Written on May 3, 2019, this text records and discusses various materials and testimonies concerning Kiyomi Tsujimoto, Peace Boat, Chongryon, the Japanese Red Army, and their links to North Korea, examining their political background and dangers.
Through the issue of consent statements, disaster responses, the backgrounds of surrounding figures, public security information, and indifference to the abduction issue, it denounces the points of contact between left-wing civic movements and anti-Japan, pro-North Korea forces.

2019-05-03
It is consent to several statements of purpose including content such as, “We acknowledge Japan’s past wrongs, make the sorrow of the north-south division of the Korean people our own, and we too will make efforts toward its resolution.”

The public security authorities determined that Tsujimoto was a former Zainichi Korean and an agent of the North, and that the real organizer of “Peace Boat” was Chongryon.
This is a chapter I published on 2018-09-20.
The following is an article by Mr. Ukiyoburo posted on the internet.
Kiyomi Tsujimoto.
2013-04-03 10:06:39 | Materials.

Kiyomi Tsujimoto (born April 28, 1960).

She served as Chair of the Social Democratic Party Policy Research Council (5th).
Chair of the Diet Affairs Committee (8th).
Senior Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Hatoyama Yukio Cabinet).
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in charge of disaster volunteer activities).
Among her past career entries is that she was organizer of “Peace Boat.”

On the surface, its purpose was to let young people travel around the world
(all of them socialist countries)
by ship and broaden their horizons.
But in reality, its purpose was to turn Japan’s young people into Korean sympathizers and, if possible, spies.

The public security authorities took note of how Tsujimoto, who was no more than an ordinary female university student, could accomplish so much.

① Where did the operating funds come from?
② Why was it possible every year to let so many Japanese young people enter North Korea so smoothly?
(To enter North Korea, one must go to Chongryon, and in some cases it can take more than a year until permission is granted.)
The public security authorities determined that Tsujimoto was a former Zainichi Korean and an agent of the North, and that the real organizer of “Peace Boat” was Chongryon.

Akira Kitagawa, the common-law husband of Kiyomi Tsujimoto, was president of a publishing company called Daisan Shokan.
In 1975, Kitagawa was forcibly deported from Sweden and arrested for violating the Passport Act, as the Europe operative of the Japanese Red Army.
He had been scheduled to take part in an operation to kidnap a Japanese company employee in West Germany and extort ransom, but it ended in failure, and he became a person of concern whose movements the Public Security Intelligence Agency had long investigated.

Tsujimoto’s electoral district is Osaka 10th District (Takatsuki and Shimamoto), and her family ran an udon shop.
Takatsuki City, her political base, is the place where that Japanese Red Army figure Fusako Shigenobu hid and was arrested, and it is an area with many related persons and supporters of the Japanese Red Army.
Even now, many former extremist members belong to Tsujimoto’s election headquarters.
(Tsujimoto had ties to far-left groups while at Waseda University.)
Also, the publishing house “Daisan Shokan,” run by Kitagawa, her common-law husband, published many distinctly far-left, anti-establishment, and antisocial books, including detailed books on marijuana, murder, and terrorism.
Five of Tsujimoto’s own books were also published by Daisan Shokan.

• Marijuana Now / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
• Marijuana High / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
• From Chocolate to Heroin / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
• The Art of Murder / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
• The Art of Assassination / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.

Also, on board “Peace Boat” during the time Tsujimoto organized it, taking advantage of the fact that the authorities’ eyes did not reach there, marijuana was openly smoked among participants
(including manga artist Ishizaka Kei and others).
“Peace Boat” was the outward-facing organization of “ADEF (Anti-War Democratic Front),” the support organization the Japanese Red Army was trying to create internationally.

When the Japanese Red Army moved, Kitagawa was mixed into Peace Boat.
There have been five cruises in which Peace Boat traveled to North Korea.
1991, 12th “Korea” Cruise.
1996, 19th “Pyongyang” Cruise.
2000, 29th “Asia Future Voyage” Cruise.
2001, 34th “North and South Korea” Cruise.
2002, 38th “North and South Korea, Sakhalin, Kunashiri” Cruise.
2003, 42nd “From Hiroshima to North and South Korea” Cruise → Did not materialize.
The sixth was a failure.
North Korea had already officially admitted the abductions, and even if the cruise was announced, only insiders and sympathizers would go, so it could never succeed.
Among the volunteers are people who believe this sixth failure “became a missing number because the sound of the number was unlucky.”
There are two kinds of Peace Boat cruises.
One is a cruise that basically anyone can join freely as long as they pay.
The other is a cruise one cannot join unless one signs a “consent form to the statement of purpose.”
The 2001 “North and South Korea” cruise belongs to the latter.
And what one had to agree to in this “consent form” was this:
consent to several statements of purpose including content such as, “We acknowledge Japan’s past wrongs, make the sorrow of the north-south division of the Korean people our own, and we too will make efforts toward its resolution.”

