SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1079 August1, 2022
Contents
Page 1Do NOT allow an Asia-Pacific version of NATO!
Let us raise the banners of friendship between Japan and China, and between Japanand the Democratic People’s Republic of KoreaŌMURA Saiich
We condemn “a state funeral for former Prime Minister ABE Shinzō” and let us
strengthen the struggles against amendment to the Constitution
For the mass movement in Kanagawa
TAKANASHI Akiyoshi (Representative mediator, Action Kanagawa for the jointactions)Page 2-3
Political situation in 2022
The world and Japan are now facing a major turning period
What lessons should be learned from the political situation before and after theHouse of Councilors election in July 2022
HIRONO Shōzō
Appeal for participation and support for the action in front of the prime minister’s
official residence at the International Day against wars on October 21
DO NOT kill! Stop the wars!
Executive Committee of Action of the Workers’ Unions Against Wars
Page 4
Summer 2022 appeal for fund
What can truly overcome the wars is the realization of socialism
Let us struggle against the amendment to the Constitution and the warring schemesby the KISHIDA administrationStanding Steering Committee, Activist Group Shisō-Undō
Shyster who used thoroughly the problem of abduction of Japanese citizens by theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea
Thinking about the state funeral for former Prime Minister ABE Shinzō, as a Korean
resident in JapanLee Tongi (Journalist)
Worker’s report
Yokohama City set up a booking center for a state funeral for former Prime Minister
ABE ShinzōLabor union protests
KIRA Hiroshi (Yokohama City Labor Union)
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HOWS Lectures Guide August and September
ABE Shinzō and YAMAGAMI Tetsuya
The structure of the decay of the contemporary Japan behind the case
ONO Toshiaki

International brief note - Now in the worldHong Kong
British politicians still have their hands in Hong Kong while their country is in astate of disarray
Editorial office
Headlight column
Let us make the movement to materialize protection for women in the newly
established law
Page 6
Essay
Thinking about “August 15”
Under the immediate crisis of the amendment to the Constitution
KOIDE Hiroaki (Former Assistant Professor, Kyoto University Research Reactor
Institute)Japan is pushing ahead to “a nuclear armed state”
The danger that Okinawa-Nansei Islands will become the stage of the nuclear war
ZAIMA Hidekazu (Lawyer)
Two Workers’ and Citizens’ Rallies will be held against a state funeral for former Prime
Minister ABE Shinzō and against amendment to the Constitution in September
Against a state funeral for ABE on September 13, lecture by (IBUSUKI Shōichi(Lawyer) )Against amendment to the Constitution on September 29, lecture by (KATŌ Shinsuke(Lawyer) )Page 7
Reading “The Yasukuni Shrine and the historical thought of the holy war” (Written byUCHIDA Masatoshi)
The relationship between the Yasukuni Shrine and the wars exposed clearly
MIZUGAKI Kōhei (Civic activist)
Skies of Okinawa are changing by the U.S. military aircrafts
DO NOT let Okinawa become the front line for the attack to ChinaŌDATE Mayumi
Page 8Labor movements around the world
British workers resist against the attack by the ruling class
We can protect our rights by struggling
OKIE Kazuhiro“The Proletarian Internationalism” No. 5 published in June
Page 9The struggles of Sanken Workers' Union of Korea came to terms
Statement explaining the current state of mind and position of Sanken Korea Branchof South Gyeongsang Province Branch of National Metalworkers’ Union in the Republicof Korea
Latin America moves towards the integration
Regimes against the neoliberalism established one after anotherTOMIYAMA Eiko (Representative, International Exchange Peace Forum)
Summary of the statement of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republicof Korea on July 23
Latin America is going to better tomorrow
TopicsFrom the speeches of HASEGAWA Kazuo at “Action on Friday”
A student said “dirty” on the government’s revisions on textbooks
MURAKAMI Rieko
Report to attend the extraordinary meeting of Nuclear Regulatory Commission whichapproved the plan to dump the radioactive contaminated water into the Ocean
NAKAMURA Yasuko
Page 10“Shinsei Kigeki” (“The Divine Comedy” by ŌNISHI Kyojin): Accounts of Journeys -Travels to Tsushima (1)Departure with nihilism
TATENO Masahiro (Professor Emeritus, School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University)
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Let us build a movements with the film “We are the human!”
Participating in the pre-screening
We are also the assailants
TAKAI Kazuki (Secretary of the labor union of local government)
Let us see the film “We are the human!”
IBUSUKI Shoichi (Lawyer, Representative of Alliance against Ethnic Discriminationand Human-rights Violation by Immigration Service Agency of Japan)
Reading “The patrol” (Written by MEDORUMA Syun)
The “great power” to disinherit the homeland
NAKAMURA Yutaka
Page 12From the readers postcards
What I felt watching the NHK program “Mysterious People of the unexplored China”KATŌ Hiromishi (Kanagawa Prefecture resident)
Reading the poem “The Emperor’s Histeria” (Written by AZATO Migeru)
AKIYAMA Shinya (Kanagawa Prefecture resident)
Piercing Reproach columnUnintended use of the military estimates
Celebrating the completion of five volumes of “Anthology – Proletarian Literature”
What we should learn from the rich heritage of the workersSHUTŌ Shigeshi (Association of Workers’ Literature)
Movement activities guide
From the editorial officeSupplement page 1-3
About the situation in Ukraine (2)History and the urgency of the launch of “the special military operation”
KIDA Seiya
Supplement page 4
HOWS lecture
Question and answer about the future of the national education of Korean residents
in Japan
Living as the Korean residents in Japan
KO Yon-i (Visiting professor, Korea University)