‘Fukushima Joint Medical Center’, a place designated as a stronghold of the extreme left
“I didn’t know you were related to a communist group”
No nuclear power plant… Look at the breakwater 10km away
On the 7th, Democratic Party lawmaker Wi Seong-gon, Lee Won-young, Yoon Young-deok, and Yoon Jae-gap, who visited Fukushima to check the status of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, visited a medical institution designated by the Japanese government as a stronghold of an ultra-leftist communist group, causing controversy. The group is famous in Japan for its extreme actions and remarks, such as participating in radical protests in Japan and advocating for the 9/11 attacks. A member of the legislature said, “I didn’t know (that it was related to a communist group). It was recommended locally,” he explained.
Members of the Democratic Party’s visit to Japan visited the “Fukushima Joint Medical Center” in Fukushima City that day and met with director Sachihiko Fuse and other officials.
The Fukushima Joint Medical Center is a place pointed out as being related to the National Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Alliance, which is called the so-called ‘Central Core Faction’ in the ‘Retrospective Prospects of Internal and External Situation’ published by the Public Security Investigation Agency in 2014. The Public Security Investigation Agency defined this group as an extremist group and pointed out that the clinic “has begun to recruit victims by holding health consultations and briefing sessions for those living in bomb-exploded areas living in temporary housing in Fukushima Prefecture.”
The Japanese National Police Agency, in its 2020 report on the “status of far-left violent groups,” defined the nucleus as an extreme-left violent group and explained that it had “accomplished a number of terrorist and guerrilla activities.” The Japanese Communist Party, a left-leaning party in the Japanese parliament, said of the centrist faction, “As an antisocial, violent murderer group, we have nothing to do with it.” Regarding this clinic, a reporter from the Japanese media said, “I am concerned that (the visit of Democratic Party lawmakers) will be controversial because it is recognized by the Japanese public security authorities as a stronghold of the core faction.” I think they are extremists who engage in guerrilla activities,” he said.
Members of the Democratic Party of Korea’s Fukushima Fukushima Contaminated Water Discharge Prevention and Response Team member, Yoon Young-deok, Lee Sang-gon, Yang Won-young, and Yoon Jae-gap, visited Fukushima, Japan on the 7th and met with Fuse Sachihiko, director of the Fukushima Joint Medical Center. Provided by Yang Won-yeongsil of the Democratic PartyIn response to Dong-A Ilbo’s question about the relationship with the central nuclear faction, Fuse, who met with Democratic Party lawmakers, said, “There was a relationship when (the clinic) was established, but not now. Various things happened.” On December 21, 2020, the ‘Weekly Zenshin’, an organ of the core nuclear group, dealt with the news of the Fukushima nuclear power plant damage report held at this clinic.
Lawmakers could not enter the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and looked at the nuclear power plant near the breakwater in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, about 10 km away from the nuclear power plant. They had not been able to visit TEPCO’s headquarters the day before, and they could not meet TEPCO executives, Japanese lawmakers, or Japanese government officials.
Lawmakers attempted to interview residents at the Fukushima refugee housing, but only one resident who was active in anti-nuclear power plant activities in the area responded to the meeting. The interpreter who coordinated the schedule for the day said, “The residents say they will not do it because they are ashamed.” When residents expressed their reluctance to disclose the meeting, lawmakers said they would meet privately, but in the end, except for activists, none came out.
The lawmakers met with Shima Akemi Date, a city councilor, in a conference room at a shopping mall near Fukushima Station that morning. Shima, a housewife, was elected last year while campaigning against nuclear power. Date City, Fukushimi Prefecture, is a small city with a population of 56,000 and is more than 80 km away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Rep. Shima introduced local cases to lawmakers, saying, “There are very few people in favor of the discharge of contaminated water.”
On this day, the lawmakers met a total of three people, including a local Fukushima representative, a Shima lawmaker, an activist resident, and the director of the clinic. They will return home on the 8th after finishing their 3 days and 1 night schedule on this day.
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Source: Donga
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