● During the Peace Boat era, when inspecting PKO activities in Cambodia, she said to exhausted Self-Defense Force personnel engaged in reconstruction work such as road construction,
“Hey you!!
There
(pointing at the chest pocket)
you’ve got a con**** there, don’t you!!”
(a thing needed when engaging in prostitution).
(From the book Ah, the Dignified Self-Defense Forces by Miyajima Shigeki.)

● In May 2009, Japanese Self-Defense Force escort ships escorted seven Japan-related vessels sailing off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
One of them was a Peace Boat passenger ship.

Peace Boat was also a signatory to a joint statement by citizen groups opposing the dispatch of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
A person in charge at its secretariat said, “It is regrettable that the Maritime Self-Defense Force, and not the Japan Coast Guard, has been dispatched, but apart from our position, the safety of participants comes first.
We respect the judgment of the organizing and operating company in requesting escort.”

“We oppose it, but we want protection.”

★ It is as newspapers reported that when top Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu was arrested, two supporters who were hospital employees in Takatsuki City were present and refused voluntary questioning by Osaka Prefectural Police.
The hospital in question was Kōai Hospital in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture.
It was a hospital only for psychiatry and neurology, and a base for a support group for the Japanese Red Army.

The two staff members present at the scene were Mr. Mamoru Yoshida (48) and Mr. Tadashi Matsuo (39).
Both were administrative staff.
“Yoshida is the husband of Setsuko Yoshida
(an administrative staff member of Kōai Hospital),
the name on the forged passport owned by Shigenobu.

The hotel where the arrest took place had been reserved in Yoshida’s name the day before the arrest.
Public security information had also circulated that he had contacted Shigenobu herself and former United Red Army figure Kunio Bandō in China and Russia.
Matsuo too was an employee of Kōai Hospital, but was also connected with the People’s Newspaper to which Shigenobu contributed memoirs.
He had also visited Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, where the Japanese Red Army had a base.

Furthermore.
The hospital’s founder was a former member of the Red Army Faction of the Communist League (Bund), the predecessor of the Japanese Red Army.
It has also been said that Mr. O (53), the registered holder of the apartment in Nishinari Ward where Shigenobu had been hiding, was also connected to the hospital.
This Kōai Hospital in Takatsuki, which is part of Tsujimoto Kiyomi’s political base, is the Japanese Red Army itself.

It has become clear that among materials seized from top Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu (55) by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Public Security Bureau and others was a document describing domestic political operations, including taking in the Social Democratic Party
(led by Takako Doi)
with statements such as “strengthen political influence with the SDP as the axis.”

In the resolution of the 5th Congress of the People’s Revolutionary Party dated August 15, 1999, which was seized, there was not only a statement saying, “ ‘Hope for the 21st Century’
(a civic group the Japanese Red Army was trying to turn into a mass organization),
strengthen political influence with the SDP as the axis,”
but also in the basic policy of the People’s Revolutionary Party established by Shigenobu dated August 16, 2000, there was an item called “joint operations with the Social Democratic Party,” as well as descriptions such as “field candidates as Hope for the 21st Century, and build local bases as the Social Democratic Party while strengthening the real power of Hope for the 21st Century.”

In connection with this, the joint investigation headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and Osaka Prefectural Police searched the homes of persons connected to the civic group “Hope for the 21st Century,” including the former secretary of SDP representative Nobuto Hosaka and also Keiko Funanami (34), a ward council member in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, of the SDP.

“Hope for the 21st Century” was established in Japan in 1995 and was active mainly in the Kantō and Kansai regions.
Former hospital employee Tadashi Matsuo (39), arrested on charges of harboring a criminal for helping Shigenobu flee, was also a member of 21st Century.

Excerpt from the Yomiuri Shimbun.
“In the case in which Fusako Shigenobu (55), the top leader of the Japanese Red Army, illegally obtained a passport under another person’s name and repeatedly entered and exited the country, the joint investigation headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and Osaka Prefectural Police on the second searched simultaneously nineteen locations in five prefectures, including the home of a male city council member in Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture, on suspicion of violating the Passport Act and other offenses.
According to the headquarters, the search targets were mainly the homes of persons connected with civic groups, and over one hundred items including computers, floppy disks, and organizational newspapers were seized.
As the headquarters proceeded with analysis of the possessions of the accused Shigenobu, it became clear that the Japanese Red Army positioned the civic group
(Peace Boat)
as a related organization, and that led to the present search.”

