Issuikai
The Issuikai ( Japanese 一 水 会 , first Wednesday meeting ) is a nationalist political group in Japan assigned to the extreme right wing ( Uyoku ) . The name is derived from the group's jour fixe , the first Wednesday of every month, but is incorrectly translated as “Society of One Water” or something similar.
Its leader has been Mitsuhiro Kimura since 2000 , while the former leader Kunio Suzuki still has an important role. Kimura was friends with Udai Hussein and there are relationships with Jean-Marie Le Pen .
It was founded in 1972 as part of a “New Right” that set itself apart from the traditional right, which was essentially pro-American, in that it took an explicitly anti-American approach.
Political orientation
She sees the current Japanese government as a " puppet government " of the United States and calls for a "complete independence" of Japan. In their opinion, the United Nations should be dissolved and re-established, since its structures are viewed as a relic of the Second World War.
This anti-American sentiment is fueled on all occasions by the fact that the group publicly welcomed the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA, opposed the Iraq war and criticized the behavior of the United States, including in view of the Kyoto Protocol .
The group is suspected of using criminal means. On January 8, 1992, during a visit by George HW Bush to Japan, an incendiary device was found in a residential complex of the US embassy and a connection was suspected, especially since the Issuikai openly described Bush as a war criminal and announced an attack on the US embassy in December 1991 .
Since 1972, the group has been holding an annual memorial event for Mishima Yukio, whom they regard as a martyr, and the others involved in his attempted coup, under the name Nowaki-Matsuri ( 野 分 祭 , dt. "Autumn Storm Festival") with the participation of other right-wing groups . where his grave is also visited.
The organization publishes a magazine called Rekonquista ( レ コ ン キ ス タ , Rekonkisuta ), which is intended to imply that the country must regain honor and sovereignty after the US occupation.
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- ↑ BNP attends international far-right conference in Japan. In: The Guardian. August 11, 2010, accessed April 18, 2012 .
- ^ Office of the Secretary of State , Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism: Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1992; Asia Overview , April 30, 1993
Web links
- Grouping website - Japanese