For 27 years since the end of WWII, Okinawans under U.S. military rule had hoped to lay claim to the fundamental human rights as guaranteed in the postwar Constitution as well as to reclaim a peaceful Okinawa without military bases.
A new daily action in opposition to an “anti-conspiracy bill” started outside the Diet building. Demonstrators in the 1st day rally argued that the bill would allow Japan to move toward becoming a surveillance society leading to democratic breakdown.
During World War II, many Koreans were transported to Japan as forced laborers at coal mines and construction sites. An ex-high school teacher in Fukushima has recently revealed the facts concerning the wartime slave labor in Fukushima’s Iwaki City.