• There was a post saying that the male city council member in Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture = Hige Toda.

◆ The Free North Korean Government confirmed that Ri Yong-ho was killed by the Choe Ryong-hae faction.

“Bloodshed in the process of Mr. Ri Yong-ho’s dismissal.”
Information authorities: “Possibility that Chief of the General Staff Ri himself was also injured.”

By July 19, 2012, it had become known that the South Korean government had obtained information that in the process by which North Korean Chief of the General Staff Ri Yong-ho was removed, bloodshed occurred in which about twenty North Korean military personnel died, and that it was examining the information.
There was also the view that Ri himself might have been injured or killed in this process.

According to a South Korean government official, after Kim Jong-un, First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, decided to remove Ri Yong-ho from all his posts, the side of Choe Ryong-hae, Director of the General Political Bureau, which moved to carry out that decision, tried to physically isolate Ri, whereupon Ri’s guards resisted and fighting broke out.
One source said, “It cannot be ruled out that Chief of the General Staff Ri was injured or killed in the course of the fighting.”

Appointed in April of the previous year as Director of the General Political Bureau overseeing the North Korean military, Choe Ryong-hae was a man called the “alter ego” of Jang Song-thaek, Director of the Workers’ Party Administrative Department and uncle of First Secretary Kim Jong-un, and unlike a military man, he had built his career in the Party.
The South Korean authorities’ analysis is that after Choe Ryong-hae was appointed Director of the General Political Bureau, because he came into conflict with Chief of the General Staff Ri Yong-ho, who came from the field army, he constantly monitored him and advanced secret investigations.

◆ The Kiyomi Tsujimoto Support Squad.

Collected Statements of Kiyomi Tsujimoto.

● “They say Diet members are supposed to protect the lives and property of the people, but I didn’t become one with that in mind.
I’m a ‘nation-destroying Diet member,’ with the role of how to collapse the framework of the state!”

● The peace constitution is the only law that can restrain Japan’s military power.
If this peace constitution were abolished, Japan would come to commit lawlessness without limit.

● Yasukuni Shrine was, before the war, an institution that led the Japanese people into war.
My grandfather was conscripted under those circumstances and later starved to death on a small island in the Pacific.
I always watched my mother suffer after losing her father, and I too suffered.
But I understand that many people in Asia who lost relatives in the war of aggression by the Japanese military on those battlefields have suffered even more than I have.

According to local residents of Ōyodo Town, Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, where her maternal grandfather lived,
“Starved to death on a small Pacific island?
No such thing.
Kiyomi-chan’s maternal grandfather was conscripted and went off as a soldier, but he came home safely.
He got a military pension and worked doing something like parcel delivery.
I suppose he died of illness about twenty years ago.
Of course, he died here.”

● Yasukuni Shrine was the central presence of State Shinto, which became the spiritual pillar of militarism that led many people to their deaths.
Out of reflection on that, after the war Article 20 of the Constitution established the separation of religion and state, but for the Prime Minister to visit Yasukuni Shrine, which is a religious juridical person, constitutes a violation of the Constitution.

Japan rejoined the international community by accepting, in the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the Tokyo Trial judgment that “Class-A war criminals” were responsible for wars of aggression and were criminals against peace.
Internationally speaking, for the Prime Minister to bow his head at Yasukuni Shrine where these “Class-A war criminals” are enshrined is an act equivalent to visiting Hitler’s grave, and a message of destroying the present international order.
Therefore voices of concern are beginning to rise not only from South Korea and China, but also from America and the countries of Europe.

First of all, Hitler has no grave.
Nor was the separation of religion and state established with Yasukuni Shrine in mind.
Many heads of state of various countries have also visited Yasukuni Shrine, but apart from North and South Korea and Communist China, those making noise are anti-Japan Chinese and Korean groups in places such as the United States, and yet she says, “voices of concern are beginning to rise from America and the countries of Europe as well.”

● “I want to realize the reconstruction work of the north-south railway connecting North Korea and South Korea, and have Japanese young people volunteer to take part, as people of the nation that once invaded the Korean Peninsula.”
2005.

● “Terrorists are unforgivable!!
The United Nations should create an organ to sanction terrorists.”

What?
Wouldn’t that get Hige Toda, the city council member from Tsujimoto’s camp, arrested?
Or rather, what about her own husband!!

