From the article of 'Petrel'
No.739 / August 29, 1999

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Do Not Permit the Maneuver of "Emergency Defence Legislation."
They Are Plotting the Military Build-up and Machtpolitik
Behind the Shade of Shouting "Crisis Control."


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The leading Liberal Democratic Party worked out the reactionary bills, 'the dangerous bills' one after another in this Diet under the support of the Liberal Party and the Clean Government Party, such as the Guideline Law, the National Flag/National Anthem Law, the Wiretapping Law, the Law of Establishing the Investigation Committee on the Constitution, and also The Law of the Basic Resident Registers, etc. They have put through these lows in a hurry without even any firm awareness how they define and what they provide in the future of Japan, and they are beginning to shriek that they need to make up, equip fully with the system of "crisis control" now. What kind of "crisis control" are they need and make up, and for what?
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It is from the missile discharge of North Korea in the summer of the last year that they began to shriek "crisis control" with large voice. 'The juggling ship' of the North Korea also affected 'the territorial waters' of Japan in March of this year, and the Self-Defense Force and the Maritime Safety Agency played a pursuit play.

They think that the correspondence of the Japanese nation was entirely insufficient even in either case, that the dullness and confusion of the correspondence were also severe although the missile was the one directed to Japan. Thus, they hold a serious sense of crisis and shout that why are they able to accomplish "the defense" of the nation and country like that.

The Liberal Democratic Party has already made the crisis control project team under "the national defense 3 sectional meeting" from the beginning of this year, and started "the inspection work" about the missile discharge event of North Korea.

And they have summarized and announced "the interim report" related to crisis control in June of this year. According to that, they emphasize that "about the one being able to correspond within the frame of a current law we should correspond instantly to deal with the crisis that may get up tomorrow," and about the missile problem, they are requesting to the government the introduction of the intelligence-gathering satellite, the promotion of the idea of Theater Missile Defences(TMD), the early announcement of the information to the nations, etc.

In the Liberal Democratic Party, the voice of early introduction of the range precaution law or the emergency legislation is rising.

In short, they shout that it is a crisis, the crisis is pressing.

However, is it true?

They say that North Korea is dangerous. However, it is the one they know well themselves that there is no such "crisis" that North Korea would challenge a complete war to Japan, would take such action to invade and conquer Japan militarily, would have the ambition and capability of that.

The reason that they shriek to be a crisis and a crisis despite of that is they are able to increase their power (If the crisis is true, even "the national mobilization regime" is necessary), to reinforce the armaments, to expand the budget for that by doing so. The reactionary politicians and the "lobbyist-politicians of defense" are connecting with such military big capital as Mitubishi by every relation, and have big interests to the increase of the military budget, to the adoption of new weapon, and to the raise of the order.

They think that no one can opposite if they say it is a crisis, "national defence" is necessary. This is just a slogan that entirely appeals to the popular taste. Can you even say that there is no "danger" of the Soviet Union, North Korea and China (though this is never 'the communism' China in the past but rather the China which is appearing on the stage of the bourgeois power nation in politics and in military affaires now)?

It is "too late after things would have broken out in that case.However, is the real reason that the leading Liberal Democratic Party must fear "the crisis" that there is "the invasion" of foreign country?

We wonder whether they should fear "the crisis" brought from the anger and fury of the working people more and more. Or, because they are fearing it really do not they shriek "the crisis control" hysterically and hope 'the reform' to open the way to the establishment of the arms buildup and the military despotism under the disguise of the invasion of foreign country?

Actually, they have the efficient reason to fear the working people and the nations.

As I understand even by seeing the number of votes obtained in the House of Councilors election in last year, the Liberal Democratic Party obtained only 25% of the number of votes (it is not the whole of the voters).This indicates that they are getting only the 10% active support of the whole nations.

Such a political party has approved the bad laws one after another being helped by the small electoral system or by such "questionable" and "plebby" parties, namely the parties being hated by the people or the workers, like the Liberal Party or the Clean Government Party.


Regarding the corruption of the large enterprise of the bank, and the like, only the several managers are not bad. Even the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Finance or such politicians as the executives of the government who were holding state authority are also carrying big 'responsibility' and crime similarly. There is nothing more clear than that even the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Finance and the politicians of the leading Liberal Democratic Party shall be punished similarly if the managers are arrested, prosecuted, and be punished.

However, they offered only several managers as sacrifice and have pretended not to know their obvious crime, and being so even now.

