SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1096 January 1, 2024
Contents
Page 1At the beginning of the year 2024
Working the tasks at hand is directly related to the overall situation
FUJIWARA Akira (School worker, Kanagawa Prefecture resident)
The lawsuit about the execution by proxy concerning Henoko at the Fukuoka HighCourt
We denounce the unfair judgement!
Editorial office
Page 2-3
Worker’s reports
New Year, Let us make the streams of change from the workplaces and the living
30 years at the workplace of the track driver
Against “the roughness” of the society and workplaceSHŌJI Masanori (ZENRŌ (All Workers) Union of National Union of General Workers)
Lack of the drivers in the transportation industry“The Issue of 2024” has already begun
OGUMA Hiroki (Worker of Tobu Bus, bus driver)
The Workers’ Union of Korea Optical High Tech
Second expeditionary struggle in the Tokyo metropolitan area
OHATA Ryuji (Preparatory Association to support the Workers’ Union of Korea OpticalHigh Tech)
Third statement about the situation in Palestine
Continuing to commit ourselves for the realization of peace
TAKAI Kazuki (Local government worker)
Cooperation between Japan Post and Yamato Transport
Losing no time in the issue of the large increase of workers employment
KASHIWAGI Yūtarō (Postal worker)
A small incident at the housing complex
Democracy of the resident council is questioned about the medal of honor
TAMURA Natsuko (Chiba prefecture resident)
Illustration report
Raising voices. The significance of the labor union struggle together
HIROHAMA Ayako
Page 4Essay in New YearLet us make 2024 the year that the sovereigns awake
ANZAI Ikuro (Director, Anzai Science & Peace Office)Issue of the deployment of Ospreys to Saga Airport
Now is the time to resume the actions to stop the construction

TOYOSHIMA Kōichi (Former Professor, Department of Science andEngineering, Saga University)
Voices of the victims of the nuclear power plant accident (41)
Trial to stop dumping the radioactive contaminated water into the Ocean
306 people, the first and the second group in all, took the case to court
Kokubu Tomio (Member of So-So no Kai Association of the victims of the nuclear
power plant accident)
Page 5
Rallies for peace held on November 23 in Okinawa and nationwide
Reports from the islands struggling against the military basesŌDATE Mayumi
Okinawa’s own diplomatic efforts and defense of the right of the local government
Let us struggle against the execution by proxy by the national government
SAKAGAMI Mitsuko

Senryū poems
Warai-Take (Laughter mushroom)
Page 6-7
We denounce the massacre by Israeli
Voices of the solidarity with Palestinians, stronger and louder!
Rally “DO NOT allow the massacre in Gaza Strip by Israel” on December 12
We appeal for the immediate ceasefire!
ŌYAMA Ayumu
Resolution to stop the military fighting by Israeli in the Gaza Strip within the territoryof the State of Palestine and to call for the U.S. and Japanese governments to act for theimmediate ceasefire
All participants of the Workers’ and Pople’s Emergency Rally on December 12
Stop the war: Exhibition “Children in the wall”
Talking by KAMIJYŌ Yōko organizer of the exhibition
KOGA kei
Perspective to the imperialism and the resistance
From the national liberation struggles of the Palestine and Korea
Hwang Gwi-hoon (Osaka Branch of the Society of the Korean Social Scientists inJapan)
Two rallies of the solidarity with Palestine around Osaka Railway Station
Some young people stopped by and drew “the Red Tears”
YOKOMICHI Akiko
Page 8Appeal of the 41st National Rally of the Movement to Support the self-determinationand self -unification of Korea
Reform the hostility policy to Democratic People's Republic of Korea and pursue theroad for the peace
All participants of the Rally of the 41st National Rally of the Movement to Support theself-determination and self -unification ok Korea in Okinawa

After the 41st National Rally of the Movement to Support the self-determination andself -unification ok Korea
Great achievements and issues that should be overcome
HORIKAWA Hisashi (Representative member, Japanese Committee to support theself-determination and self-unification of Korea)
Participating in the 500th Action on Friday
SAIKAI Yuki (Society of Our School in Chiba (Network of Chiba Prefecture people tosupport the Chiba Korean school))
Page 9How we watch the situation of the Korean Peninsula (20)Threat of the nuclear conflict rising unprecedentedly
Lee Jun-Sik (Professor, Korea University)
Thinking on the “Year zero” of the ceasefire of the Korean War and the massacred
Korean residents at Great Kanto Earthquake“Places” to resist “the division” and “the war”
Lee Yeong-Cheol (Professor, Korea University)
Headlight column
The beginning of the year in 2024
Page 10
Participating in the fieldwork at Shumarinai with the friends in Chiba
Discovering the forced labor of Koreans under the war time
Let us cooperate on the activities to rebuild “the Sasano Bohyo (Bamboo Gravestone)
Exhibition Hall”
NAKAMURA YoshihikoPage 11Poem
If I must die
Refaat Alareer
Commentary by the translator
SUGIBAYASHI Yūki
Historical position of “Cubism”
About the future of our art
KANAYAMA Akiko (Painter)
Movement activities guide
Page 12
Reading “Opening the door of world literature, The fourth door” (Written by TATENOMasahiro)
Why the violence of the people is born
YONEMARU Kasane
Lecture guide2nd half of the 2023 term HOWS lectures
Reading the short stories of the world

Piercing Reproach column
Reconsidering “the war paintings”
70 years since exposure to the thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll
Attempt to retell the case of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (S.S. Lucky Dragon 5)ŌHASHI Shōzō
From the editorial office
Supplement page 1-2
Christmas message from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)The people in Palestine will soon celebrate their victory and their land will return tothe center to spread the light and dignity in the world
Article by the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of Greece
Short answers to current ideological-political questions concerning the Israeli attack
and massacre against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip