SF Action to Support Japanese Teachers

[uq001]

Kimigayo lyrics

"May the Emperor's rule last

Till a thousand years, then eight thousand years to come

Till sand, pebbles, and rocks

To be united as a ledge

Till moss grows on it"

I think Kimigayo is one of the most peaceful national anthems in the world.

[skyengines]

And that's why the content of this 'peace' is so worthy of ridicule.

[raason]

Correction to Part I: Tokyo Gov. Ishihara Shintaro, largely responsible for punishment of teachers for NOT singing Kimigayo. Sorry!

[raason]

Part II: The Tokyo Supreme Court ruled against the prison sentence because it violated the 1947 Fundamental Law of Education, which guaranteed freedom of conscience. But that law has recently been revised so teachers no longer have such protection. The agenda of Japanese politicians enforcing singing of Kimigayo is NOT sympathetic but is hostile to the US. Yet the US is pressuring Japan to make these reforms.

[raason]

Part I: Tokyo Gov. Ishihara Shintaro, largely responsible for punishment of teachers for singing Kimigayo, recently said, "Japan's postwar Constitution should be annulled and replaced by a new one to raise the Emperor as the head of state and to have Japan become the world-strongest defense nation." Ishihara is anti-American & has called for preemptive military strikes against N. Korea & China. He threatened a dissenting teacher a prison sentence(Continued in Part II)

[videopress]

very good!