Transcript of Japanese Member of Parliament

Transcript of Testimony in the Japanese Parliament

by Benjamin Fulford

Below is a transcript of testimony in the Japanese Parliament that was broadcast live nationwide on NHK television. The Member of Parliament talking about 911 is Yukihisa Fujita from the Democratic Party of Japan. After the testimony Mr. Fujita says he got lots of phone calls from other members of Parliament thanking him for having the bravery to bring up 911 in Parliament. He also got one death threat.

Meanwhile, I asked the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan to invite him for a press conference. Each of several attempts to send an e-mail to the FCCJ about this resulting in my hotmail account freezing and my computer crashing. Also, it was amazing to watch the shameless verbal acrobatics of American corporate journalists trying to prevent this press conference from taking place. Fortunately, journalists from the rest of the world supported a press conference and we will try to get it to take place as soon as possible.

The secret government's control of Japan is falling apart. A few weeks ago one of Japan's leading commercial TV networks also broadcast a 911 truth program during prime time. One other national network and several local networks have also broadcast such programs.

The people of Japan do not want to finance genocidal mass murderers any more.

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Head of the committee: We will now begin the first session of the defense and foreign affairs committee.

We will now start discussing the special anti-terror law. .We now call on Mr. Yukihisa Fujita

Fujita standing in front of microphone: .

This will be the last televised broadcast of this committee for so I would like to talk about the origin of the war on terrorism which was the attacks of 911. On September 11 of 2002 I went to a theater house for a charity concert to help build a school in Afghanistan. They chose to have the charity concert on that day as a gesture of respect for the dead. Normally 911 commemorative events are for the people who died in New York but the people who held this event decided that more innocent people died as a result of 911 in Afghanistan than in New York. So they built a grade school near where the statue of Buddha was destroyed in Bamiyan. The name of the school is "the school of hope." They also lit candles to commemorate the dead both in Afghanistan and in New York in the year 2002, one year after the attacks. So, when discussing these anti-terror laws we should ask ourselves, what was 911, what is terrorism? So today, I would like to talk about the beginning of the war on terror.

So, I would like to ask the people who call this law an anti-terror law to realize that the biggest victim of the war on terrorism has been Afghanistan so I believe helping the people of Afghanistan should be our biggest priority. I would like to ask Mr. Inuzuka about this.

Tadashi Inuzuka walking to the microphone:
As Mr. Fujita says the main purpose of this law is to provide peace and security to Afghanistan. And, as he says, the biggest sufferers have been the people of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has 1.7 times the land area of Japan and 20 some million people live there. Also, because of a drought on the Eurasian continent close to 5 million have died due to water shortages. Even now 1 million people live close to the main battlegrounds. So, the main purpose is to provide stability to those war zones so in that context what should Japan do? However, instead of providing support by providing fuel to the U.S. forces we at the Democratic Party have decided that providing water is more important. The philosophy behind our anti-terror law is to get the ruling party to help deal with this problem.

Head of the committee: Mr. Fujita

Mr. Fujita:

I would like to talk about the origins of this war on terrorism. You may recall that in November I asked you if terrorism was war or if it was a crime. And the whole start of this war on terrorism was 911. What I want to know is if this event was caused by Al Qaeda or not. So far the only thing the government has said is that we think it was caused by Al Qaeda because President Bush told us so. We have not seen any real proof that it was Al Qaeda. I would like to know why the Prime Minister thinks it was the Taliban who was responsible for 911. Committee Chief, I want to ask the Prime Minister because he was chief cabinet officer at the time.

Prime Minister Fukuda:

Since the attacks we have communicated with the U.S. government and other governments at different levels and exchanged information. According to secret information obtained by our government and reports put together by foreign governments the 911 attacks were carried out by the international terrorist organization known as Al Qaeda.

Mr. Fujita:

So, you are talking about both secret and disclosed information. My question is has the Japanese government carried out its own investigation using the police and other resources? It is a crime so surely an investigation needs to be carried out. When a Japanese journalist was shot in Myanmar you carried out an investigation. In the same way over 20 Japanese people died on 911 so surely the government carried out its own investigation and decided that Al Qaeda was responsible. So, what kind of investigation did you carry out? At the time you were Chief Cabinet Secretary so surely you would know better than anybody so I want to ask you about your investigation.

Prime Minister Fukuda:

After the 911 attacks the National Police Agency sent an emergency anti-terror team to New York. They met with U.S. government officials and gathered information about missing Japanese.

