From the article of 'Petrel'
No.812 / March 4, 2001

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Do Not Forgive The Adoption of The Forged "History Textbook"!

The Ministry of Culture and Science Is Bucking Up Virtually
It Falsifys The War of Reaction With Liberation War


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They say that the textbook that "The Institute For Making A New History Textbook" (the secretary is the bud guy, Kanji Nishio / the professor of The University of Electro-Communications) edited virtually seems to go through the official approval of the Ministry of Culture and Science easily.
The Ministry of Culture and Science (the old Education Ministry) -- though they "picked a hole" at full blast and demanded correction obstinately for the textbook edited by liberalists, and so on -- will easily recognize this as a textbook only by formal "official approval".
Even though this textbook is too irresponsible one insisting on that "the Pacific Wars (instead of imperialism war, aggression war) aimed at Asian liberation", the merger of the Republic of Korea was "supported as a policy to let East Asia be stable from the Europe and US Great Powers" and it was "done legally" under the name of "truth of history" without paying any attention to the fact.
After the formation of national flag / national anthem law, the attack of reactionary becomes authoritarianism, and they are forcing the national flag / the national anthem of Japan nationwide at graduation ceremony or entrance ceremony.
In addition, the Board of Education of Arakawa-ku, Tokyo moves in attack of being domineering that the Japanese flag must be always raised at the education spot, and the draggle-tailed principals who make only self-protection their business are going to follow this quite willingly.
Under the Mori corrupted government run to earth, the reactionaries are seized with sense of impending crisis, and launch an offensive all at once now.
However, workers do not afraid of some such threats by bluff that the decaying and feared men of power and reactionaries do at all.
It is the time to change into a determined counterattack now.
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They Are Arguing Away The Imperialism War As Liberation War

Nishio is huffing over and saying that the imperialist war between Japan (and Germany, Italy, the Axis Powers) and Allied Powers of USA, UK, and USSR on 1930's, 1940's, the hegemonistic reactionary war to be seen any sides, was the progressive "DAITOA" war aiming at Asian nation liberation (without any explanation why it was good war if "DAITOA" war!)

This extremely stupid fellows swallow and believe the sales message of the military authorities during the World War II.

However, imperialist war was imperialist war, and Japan merely fought against the imperialism of USA and UK in order to enclose the Asian countries under own hegemony.

It will be too clear "historical fact" that Japan "liberated the Asian people from the rule for 400 years of Anglo-Saxon" was for Asian people but for own profit.

It will be clear even if we take one thing, for example, from the construction of "Manchurian country" to the aggression war over China (Japan-China War) beginning in 1937.

The Japanese imperialist ruled the Asian countries, whom it liberated from Europe and America, under own military administration, and mercilessly exploited and suppressed, and did not give "racial self-determination right" to them including China (Manchurian).

It was not by the Japanese military authorities but was after the dismantling of Japanese military authorities, in other words since Japanese defeat to 1950's, that the Asian nations gained "national liberation" (of course naturally there was more late countries like Vietnam).

There were hardly exist the example that the Japanese military authorities liberated the Asian nations besides in the advertising slogan of the military authorities.

The stupid fellows as Nishio forget the thing that if they bring up and accuse "the rule of Anglo-Saxon for 40 years" they must bring up the rule of Asia by "the Japanese race" for dozens of years alike, and if they do not so they can not be consistent at all, lack fairness, are jug-handled.

If "the imperialism of Anglo-Saxon is bad", the one of "the Japanese race" is also guilty, too.

They cry virtually without any kind of "proof" that the rule of Anglo-Saxon is imperialism, but the one of Japanese is not imperialism, but such a thing is individualism of dirty "nationalism", egoism, and it is only a kind of unpleasant "partiality of relatives", small "familism".

Imperialism is bad even if it is imperialism of any country, and it is so if it is the one of a "relative", and it is equal with that If somebody of a family thieve, it is a crime even if it is what one of the family did.

Or the silly reactionaries of Nishio do say that it is a good deed for the family and not a theft because it is what a blood relationship did even if one of a family thieved?

What a beautiful "family love"?

Poor Reason Like An Infant

They yell at full blast about "self-torture historical view".

