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　　 Do You Know "Shigeki SAKIMURA", the first Japanese who attemped to join the United Nations in 1944 in Sweden?

Nov. 1, 2006 I am now searching for a secret peace actions by one Japanese in Nazis-Germany.

His name is Shigeki SAKIMURA (1909-82), who graduated Tokyo University in 1932, became research assistant and lecturer of the Department of Economics at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He was sent to Germany as an attach of Japanese Embassey in Berlin in 1941. But at the end of 1943, he went from Germany to Sweden, and probably contacted the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) to ask his exile. " New York Times" May 1, 1944 reported him as " the first Japanese of any note to attempt to join the United Nations, the first to admit openly that the Axis cannot win the war", and " Time", June 5 1944 publushed the "Foreign News: Way of a Rebel" and said, "Shigeki Sakimura was one of the submerged, and now forgotten, intellectuals of Japan. As a student he explored the social sciences, brooded over his country's oligarchic economy, dallied with Marxism. At 30, the hardworking, high-strung scholar became a full professor. Two years later, in 1941, his Government sent him to Berlin as Embassy attach, to study German heavy industry. Slight, bespectacled Professor Sakimura poked around the Reich, peered critically into factories pumping out iron, steel, light metals, chemicals and other vitals of war". Although his "Exile" to Sweden was not uncertain, he could not stay long in Stockholm and returned to Berlin in June 1944. Some secret documents of the OSS support these artcles by American journalists at the time.

After the collapse of Hitler's Germany, he did not to return to Japan, and entered to China, where he might work as an adviser of American Consular Office in Beijing, probably under the control of OSS (from 1947, CIA). In 1950, one year after the Mao's socialist revolution, he suddenly arrested by Chinese communist police as a member of assassination group against Mao Tsua Tong("The Time", Aug.27,1951). He could go back to Japan from mainland China in 1955, and worked as a professor of economics at Takushoku University, Tokyo. As he could not speak about his life in Germany, Sweden and in China, even his family do not know his political actions in detail . I am now looking for the documents of his anti-Hitler actions in Germany 1941-1945, Sweden 1943-44, and pro -American works in China 1945-55.

If someone know about him or documents concerned, please let me know !

Oct. 15, 2006A New English File,

Sept. 15, 2006

s now updated.

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Nov.1,2004

," Manak, Delhi 2004, was published, to which I contributed

Aug.15,2004

s now updated.

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June 24,2004

June 1,2003The Evian G8 Summit Meeting will begin soon. But why the only about 10 persons can decide the destiny of 6 billion people in this small village of our Globe?

Who is Prof. KATO Tetsuro?

Special Joke Lecture,"World Ideologies Explained by Cows"

My former "What's New" monologues are in the

English Living Room ( A Brief History of This Homepage)"

Professor KATO's English and German Papers

• Personal Contacts in German--Japanese Cultural Relations during the 1920s and Early 1930s , in, "Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945 　War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion" (Edited by: Christian W. Spang, Rolf-Harald Wippich ,Routledge 2006(Internet version)
• Japanese Regulation and Governance in Restructuring: Ten Years after the 'Post-fordist Japan' Debate, Paper presented to the International Conference "East Asian Modes of Development and Their Crises: Regulationist Approaches" (Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, April 19-20, 2001)
• "The Age of "Japamerica"---Taking Japanese Development Seriously", Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies,Vol.21, No.1, 1989.
• "Japanese Perceptions of the 1989 Eastern European Revolution", in, Ian Neary ed.,War, Revolution Japan, Japan Library, Sandgate 1993
• "The Political Economy of Japanese KAROSHI(Death from Overwork)," Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies, Vol.26, No.2, December 1994.
• "Workaholism---It's not in the Blood", in, Look Japan, February 1995.
• Biographische Anmerkungen zu den japanischen Opfern des stalinistischen Terrors in der UdSSR, in, Hermann Weber hrsg., Jahrbuch fuer Historische Kommunismusforschung 1998, Akademie Verlag, 1998 Berlin.
• "The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR", in Hermann Weber hrsg., Jahrbuch fur Historische Kommunismus 1998, Akademie Verlag Berlin 1998 (English Draft).
• The Theory of Capital Accumulation by Rosa Luxumburg and The Contemporary Capitalist Globalization: Comment on Dr. Dae-Hwan Kim's Paper, at the International Rosa Luxemburg Conference, Chicago, May 2, 1998.
• Wanted! A Memorandum on the Life of Mr. Virendranath Chattopadhyaya : One Historical Episode of the Relationship between India and Japan in the 20th Century (Draft Only)
• "Japanische Kuenstler und Wissenschaftler in Berlin am Ende der Weimarer Republik" (Mori-Ogai -Memorial Lecture, Dec.3.1998, only the resume in German)
• "Japan in the 20th Century (My Guest Lecture at El Coregio de Mexico,1999)
• From a Class Party to a National Party : Japanese communist party survives through the worldwide decline of communist parties （ AMPO, Vol.29, No.2, March 2000, )
• Concentration Camps in the USSR--- Their Destructive Social Impact (Lecture on North Korea, 1997)

