SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1059 December 1, 2020
Contents
Page 1
Mikotoba (Emperor’s words)
Translated to the modern Japanese by AZATO Migeru
Page 2Winter 2019 appeal for fund
Suga administration seeks the rule unifying control the people
Let us crush Suga’s “Structural Reforms”!
Standing Steering Committee, Activist Group Shisō-Undō
The third wave of Coronavirus has begun
Let us protect life and health of the working people against the government’s policiesof the economy!
OKAMOTO Shigeki
Sanken Electric must revoke the dissolution of Sanken Korea! Appeal for protest
action on December 20
TopicsWe protested against the Osaka Branch of Sanken Electric on Nov 18
YOKOMICHI Akiko
Rally on November 21 “Let us stop the new military base at Henoko!” (Organized byLiaison Council of “DO NOT reclaim!” and others)
HINATA Yōko
Movement activities guide
Page 3
Coronavirus and the incident that “Wakashio” stranded
Seamen’s Union must work for the sailors of the world!
TAKENAKA Masaharu (Member of Seamen’s Union, Society for publication of“Rashinban (Compass)” )About the “Society for publication of “Rashinban (Compass)””
Worker’s report
From the workplace of the private railways under the Corona DisasterFor the worker’s philosophy overcoming the neoliberalism
OGUMA Hiroki (Worker of the private railway, bus driver)
Page 4
From Workers’ Rally on October 28
DO NOT permit the destruction of employment and life under the Corona Disaster!
Let us stop the attack of the Shock Doctrine
KIRA Hiroshi
Let us lead the victorious judgment to the next struggles
About the judgement by the Supreme Court about Article 20 of the Postal ServiceLabor Contract Law
TSUCHIDA Hiroki
Page 5
From the workplaces deepening contradictions
Firing the staff hired for the fiscal year
From the ongoing struggle in the nursery workplace
TAKAI Kazuki (Local government worker)
Replacing the sheets and the business improvement
Where the wrinkles are creased?
KAWASHIMA Chisako (Nursing worker)
Where are the sparks of the struggle?
Reading the non-regular workers conversation of the 500th issue of the “Denso Bin(Postal workers)”
UEJIMA Hisoka (Tokyo resident)
Illustration report
We will struggle the trial of the sexual harassment and the unpaid wages of freelance
writer A!
HIROHAMA Ayako
Page 6Essay
We should resist the oppression by the power authority
KOIDE Hiroaki (Former Assistant Professor, Kyoto University Research Reactor
Institute)
About the problems of the Science Council of Japan
Thinking at the autonomous field of the Kyoko University
KUROISHI Kiwamu (Student of Kyoto University, member of Yoshida Dormitory)
Abolition of Osaka City was prevented
Victory by the combined powers of the diverse opposition movements
Not the neoliberal restructuring, but the true local economy and democracy
SONO Ryōta (Liberational zone at Umeda, The Jimmin Shimbun (People's News))
Page 7
Darkness, Darkness, Darkness – Focusing on the problems of sexual harassment
AZATO Migeru
Report in Okinawa
Watching the exhibition “Okinawa-Nansei Islands, crisis of being the missile unitbase” at Fukutsu Kan (Dauntless Hall, Kamejiro Senaga and the People's HistoryMuseum)Don’t you mind if Okinawa-Nansei Islands become the battle field?
ŌDATE Mayumi
Headlight column
20th anniversary of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's
Military Sexual Slavery

Page 8No need for nuclear waste in the northern land! (2)More than 480,000 opposed signatures were submitted to Governor SUZUKI
Naomichi
KUSE Shigetsugu (Joint representative, Liaison Conference in the Northern Hokkaido
against inviting the nuclear waste facilities)
Basics to face the radioactive contamination (25)What occurred 9 years ago at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (9)IMANAKA Tetsuji (Researcher, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear
Science, Kyoto University)
Tokyo Rally Celebrating the 103rd Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution held
Socialism, that is the full political participation of the people
SAKAGAMI Mitsuko
Page 9Letter from the Republic of Cuba (5)Not “hatred, exclusion, or division”, but the world of “understanding, solidarity, andmutual respect for differences”
MIYAMOTO Makiko (Resident in Havana, the Republic of Cuba)
Amid jubilation and the festivals, Evo Morales returned to Bolivia
The regime has won and the struggles continue
TOMIYAMA Eiko (International Exchange Peace Forum)
From the readers postcards
Against the Osaka Metropolis plan
TSUCHIMOTO Motoko (Kanagawa Prefecture resident)
Page 10
BOOK REVIEW:“Forbidden nostalgia – KOBAYASHI Masaru’s postwar literature and Korea”(Written by HARA Yūsuke)
Have you ever bothered about Korea
HORIKAWA Hisashi“Relieving senryū anthology” (Edited by RAN Kiryu)
Inside the walls to shed the light on the world
NAGASHIMA Shinya“One person and One thousand three hundred people / Two lieutenants HIRASAWA
Keishichi’s pioneer work collection”
Believing in the power of the workers
OKANO Nahomi
TOYOSATO Tomoyuki’s Haiku anthology “Cosmic Notes”
What is the spirit that underlies the Haiku anthology
KABE Yōsuke
“Until the day of victory! On the occasion of the 400th “Tuesday Action””
Not for “the morning of anger,” but for “the morning of smile”
YOKOMICHI Akiko

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Based on the report of HOWS lectures “Shinsei Kigeki (Divine Comedy)”
We also have to open “the path of dawn”
ATSUMI Hiroshi“The pathology of the Japanese politics – Reading from “The Basso Ostinato” and“Opening the country”” (Written by ASAI Motofumi)“The universal” was embodied against “the basso ostinato”
ANZAI Satoshi“The Indonesian Massacre – Two coups and the greatest tragedies in the history”(Written by KURASAWA Aiko)“The Suharto regime without Suharto” still continues
AONUMA Toshifumi
Page 12On the movement of the lawsuit of “Return the bones”
Following the academic colonialism playing with Ryukyu – Okinawa
SASAKI Tatsuo (Researcher of modern Asian history)
Piercing Reproach column
Trap of the basic income
Photo Essay
Gazing at Okinawa from Yamato (Written and edited by SASAKI Tatsuo)
From the editorial office
Supplement page 1-2
Messages from the foreign countries to Tokyo Rally Celebrating the 103rd Anniversaryof the Russian October Revolution
From Korea Labor Social Science Institute in the Republic of Korea
Activists in the Republic of Korea and Japan work more together to roll forward thewheels of history in solidarity with the Tokyo Rally Celebrating the 103rd Anniversary of
the Russian October Revolution
Steering Committee, Korea Labor Social Science Institute
From the Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930)
Only the struggles for socialism everywhere will save mankind from barbarism andglobal ecological disasterAntonio E. Parris (General Secretary, Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930))
From the Communist Party of Greece
Scientific socialism and proletarian internationalism are the weapons and principles
in the struggle to change the world.
International Relations Section, Central Committee of Communist Party of Greece
From the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Japan
We welcome the efforts of your organization to commemorate one more anniversaryof the revolutionary triumph of October 1917
Miguel Angel Ramirez Ramos (Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Japan)

From the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in JapanThe Russian Revolution is not dead. It was spread around the world
Seiko Ishikawa (Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Japan)