SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1101 June 1, 2024
Contents
Page 1KISHIDA Administration runs desperately to strengthen the pro-U.S. and global
alliance, facing with the growing developing countriesŌYAMA Ayumu
We protest against the embassy of Israel in Tokyo on May Day against wars
Let us struggle to stop the policies for war of our own country!
YONEMARU Kasane
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Report of the starting HOWS (Hongō Workers School) lecture for 1st half term fiscal
2024
Knowing Palestine today: The tragedy, resistance and solidarity
Preserving the sprits to tributeITŌ Tatsuya“The Two Women living in Palestine: Mamma and Maha” (Written by TAKAHASHIMika)
How can the lives far way and my life be connected?
YAMAMOTO Emiko (Coterie of“Torso”)
Listening the lecture by TAKAHASHI Mika
Solidarity in any forms!
HADA Nanako (Student, Musashino Art University)
HOWS lectures guide2024 HOWS Summer Seminar (July 20 to 22)
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Book review“Revolution of Palestine” (Written by AZUMA Shōhei, Expanded edition)
Is the Palestinian Revolution possible?
Rim Yu-cheol (Associate Professor, Foreign Language Department of Korea University)
On the Occasion of 76th Anniversary of the Nakba of 1948.
76 years of ongoing Nakba and resistance.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
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Please join the Summer 2024 appeal for fundStanding Steering Committee, Activist Group Shisō-Undō
Political Review
The abnormality that the laws for promotion of wars passed one after another
Taking rapidly in the strategy of “the encirclement around China” by the U.S.
Imperialist
INAGAKI Hiroshi
Please join the project to distribute 1 million “Against allowing wars!” leaflets called by

“No more battles in Okinawa, Ehime Association”
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To continue the movements at Henoko in Okinawa
Experience of the canoe for the parents and children on the Childres’s Day
ASATO Kunio (Offshore canoe team – Henoko Blue)
Essay
My problems that 65 years have passed since the US Military jet fighter crashed atthe Miyamori Elementary School, Okinawa
TOYOSATO Tomoyuki (Haiku poet and photographer)
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Statement by the lawyers against the New U.S. military base at Henoko in Okinawa
In solidarity with Okinawa Prefecture and the Okinawan people against theconstruction of the U.S. military base
SORANO Yoshihiro (Lawyer)
NO wars! NO KISHIDA Administration!
Let us engrave “April 28” in our mind and oppose the government orienting to wars!
OKAMOTO Shigeki (Executive Committee for the actions against the government
orienting to wars)
Page 8About “U.S. military bases in Japan: History of the 80 years of the “two faces” of the
U.S. forces and U.N. forces” (Written by KAWANA Shinji)
The little known role of the U.N. forces
SAKAGAMI Mitsuko
The “summary” of the Central Council for Education that would not release the Special
Measures Act Concerning Salaries of Educational Staff of Public Compulsory Education
Schools
From the occupational consciousness to the class consciousness
FUJIWARA Akira (School worker in Kanagawa Prefecture)
An event reminding of the 1990 film “Awakenings”
Let us raise our voices together with our colleaguesSHŌJI Masanori (ZENRŌ (All Workers) Union of National Union of General Workers)
Page 9Appeal began at Tokyo High Court on the OZAWA Takashi trial of the struggles tosupport the Union of Korean subsidiary of Sanken Electric
Worst trial case that all of a sudden “The trial was concluded. Next trial will be thejudgement”
DOMATSU Katsunori
Basics to face the radioactive contamination (39)
Extra Episode (1): “Nuclear fusion from now” is a hollow slogan
IMANAKA Tetsuji (Researcher, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear
Science, Kyoto University)
Headlight column
The indirect discrimination was admitted, but….

Page 10Essay
Let us consider the dispatched workers from the history of Takobeya labor (Prisonroom labor) in Hokkaido
NAKAGAWA Isao (Former member of the Okhotsk People's History Course)
Rally of the Korean memorial stele in “Gunma no Mori Park (Gunma’s Forest Park)and the General Conference of the Association to defend the Korean mourning stele
Against the country acting as if nothing had happened
Editorial office
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Participating in the meeting to study of “Association knowing the Juche idea in Chiba”
NOT to act as if nothing had happened
HAZA Chizu (Tokyo resident)
From the readers postcards
From Iwakuni: 130,000 people participated in the Friendship Day
TAMURA Jungen (Representative of Atagoyama Peace Institute)
Listening the lecture by TAKAHASHI Mika of the starting HOWS (Hongō WorkersSchool) lecture of 1st half term fiscal 2024
TSUJI Suguru (Tokyo resident)
Concerning the paper of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research of theprevious issueIZEKI Kaname (Society of Komainu (lion-dog) at the Osaka Castle)
Reading the appeal at the May Day of the issue of May 1
TAKAI Kazuki (Activist of labor union of local government)
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Attractiveness of the film “The Yangtze River”
Changes during 10 years in China concerning the Yangtze RiverHIRAYAMA Kunitaka (Member, Ōsaka Prefecture of the Japan-China FriendshipAssociation)
Piercing Reproach column
The smile“Introduction to the Constitution: Linking the laws, history and society” (Written bySHIMIZU Masahiko)
The Constitution told from the view point of the class struggles
HAGIO Kenta (Lawyer)"Activism for Life" (Written by Angie Zelter, translated by ŌTSURU Kimihiko,
KAWASHIMA Megumi and TOYOSHIMA Kōichi)
Record of one British woman’s nonviolent direct actions
OKAMOTO Shigeki (Fukuoka Prefecture resident, doctor)
Movement activities guide
From the editorial office