Japan making napalm bombs.....But because of the Security Treaty, Japan has no power to check shipment of munitions. That makes it difficult for us to grasp the real situation."
TALK IN JAPAN ABOUT VOLUNTEERS FOR VIETNAM
Neither the Japanese Socialists, Communists nor the big. unions federated in Sohyo [General Council of Japanese Trade Unions] have as yet initiated.a movement to send volunteers to help the National Liberation Front in south Vietnam, . Their efforts have been directed toward constituting a united front to fight against American imperialism inside Japan itself. .
Nevertheless a small movement has begun in response to the March 22 appeal of the National Liberation Front raising the ques-.. tion of volunteers. Kenji Yamaguchi, the leader of a group of Japanese youth, was quoted in the April 25 issue of the weekly Asahi Geino as saying, "We don't know what the Viet Cong wants from use - But since I don't agree with the American policy, I thought we'd better go and join it in response to its 'SoS.'"
Among the fascists of Japan, on the other hand, there is sentiment to send volunteers to fight on the side of the Saigon puppet government,
Bin Akao, leader of the Great Japan Patriots. party, said that he had submitted a list of twenty volunteers to the south Vietnam embassy on April 9. He said the embassy officials were "grateful." As a , boken of sentiment, the action could be of "psychological bene- Tit. ° OO
- Akao declared, "The Vietnam war isn't a partial war. It is a war between two big blocs fighting a final war, Since the United States is in it, it should occupy Hanoi. Don't be tricked into negotiation through talks." re :
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