
Don’t Make the Islands a Battlefield!
People of Okinawa hold major rally for peace. #WorldBEYONDWar
People of Okinawa hold major rally for peace. #WorldBEYONDWar
In Japan, marches are being held against the war in Ukraine and against Japan’s current military build-up. #WorldBEYONDWar
Never enough wars. The U.S. is toying with a war with China. #WorldBEYONDWar
Two hundred residents of Aichi Prefecture, where I live, have just scored a significant victory for peace and justice.
A petition to President Joe Biden was read aloud in English and Japanese at the White House and at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 21, 2021, by David Swanson and Hideko Otake.
In the last few years, the government of Japan has severely cracked down on dozens of members of a branch of a labor union called the “Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers, Kansai Area Branch”
On June 10, 2021, 2,400 liters of “firefighting water” containing PFAS (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances) were accidentally released from the U.S. Army Oil Storage Facility in Uruma City and other nearby locations, according to Ryukyu Shimpo an Okinawan news agency.
This coming Friday, newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Japan’s Prime Minister SUGA Yoshihide for a summit that the mainstream media has presented as democratic and peace-loving countries casually getting together in order to discuss what should be done about the “China problem.”
Like the “9/11” of the United States, the “3/11” of Japan was a watershed moment in human history.