Appeal from Japanese Scholars of Political Economy
to All the People and States of the World
− Call for the Rational Actions
to Eradicate the Vicious Cycle
of Indiscriminate Terrorism and Military Actions −
8 October, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the multiple simultaneous acts of terrorism that
took the lives of several thousand people in an instant brought an immeasurable
shock to the whole world. We express our deepest condolences and sympathy
to the victims and we denounce those groups and individuals who planned
or executed the terrorist act.
We will never tolerate such actions of indiscriminate terrorism that kill
so many ordinary people as means to attain any aim. Such terrorism is an
anti-humanistic act and an international crime against the whole of humanity.
Those who planned or acted must be strictly punished. There is a peaceful
and internationally recognized means to address and pass judgement on these
kinds of crime; specifically, there is the International Court based on
the UN Charter and international laws. It has already been functioning
for some time now. We seek the impeachment of the planners,organizers,
actors and supporters of the recent act of terrorism according to the procedures
based on international law, to be heard at the International Criminal Court
so as to reach a fair verdict and stern punishment of the guilty.
At the time immediately following the attack, the US government declared
"This is a war against the USA" and began to prepare for a retaliatory
war against the terrorist groups, their individual members and supporting
organizations, and it demanded that other nations act in concert with its
policy.
Looking back at what has been happening in the past ten years, it is undeniable
that the US and its allied nations have damaged the lives of a tremendous
number of non-combatant people or ordinary citizens by either directly
or indirectly waging military actions in Palestine, Iraq, the Sudan, and
states of the former Yugoslavia, causing the increase of anti-US emotions
among the public in those areas, and fostering such fanatic consciousness
leading to the belief that the suicidal attacks of indiscriminate terrorism
would deliver supreme salvation. Although we have no time here to offer
specific reasons why these conditions exist, we can see clearly the vicious
cycle of military actions and indiscriminate terrorism. It seems apparent
that the recent acts indiscriminate terrorism is a part of such a vicious
cycle.
Do not such formidable acts of indiscriminate terrorism demand of us, all
individuals and all states of the world, to act rationally? With this in
mind, we ask the people of the US and the world neither for a retaliatory
war, nor for a request to support it, but instead ask for rational action
of people and of states to eradicate such vicious cycles as seen in Palestine,
the Middle East,Yugoslavia, and all over the world.
Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi expressed support for the retaliatory war
policy of the US government even earlier than the NATO nations did. The
ruling parties of Japan, by taking advantage of the shock in the minds
of the Japanese people who had watched closely the large-scale act of terrorism,
are seeking to strengthen the contents of existing laws to make it possible
for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to go abroad and participate in military
actions which would violate the peace article of the Japanese Constitution
even further than, we believe, it already has been. We ask the Japanese
government to make appeals to the public and the states of the world to
cut off the horrifying vicious cycle of military actions and terrorism
by engaging in non-military, rational behavior. We desire that Japan act
on it's own to furnish a good example. Now is the time for Japan, as one
of the so-called economic giants, to build hospitals and schools, dispatch
medical doctors, educators and agriculturists to mitigate with all its
power the inhuman conditions of the people in different parts of world
which have been the hotbeds of indiscriminate terrorism. We ask the Japanese
government to act in this direction.
President Bush in his speech at the US Congress on Sept. 22 urged the people
and states of the world to make the choice between standing with the US
for "justice" and defense of "freedom" or going with
"evil" and terrorism.Those who were present all stood applauding
him. To urge that people choose between the two - with military power behind
- is nothing but a threat without allowing room for rational thought. By
this speech, the people and states of the world are made to face an oppressive
force which would deny the freedom to criticize the President's policy.
We foster the hope of human society to overcome this kind of oppressive
power over the consciousness. We hope for action to consolidate all human
beings, such as is being shown by the people in New York in the midst of
such devastation, and also in the demonstrations in that same city, in
which people courageously expressed opposition to a retaliatory war.
We demand of all states in the world that they take rational action to
eradicate the vicious cycle of indiscriminate terrorism and military conflict.
Hearing of the news on the beginning of the strikes, we demand of the United
States and its allied forces to stop the military action immediately.
