Published on August 13, 2019.
This article republishes a chapter originally posted on September 20, 2018, introducing an online article by Ukiyo Buro concerning Tsujimoto Kiyomi, Peace Boat, public security authorities, Chongryon, and alleged links to the Japanese Red Army.
It examines Peace Boat’s North Korea cruises, Daisan Shokan, Kitagawa Akira, remarks toward the Self-Defense Forces, and the issue of Maritime Self-Defense Force escort in the Gulf of Aden, questioning Tsujimoto’s past and political background.

August 13, 2019.
Public security authorities took note of how Tsujimoto, who was nothing more than an ordinary female university student, could have accomplished so much.

1. Where was she obtaining the operating funds from?
   Public security authorities determined that Tsujimoto was a former Korean resident in Japan, an agent of the North, and that the real organizer of “Peace Boat” was Chongryon.
   The chapter I published on September 20, 2018, under that title, is now among the top ten in search numbers on goo.
   The Japanese people are now surely beginning to understand from the bottom of their hearts who this person is.
   The following is an article by Mr. Ukiyo Buro that is posted on the internet.
   Tsujimoto Kiyomi, born April 28, 1960.
   She has served in posts including the following.
   Chairperson of the Social Democratic Party Policy Research Council, 5th term.
   Chairperson of the Diet Affairs Committee, 8th term.
   Senior Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in the Hatoyama Yukio Cabinet.
   Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for disaster volunteer activities.
   http://www.kiyomi.gr.jp/
   In Tsujimoto’s past career, there is the position of organizer of “Peace Boat.”
   On the surface, its purpose is to have young people travel around the world, all socialist countries, by ship and broaden their knowledge and experience.
   But in reality, its purpose was to turn Japanese young people into Korean sympathizers, and hopefully into spies.
   Public security authorities took note of how Tsujimoto, who was nothing more than an ordinary female university student, could have accomplished so much.
2. Where was she obtaining the operating funds from?
3. Why was it possible every year to have many Japanese young people enter North Korea smoothly?
   (In order to enter North Korea, one may have to go to Chongryon and wait more than a year until permission is granted.).
   Public security authorities determined that Tsujimoto was a former Korean resident in Japan, an agent of the North, and that the real organizer of “Peace Boat” was Chongryon.
   Kitagawa Akira, Tsujimoto Kiyomi’s common-law husband, is the president of a publishing company called Daisan Shokan, and in 1975, Kitagawa was a European operative of the Japanese Red Army who was forcibly deported from Sweden and arrested for violation of the Passport Act.
   He was scheduled to participate in a plan in West Germany to kidnap Japanese trading company employees and obtain ransom, but the plan ended in an attempt, and he is a person requiring caution whose movements had long been investigated by the Public Security Intelligence Agency.
   Furthermore, the publishing company “Daisan Shokan,” run by Kitagawa, Tsujimoto’s common-law husband, has published many markedly far-left, anti-establishment, and antisocial works, including detailed books on marijuana, murder, and terrorism.
   Five of Tsujimoto’s own works 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, when Tsujimoto was organizing “Peace Boat,” because the authorities’ eyes did not reach onboard the ship, marijuana was openly smoked among participants, including the manga artist Ishizaka Kei.
   “Peace Boat” is the front organization of “ADEF,” or the Antiwar Democratic Front, a support organization that the Japanese Red Army was trying to build internationally.
   When members of the Japanese Red Army moved around, Kitagawa mixed himself in with Peace Boat.
   There have been five Peace Boat cruises to North Korea in the past.
   1991, 12th cruise, “Korea” Cruise.
   1996, 19th cruise, “Pyongyang” Cruise.
   2000, 29th cruise, “Asia Future Voyage” Cruise.
   2001, 34th cruise, “North-South Korea” Cruise.
   2002, 38th cruise, “North-South Korea, Sakhalin, and Kunashiri Island” Cruise.
   2003, 42nd cruise, “From Hiroshima to North-South Korea” Cruise → did not materialize.
   The sixth attempt was a failure.
   North Korea had already officially admitted the abductions, and even if the cruise were announced, only insiders and sympathizers would go, so there was no way it could materialize.
   Among the volunteers, there are people who believe that this sixth failure was “skipped because the number sounded bad.”
   There are two types of Peace Boat cruises.
   One is a cruise in which, basically, anyone can participate freely as long as they pay the money.
   The other is a cruise in which one cannot participate unless one signs a “letter of consent to the statement of purpose.”
   The 2001 “North-South Korea” Cruise belongs to the latter.
   What one must agree to in this “letter of consent” is agreement with several items in the statement of purpose, including content such as “recognizing Japan’s past mistakes, taking as our own the sorrow of the division of the Korean people into North and South, and making efforts ourselves toward its resolution.”
   ● During the Peace Boat period, when observing PKO activities in Cambodia, she said to a Self-Defense Force officer exhausted from reconstruction activities such as road construction, “Hey, you!! You have a cond○m there, don’t you!!” while pointing at his breast pocket, referring to what would be needed when buying sex.
   (From Miyajima Shigeki’s book Ah, the Dignified Self-Defense Forces.).
   ● In May 2009, Japanese Self-Defense Force vessels escorted seven Japan-related ships sailing off Somalia and through the Gulf of Aden.
   One of them was a passenger ship on a Peace Boat voyage.
   Peace Boat is also listed among the civic groups in a joint statement opposing the dispatch of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
   A person in charge at the secretariat said, “It is regrettable that the Maritime Self-Defense Force, rather than the Japan Coast Guard, has been dispatched, but apart from our position, the safety of participants comes first.
   We respect the decision by the planning and operating company to request escort.”
   “We oppose it, but we want to be protected.”