Published on February 6, 2020.
This article republishes, with corrections, a chapter originally posted on August 27, 2018, introducing the officers and staff of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, IMADR, while criticizing its activities.
It argues that although IMADR presents itself as a human rights organization, it has not protested the mass arrests of human rights lawyers in China, human rights persecution and religious repression against Uyghurs and Tibetans, North Korea’s oppression, or problems in South Korea’s judiciary, while using the United Nations as a stage to demean Japan.

2020-02-06
An organization that, while claiming to be a human rights group, has not raised a single voice of protest against the mass arrest of hundreds of human rights lawyers, nor against the severe human rights persecution and religious repression inflicted upon the Uyghurs and Tibetans.
I am republishing, after correcting typographical errors and the like, the chapter posted on August 27, 2018, under the title:
“If This Were China, It Goes Without Saying That All of Them Would Immediately Be Arrested and Detained for treason, and would be subjected to serious charges including the death penalty.”
What kind of people are Komatsu Taisuke and others, and what kind of organization is IMDR?
This was something 99.99 percent of the Japanese people did not know.
Not content merely to have continued, so to speak, to reap excessive profits from the Japanese national government and local governments as a pressure group connected with organized crime groups—perhaps because their reality had been exposed domestically in Japan through an incident in Osaka some time ago—they next went to the United Nations and devoted themselves to activities aimed at demeaning Japan.
Like me, 99.99 percent of the Japanese people knew absolutely nothing about this.
It goes without saying that this organization is an ideal organization for anti-Japanese propaganda by China and the Korean Peninsula.
If Japan had, like other advanced countries, a powerful counterintelligence agency, or an organization like the FBI or CIA dealing with national security,
it would surely be thoroughly investigating whether the sources of funding for this organization include parties connected to China or the Korean Peninsula.
If this were China, it goes without saying that all of them would immediately be arrested and detained for treason and subjected to serious charges including the death penalty.
＊On January 29, 2020, a Harvard University professor was arrested for receiving 50,000 dollars per month from China and 1.5 million dollars for the establishment of a research institution, while also receiving large amounts of research funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.＊
This is an organization that, while claiming to be a human rights group, has not raised a single voice of protest against the mass arrest of hundreds of human rights lawyers, nor against the severe human rights persecution and religious repression inflicted upon the Uyghurs and Tibetans.
No one has ever encountered a report saying that this organization raised a voice of protest at the United Nations against the absurdity of South Korean courts or against the oppression of North Korea, which by now the entire world knows.
Yet this organization continues to say truly outrageous things at the United Nations, such as that Japan discriminates against the Ainu and that Japan discriminates against Okinawa, in order to demean Japan.
In the end, it is probably the organization behind the scenes that had a woman named Sasaki Kumi, whose background is unknown, publish in Paris a truly ridiculous and absurd publication claiming that Japan is a country full of gropers and a major violator of women’s human rights,
and made foolish, unintelligent, racist French people criticize Japan.
There is also no doubt that this organization is connected with Shin Sugok, an utterly incorrigible Korean resident in Japan who fled to Germany the moment the Anti-Espionage Act was enacted.
How terrible the media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK have been, having made use of such a person.
Did the Süddeutsche Zeitung know this reality when it quoted articles from the Asahi Shimbun?
This newspaper company, too, is a truly low and despicable newspaper company.
The following is from http://imadr.net/staff/.
About IMADR
Officers and Staff
What Is IMADR?
Organization Overview
Officers and Staff
Access
List of Officers of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, IMADR
Co-Representative Directors
Nimalka Fernando, lawyer
Mushakoji Kinhide, international political scientist
Vice Representative Directors
Mario Jorge Yutzis, former member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Bernadette Hetier, co-president of the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples, MRAP
Kumisaka Shigeyuki, chair of the Central Executive Committee of the Buraku Liberation League
Executive Director
Nishijima Fujihiko, secretary-general, central secretary-general of the Buraku Liberation League
Directors
Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, professor at El Colegio de México / former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples
Theo van Boven, professor at Maastricht University
Brunado Fatima Natisan, adviser to the Society for Rural Education and Development, SRED
Durga Sob, founding representative of the Feminist Dalit Organization, FEDO
Michael Sharpe, assistant professor at York College, City University of New York
Kato Tadashi, chairman of the Hokkaido Ainu Association, a public interest incorporated association
Inaba Nanako, professor at Sophia University, Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan
Okuda Hitoshi, Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
Okajima Masaki, chair of the Central Executive Committee of the Japan Teachers’ Union
Kusano Ryuko, chair of the Religious Organizations’ Solidarity Conference on the Dowa Issue, Shinshu Otani-ha
Kim Shuichi, secretary-general of Kanagawa Mintouren
Shin Hee-bong, professor at Aoyama Gakuin University
Iwane Takanao, chairman of the Tokyo Human Rights Awareness Corporate Liaison Council
Miwa Atsuko, director of the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center
Auditors
Akai Takashi, chair of the Central Finance Committee of the Buraku Liberation League
Kubo Makoto, professor at Osaka Sangyo University
Advisers
Helene Sackstein, specialist in gender and child protection
Penda Mbow, professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar
Hayashi Yoko, lawyer, chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Tomonaga Kenzo, honorary director of the Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
Matsumoto Ryu, former Minister of the Environment
Secretariat Structure
Komori Megumi, acting secretary-general
Wada Kenichi, deputy secretary-general, central executive committee member of the Buraku Liberation League
Catherine Cadou, deputy secretary-general, Japan researcher
Kaneko Martin, deputy secretary-general, professor at Japan Women’s University
Terada Masahiro, deputy secretary-general, secretary-general of the Religious Organizations’ Solidarity Conference on the Dowa Issue
Takahashi Kyosuke, deputy secretary-general, National Corporate Liaison Council for Dowa Issues
Komatsu Taisuke, deputy secretary-general, Geneva Office
Staff
Kannari Fumiko, Tokyo Office