Showing posts with label Great Kanto Earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Kanto Earthquake. Show all posts

Thursday, September 21, 2017

94th Anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake – Remember the massacre of Koreans



 
 We never forget that Koreans and Chinese were massacred after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 without any reason. We remember that what is unthinkable during peacetime can happen in a time of emergency. Fires of trouble are smoldering during peacetime. Therefore, we swear that we keep sowing seeds of appreciating being “different”. On September 2, 2017, a memorial service held at a bank of the Awakawa River in Sumida Ward, Tokyo for the Korean victims who were massacred after the quake. The event attracted more participants than usual presumably due to news reports that Tokyo Governor KOIKE Yuriko and Sumida Ward Mayor YAMAMOTO Toru refused to send eulogies for the Korean and Chinese victims. The venue of the event is one of places where many Koreans and Chinese were shot and killed by the Japanese Army. (KASAHARA Mayumi)



関東大震災94周年 朝鮮人虐殺を忘れない!~秋空の下300人が集う

私たちは忘れない。朝鮮人・中国人がいわれなく虐殺されたこの事実を。平時には考
えられないことが非常時には起きることを。それは、平時に種がまかれていること
! だからこそ“違う”ことをよいこととする種を播き続けなければならないこと
を! そんな思いを新たにした集いだった。92日、「グループほうせんか・関東大
震災時に虐殺された朝鮮人の遺骨を発掘し慰霊する会」の主催で関東大震災の追悼式
が、台風の心配も去り青空のもと荒川河川敷で行われた。今年は、小池都知事や山本
墨田区長の追悼文を出さないというニュースが駆け回ったからか、例年より多く300
人近くの人が集まった。ここ墨田区の旧四つ木橋の河川敷は、軍隊が出動して機関銃
で殺害した現場の一つでもある。(笠原眞弓) 

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Remember the history of the suppression of free speech – 90th anniversary of the Kameido Incident




On September 8, 2013, a ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Kameido Incident was held at Akamon Joshinji Temple in Kameido, Tokyo. The Great Kanto Earthquake hit the region including Tokyo on September 1, 1923, leaving more than 100,000 people dead and injured. Under the Japanese Imperial Government of that time, which took advantage of the chaotic situation after the natural disaster, the police arrested ten progressive union and social activists in this region and massacred them at the local police station. This is called the Kameido Incident. This is a crime committed by the Japanese Government that crushed the stronghold of Japan’s labor movement and its revolutionary spirit, trying to suppress free speech. It is always suppressed under a repressive government. It is very significant to know the truth of the Kameido Incident and swear not to allow the authority to suppress free speech again in this time when the current Abe Administration strives to make it possible for Japan to “commit itself to war” and change the constitution that renounces war. (SATO Kazuyuki)
Photo: Photos of the victims


言論弾圧の歴史を忘れるな~「亀戸事件90周年追悼会」開かれる

98日、東京の亀戸にある赤門浄心寺において、「亀戸事件90周年追悼会」が開かれた。・・192391日、関東地方を襲った大震災が発生し、死傷者 十数万人となる未曾有の災害となりました。戦前の天皇制政府はこの混乱に乗じて、南葛地域(現在の江東区、墨田区)の先進的な労働運動や社会運動の活動家(川合義虎、平澤計七、吉村光治ら)10人を亀戸警察に連行し、虐殺しました。これが亀戸事件です。日本の労働運動の拠点だった亀戸で、その革命的精神を潰し、言論の封殺を狙った権力犯罪です。権力による悪政がすすめられるもとでは、必ず言論弾圧が引き起こされます。安倍内閣のもとで、急速に「戦争する国」づくりや憲法改悪の策動が強まるもとで、亀戸事件の真実を知り、ふたたび権力による言論封殺を許さないとの思いを固めあうことは、非常に意義あることです。(佐藤和之)