Of course we are unrelated to the "self-torture historical view" of the Communist Party or liberalists.

Because we do not criticize merely the Japanese imperialism, but criticize the imperialism all over the world, that is, the imperialism of all countries.

We reveal and accuse the Japanese prewar and wartime (and current, more again future) imperialism, but also reveal and accuse the imperialism of USA, Britain and the Soviet Union completely alike (or more severely, because they were senior imperialists, and Japan stretched itself and imitated them in a sense).

This is only a viewpoint of the worker's internationalism.

Ignorant and knowledgeless Communist Party and liberalists do not consistently reveal and impeach USA, Britain and the Soviet Union as the nation of reactionary capital nation and imperialist nation because of the excuse that these countries are "democratic" nation, "socialist" nation -- what a "misunderstanding" and "fantasy" it is!

Well, the reactionaries abuses that the Communist Party and the liberalists remain silent about imperialism of the Europe and America (or, they beautify them as "democratic nation", "socialist nation"), and insist on with putting up "the imperialism of Anglo-Saxon" to a target that it is wrong to bring up only Japan into evil, Japan is not only bad because Europe and America also have been spending the time with imperialistic aggression.

What a nonsensical objection for objection's sake of self justification this is?

This reactionaries do not hit upon the extremely "easy idea", naive and simple truth that there is no reason Japan may become imperialistic even if the Western capital nations are the imperialistic nations.

These bluffing worldly-minded fellows think that they can defend own imperialism by accusing Europe and American imperialism just in the same way that an infant justify own deed when pointed out an evil one by saying that "so and so is also doing".

In other words, the reason almost like infant that they also do or may do because someone else does bat thing just reveals the mind structure of their low level.

It is not children but the fellows of the reactionary right wing and the Liberal Democratic Party that needs moral education (to be educated morally) if their morality is like (or worse than) infant.

The stupid fellows as Nishio etc. insist on that the merger of Korea was supported also by the Western Great Powers.

What a reason it is?

Do they can depend on the authority of the Western Great Powers?

Though they lift "the Western Great Powers" here (What a slavish authoritarianism it is!), on the other place, they criticized the same countries as "the Anglo-Saxons" who ruled over Asia for 400 years.

If "the Anglo-Saxon" who ruled over Asia overlooked the robbery way of Japanese, it would be not because they also did a similar kind of thing, so they lack neither the qualification nor the situation to criticize Japan?

There are many cases as a wrongdoer join with an another wrongdoer, and they recognize their evil deed, protect themselves mutually, but an evil deed should not become an evil deed.

We will only surprise at the crudity and randomness of their notion when they lead to say that the merger of Korea "was legal".

It is quite clear what kind of things was the "lawful act" for the Japanese imperialist if we try a bit to examine, for example, the concoction of "Manchurian nation" under the pressure of armaments and the fact of the puppet nation.

The merger of Korea also forced by military power, and it will be impossible to call it "legality" without changing the concept of "legality" from the root.

If they let someone surrender by military power, and formally cover it with clothes of "legality", they say it as happy ending, however, this is not normally "legality" as we cannot say that it "is legality" (or consensual) even if we violate the other sex by violence.

Nishio etc. who write the history based on fact almost ignore the fact of history in reality.

The worker cannot recognize the empty poor writings, the self-righteous bad composition of such right wing as "textbooks" at all.

If we do such a thing, it will indeed stay as a Japanese shame for a long time in future just as we had been very ashamed of the Japanese textbook and the folly and nonsense in prewar and during the war time until afterward.

The Government Send A Yell Virtually

The Ministry of Culture and Science intends to recognize this reactionary textbook with saying that there is no reason to reject it "because it accede to the revision demand" of official approval, and the Mori government is going to consent tacitly by plausibly saying "political neutrality".

However, even if to say a revision by "official approval", they demand only formal correction for this nonsense textbook only on the trifling and non-essential place, and they do not lodge any kind of objection for the non-science nature, non-objectivity (falsehood nature, arbitrariness) in the root, so this is only a trickery from the first.

