No. 1277 Tasks and Duties of Current Extraordinary Diet Session
The extraordinary session of the Diet started on October 3 which has serious tasks and duties to accomplish. It is to explain the relations between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (former Unification Church) in detail, cut off links of politicians from the church and rectify the illicit political rule of the country.
TO REMEDY CRIMINAL POLITICAL CIRCLE – CRUTIAL
Execute the Right to Investigate State’s Politics!
The Unification Church’s illegitimate acts have been widely reported till today: to distort the political scene by influencing the LDP through elections and to inflict a large number of people. The faithful were forced to make huge sums of contributions and obliged to purchase expensive goods. A committee must be set up for investigation, like one established at the time of the nuclear accident in Fukushima. It should clear up all relevant affairs by way of the government’s order to investigate the state’s politics.
Many of ministers and vice-ministers as well as parliamentary secretaries of the Kishida Cabinet have had certain links with the religious organization. The LDP office has avowed to cut off the relationship, but it has declined to explore cases concerning former prime minister Abe Shinzo and Speaker of the House of Representatives Hosoda Hiroyuki. That shows a lack of sincerity to tackle the problem.
Reportedly, the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party and the Japan Innovation Party =Nippon Ishin have agreed to set up an organ to find facts over the Unification Church and to enact laws to attain the objectives. It is important for the opposition parties to get united to counter the colossal ruling bloc, disregarding differences of stances and credos.
Government prepares for a law to cope with an emergency
One more task is to seek after responsibilities of the Kishida government, which enforced the state funeral for the former premier Abe, which violates the constitution, in spite of the strong public objection. According to the recent opinion poll, over 60% of people disagreed to the state-sponsored event. Premier Kishida has made remarks to reply to the questions raised during the examination held in the adjourning period of the committees on parliamentary management of both of the two Houses, but they were repetitions of his earlier statements.
No law specifies on a state funeral. But the Kishida administration has forcibly held such a ceremony through a decision in the cabinet without debating in the Diet. This means a clear attempt to legislate for emergency and to amend the Peace Constitution. The Kishida government must go out as it has behaved against the constitution. It does and will do the same.
‘Military capabilities to attack enemy bases’
The next question is a big increase in the defense budget, which is estimated as 5.5947 trillion yen, which is the highest in the history, to be compiled in the fiscal 2023 budget in accordance with the requests from the relevant authorities. These ministerial demands indicate that the administration is to openly make this country a big military power, casting away the stance of a nation seeking for peace. Reportedly, the total sum of the military budget exceeds the line of six and a half trillion yen, as these appeals contain over 100 items of ‘needs for others’, which have no monetary figures.
The fact directly links to the planned revisions of the three documents on national securities; they are the National Security Strategy, the Defense Program Guidelines and the Mid-term Military Build-up Program. The government is now working to finalize the plan by the end of the year. The core of the revisions lies in preparation to acquire ‘capabilities to attack enemy bases’, the terminology of which has been lately converted to ‘capabilities to counter-attack’.
Concerning the next version of ‘mid-term defense program’, it has been disclosed that, in five years from the 2023 fiscal, the government is well ready to raise the total sum to beat a level over 40 trillion yen. Looking from the five-year-basis of the mid-term defense program, the estimated cost will be 1.5 times bigger than that of the current term (from the fiscal 2019 to 2023). The ‘fundamental plan to intensify defense capabilities’ implemented by the Kishida government represents complete denial and renunciation of the traditional strategy of ‘exclusively defensive posture’.
The current Diet session must commit in many tasks, including policies to cope with the pandemic, the cheap-Yen and price-hikes and the corruption cases over the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 as well as controversial backing to nuclear power development.