We must create such a world system that would make it possible to overcome
the severe poverty and inhuman living conditions which become seed-beds
for indiscriminate terrorism. We call on all working individuals of the
world, and especially of the advanced nations, to make such a world system
possible.
We now declare determination to do our best to eliminate such social bases
as would lead to wars among nations and indiscriminate terrorism.
(The demand of the immediate stop of the military action was
added to
the original circulated appeal at the coordinators' meeting on October
8.)
Concerned individuals among the members of
the Japan Society
of Political Economy
Coordinators:
Chief: Shibagaki, Kazuo (Musashi University)
Postal Address :
110, Kanai-cho 2134, Machida-shi, 195-0071 Japan
Tel.
042-734-7254 sibagaki@cc.musashi.ac.jp
Kitahara, Isamu
(Keio University) 136kitahara@mvi.biglobe.ne.jp
Konishi, Kazuo (Rikkyo
University)konishi@rikkyo.ne.jp
Maehata, Noriko
(Rikkyo University)maehata@rikkyo.ne.jp
Masuda, Toshio (Hosei
University)tmasuda@mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp
Morioka, Koji (Kansai
University)kmorioka@zephyr.dti.ne.jp
Nagashima, Seiichi
(Tokyo University of Economics)fhuran@xm.catv.ne.jp
Otani, Teinosuke
(Hosei University) otani@asahi.email.ne.jp
Yagi, Kiichiro (Kyoto
University)kiyagi@mx.cable-net.ne.jp
418 Economists of the Japan Society for Political Economy signed the appeal:
Abe, Hiroshi Abe, Jun Abe, Naoki
Abe, Shin'ya Abe, Teruo Agatsuma, Toru
Akama, Michio Akasaka, Michitoshi Amano, Mitsunori
Ando, Kaneo Aneha, Aki Aoyagi, Kazumi
Arai, Satoshi Arii, Yukio Ariizumi, Satoshi
Asakawa, Masami Ashida, Fumio Azuma, Koichiro
Baba, Motoji Chatani, Jun'ichi Chiba, Akio
Chikano, Noboru Cho, Yukio Dohi, Makoto
Edamatsu, Masayuki Fikuda, Yasuo Fujii, Tsuyoshi
Fujioka, Atsushi Fujita, Akio Fujita, Minoru
Fujiwara, Katsumi Fukagai, Zentaro Fukudome, Hisao
Fukushima, Toshio Furukawa, Satoru Goka, Kazumichi
Goto, Yasuo Haga, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Shinjiro
Hamada, Hajime Hamakawa, Kazunori Handa, Masaki
Hara, Nobuko Harada, Minoru Harada, Yoshinori
Hasada, Kiyoshi Hasebe, Takashi Hasegawa, Yoshikazu
Hashimoto, Akiko Hashimoto, Naoki Hattori, Fumio
Hattori, Masaharu Hattori, Yasuhiko Hayasaka, Keizo
Hayashi, Akira Hayashi, Jun Hayashi, Kentaro
Hirabayashi, Kazutaka Hiraishi, Osamu Hirano, Atsuo
Hirano, Ken Hirano, Kiichiro Hirata, Kikuo
Hirota, Jun Hirota, Kiyotaka Hisano, Kunio
Horiuchi, Ken'ichi Hoshi, Makoto Hoshino, Tomiichi
Hosogai, Daijiro Hosoi, Toshiaki Ichihara, Akane
Ichii, Akira Ide, Keiji Iida, Kazuto
Ikariyama, Hiroshi Ikumi, Akio Imai, Yushi
Imamiya, Kenji Imamura, Motoyoshi Imura, Kiyoko
Inoue, Hiroshi Inoue, Kanji Inoue, Yoshio
