The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has elected Mr. Kishida Fumio as President, which means a beginning of the new administration of the country. The government is to encounter the coming general election with its new signboard, which represents a well-known fact, the foolish ostrich buries his head in the sand and thinks he is not seen. Let’s fight to withdraw the ruling bloc of the LDP and the Komeito as it ridicules people.
LET’S HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL RESPECT PEOPLE!
Administrations in favor of wars
In late 2012 the second round Abe government was set up, creating a nice couple of Abe and Suga as the former was prime minister and the latter was chief cabinet secretary. In the following year 2013 the government enacted a law, the Act on Protection of Specified Secrets with parliamentary force and in 2014 set up an office, the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs, which consolidated a basis for authoritarian power of Premier.
The government interfered arrogantly in selecting the top post of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, enforcing the new director to change the interpretation of Article Nine of the Constitution; this is admission of the state’s right of collective self-defense. In the context of the new framework, the Abe government adopted a series of the ‘laws on war’ which permit Japan to unlimitedly involve in the wars staged by the United States outside the mainland.
And in 2017, a law which had been thrown away three times before, the law on conspiracy, passed the Diet with the majority force. Thus, Japan has had legal status as a nation to engage in a war.
In the same year disgraceful facts around Prime Minister Abe were disclosed; the Moritomo-Kakei schools scandal. The Abe-Suga pair attempted to remove it as a criminal case; it meddled in personnel affairs to elect the prosecutor general. The two plotted to extend the retirement age of the Chief Prosecutor of the Tokyo High Prosecutor’s Office, which failed consequently due to the harsh criticisms of the society, ending in a nonsense game. The pair produced other illicit money handlings, too, like embezzlements and the invitations to Sakura-blossoms parties.
Suga as an extension of Abe
In September 2020 Premier Abe abruptly announced his resignation because of his bad health, abandoning responsibilities as he had been trapped in a deadlock. Mr. Suga succeeded the position after he had supported Abe as Chief Cabinet Secretary. The first job of the new premier was intervention in the personnel affairs of the Science Council of Japan. The very basis of democracy, freedom of sciences, was infringed and several academicians were excluded from membership, whose reasons are being covered even today.
According to the fiscal 2020 statistics on business entities, the big corporations whose capitals exceed 1 billion Yen retain their internal reserves totaling 466.8 trillion Yen, the highest in the history, and shareholders’ dividends increased by 11%, comparing with that of the fiscal 2019, and officers’ remuneration did by 0.5%. Meanwhile, wages for workers decreased by 1.2%.
Concerning the number of irregular workers, it shrunk by 3.98 million, comparing with the figure of the before-pandemic year, meaning they lost jobs during the period from January 2020 through March 2021. Of the number, 2.73 million are female workers. The rich have become richer, while the poor, poorer.
Let’s condemn LDP’s switching!
Mr. Suga has dumped the administration as his predecessor, too. It is because of his incompetence in coping with the pandemic and his obedience to the neo-liberal beliefs shared in common with ex-Premier Abe for nine years. During the period a policy of self-responsibility was imposed on people: firstly self-supporting, then reliance on public support and finally on official support. The method was bankrupted.
The mission of politics lies in protecting people. Over 100 thousand patients of corona virus are left behind desperately at home as they are unable to be hospitalized. The politics of the Suga administration has been broken up as a matter of course.
It is the ruling bloc of the LDP and the Komeito that has supported the Abe-Suga administrations. The coalition has altered a signboard for the new leader. Let’s change the government in the coming general election.