Mr. Fujita:

So you are saying over 20 people died as a result of a crime and most of those people were working in New York. Also there were some Japanese who died in the four airplanes that were hijacked. I would like to know exactly how many people died in the buildings and how many died in the airplanes. I also want to know how you confirmed this. I would like the Foreign Minister to answer for me.

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura standing at right in front of microphone:

We found the bodies of over a dozen Japanese following the simultaneous terror attacks carried out on September 11 2001. We were also informed about the death of 11 more people by the U.S. authorities. In total 24 Japanese died in those attacks. Of those 2 were in the airplanes.

Mr. Fujita:

I would like to ask what flights the two Japanese who died in the airplanes were on and how you determined who they were. If the foreign minister does not know it is OK to get a bureaucrat to answer:

Foreign Ministry division chief Ryoji Tanizaki:

Since this a question of fact, I will answer. As the Foreign Minister said, of the 24 people who died two were on the airplanes. One of them was on United Flight 93 and the other was on American airlines flight 11.As for how we know this, well I do not have the information in front of me but we were told by U.S. authorities and, in general, they use DNA testing. So we believe that is how we know about those two people.

Mr. Fujita:

So you are saying you do not know because you do not have the documents. Also, you say you believe there was DNA testing but you do not know. So what I want to say today is that this was a crime and crimes are supposed to be investigated. So the government needs to inform the victims families of the results of their investigation. Also, instead of just observing the anniversary of 911 every year you must be gathering information and reacting to it. So, during the past six years have you been supplying the families of the deceased with information? I would like to ask the Foreign Minister to answer.

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura:

So you do not want to ask any more about how we confirmed the deaths of Japanese but want to know about reports to the victims families? We provided the families with information about the bodies and about compensation funds. Also, for the 13 Japanese whose remains we found, we helped the families deal with the bodies. We also financial support visits to the World Trade Center site for the families on every anniversary.

Mr. Fujita:

Since I do not have much time I would like to ask about the suspicious information being uncovered and the doubts people world wide are having about the events of 911. Many of these doubters are very influential people. In such circumstances I believe the Japanese government, which claims the attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda, should be providing the victims families with this new information. In that context I would like to ask several questions.

First of all I would like to get all members of the committee to look at this panel and look at the pictures I have provided you with. This is concrete evidence in the form of photographs and other types of information. The first photograph has computer graphics attached to show how large the plane that hit the Pentagon was. A 757 is quite a large airplane with a width of 38 meters. So as you can see even though such a large plane hit the pentagon there is only a hole that is too small for the airplane. This is a photograph taken of firemen at work and you can also see there is no damage of the sort an airplane that large should make. I would also like you to look at the lawn in front and notice that there are no airplane parts on it. Let us now look at the third picture, which is also of the pentagon taken from a U.S. TV news report has captions that show the roof of the Pentagon is still intact. Again even though a huge airplane is supposed to have hit, there is not enough corresponding damage. Now let us move to the next photograph. Here is a photograph of a hole, as Minister Komura knows the Pentagon is a very strong building with many walls. Yet the airplane has pierced them. But as you know, airplanes are made of the lightest possible material. An airplane made of such light material could not make a hole like that. Next I would like to show a photograph of how the airplane hit the building. The airplane made a U-turn, avoiding the Defense Secretary's office and hitting the only part of the Pentagon that had been specially reinforced to withstand a bomb attack.

Also, in the middle of page five we have a comment from a U.S. airforce official. He says I have flown the two types of airplane used on 911 and I cannot believe it would be possible for someone who is flying one for the first time to be able to carry out such a maneuver. Also, as you know, they have not recovered the flight recorders from most of these 4 airplanes. Also, there were more than 80 security cameras at the Pentagon but they have refused to release almost all of the footage. In any case, as you have just seen there is no picture of the airplane or of its wreckage in any of these photographs. It is very strange that no such pictures have been shown to us.

As you know Japan's self-defense forces have their headquarters in Ichigaya. Can you imagine if an airplane hit a major city, if an hour and a half after an airplane hit New York that an airplane could hit the Pentagon? In such a situation how could our allies allow such an attack to take place. I would like the Defense Minister to answer this.

