Category: Japan Chapter

Don’t Make the Islands a Battlefield!

People of Okinawa hold major rally for peace. #WorldBEYONDWar

World BEYOND War Marches for Peace in Japan

In Japan, marches are being held against the war in Ukraine and against Japan’s current military build-up. #WorldBEYONDWar

Vulnerable Chinese, Vulnerable Americans

Never enough wars. The U.S. is toying with a war with China. #WorldBEYONDWar

Aichi Residents Win a Legal Victory for Takae, Okinawa and for Peace

Two hundred residents of Aichi Prefecture, where I live, have just scored a significant victory for peace and justice.

End the U.S. Military Air Base Construction in Henoko, Okinawa

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.

The Attack on Japan’s Peace Labor Union, Kansai Namakon

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”

Okinawa, Again – The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marines Have Poisoned Okinawa’s Water and Fish with Massive Releases of PFAS. Now it’s the Army’s Turn.

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.

What Washington Does to Chinese

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.”

People protest the planned relocation of a US military base in Japan to Okinawa's Henoko coast on April 17, 2015. (Reuters / Issei Kato)

Revising a Constitution Through a State of Exception: Post-Fukushima Japan

Like the “9/11” of the United States, the “3/11” of Japan was a watershed moment in human history.

Category: Japan Chapter

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