Inukai, Kin'ya Inuzuka, Shoji Irie, Toshio
Isagai, Nobuo Ishii, Hiroo Ishikawa, Yasuhiro
Ishiwata, Sadao Ito, Masazumi Ito, Takeshi
Ito, Yoichi Itoh, Makoto Iwabayashi, Takeshi
Iwasaki, Toru Iwashita, Hiroshi Iwata, Hiroshi
Izumi, Toshihiro Izumo, Masashi Kai, Eiko
Kaido, Masatoshi Kakizaki, Shigeru Kaku, Yanchun
Kakuda, Osamu Kamakura, Takao Kamata, Takashi
Kamata, Takeji Kameda, Masato Kamikawa, Takao
Kamishima, Takeshi Kamura, Shin'ichi Kanada, Shigeki
Kaneko, Haruo Kaneko, Masashi Kangawa, Naochika
Karato, Okinori Kataoka, Koji Kato, Koichi
Kato, Yasuo Kato, Yoshitada Kawabata, Nozomu
Kawabe, Heihachiro Kawakami, Yoshio Kawamoto, Akito
Kawanabe, Tadatoshi Kawarada, Maiko Kawashima, Nobuyoshi
Kikkawa, Akimaro Kikumoto, Mai Kikumoto, Yoshiharu
Kimura, Jiro Kinbara, Minoru Kiriyama, Hiroyuki
Kita, Akemi Kitada, Yoshiharu Kitagawa, Kazuhiko
Kitahara, Isamu Kitamura, Hiromoto Kitano, Masakazu
Kobayashi, Yaroku Kobuchi, Minato Koike, Hiroshi
Kojima, Kosei Kojima, Tsunehisa Komaki, Masanori
Komatsu, Yoshio Komiya, Shohei Kondo, Sadao
Kondo, Tetsuya Konishi, Kazuo Konno, Yasuhiro
Kono, Shin'ichi Kotani, Takashi Kubo, Shin'ichi
Kumagai, Takakazu Kuramoto, Yoshihisa Kuriki, Yasunobu
Kuroda, Ken'ichi Kurotaki, Masaaki Kuruma, Ken
Kurushima, Yozo Kusahara, Mitsuaki Maeda, Jiro
Maehata, Noriko Maehata, Yukihiko Maki, Sanehiko
Makino, Tomio Mamiya, Ken'ichi Maruyama, Yoshinari
Masagami, Tsuneo Masuda, Toshio Matsuhashi, Toru
Matsumoto, Akira Matsumoto, Hisao Matsuo, Hideo
Matsuo, Hiroshi Matsuo, Satoshi Matsuo, Tadasu
Matsuoka, Kanji Matsushita, Kazuki Minami, Katsumi
Misono, Kenkichi Miwa, Haruki Miwa, Toshihiro
Miyakawa, Akira Miyakawa, Kenzo Miyamoto, Junsuke
Miyamoto, Ken'ichi Miyata, Kazuyasu Miyazaki, Saiichi
Miyazaki, Teruomi Miyoshi, Aiko Mizukawa, Susumu
Mizutani, Kenji Mizutani, Yoshio Mori, Meiko
Mori, Ryoichi Mori, Tsuneo Mori, Yoshitaka
Morino, Katsuyoshi Morioka, Koji Morioka, Masashi
Morioka, Sunao Morishita, Hiromi Morita, Masami
Morita, Seiya Motoda, Kosei Nabeshima, Naoki
Nagashima, Seiichi Nagasuna, Minoru Nagayama, Toshikazu
Nakada, Tsuneo Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Nobuyoshi
Nakagawa, Sumi Nakagawa, Teruo Nakahara, Takayuki
Nakamura, Masafumi Nakamura, Masahito Nakamura, Muneyuki
Nakamura, Toshio Nakano, Kumiko Nakano, Yoichi
Nakashio, Seiji Nakatani, Takeo Nakatani, Takeshi
Nakayama, Takao Namie, Iwao Nawa, Takao
Nihei, Satoshi Niimura, Satoshi Ninomiya, Atsumi
Nishihara, Seiji Nishino, Tsutomu Niwa, Yoshiharu
Nobuchika, Mitsuru Noda, Masaho Noguchi, Hiroshi
Noguchi, Makoto Nohara, Hikari Nomura, Hidekazu
O, Kenko Obata, Michiaki Obuki, Katsuo
Oguro, Masao Ohata, Jue Oishi, Takahisa
Oishi, Yuji Okabe, Hiromi Okada, Susumu
Okamoto, Hideo Okamoto, Iwao Oki, Kimihiro
