[tokyoprogressive] CPN #192 (TokyoProgressive): Take Action-Bring SDF Home, Emergency AID to Iraqi People, More...



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Issue #192 May 23, 2004

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Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, who had the courage to be the first soldier to refuse to fight in Iraq: Refuser Found Guilty.
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In the spirit of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we must find ways to resist illegitimate authority. And yes, in Japan, things are becoming worse and worse and the police are used by school officials to stifle debate and dissent. Witness the recent case of a teacher who is the victim of heavy-handed, Gestapo-like police tactics in: Police raid retired teacher who raised flag, anthem ruckus. (22 May). Story continues about nationalism and the SDF here:

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Prime Minister Koizumi's trip to North Korea to bring back some of the family members of the hostages is seen in a different light--the conflict between ultra-nationalists and political realists, and how the media ignores the more measured voices of the hostages themselves in favor of those of the rightists, many of whom look fondly on Japan's colonialist past: Japan-North Korea Diplomatic Normalization and Northeast Asia Peace by WADA Haruki. (Please also see this piece from last year by Chalmers Johnson, Korea, South and North, at Risk from U.S. Policy. Also, this excellent background piece on North Korea from two years ago

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In Remember "In re Yamashita"?, SODEI Rinjiro asks whether George Bush and Donald Rumsfield do not deserve to be sentenced to death by the very standards that were used in the trial of general Yamashita for war crimes during World War II.

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In The Russo-Japanese War and the Iraq War, Harvard historian IRIE Akira looks at the forces of ultra nationalism at work both in the behaviour of the United States in Iraq and moves in Japan to revise the Constitution.
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Recent Articles in Japanese by ASANO Ken'ichi
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May 18: Photojournalist Rejects Sankei Shimbun Prize Over Its Support for Militarism

May 15: Education Minister Supports Forced Patriotism

May 13: Scholars Oppose Article 9 Revision

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May 8: Museum Glorifying War of Being Built

May 3rd: Constitution Day

April 30: Writer Oda Makoto Sues Government over SDF Deployment in Iraq

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April 26: Business Circles Propose Revision of the Constitution

April 4: Police Crack Down on Antiwar Protestors

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Gay Marriage Debate
May 18: Why Would a Progressive Gay Couple Marry?

7 August 2003
Over the rainbow by Michael Bronski
Gay-movement organizers obsessed with fighting for same-sex marriage seem to have forgotten their roots in a quest for a more liberated world, one they shared with feminists who viewed marriage as hopelessly patriarchal.

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