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World Anti-War News
STUDENT-MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE TO END THE
WAR IN VIETNAM
1029 VERMONT AVE. N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C.  20005
November 5, 1969
The International Fall Antiwar Offensive is on. From Belgium to
New Zealand.- from Japan to Denmark, a worldwide coordinated struggle
against U.S. aggression in Vietnam is being waged.  The SMC hopes
this international newsletter will give you a good picture of the
depth and scope of this struggle. We are planning to put out this -A-.
newsletter periodically and hope that you will provide us with information on antiwar activities in your country,
JAPAN ;':
A series of massive demonstration? against U.S. aggression in
Vietnam, for the abrogation of the Japcn-U.S. Security Treaty, for an
immediate end to U.S. occupation of Okinawa and in opposition to Prime
Minister Eisaku Sato's visit to the U.S. is taking place in Japan this
fall.  The Treaty., which "obligates" the U.S. to "defend" Japan from
"aggression" and Japan to provide military bases to U.S. forces, comes
up for" review next year and Prime Minister Sato is expected to announce,
his'support to continuing it. d a ^
This Treaty ha« allowed the U.S. to occupy Okinawa and to use
this island as a take-off area for bombing raids against Vietnam.
The first of the series of demonstrations took place October 10
in Tokyo and over 30,000 people participated. October 21 saw demonstrations in over 800 places around the country.  Over 1,000,000 people
took part in the demonstration, which marked the International Antiwar
Day.  Violent clashes with the police broke out in some areas^  Many
barricades were set up by the students to protect themselves from the
police, but 846 persons were still arrested. The police estimates of
the various demonstrations v;ere: Ryukyus—50,000; Tokyo—100,000?
Kobe—20,000; Okayama—300; Fukuoka—60,000; Sendai—60,000; Hokkaido--
20,000.  The Mainichi D A_ly News also reported that "sixteen industrial
unions belonging to the: 4,300,000-member Sohyo also staged short
strikes or workshop rallies to mark the day." The National Railway
Workers Union (Kokuro) and National Railway Motive Power Union  -
(Doryokusha) continued their "work-to-rule" slowdown struggle against d
the hauling of jet fuel to U.S. Air Force bases in Japan.
The most massive demonstrations took place in Tokyo, where they
were aimed at-the Broadcasting Center of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) , police boxes, National Pvailways stations, U.S. Air
Force Tachikawa and Yokota bases, the Japan Productivity Center,, and
the Japan Industry Club in Marunouchi, according to the Mainichi
Daily News. ' . .•••-. \ ...
According to Toshikatsu Horii,chairman of Sohyo, the day's events
were "the beginning of the general offensive against the security
treaty." v  j
FLASH I
We have just received a letter from the Japan Congress Against A-
and H-Bombs (Gensuikin) informing us chat two representatives, Mr. Toru
Oohara and Mr. Sieryo Asuma, will be tocring the U.S. around the time
of the Nov. 15 demon s tr<a tien cc shov; their solidarity with the U.S.
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