Because the bureaucrats engaged in the official approval of textbook virtually have the same opinion with the reactionaries and is supporting them, so both the "revision instructions" and the acceptance of it by the nationalistic reactionaries is only a collusion and trickery to deceive the workers.

The Liberal Democratic Party and the government which had accused the textbook of liberalists decided "not to intervene" and affect some neutrality this time, however, it will be clear that the standpoint "not to intervene" itself " is just the maximum support and a yell for the reactionaries in case of this time.

The workers now must notice distinctly who and for what is going and must to spread and advocate nationalism, force the Japanese flag / the national anthem of Japan, and bring out a "imperialistic" (in other words, justifying imperialism) textbook.

It will be easy to answer if we see the situation how the current Mori government and the Liberal Democratic Party are urged.

Just the fellows who have decayed, have been the target of the grudge of workers and people, have been urged bring out nationalism, the Japanese flag / the national anthem of Japan in order to cling to power and the special privilege, and can not do so.

They have decided to protect the seat of power by diverting and replacing secretly the criticism of people with using any kind of means.

For the purpose, they scatter money without any reference to the failuer of the national finance, or force without any shame what is essentially unrelated to education -- for example, the Japanese flag / the national anthem of Japan -- no matter how much hundreds thousands of teachers and millions of children suffer.

Or they insist that nationalism and the Japanese flag / the national anthem of Japan are not chickenshit but essential for education?

If so, they think that it is the essence of education to bring up children into nationalist as well as the prewar days, and they reveal by themselves that they are only empty torn drum.

Petit Bourgeois Pacifism Is Powerless

We must point out last that the petit bourgeois pacifism of the Communist Party and liberalists is powerless at all for the attack of such reactionaries.

For example, the reactionaries is arguing in the textbook that "the extinction of nuclear weapon (to say furthermore, the extinction of the entire weapon, 'small weapon', land mine which is a particular weapon) is absolute justice or not." If we premise the international order (or disorder) that capital and the nations of capital rule, nuclear weapon and weapon is necessary and national armament is lawful, because each nation have "a peculiar right" of existence, and it must be "defend" against "unfair aggression" ("emergent and unfair aggression" that the Communist Party says).

Therefore it is nonsense to declare total abolition of nuclear weapons while premising the rule of capital and the international "order" (or, disorder) like the petit bourgeois Communist Party, and it is nonsense still more, blatant self contradiction to "prohibit" only "a small weapon" and land mine.

To sum up, if we are going to deny and dispose of nuclear weapon, weapon general, and armaments general, we must deny and dispose of the rule of capital at first.

For such reason, the reactionaries think that they can justify the standpoint of their demonic and imperialistic armament by striking the self contradiction and nonsense of petit bourgeois and liberalists, however, such a standpoint will be a tremendous fantasy.

Reactionaries only take out and fiddle with another fantasy, more furious and dangerous fantasy against the fantasy of liberalists.

Not to say that liberalists and the Communist Party are nonsense, but the fantasy of such reactionaries is harmful and dangerous.

We have already "experienced" that it leads to a bastarding result if these fellows act important and butt in with self-complacency as prewar days, and their failure has been proved in the history.

The workers must not forgive that they act important again.

The reason why they are butting in and winning "popularity" a little now -- in bourgeois and petit bourgeois -- is nothing but the rule of capital has been decayed and the politics of the Liberal Democratic Party has been corrupt from the root.

Reactionaries are called by the class of capital in order to save this decayed system in a "radical" way in proportion as the governing classes become corrupt and the crisis deepens.

The reason why the reactionaries support and beautify nationalism and absolutism is that they confront the crisis that the Liberal Democratic Party power (that is, the power of "official recognition" of capital) has decayed, the approval rating has fallen into a modest few %, and it has become just before collapse.

They believe that there is nothing besides nationalism, that is, loyalty for a nation that let the nation so divided all together unite and collect.

Thus, they flee into nationalism and fascism increasingly, however, such a thing is only a bigger accident for the workers.

Now, we must accumulate power and crush the attack of reactionaries, but, the fight connect to the point where the working class put up own power and extinguish the rule of capital, and we can fight only under the prospects till the last.

(Translated by Yoshi)