Defense Minister Fuyushiba Ishiba:

I have not prepared so I will have to answer ad-lib. If such a situation took place then the airforce would send fighters up to shoot down any airplanes. This is what happened with an attack on the German constitutional court. In the case of Japan our reaction would depend on what kind of airplane it was, who was flying it and what their purpose was. However, according to our laws it might be hard to order an airplane to be shot down just because it was flying at a low level. We would probably have self-defense forces fly with it and ask for a cabinet decision. Since an airplane would have many people on board we would have do discuss what to do. This happened a long time ago but a Cesna airplane was flown into the house of a person called Yoshio Kodama. There was also an All Japan Airways flight bound for Hakodate that was hijacked and had the pilot killed. It would be best if such a thing never happened but we need to prepare new laws for such situations and discuss them in Parliament.

Mr. Fujita:

Since we are running out of time I would like to present a new piece of evidence. Please look at this panel. The first picture is one you see often of the two towers that were hit by hijacked airplanes. I could understand if this happened right after the airplanes hit but here we can see large piece of material flying a large distance through the air. Some flew 150 meters. You can objects flying in this picture as if there was an explosion. Here is a picture I took from a book. This lets you see how far the objects flew. The third picture is of a fireman who was involved in the rescue talking about a series of explosions in the building that sounded like a professional demolition. We cannot present video today so I have written a translation of what the fireman said. Here his is saying "it went boom boom boom like explosions were going off."

Here is something said by a Japanese research team of officials from the fire department and the construction ministry. The interviewed a Japanese survivor who said that while she was fleeing there were explosions. This testimony appears in a report prepared with the aid of the construction ministry and the fire department. Now I would like you to see the following picture. Normally it is said that the twin towers collapsed because they were hit by airplanes. However, one block away from the twin towers is building number 7. It can be seen in the following map a block away from the WTC. This building collapsed 7 hours after the WTC buildings were attacked. If I could show you a video it would be easy to understand but take a look at this photograph. This is a 47 story building that fell in this manner (He drops and object to demonstrate). The building falls in five or six seconds. It is about the same speed as an object would fall in a vacuum. This building falls like something you would see in a Kabuki show. Also if falls while keeping its shape. Remember it was not hit by an airplane. You have to ask yourself if a building could fall in that manner due to a fire after 7 hours. Here we have a copy of the 911 commission report. This is a report put out by the U.S. government in July of 2004 but this report does not mention the collapse of the building I just described. It is not mentioned at all in here (he waves the book). FEMA also issued a report but they also fail to mention this building. Many people believe, especially after seeing the story about building number 7, that something is strange. Since this is an incident where many people died people think is should be investigated.

We are running out of time but I would also like to mention the put options. Just before the 911 attacks, ie on September 6th, 7th and 8th there were put options put out on the stocks of the two airlines United and American that were hit by hijackers. There were also put options on Merril Lynch, one of the biggest WTC tenants. In other words somebody had insider information and made a fortune selling put options of these stocks. The head of Germany's Bundesbank at the time, who is equivalent to the Governor of the Bank of Japan, said there are lots of facts to prove the people involved in the terror attacks profited from insider information. He said there was lots of suspicious trading involving financial companies etc prior to the attacks. The had of the Bundesbank was willing to say this much. I would like to ask the Finance Minster about these put options. Did the government of Japan know about this, and what do you think about this? I would like to ask Finance Minister Nukaga about this.

Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga:

I was in Burkina Fasso in Africa when I heard about this incident. I decided to fly immediately to the U.S. but when I got to Paris I was told there were no flights to America. So I only heard what was reported later about the facts. I know there have been reports about the points you raise. So we made it obligatory that people provide ID for securities transactions and for suspicious transactions to be reported and we made it a crime to provide money to terrorist organizations. We believe the international financial system should not be abused. In any case, terrorism is a horrible thing and must be condemned. This type of terrorism cannot be stopped by one country but needs to be stopped by international society.

Mr. Fujita:

I would like to ask finance specialist Mr. Asao to tell me about put options. A group of people with large amounts of money, clear insider information and financial expertise would have been necessary for such a thing to take place. Could a few terrorists in Afghanistand and Pakistan carry out such a sophisticated and large scale set of transactions? I would like to ask Mr. Asao to respond.

Keiichiro Asao:

I understand put options are a deal to sell stocks at a fixed price. In this case somebody must have had insider information to carry out such transactions because nobody could normally predict these airlines would have their planes hijacked. So, I believe this was certainly a case of insider trading.

