March 30, 2002
To Palestinian people:
We do not need aggressive nations.
From Yuseph Himori,
At a seashore linking to Palestine on the Land Day
Without any conditions, I will support Palestinian people for resisting against Zionist Ariel Sharon's military occupation, massacre, and racist discrimination. Without any conditions, I will support People resisting peacefully or violently in order to restore their human dignity.
I feel as if Palestinian people who are in charge of liberation movement are my close friends. Now Japan is becoming a very dangerous nation that is rapidly strengthening its structure for aggressive war. However, there are a lot of people in Asia who accuse Japan for its aggressive war and seek to liberate Japan out of the aggressive structure. It has been my hope to participate in such liberation activities.
It looks that a lot of governments are accepting Israel, ignoring the fact that Israel has invaded and occupied Palestinian territory. I am greatly disappointed to see the reality of cruel world where they talk of "Peace of nations" without involving Palestinian people. Today, highly advanced science has brought crueler aggression and massacre to the world than ancient days. We see that the Mind of human being, the most important thing, is mercilessly ignored. It is the Mind with which we feel and share pains of others.
There have been protests even in Japan, although they are small. They are against the U.S. government who supports Israel and also Japanese government who wants to be a comrade of the U.S. government. As a human being with the Mind, I will also participate in the protests, in order to seek for dissolving the alliance supporting Sharon government.
Strong protest against Israel!
Strong protest against all the aggressive nations!
Strong protest against Zionism!
Freedom from all the slavery!
Solidarity of Liberation!
Note by Kou Mukai:
This is the suicide note of Mr. Takao Himori. It is especially noted that this statement is addressed for “Palestinian People”. In the suicide note, he signed his name as “Yuseph Himori”. He wrote “at a seashore linking to Palestine”, thinking that the sea of Akita, his hometown in Japan, is linking with Palestine.
Why this suicide note was not addressed to Japanese friends and colleagues whom he naturally would have addressed? When I think about this reason, I have realized he was so generous to us that he could not accuse us of our idleness. Then understanding such his attitude makes us severely examine our conscience.
He departed from us and tried to live again with Palestinian people who are sunk in grief and pain. He has lived his own life by committing suicide like the 18 year-old Palestinian girl who killed herself with a bomb for the Palestinian movement.