国政調査権発動を
選挙などを通じて自民党に影響力を行使して政治を歪め、高額献金や霊感商法で多くの被害者を出した旧統一教会は、福島原発事故の際に国会に設置されたような「調査委員会」を設置し、国政調査権の発動で全容を明らかにすべきだ。
岸田文雄内閣の大臣や副大臣、政務官などに多数の関係者がいる。自民党は関係を断つと言うが、問題の核心である安倍晋三元首相や細田博之衆院議長の関係を調査しないのでは問題にならない。
旧統一教会の実態解明と法整備などのために、立憲民主党と日本維新の会が共闘することで合意したという。野党が立場・主張の違いを超えて巨大与党に対抗するために結束することは大事だ。
非常事態法先取り
そして、憲法違反の「安倍国葬」を強行した岸田政権の責任追及だ。世論調査では、安倍国葬に６割を超える国民が反対した。衆参両院の議院運営委の閉会中審査での岸田首相の答弁は、それまでの繰り返しだった。
法的根拠がないことを国会に諮らず、閣議決定で強行するのは非常事態法・改憲の先取りだ。こんな内閣は早々に退陣させなければ、何をしでかすか分かったものではない。
「敵基地攻撃能力」
次に２０２３年度予算の概算要求で、過去最高額の５兆５要求」が１００を超えてついており、総額は６兆円台半ばといわれている。
これらは、岸田内閣が年末の改定に向けて作業を進めている「安全保障３文書（国家安全保障戦略、防衛計画大綱、中期防衛力整備計画）と一体だ。その中軸となるのは、「反撃能力」と言い換えた「敵基地攻撃能力」の保有の装備である。
次期「中期防」を巡っては、23年度から５年間の総額で40兆円超を視野に検討していることが明らかになった。中期防単位では現行（19～23年度）の１・５倍近くになる。岸田首相が打ち出した「防衛力の抜本的強化」の具体化だが、「専守防衛」の完全な否定・放棄だ。
他にもコロナ対策、円安・物価高、原発回帰、五輪汚職など課題は多い。
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No. 1277 Tasks and Duties of Current Extraordinary Diet Session
The extraordinary session of the Diet started on October 3 which has serious tasks and duties to accomplish. It is to explain the relations between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (former Unification Church) in detail, cut off links of politicians from the church and rectify the illicit political rule of the country.
TO REMEDY CRIMINAL POLITICAL CIRCLE – CRUTIAL
Execute the Right to Investigate State’s Politics!
The Unification Church’s illegitimate acts have been widely reported till today: to distort the political scene by influencing the LDP through elections and to inflict a large number of people. The faithful were forced to make huge sums of contributions and obliged to purchase expensive goods. A committee must be set up for investigation, like one established at the time of the nuclear accident in Fukushima. It should clear up all relevant affairs by way of the government’s order to investigate the state’s politics.
Many of ministers and vice-ministers as well as parliamentary secretaries of the Kishida Cabinet have had certain links with the religious organization. The LDP office has avowed to cut off the relationship, but it has declined to explore cases concerning former prime minister Abe Shinzo and Speaker of the House of Representatives Hosoda Hiroyuki. That shows a lack of sincerity to tackle the problem.
Reportedly, the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party and the Japan Innovation Party =Nippon Ishin have agreed to set up an organ to find facts over the Unification Church and to enact laws to attain the objectives. It is important for the opposition parties to get united to counter the colossal ruling bloc, disregarding differences of stances and credos.
Government prepares for a law to cope with an emergency
One more task is to seek after responsibilities of the Kishida government, which enforced the state funeral for the former premier Abe, which violates the constitution, in spite of the strong public objection. According to the recent opinion poll, over 60% of people disagreed to the state-sponsored event. Premier Kishida has made remarks to reply to the questions raised during the examination held in the adjourning period of the committees on parliamentary management of both of the two Houses, but they were repetitions of his earlier statements.
No law specifies on a state funeral. But the Kishida administration has forcibly held such a ceremony through a decision in the cabinet without debating in the Diet. This means a clear attempt to legislate for emergency and to amend the Peace Constitution. The Kishida government must go out as it has behaved against the constitution. It does and will do the same.
‘Military capabilities to attack enemy bases’
The next question is a big increase in the defense budget, which is estimated as 5.5947 trillion yen, which is the highest in the history, to be compiled in the fiscal 2023 budget in accordance with the requests from the relevant authorities. These ministerial demands indicate that the administration is to openly make this country a big military power, casting away the stance of a nation seeking for peace. Reportedly, the total sum of the military budget exceeds the line of six and a half trillion yen, as these appeals contain over 100 items of ‘needs for others’, which have no monetary figures.
The fact directly links to the planned revisions of the three documents on national securities; they are the National Security Strategy, the Defense Program Guidelines and the Mid-term Military Build-up Program. The government is now working to finalize the plan by the end of the year. The core of the revisions lies in preparation to acquire ‘capabilities to attack enemy bases’, the terminology of which has been lately converted to ‘capabilities to counter-attack’.
Concerning the next version of ‘mid-term defense program’, it has been disclosed that, in five years from the 2023 fiscal, the government is well ready to raise the total sum to beat a level over 40 trillion yen. Looking from the five-year-basis of the mid-term defense program, the estimated cost will be 1.5 times bigger than that of the current term (from the fiscal 2019 to 2023). The ‘fundamental plan to intensify defense capabilities’ implemented by the Kishida government represents complete denial and renunciation of the traditional strategy of ‘exclusively defensive posture’.
The current Diet session must commit in many tasks, including policies to cope with the pandemic, the cheap-Yen and price-hikes and the corruption cases over the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 as well as controversial backing to nuclear power development.
October 5, 2022