● “In 1982, when the textbook problem arose in Japan, the Ministry of Education had ‘invasion’ in textbooks rewritten as ‘advance,’ and the Nanjing Massacre also became the ‘Nanjing Incident’…
Japanese history textbooks contain little original historical fact, and on top of that the government takes the initiative in revising history.
How uncool.”

Even the Asahi Shimbun, which at the time took the lead in the “misreport,” has acknowledged that there never was any fact that the Ministry of Education
(now MEXT)
made textbooks rewrite “invasion” as “advance.”
The claim that it “made invasion be rewritten as advance” arose because a television station reporter in charge of the Ministry of Education mistakenly reported it.

● “Before the war, when there was no right to vote, bellicose politicians arbitrarily decided that Japan would follow the path of militarism.
I do not want ever again to see the revival of bellicose laws and the way conservative politicians continue to achieve their objectives.
To prevent Japan from becoming militarist again, I hope for still more voices opposing revision of the peace constitution.
Naturally, this also includes the voices of Asian peoples who once suffered from war.”

So as not to be deceived by Ms. Tsujimoto, let me state the “facts”: in Japan, a system of universal suffrage had already been introduced in Meiji 22, and the only people without voting rights until the war were women.
And women’s suffrage too, after the war, was recognized second in Asia, and at the same period as France and Italy in Europe.
So of which country is she speaking when she says there were no voting rights?
And as for the Asian peoples she speaks of, the peoples of which countries does she mean?

● “Once, on the Pacific island of Palau, I heard an old woman tell me this.
‘The Japanese soldiers said they had brought weapons to protect the island, but because armed soldiers came to the island, it became a target of attack, it was attacked, and many civilians died.’ ”
(From Nikokoro Tsūshin, No. 6.)

In fact, Palau is a country that may well be the most pro-Japan country in the world.
After all, it is a country whose national flag was decided based on the Hinomaru.
And on the small island of Peleliu in Palau, twelve thousand Japanese defenders in the Greater East Asia War brought the battle into a war of endurance against an enemy with fourteen times the manpower, over two hundred times the aircraft, one hundred times the tanks, and one thousand times the heavy artillery, and after seventy-three days of defending without any supplies whatsoever, perished in a desperate last stand.

After the war, Admiral Nimitz devoted a considerable number of pages in his History of the Pacific Naval Battles to the battle of Peleliu and concluded as follows.
“To overcome the exceedingly complex defenses of Peleliu, it was necessary to accept the highest combat casualty ratio
(about forty percent)
seen in any amphibious operation in American history.
That U.S. forces, already possessing control of the sea and air, occupied this island at a cost exceeding ten thousand casualties combined dead and wounded, remains doubtful even now.”
And yet, despite a battle so fierce, not a single local inhabitant died.

Local inhabitants had lived on Peleliu Island up to that point.
Because the Japanese military took care not to involve residents in the war, and despite the shortage of shipping, avoided air raids and used the night to evacuate all of them to Palau’s main island.
That is why, on Peleliu Island, the greatest battlefield, not a single island resident died.

It is said that in Palau’s national textbook, 36 out of 462 pages are devoted to the period of Japanese rule under the title “Under the Flag of the Rising Sun.”
It describes in detail not only how Japan came to govern Palau, but also the schooling, industry, and economic activities carried out by Japan.

Then in May 1982, Peleliu Shrine was founded by the “Young Shinto Priests Southern Islands Memorial Pilgrimage Group.”
Its enshrined deities are Amaterasu Ōmikami and the “heroic spirits who protected the nation,” more than ten thousand war dead.
At present, on the left signboard in front of the shrine, this purpose is written by the island chief Isao Shigeo of Peleliu Island.
And on the right signboard, the course of the battle is summarized, and, stating that it appears in the published American war history, it is concluded with the following poetic sentence.

“To all travelers of the various countries who visit this island.
Should you pass through the land of Japan, I ask that you tell them.
Of the courage of the Japanese garrison that died defending this island, and of the hearts with which they remembered their homeland…”
The author of this poem is none other than Admiral Nimitz himself.

This is the reason the country of “Palau” became the most pro-Japan nation in the world.

◆ Publication of leaked “public security terror information”
Daisan Shokan prints real names and face photographs.

In the problem of information related to international terrorism, believed to be internal material of the Metropolitan Police and others, leaking onto the internet, a book containing the leaked data was published.
Addresses, names, and face photos of police officers and investigative cooperators were published just as they were.

Daisan Shokan
(Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo),
which published it, said, “We wanted to raise the issue of the looseness of police information management.”
A Tunisian man living in Tokyo whose real name and face photograph were published said, “This is worse than the police who leaked the information.
If this is sold in bookstores, I won’t be able to go on living.”

