torso”)
Reading "Opening the door of Japanese literature "Doing the work of the reader
YAMAMOTO Emiko (HOWS class member)
Page 12
Guidance to film
“The Song of the Rivers” (The film will be screened at the Rally Celebrating the104th Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution)
Epic poem celebrating the unity of the workers in the world
INO Shigeo
Piercing Reproach column
Water wheel
Reading two recent works written by HIGUCHI Kenji“Wailing the history of Japan after Defeat in War, 60 years of a photo journalist”(Kobushi Shobō, 2420 yen)
NAKAMURA Yasuko“Abandoned people by the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Witnesses of the history,
Endless accidents of the nuclear power plants” (Hachigatsu Shokan, 2200 yen)
NAKAMURA Yasuko

Senryū poems
Warai-Take (Laughter mushroom)
Movement activities guide
From the editorial office