ANTIWAR DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPAN
The Japan Times of August 9 reports that a delegation of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sohyo) to Hanoi has agreed with its North Vietnamese counterpart to form an organization to protest or block the transport of strategic materials for use in the Vietnam war. This was disclosed August 7, the Japan Times states, by Jiichiro Koikawa, leader of the Sohyo delegation which had been on a 10-day visit to North Vietnam.
Koikawa, deputy director of Sohyo's Political Affairs Bureau, stated that the Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions proposed establishing a "Pacific Congress of the Transport and Dock Workers Unions."
The Vietnam federation wanted Sohyo to take the lead in preparing for the creation of this body, according to Koikawa. He said that Sohyo would formally decide the question in a future executive meeting.
Japan is much more heavily in-
volved in the Vietnam war than is usually
recognized. In addition to the fast-
growing U.S. bases employing thousands of
workers, the Japanese war industry sup-
plies over one billion dollars worth of
goods to the Pentagon each year.
And a new aspect of complicity
with the war, well known to college stu-
dents in the United States may be devel-
oping.
According to the Japan Times,
July 17, "an American graduate student
has been prevented from doing research
work at Tokyo University because he was
in the employ of a U.S. aircraft company.
"And many schools which had been
happily receiving research funds from the
-S. here for years suddenly shook
with fright when this revelation was made
and promised they would never touch an-
other yen."
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