Even about one month after the leak was discovered, the Metropolitan Police still said only that it was “investigating whether it is internal material,” and has not acknowledged it as internal material.
2010-11-27 3:45.

• Daisan Shokan President Akira Kitagawa = former member of the Japanese Red Army, common-law husband of Kiyomi Tsujimoto.

★ Persons very likely to have been abducted by North Korea are called “specified missing persons,” and there are at least more than 430 of them known.

More than 7,000 Japanese women were abducted by the Unification Church, described here as a South Korean cult, yet both the South Korean and Japanese governments have left the matter alone.

South Korean exchange students and others instill a sense of guilt toward South Korea into young Japanese women and female university students, brainwash them, have them participate in mass weddings, and sell them into South Korean farming villages and the like.

The life expectancy of Japanese women is 78, but it is said that the average life expectancy of the sold Japanese women is around 50, which shows how harsh the environment is.

However, because of brainwashing such as being told that “if you divorce, your sin will become heavier,” many women refrain from divorce and from returning to Japan.

Even now the safety and whereabouts of these more than 7,000 women taken away to South Korea are unknown, and lawyers and civic activists who call themselves human rights advocates, as well as Kiyomi Tsujimoto and Mizuho Fukushima, do not even speak of it at all.
Does that mean that people who bring them no money have no human rights?

◆ At the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the Murayama Cabinet, because of its anti-Self-Defense-Forces ideology, delayed the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces to an irreparable extent and drove many people to their deaths.

A Socialist Party Diet member hurled filthy jeers at a local lawmaker who, in tears, requested in the Diet that the Self-Defense Forces be dispatched.

“Kiyomi Tsujimoto” and others, who entered the disaster area before the Self-Defense Forces, distributed no relief goods and no water to exhausted disaster victims, but instead handed out leaflets saying, “The Self-Defense Forces are unconstitutional.
Please do not accept food from the Self-Defense Forces.”
The leaflets also contained recipes for Korean home cooking.

With lifelines cut off and buildings collapsed, who could support a politician Tsujimoto who was engaging in political activity without even carrying out rescue work?

That same “Kiyomi Tsujimoto” came to act as special advisor in charge of volunteers for this Great East Japan Earthquake.
It was due to Edano’s strong recommendation that Tsujimoto was chosen as minister in charge of volunteers.

Prime Minister Kan greeted the cameras saying, “I am going now to inspect the area,” and leisurely boarded a helicopter.

He instructed Secretary-General Okada, “Do not let anyone touch this!”
This was to show his own presence as a leader.
And he appointed Kiyomi Tsujimoto minister in charge of volunteers, centralizing relief supplies from all over the country under the NPO “Peace Boat” under Tsujimoto’s command.

This was in order to emphasize that the Democratic Party’s Kan Cabinet had shown leadership in this major earthquake and overcome it.

Of all people, making Tsujimoto a special advisor in charge shows that Kan seems to have no sense even for performance appointments.

2011-03-26.

Terrible information has come in.
This is a certainty obtained from multiple sources.
First, as a premise, it has already been reported that 30 elderly people in evacuation shelters in various places died of freezing
(strictly speaking, hypothermia)
as a result of shortages of fuel for stoves.

One piece of information is that government-connected officials, contacted by people on the government side, individually halted trucks transporting relief supplies in various places.
They were not told the reason, but each seems to have accepted that it might be due to road conditions.
However, among them are areas where the roads had already been restored.
As a result, piles of relief supplies that were not distributed had accumulated at some municipal collection sites.

Now then, as for Peace Boat under Her Excellency Tsujimoto, it has now begun sending volunteers one after another from Tokyo.

And astonishingly, the destination of those volunteers coincides exactly, point by point, with the collection sites in question!

Judging comprehensively from the above information, one can see that this stagnation of goods was a staged act to make Peace Boat appear as the savior on the ground.

The rank-and-file members participating in Peace Boat do not know this.
This was plotted solely by those around Tsujimoto and Yuasa.
The Democratic Party is trying to adorn its own performance by sacrificing the lives of disaster victims.
Of course, it is also for the purpose of the local elections that were postponed, and for future left-wing movements.
Are they not rotten to the core?

◆ The Kiyomi Tsujimoto Secretary Salary Diversion Incident.

The Kiyomi Tsujimoto secretary salary diversion incident was a case of fraudulent salaries for legislative secretaries involving Social Democratic Party Diet members and their secretaries, exposed in 2002.
Four people including Kiyomi Tsujimoto were arrested, and later all were found guilty.

(As most of the source URLs for the above articles have now been deleted and no longer exist, they are omitted.)