Moreover, they merely can deal with the crisis of the whole economy even by scattering the money of the nation and expand the public finances, and are scattering, bringing up the buds of new difficulty, misfortune, and economic dismantling in near future by that.If so, it is natural that the trust to this administration will be lost at all and it will bring about the situation the working people explode the anger.

Just therefore, they fear "the crisis", shriek that it is important and an urgent subject to prevent it.

However, what they need most is not to shriek "the crisis", not to intend to strengthen the reactionary regime, but to stop such politics, corrupt politics, reactionary politics that offend the working people and are contrary to the profit right away. It might be the best "crisis control" plan.Just their politics is the biggest cause and the starting point of "the crisis". It is nothing except showing that they have no intention and ability to renew the reactionary politics, corrupted politics, to shriek "crisis control" while shelving that.We, the workers must get shattering thoroughly the leading Liberal Democratic Party, which tries to make up an authoritarian, military regime with crying out "crisis control" to not only continue the corrupted regime but increase it more and more.
Hukushirou Nukaga of the Liberal democratic Party, a "lobbyist-politician of defence" is advocating the need of the crisis control plan and the emergency legislation with reeling off the following gibberish. He is a man who tearfully resigned the Director General of the Defense Agency to be accounted for the corruption case of the Defense Agency procurement headquarters, while taking office in last summer.

"It is not good that the Self-Defense Force takes supralegal action when a crisis got up. Japan has an experience that the military authorities pleased themselves once. It is important to set right legally on the basis of the civilian control in order to aim at a mature democratic nation, and I guess that both the Japanese nations and the surrounding countries will feel relieved".

It is exactly the case not to feel compunction.

He says that it is also for the nations and for "the periphery nations" to determine a law in order that the Self-Defense Force can take 'supralegal' action on the occasion of a crisis.

However, it is the same whether there is such a thing or not, if it is a low for the Self-Defense Force to take 'supralegal' action. The Self-Defense Force acts "supraligally", namely like an authoritarian, arbitrarily, and does not pay any consideration anyway. What the reactionaries say is nothing but the dilemma to determine a law in order to act supralegally. What kind of "civilian control" is that? There is only a name and nothing substantial. If so, it may be better that there is no such fake.

Needless to say, workers might not need such low, and moreover it might be contrary head-on to the profit of the workers. If the Self-Defense Force wants to act supralegally at a crisis instantaneously, they are good merely to do so, and there is not a reason to guarantee it legally in all time.Such a thing will be misused by the reactionary camp and military camp after all, and it was so historically. As the history and the real experiences clarifies, such kind of lows only gave the reactionary camp and the military camp the guarantee of freedom to act despotically, and it gave the nations and the "periphery countries" nothing good.

It is just their complacency that they think the foreign country will feel more "relieved" when they determined the supralegal law.What shamelessness they are to try to talk the policy for the profit of the reactionary camp of Japan into the policy for the foreign countries.It may be the similar imposture to the artificial reasoning that they asserted even the necessity of the national flag/national anthem law for the deepening of the friendship and etiquette with foreign countries.

It is not the problem whether only there was the law that the military authorities monopolized in the 1930's prewar days. Do you say if there was the law there was not the invading action of the military authorities? However, everyone knows that if there was the law --whatever kind it was-- the military authorities would have "monopolized" more violently.

Do our reactionary fellows (like Nukaga etc.) want to say that the military authorities was bad because they "monopolized" and invaded China without any low, and if there was the supralegal law the "monopolization" was not "monopolization" and invasion became legal one? It may be an outrageous reason!

At least, it may be certain that he does not understand the meaning of "the civilian control" at all, and he is about to cheat the nations by utilizing this word. Because what he is aiming at is an opposite one to "civilian control" at all, and he only want to dress the coating called "lawful" to it.

The worker knows to act wisely against "crisis" correspondingly--although it is a problem what kind of thing it is--and they might never behave cowardly like you, bourgeoisie at all.

Needless to say, the problem is not that the legislation for emergencies "restricts the right/freedom of the nations" or there is the fear like that the liberalistic public opinion is saying".

Were they not experienced deeply that it was powerless and nonsense to take out "the right/freedom of the nations" at the time of the previous Pacific War, the imperialism wars (of dozens years ago) in an era of a national crisis, on the occasion of a war? Although the party of liberalist do not learn anything from history to their silly.

The discussion of crisis control and the maneuver of legislation for emergencies is disclosing that the monopolistic capital of Japan is turning imperialism more and more, that is to say, it also leans to nationalism, authoritarianism, absolutism and it should do so.It is also teaching even the need and inevitability of the firm and class fight of workers.

(Translated by Yoshi)