The Words of the Kuboki Family
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The Words of the Kuboki Family |
The year 1970 promises to be one of the most critical in all of Japanese history. Not only Japan, but also Korea, the Republic of China, and all Asia are in danger of being engulfed by the same evil. It is against this background that I would like to consider the responsibility of our Japanese "Victory Over Communism Movement."
Looking back over the past year, we can see that the Victory Over Communism Movement has certainly become known throughout Japan. However we must admit that we still do not have the power to save Japan from the communist menace.
We have been able to propagate our theory that communism is %\ rang, but that conviction has not yet been taken up by the voice of the people. Moreover we have not been able to organize those other groups that share the same conviction with us. We are fully aware that Japan is on the threshold of an important decision.
Japan today, among the free countries of the world, holds second place with regard to her Gross National Product, and her national income has reached a level that is almost equal to that of Europe. However Japan's economy depends almost completely on trade and 90% of the raw materials which support the high production of Japan are being imported from foreign countries. The most obvious example of this is the fact that 99% of our petroleum is coming from southeast Asia. Therefore we are faced with a very serious situation: if Japan has no mutual exchange with other foreign countries, we cannot hope to maintain our present level of development. For this reason the Japanese people cannot live unless they establish and respect peaceful, friendly, and truly mutual cooperation with other countries.
But the power of international communism is reaching for our throat. Japan has established relations with many countries of southeast Asia. Now the power of Red China and other communist countries is threatening to engulf southeast Asia. There is a struggle for power between Russia and Red China; and Russia is stretching out her "helping" hand to southeast Asia. If southeast Asia is communized, Japan will lose the sources of her raw materials, and we, the Japanese people, will be brought face to face with the problem of actual survival.
It is for these reasons that we must have friendly relations with southeast Asian countries. In order to do so we must offer these countries economic assistance, helping them to raise their own standards of living so that they can enjoy a comfortable existence. However we will be held suspect because of the evils penetrated against southeast Asia in the past by the Japanese fascists of the right. Our sincerity can be proven only by the sincerity of our Victory Over Communism Movement. We have recognized the present treachery being penetrated by the Japanese fascists of the left against our own country. The Victory Over Communism Movement must firstly succeed at home, and then be internationalized in order to encourage other countries to do the same. Having in this way reestablished a basis for mutual trust, we can turn to the search for ways to help these countries develop economically in such a way that all the countries concerned will be able and willing to assist each other.
This plan, however, must be inaugurated at home. International communism has long been attempting to subvert and enslave Japan, but the Japanese people do not know the actual essence of communism. In its attempt to propagate such knowledge the Victory Over Communism Movement hopes to bring the world true peace.
Should Japan be conquered by communism, America would have to get out of Japan and return home. If America leaves, Asia is in danger of falling prey to the tyranny of communism.
Immediately the Pacific Ocean would turn into a Red Sea. Under such circumstances it is easy to realize that the balance of the world would be lost, and the world itself would be threatened by the power of international communism. In the face of these facts I cannot help feeling how important the Victory Over Communism Movement in Japan is.
The most critical period will undoubtedly be the year 1970, and the importance of the Victory Over Communism Movement is becoming more and more obvious. On June 23, 1970 it will be just ten years since the signing of the Japan United States Security Treaty. The communists in Japan have been preparing for revolution all through those ten years. It is for this reason that we expect and fear a most awful clash in the coming year. At the same time the truth and sincerity of the Victory Over Communism Movement will be seriously questioned for people have been made to fear that any anti-communism movement is rightist and fascistic. The only defense against communism lies in educating the people to the fact that Communism is wrong and essentially evil. Fortified with knowledge the people will be made free and will be able to act in the light of truth.
We want to propagate the message "Communism is wrong" through lectures and other methods more effectively than we did in 1969. We are planning Victory Over Communism lectures for 1,200,000 people, and we are hoping that our Victory Over Communism membership will increase by at least 300,000 new members. We must strive for more organized action for the entire membership. These are the goals we are presently aiming for, and we hope that three types of activity will help us realize them; organized action, propaganda, and educational action.