Dialogues with English Readers

• Sara N. Hines in the USA, "Comments on Kato's KAROSHI paper"
• Special Joke Lecture,"World Ideologies Explained by Cows"

Guest Room of Visiting Professor Dr. Bob Jessop

• Introduction
• "The Communist Manifesto as an Historical Document"
• "L'Economia Integrale, Fordism, and Post-Fordism"
• "Report on My Stay in Japan"
• Bob Jessop Homepage

★Guest Room of Visiting Professor Dr. Rob Steven★

• Introduction
• Competing Capitalisms and Contrasting Crises: Japanese and Anglo-Capitalism
• Critical Asian Studies, "In Memoriam: Rob Steven"★

TO OUR CLASSMATES OF THE OCTOBER 1972 GERMAN LANGUAGE CLASS OF THE HERDER INSTITUTE LEIPZIG !　　

We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for ourselves and our posterity the fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the blessings of liberty throughout this land, and resolved that never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government, do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the people and do firmly establish this Constitution. Government is a sacred trust of the people, the authority for which is derived from the people, the powers of which are exercised by the representatives of the people, and the benefits of which are enjoyed by the people. This is a universal principle of mankind upon which this Constitution is founded. We reject and revoke all constitutions, laws ordinances, and rescripts in conflict herewith.

We, the Japanese people, desire peace for all time and are deeply conscious of the high ideals controlling human relationship and we have determined to preserve our security and existence, trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world. We desire to occupy an honored place in an international society striving for the preservation of peace, and the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for all time from the earth. We recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want.

We believe that no nation is responsible to itself alone, but that laws of political morality are universal; and that obedience to such laws is incumbent upon all nations who would sustain their own sovereignty and justify their sovereign relationship with other nations.

We, the Japanese people, pledge our national honor to accomplish these high ideals and purposes with all our resources.

　 　IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE SHARING ALL THE WORLD!　Another World Is Possible -- and Necessary ! VISIT "Global IMAGINE" !

Urgent Protest Statement Opposing the Attack on Iraq and Japan's Support Again from Concerned Scholars in Japan!

We desire Peace and Justice for ever, Not Retaliation!

★　A STATEMENT OPPOSING U.S. WAR AGAINST IRAQ FROM 506 CHINESE PEOPLE !

★　U.S. PLANS FOR WAR AND OCCUPATION IN IRAQ ARE A HISTORICAL MISTAKE

An Urgent Appeal from Students of the Allied Occupation of Japan

What Do You Imagine Now?

★We Want Our People Back!　 The Seven Individuals Protest Against North Korea's Abduction of Japanese Citizens!

●Wanted! Information about Missing Japanese in the USSR in the 1930s!　

Who Lives in the "Global Village?"

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.

　

There would be:

　

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

8 Africans

　

52 would be female

48 would be male

　

70 would be non-white

30 would be white

　

70 would be non-Christian

30 would be Christian

　

89 would be heterosexual

11 would be homosexual

　

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and

all 6 would be from the United States

　

80 would live in substandard housing

　

70 would be unable to read

　

50 would suffer from malnutrition

　

1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth

　

1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

　

1 would own a computer

　

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent."

　

　

Imagine

I hope someday you'll join us　　And the world will be as one

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