Japan

Japan: Road To Hyperinflation Or Cure For Debt Deflation?

July 28, 2016 Ellen Brown, www.ellenbrown.com Create! Debt, Japan

By Ellen Brown for Web of Debt - When then-Fed Governor Ben Bernanke gave his famous helicopter money speech to the Japanese in 2002, he was talking about something quite different from the quantitative easing they actually got and other central banks later mimicked. Quoting Milton Friedman, he said the government could reverse a deflation simply by printing money and dropping it from helicopters. A gift of free money with no strings attached, it would find its way into the real economy and trigger the demand needed to power productivity and employment.

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

June 20, 2016 Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com Resist! Japan, Murder, Okinawa, Protests, US military

By Justin McCurry for The Guardian - Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa have taken part in one of the biggest protests against US military bases in recent years, weeks after the arrest of an American base worker in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old local woman. The protesters, many of whom wore black, braved scorching heat to call for an end to the island’s role as host to more than half the 47,000 US troops in Japan.

Okinawan Women Demand US Forces Leave After Rape & Murder

June 14, 2016 Takazato Suzuyo, www.apjjf.org Resist! Japan, Murder, Okinawa, Rape, US military

By Takazato Suzuyo for The Asian-Pacific Journal - A 20-year-old woman missing since late April was found dead on May 16, 2016. The suspect is a former Marine who is a civilian employee of the U.S. military at Kadena Airbase. Local police report that he confessed to the woman’s rape and murder, and told them the location of her corpse. This crime comes barely six weeks after a U.S. sailor assigned to Camp Schwab was arrested for the rape of a Japanese woman in a Naha hotel.

Hundreds Protest Against US Miltary Presence In Japan

June 13, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Japan, Protests, US military

By Staff of Tele Sur - Japanese citizens demand the U.S. stop building new military bases and a stronger control of its personnel while in the country. Over a hundred protesters in Japan took to the streets on Sunday to speak out against the U.S. military presence on the island of Okinawa, where U.S. soldiers have outraged locals by engaging in crimes from rape to murder.

Student Group In Japan That’s Made It Cool To Protest

June 6, 2016 Naomi Gingold, www.pri.org Resist! Japan, Student Activism, Student Protests

By Naomi Gingold for PRI - When Aki Okuda was 14 years old, he ran away from home. But this is not one of those kid-runs-away-and-is-brought-back-and-everything-goes-on stories. Okuda ran away and stayed away. “I wanted to go to the farthest place possible from Fukuoka,” he says. “I ended up on Yaeyama islands, the southernmost islands in Japan.”

Obama’s Hiroshima Visit: Reminder Atomic Bombs Weren’t What Won War

May 28, 2016 Gar Alperovitz, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Atomic Bombs, Barack Obama, Hiroshima, Japan

By Gar Alperovitz for The Huffington Post - U.S. President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to Hiroshima offers an opportunity to reconsider some of the myths surrounding the historic decision to use the atomic bomb. Such reconsideration also helps focus attention on how we can avoid any future use of weapons that are now thousands of times more powerful than the ones used in 1945. A good place to start is with an unusual and little-noticed display at The National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington.

Top 12 Reasons The Good War Was Bad – Hiroshima In Context

May 25, 2016 David Swanson, www.ahtribune.com Educate! Japan, United States, Wars and Militarism

By David Swanson for American Herold Tribune - No matter how many years one writes books, does interviews, publishes columns, and speaks at events, it remains virtually impossible to make it out the door of an event in the United States at which you've advocated abolishing war without somebody hitting you with the what-about-the-good-war question. Of course this belief that there was a good war 75 years ago is what moves the U.S. public to tolerate dumping a trillion dollars a year into preparing in case there's a good war next year, even in the face of so many dozens of wars during the past 70 years on which there's general consensus that they were not good.

Protest Against Japanese Funding For Coal Power Plant In Indonesia

April 8, 2016 Luke, www.dcindymedia.org Resist! Coal, Indonesia, Japan, Protests

By Luke for DC Indy Media - On the 31st of March, climate activists showed up at the Japanese Embassy to demand that the Prime Minister Abe reject plans for Japanese governmental funding of the planned Batang coal burning power plant in Indonesia. For four years Indonesian activists have stopped the plant and defended the land at the price of arrests and human rights violations. No bank will touch it, so now funding is being sought from the Japanese government.

Thousands Protest As Japanese Gov Ushers In New Age Of Militarism

March 31, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Japan, militarism, Protests

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Thousands of anti-war protesters rallied outside the parliament building in Tokyo on Tuesday, railing against the Japanese government's new so-called security law which marks a historic departure from the country's decades-long pacifism. The controversial "war legislation," a package of bills that passed parliament in September and took effect on Tuesday, reinterprets Article 9 of the country's Constitution, which renounced war as a means to settle international disputes following World War II.