Okubo, Ryoji Okumura, Shigeji Onishi, Hiroshi
Ono, Ichiro Ono, Sadao Onosato, Kiichi
Osada, Hiroshi Osaki, Heihachiro Osawa, Satoru
Ota, Yoshiki Otani, Teinosuke Otomo, Toshiaki
Ouchi, Hideaki Ousaka, Mitsuru Ozawa, Mitsutoshi
Saito, Hideharu Saito, Yasuaki Sakai, Shozaburo
Sakamoto, Chuji Sakuma, Hidetoshi Sanada, Tetsuya
Sanaka, Tadashi Sasaki, Jin Sasaki, Takao
Sasaki, Yasufumi Sasaki, Yo Sato, Kazuko
Sato, Masato Sato, Takuya Sato, Yoshikazu
Satogami, Joe Sawada, Koji Sei, Keisei
Seino, Yoshiei Sekine, Iichiro Sekino, Hideaki
Seo, Takashi Shibagaki, Kazuo Shibata, Toru
Shibata, Yoshihiko Shibui, Yasuhiro Shigeta, Sumio
Shigetomi, Ken'ichi Shimada, Etsuko Shimada, Takumi
Shimazaki, Miyoko Shimazu, Hidenori Shimizu, Masaaki
Shimizu, Noriyuki Shimizu, Yoshiharu Shimoyama, Fusao
Shindo, Michihiro Shinoda, Takeshi Shirai, Kunihiko
Sotoyama, Tadashi Sugawara, Yoshin Sugimoto, Shoshichi
Sugimoto, Toshiro Sugiue, Tadayuki Sugiyama, Kiyoshi
Suzuki, Akira Suzuki, Kazuo Tabei, Hideo
Takada, Takukichi Takada, Yoshiaki Takagi, Akira
Takagi, Tadao Takahashi, Hidenao Takahashi, Hisaya
Takahashi, Junzaburo Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Takahashi, Kunitaro
Takahashi, Teruo Takahashi, Teruyoshi Takahata, Akihisa
Takakura, Yasuo Takashima, Mitsuo Takauchi, Shun'ichi
Takayama, Mitsuru Takayama, Yoichi Takei, Hiroyuki
Takemi, Yoshinari Takeuchi, Haruo Takeuchi, Michio
Takeuchi, Yoshio Takita, Kazuo Tamagaki, Yoshinori
Tanabe, Eiji Tanaka, Akira Tanaka, Hideaki
Tanaka, Hidechika Tanaka, Hiromichi Tanaka, Reizo
Tanaka, Shiro Tanida, Shozo Tanie, Yukio
Tanigawa, Munetaka Tatebe, Masayoshi Tei, Ensho
Toda, Kazuo Tokita, Yoshihisa Tokiwa, Masaharu
Tokue, Kazuo Tokushige, Masashi Torihata, Yoichi
Torii, Kaneo Torii, Nobuyoshi Totsuka, Shigeo
Toyoda, Masahide Tsukamoto, Takatoshi Tsuruta, Hiromi
Tsuruta, Mitsuhiko Uchida, Hiroshi Uchida, Hiroshi
Uehara, Kazuyoshi Uehara, Nobuhiro Uemura, Takahisa
Ueno, Katsuo Ueno, Sen Uni, Hiroyuki
Unno, Yahiro Wada, Sachiko Wada, Shigeshi
Wakui, Hideyuki Watanabe, Akira Watanabe, Hajimu
Watanabe, Hiroaki Watanabe, Katsushi Watanabe, Yuichi
Yabuuchi, Takeshi Yagi, Kiichiro Yahata, Kazuhide
Yaka, Munehiko Yamachi, Ken'ichi Yamada, Hirofumi
Yamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Kishio Yamada, Sachio
Yamada, Toshio Yamaguchi, Isamu Yamaguchi, Keiichi
Yamaguchi, Shigekatsu Yamaguchi, Takashi Yamamoto, Juichi
Yamamoto, Takanori Yamanaka, Toshihiro Yamane, Seiichiro
Yamashita, Satoshi Yamauchi, Ryoichi Yanagihara, Ikuko
Yano, Katsuaki Yano, Shuichi Yao, Nobumitsu
Yasuda, Hitoshi Yasuhara, Kazuo Yatsuyanagi, Yoshijiro
Yoneda, Yasuhiko Yorozuya, Susumu Yoshikawa, Kyuji
Yoshimura, Nobuyuki Yoshinobu, Susumu Yoshiwara, Taisuke
Yuzawa, Makoto