Supplemental Material for [Rejecting Militarism: Shared Experience, Resistance, and Solidarity] panel

These are notes, bibliographies, and links for a panel on anti-militarism in Japan that occurred on 2025.05.31.

Inside:

Partial history of Japanese complicities in Southeast Asia regimes' military repression

Violence of post-1945 “non-military” aid

➔ to Burmese elites from 1954

➔ to Indonesia elites from 1958 focusing on oil and Liquefied National Gas (LNG) exports to Japan

➔ to Filipino elites from 1956 for plantations, mining, anti-communism under Marcos

After 2001 the Ministry of Defense and MoFA have collaborated more, pushing the "Free and Open Indo Pacific" ideology for US-Japan “security” militarization

Current trajectory of escalating and converging Japan-SEA regimes’ militarization

Attachments

Against Militarism Panel Supplemental Material.pdf (5.26 MB)

Comments

Japan: Osaka's homeless resist evictions

The Osaka Municipal Government is today removing homeless communities from two of its parks in preparation for the World Rose Convention.

Japan's Corporate Society and Democratic Education - Kumazawa Makoto

Speaking Out on the Emperor System

Terror, Taboo and Silence: Speaking out on the Emporer System - Nakagawa Nobuaki Presented in PDF format (3mb).

1945-84: Class struggle on the shop floor, the Japanese case - Muto Ichiyo

The Depression and the liberation of Kamagasaki (1973-1978)

A pamphlet in Japanese and English about the Kamagasaki area of Osaka.

The Chinese anarchist movement - Robert Scalpino and George T. Yu

A history of the Chinese anarchist movement in France, Japan and China itself from 1900 up to the…