Newsletter: Using Courts To Build The Movement

March 6, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Cimate, Climate Change, Courts, Exxon, FERC, Fracking, France, Fukushima, GMOs, Japan, Okinawa, Zapatistas

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. The worst crimes of US history have been protected by law – slavery, taking of Indigenous lands, attacks on unions, denying women the vote and money as speech in elections. As a result, when politicians say we are a nation of laws, it often means the courts will be used to protect corporate interests in making a profit even if doing so destroys communities, people and the environment. But, courts do not always side with the corporations and government. There are times when an enlightenment comes to the judiciary and some begin to rule for the people or their communities. This happens because even courts reflect the political moment – or zeitgeist – when the culture takes a turn thanks to people organizing to express their interests wherever they can. We may be at the beginning of such a moment, perhaps too soon to say and perhaps we are being optimistic. It shows the importance of the movement building national consensus because such consensus impacts everything.

Victory: Okinawa Navy Base Construction Stopped

March 4, 2016 Reiji Yoshida, www.japantimes.co.jp Resist! Japan, Military bases, Okinawa, Wars and Militarism

By Reiji Yoshida for Japan Times. In a surprise about-face, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday agreed to an out-of-court settlement for three lawsuits filed over the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. The settlement requires Tokyo to suspend land reclamation off the Henoko coast in Okinawa Prefecture, and Abe complied by ordering a halt. Later in the day, the Okinawa Prefectural Government accepted Abe’s offer. It had indicated earlier that it would be willing to do so. Acceptance of the settlement is a big compromise for Abe, who had insisted that Tokyo would continue construction work regardless of the battle in the courts. During a news conference later Friday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga admitted that the relocation of Futenma will be delayed beyond the target year of 2020, even if everything goes well from now on. Okinawa saw fierce ground battles during World War II, and anti-military sentiment remains strong in the region.

Thousands In Japan Rally Against U.S. Base On Okinawa

February 22, 2016 Minami Funakoshi, www.reuters.com Resist! Japan, Okinawa, Protests, US military

By Minami Funakoshi for Reuters - TOKYO - Thousands of people surrounded Japan's parliament on Sunday to protest against government plans to relocate a U.S. military base on Okinawa island, local media reported. Kyodo news agency said some 28,000 protesters had ringed parliament house in central Tokyo, holding hands and shouting: "Don't build the base". Hundreds more held similar protests across the country, it also reported.

‘Okinawans Have Been Treated Like We Are Disposable For Too Long’

February 11, 2016 Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! Japan, Okinawa, Protests, US military

By Anna Fifield for The Washington Post - Between several dozen and several hundred Japanese people have been gathering at the gates to Camp Schwab, a U.S. Marine Corps base on the southern island of Okinawa, every day for 18 months to protest the expansion of the base into an air station. The project involves two runways being built on reclaimed land out into Henoko Bay, a pristine area that is home to the dugong, an endangered manatee-like mammal. Almost all Okinawans want the current Marine air station further south on the the island at Futenma to be shut down. But there is fierce opposition to relocating it elsewhere on the small, crowded island.

Blocking The US Marines Gate With 1400 Blocks

January 31, 2016 Staff www.henokononviolentaction.blogspot.com Resist! Japan, militarism, Okinawa

By Henoko Nonviolet Action. How amazingly a Nonviolent struggle in Henoko has been a success to close 2 days a week. People started to pile the concrete blocks in front of the gate for stopping the construction vehicles. How amazingly a Nonviolent struggle in Henoko has been a success to close 2 days a week. People started to pile the concrete blocks in front of the gate for stopping the construction vehicles. Henoko Block Protest 2 A friend from US arrived yesterday to join the Henoko sit-in. We appreciate people from outside of Japan come and join this struggle. We hope that more & more foreign friends come and join us. How amazingly a Nonviolent struggle in Henoko has been a success to close 2 days a week. People started to pile the concrete blocks in front of the gate for stopping the construction vehicles. Henoko Block Protest 2 A friend from US arrived yesterday to join the Henoko sit-in. We appreciate people from outside of Japan come and join this struggle. We hope that more & more foreign friends come and join us. Henoko Block Protest 3 Finally, Henoko is becoming an artistic. We started to paint on concrete blocks. Please come & paint a block for peace.

Okinawa Countersues Japanese Government Over US Base Move

December 26, 2015 Staff, www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Resist! Japan, Military, Protests

By Staff of Peninsular Quatar - Tokyo: The defiant southern region of Okinawa countersued Japan's government Friday over local resistance to a new US military base, the latest chapter in deepening mistrust between central authorities and the strategic island. The lawsuit by Okinawa prefecture comes after the central government sued it last month amid a long-running drama between Tokyo, keen to satisfy security ally the United States, and Okinawa, where frustration over a seven-decade American military presence is rife.

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