｢戦争国家｣作り
２０１２年暮れに第二次安倍晋三内閣が発足、「安倍首相・菅官房長官」のコンビが生まれた。13年「特定秘密保護法」を強行、14年には「内閣人事局」を設置し、官邸独裁体制の基盤を固めた。
そして、内閣法制局長官人事に強権介入し、新長官にそれまでの憲法解釈を変更させた。集団的自衛権行使の容認である。これを基に15年には「戦争法」を強行採決し、海外での米国の戦争に無制限に参加することを可能とした。
さらに、３度廃案になった共謀罪を17年に強行、「戦争ができる国」へと法整備を進めた。
17年には「森友・加計学園」疑惑が発覚。安倍・菅コンビは刑事告訴を封印するため検事総長人事介入を狙い、「官邸の守護人」と揶揄された東京高検検事長の定年延長を画策したが、世論の猛反発で茶番に。公金横領・サクラ疑惑もある。
安倍政治の延長
昨年９月、政権運営に行き詰まった安倍氏が病気を理由に政権を投げ出し、後継は官房長官として安倍氏を支えた菅義偉氏。その最初の仕事が日本学術会議人事への介入。民主社会の根幹である学問の自由を踏みにじったが、任命拒否の理由は未だ不明だ。
20年度の法人統計によると、「資本金10億円以上の大企業の内部留保は４６６・８兆円で、過去最高となり、株主配当は19年度比で11％増、役員報酬も０・５％増と膨らんだが、労働者の賃金は１・２％減となっている。
非正規労働者はコロナ禍以前、つまり20年１月から21年３月の間に３９８万人減少、即ち雇用を失ったのだ。うち２７３万人が女性だ。富める者は更に富み、貧しきものは更に犠牲となっている。
表紙替え断罪へ
菅氏の政権投げ出しは、コロナ禍への無策の結果だが、根底には安倍元首相と共に９年間にわたって国民に「自助→共助→公助」、つまり自己責任を押し付けてきた新自由主義政治の破綻がある。
国民の命を守ることこそ政治の最大の使命だが、10万人を超える自宅療養者など、それを果たせない菅政治が退場するのは当然だ。その安倍・菅体制を支えてきたのが与党＝自公だ。表紙替えの新政権に総選挙で政権交代を突き付けよう。
英訳版↓
No. 1229 Break Away From Abe-Suga Politics
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has elected Mr. Kishida Fumio as President, which means a beginning of the new administration of the country. The government is to encounter the coming general election with its new signboard, which represents a well-known fact, the foolish ostrich buries his head in the sand and thinks he is not seen. Let’s fight to withdraw the ruling bloc of the LDP and the Komeito as it ridicules people.
LET’S HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL RESPECT PEOPLE!
Administrations in favor of wars
In late 2012 the second round Abe government was set up, creating a nice couple of Abe and Suga as the former was prime minister and the latter was chief cabinet secretary. In the following year 2013 the government enacted a law, the Act on Protection of Specified Secrets with parliamentary force and in 2014 set up an office, the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs, which consolidated a basis for authoritarian power of Premier.
The government interfered arrogantly in selecting the top post of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, enforcing the new director to change the interpretation of Article Nine of the Constitution; this is admission of the state’s right of collective self-defense. In the context of the new framework, the Abe government adopted a series of the ‘laws on war’ which permit Japan to unlimitedly involve in the wars staged by the United States outside the mainland.
And in 2017, a law which had been thrown away three times before, the law on conspiracy, passed the Diet with the majority force. Thus, Japan has had legal status as a nation to engage in a war.
In the same year disgraceful facts around Prime Minister Abe were disclosed; the Moritomo-Kakei schools scandal. The Abe-Suga pair attempted to remove it as a criminal case; it meddled in personnel affairs to elect the prosecutor general. The two plotted to extend the retirement age of the Chief Prosecutor of the Tokyo High Prosecutor’s Office, which failed consequently due to the harsh criticisms of the society, ending in a nonsense game. The pair produced other illicit money handlings, too, like embezzlements and the invitations to Sakura-blossoms parties.
Suga as an extension of Abe
In September 2020 Premier Abe abruptly announced his resignation because of his bad health, abandoning responsibilities as he had been trapped in a deadlock. Mr. Suga succeeded the position after he had supported Abe as Chief Cabinet Secretary. The first job of the new premier was intervention in the personnel affairs of the Science Council of Japan. The very basis of democracy, freedom of sciences, was infringed and several academicians were excluded from membership, whose reasons are being covered even today.
According to the fiscal 2020 statistics on business entities, the big corporations whose capitals exceed 1 billion Yen retain their internal reserves totaling 466.8 trillion Yen, the highest in the history, and shareholders’ dividends increased by 11%, comparing with that of the fiscal 2019, and officers’ remuneration did by 0.5%. Meanwhile, wages for workers decreased by 1.2%.
Concerning the number of irregular workers, it shrunk by 3.98 million, comparing with the figure of the before-pandemic year, meaning they lost jobs during the period from January 2020 through March 2021. Of the number, 2.73 million are female workers. The rich have become richer, while the poor, poorer.
Let’s condemn LDP’s switching!
Mr. Suga has dumped the administration as his predecessor, too. It is because of his incompetence in coping with the pandemic and his obedience to the neo-liberal beliefs shared in common with ex-Premier Abe for nine years. During the period a policy of self-responsibility was imposed on people: firstly self-supporting, then reliance on public support and finally on official support. The method was bankrupted.
The mission of politics lies in protecting people. Over 100 thousand patients of corona virus are left behind desperately at home as they are unable to be hospitalized. The politics of the Suga administration has been broken up as a matter of course.
It is the ruling bloc of the LDP and the Komeito that has supported the Abe-Suga administrations. The coalition has altered a signboard for the new leader. Let’s change the government in the coming general election.
October 13, 2021