This chapter examines the activities of violent far-left groups involved in Okinawa’s anti-base movement and their points of contact with North Korean ideological organizations, while also discussing links to the Okinawa Peace Movement Center and Mizuho Fukushima.
In light of the abduction of Japanese citizens, a grave human rights violation, it argues that the ties between Japan’s far-left groups and North Korea must be thoroughly investigated.

2019-04-16
At a time when a contingency on the Korean Peninsula is being discussed, it is necessary to thoroughly investigate the ties between Japan’s violent far-left groups and North Korea.

North Korea is, after all, the country that abducted many Japanese citizens.
Abduction is among the gravest violations of human rights, and is it not also an outrage against peace.
This was the chapter I published on 2018-04-16 under that title.

What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.

Trends in mass movements.
A. “The 5.14 and 5.15 Okinawa Struggle.”

On May 15, the day marking the return of Okinawa, about 1,100 members of such groups as the “Association of Military Landowners Protecting Rights and Property,” including about 900 far-left activists, gathered in front of the Kadena Air Base gate demanding the “return of the bases,” while such groups as the “Okinawa Peace Movement Center” engaged in rallies and demonstrations.
Violent far-left groups, including the Chūkakuha and Kakumaru-ha, brought about 1,100 activists into Okinawa from across the country, and from May 12 to 16 carried out local struggles on 23 occasions, mobilizing a total of about 4,900 participants.
(From Chapter 7, “Maintenance of Public Security,” in the 1998 Police White Paper of the National Police Agency)

Furthermore, at the “Juche Idea New Year Seminar” held on January 8, 2017, sponsored by the Okinawa-Korea Friendship Association and supported by the National Liaison Council for the Study of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il-ism, more than 70 people reportedly took part, including members of Juche study groups from around Japan and the National Liaison Council for the Study of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il-ism, and among them was Satoru Ōshiro, secretary-general of the Okinawa Peace Movement Center.

According to the website at the time, the seminar featured a local report from Henoko and Takae, where protests against the construction of the new base and Osprey pads were being carried out, presented by Satoru Ōshiro, secretary-general of the Okinawa Peace Movement Center, and a report on activities in Osaka presented by Taichi Mikami, secretary-general of the Kansai Liaison Council for the Study of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il-ism.
ttp:/chosonsinbo.com/jp/2017/01/15riyo-jjj01-4/ (reference URL, now deleted)

It is not simply a matter of saying, “Again Korea,” but it is striking how, almost as if by inevitability, the trail leads back to North Korea.

At a time when a contingency on the Korean Peninsula is being discussed, it is necessary to thoroughly investigate the ties between Japan’s violent far-left groups and North Korea.

Thus, Member Mizuho Fukushima donated the enormous sum of 13.5 million yen to the chair of the Okinawa Peace Movement Center, who had also been arrested, and who is highly likely to have ties to the so-called “violent far-left groups” as well as to “North Korea.”

North Korea is, after all, the country that abducted many Japanese citizens.
Abduction is among the gravest violations of human rights, and is it not also an outrage against peace.

There is no persuasive force in speaking of peace and human rights while maintaining friendly ties with such a country.

To be continued.