Showing posts with label Moritomo Gakuen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moritomo Gakuen. Show all posts

Sunday, April 9, 2017

‘I could not let go of a cultish, rightist school’~City council member reveals dubious Moritomo ordeal



“I am stunned to see how the case has attracted so much attention,” said KIMURA Makoto, a Toyonaka city council member (see photo) who triggered the Moritomo Gakuen School ordeal, during the protest at the Diet on March 30. The protest calls for pursuit of the Moritomo case and resignation of Abe administration every Thursday. With about 500 people in the crowd, lawmakers from Minshin, the Communist and Social Democratic parties demanded that the parliament pursuit the truth behind the suspicious dealings behind the Moritomo school. “I knew a gross teaching of Tsukamoto kindergarten, where they made students recite the Imperial Rescript on Education,” Kimura said. “It came out of my genuine wish to ‘crush’ the plan to build the elementary school in our city of Toyonaka. I could not let go of the plan to build a cultish, right-wing school in my city. I don’t agree with ‘sontaku’ to make a decision through assuming best of what someone higher up wishes. If there was a political pressure gestured, that is not considered, ‘sontaku.’ We need to examine where the pressure came from and must speak louder in demand for Abe’s resignation.” (By M)

「カルト右翼学園を許せなかった」~森友疑惑の端緒開いた豊中市議・木村真さん

「事件がこんなに大きくなってビックリしている」。森友疑惑を暴く端緒を開いた豊
中市議の木村真さん(写真)は、3月30日の国会前行動の集会で開口一番こう述べ
た。毎週木曜に行われている「森友疑惑徹底究明!安倍内閣は退陣せよ!国会前行
動」だが、この日も約500人が集まった。民進(小川敏夫)・共産(宮本たけし)・
社民(福島みずほ)の各国会議員がスピーチし「国会の場で徹底究明を求めていく」
と強調した。木村市議はこう思いを語った。「教育勅語など塚本幼稚園の異様でおぞ
ましい教育を知っていたが、私たちの豊中市にその小学校ができるとわかって“つぶ
したい”というのが率直な気持ちだった。うちの町にカルト右翼学園ができることは
許せなかった」「忖度という言い方はおかしいと思う。具体的な政治的圧力があれば
忖度ではない。その圧力の実態を解明して、安倍やめろの声を大きくしていこう」と
呼びかけた。(M)

Monday, March 6, 2017

Report: Friday Action on Feb. 24th



 Two protest actions took place around the Diet building on Friday February 24th. One was a No-nukes meeting from 6:30 pm to 8 pm held in three areas around the Diet building. The other action,  from 8 pm to 9:30 pm, sought to stop the dispatch of the Self Defense Force to South Sudan and demanded the resignation of the Defense Minister, INADA Tomomi. At the end of the second meeting, the organizer proposed to continue the action to protest the suspicious Morito Gakuen land deal in Osaka. The kindergarten made ABE Akie, the Prime Ministers’s wife, its honorary principle and is planning to open a new primary school, for which the government sold the land at a surprisingly cheap price. The Kindergarten has been praised by both Abes for its patriotic education and for having pupils recite the Imperial Rescript on Education issued in 1890. (KINOSHITA Masaaki)


森友学園の「国有地不正売却」にも抗議~2.24金曜行動レポート

2月24日金曜日、今夜も官邸前と国会前とで2つの抗議集会が行われた。一つは反原発
の抗議集会。6時30分から8時まで「希望のエリア」を含めて、3つのエリアを中心に
展開された。もう一つは今回で3回めとなる会社員の呼びかけではじまった「稲田朋
美防衛相の辞任と安保法制の廃止、南スーダン派遣中止を安倍政権に求める抗議」で
ある。これが8時から9時30分まで。ところが主催側は、9時30分から10時まで、急
きょ安倍首相夫人が名誉校長になった大阪の森友学園の国有地売却問題の不正(約8
億円)が発覚したので、その抗議も行いたいという。この学園は系列の幼稚園の園児
に「教育勅語」を習わせているというから驚くが、またそれを安倍は賞賛している
と。稲田辞任を求める抗議集会では、各政党の政治家がスピーチした。(木下昌明)