As for organization, we are building a membership system for the Victory Over Communism Movement. We want to enlist as many members as possible and to lead them to a thorough study of the principles and theory of the Movement. It will be the responsibility of each individual to make a successful Victory Over Communism Movement throughout Japan.
The aim of our propaganda is to do our best to bring the truth about communism to the general public, making it easy for everyone to understand. One means to this end will be to have lectures on the roads of the country. This method is an important one for making our movement more widely known. With such lectures on the theory of victory over communism, we should be able to spread our message throughout the country, from Tokyo to the smallest village. In cities where the population is above 100,000 we can make use of propaganda cars each day.
We have already prepared slides portraying the theory of Victory Over Communism Movement. With the slides we can inaugurate home meeting where the reasons why communism is wrong can be thoroughly explained. Moreover a movie portraying the activities of the Victory Over Communism Movement has also been prepared. It should be a great help both for propaganda and enlightenment as we move from city to town. The Victory Over Communism Newspaper has been enlarged, and we have gathered at least 40,000 readers. As Japanese newspapers have been infiltrated by communistic influence, they do not always report news correctly. We would like to improve and enlarge our Victory Over Communism Newspaper, making it a reliable source of news for the people and proving to them that the danger of a communist revolution is actually near at hand.
Our educational drive will take us to companies, factories, banks, firms and families. The lectures on the theory of the victory over communism will be on a truly academic level, but emphasizing the reasons for joining the movement and the need of becoming conscious of opposing communism.
One other important problem to be considered is the fact that the Victory Over Communism is the most recent historical threat to the peace and happiness of mankind. We must make our movement develop to an international scale. Next year, 1970, it will be just three years since we Japanese started our Victory Over Communism Movement. Now after, merely three years, this movement has been invited to the stage of the world theater. It has been decided that the WACL (World Anti-Communist League) will be held in Tokyo from September 21, 1970. The Asian Victory Over Communism Convention has already been held, in 1969, and at Seoul in Korea another convention is scheduled for 1970. We consider it quite significant that after only three years we shall stand on the stage of the theater of the world and that we have been asked to take the leadership of the WACL meeting to which representatives of 80 anti-communist nations have been invited. Thanks to the WACL Tokyo Convention, our Victory Over Communism Movement has become an international movement. As a result the politicians and people in our own country will have to recognize the existence of our movement.
We are hoping to gather 10,000 people for a stately demonstration, an activity that has not been found in the usual WACL Conventions.
The largest area in Japan to feel the vicious influence of communism has been the field of education. This can be known by seeing the number of university professors that are at least sympathetic to communism. The communists have taken up strong positions in the educational world, the scientific world, and the cultural world. On our side we are doing everything possible to reach such professors and to persuade them to return to the truths that have been betrayed in the educational and scientific worlds. To this end Citizen's University and the Liberty University have been planned. In many universities in which communist influence is strong, the Citizen's University is developing as a healthy citizens' university. We are planning to gather 1,200 scholars and culturists.
We would like to raise our Victory Over Communism Movement to the level of the world movement through these plans. In this way we will pass through historical 1970. We hope that you will help us. Next year 2,300 members of the Asia Victory Over Communism Convention will gather at a public hall in Seoul, Korea. On April 10, 1970 the representatives WACL will meet in Japan, and we are gathering members who are talented in languages and training them to be ready to manage any convention of international complexion. Next summer we are hoping to train 120 speakers for the Victory Over Communism Movement and to go all over Japan on speaking tours. We hope to make a whirlwind take place. One of our most important aims is to gather people from various Japanese religions under the flag of Victory Over Communism. We are now actively trying to combine at least three big religious groups into an anti-communism association. We are also hoping to hold Victory Over Communism Conventions for religious groups, for scholars, and for economists.
To this end we have been gathering technicians in each field and the preparations are moving smoothly.