Mr. Fujita:

Prime Minister, you were Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time and as somebody has already noted, this was an incident of the sort that humanity had never previously experienced. Also, there appears to be a lot more information about this incident coming out now than came out in the months after the attacks. Now that we are an internet and visual society, this information is being made public so if we look at the situation now, the whole starting point for these two laws , the start of the war on terror itself, as you have seen from the information I have presented, has not been properly investigated or analyzed. So I do not believe the government has acted properly by investigating this incident or asking the U.S. government for an explanation. So far we have not started refueling U.S. ships yet so I think we need to go back to the beginning and not just simply and blindly trust the U.S. government explanation and indirect information provided by them. There were too many victims so I think we need to start again from the beginning. We need to ask who the real victims of this war on terrorism are. I think the citizens of the world are its victims. Here in Japan we have disappearing pensions and disappearing records about victims of Hepatitis C contaminated blood but everything I have presented on facts and confirmable evidence. Let us talk about the vanishing black boxes, vanishing airplanes and vanishing remains. Also lots of the remains of these buildings have disappeared. Even FEMA says that prevented it from carrying out a proper investigation. We need to look at this evidence and ask ourselves what the war on terrorism really is. I can see the ministers nodding in agreement but I would like to ask Prime Minister Fukuda. Please look at me. I have heard that when you were Chief Cabinet Minister at the time you felt many strange things about these attacks. Do you not think it was strange?

Prime Minister Fukuda:

I never said I thought it was strange.

Mr. Fujita:

Prime Minister what about the origin of the war on terror and the idea of whether it is right or wrong to participate in it? Is there really a reason to participate in this war on terror? Do we really need to participate? I would also like to ask about how to really stop terrorism.

Prime Minister Fukuda:

We believe based on evidence provided to us by the U.S. government that the attacks of 911 were carried out by Al Qaeda. We need to put an end to Al Qaeda terrorism. That is why international society is united in the fight against terrorism. Here, concerning a law passed by the Democratic Party last year and based on UN resolution 16595. This is a resolution passed in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. So you passed the law agreeing with the UN didn't you?

Mr Fujita:

Did you confirm about the bodies and the facts behind the resolution because that is why you claim to be participating in this war on terrorism. So I believe to end terrorism we need to pass a law that actually helps the people of Afghanistan. I would like Mr. Inuzuka to talk about the law and about the fight against terrorism.

Tadashi Inuzuka:

Among the many problems raised by MP Fujita the thing we need to worry most about is that the people in Afghanistan can live in peace and without worries. That is the core of the issue of ending terrorism. Without discussing this but just operating behind the back lines by supplying oil and not thinking about the entire situation or the people involved it is nonsense to debate this law. This law should be made for peace and security in Afghanistan. Our country needs to pass a real anti-terror law.

If anyone comes across another complete transcript...

Let us know so we can examine them side by side.

I second that

For those who may have missed it: Pls see:

Member of Japanese Diet Doubts Official 9/11 Fairy Tale

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/130108Japanese.htm

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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it

This is looking good to me, except for the irrelevant material

I can't spend any time checking today, but it comports with my memory. of watching the videos. I still have some questions, mainly about whether this is complete, but that might be based on my own misunderstanding. Personally, I will wait until confirming all this for myself, but this is very useful for me and I thank Mr. Fulford for his work. It has to be compared with the Japanese language original, not just with another translation. It would be nice if the party released an official transcript and translation, but that might not happen.

Also, it would be nice if the transcript did not include the editorial comments at the beginning, and problems with hotmail. Sorry, I'm not doubting the hotmail thing happened but it sounds paranoid, especially along with talk about secret government. I'm only talking about perceptions, not substance - nothing he is saying would surprise me. I'm a little hesitant to send the link out for that reason. It would be nice to have a separate link to the transcript from his report on trying to set up a press conference.

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Friday January 11, 2008
Former Forbes Writer Benjamin Fulford Speaks With Alex Jones From Japan About The Recent Airing Of 9/11 Facts By The Japanese Opposition Party.

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Wow!

This testimony by the Japanese shows justice is possible.

I am looking forward to the press conference!!!

wow......now that's a

wow......now that's a classic lesson on how to avoid answering direct questions... avoid all facts presented and tell everyone how much you've done and how bad terrorism is....

if this translation can be verified, our man in Japan needs a flood of support... this transcript should be hand delivered to everyone's local members of gov along with demands to carry out the same grilling or get the hell out

I'm tired of this!!!!......raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa arrrrgggggggggg #%^#$%^%$#^%$

Agreed.

Let's put the Heat on the Presidential Candidates.

ALL of them. What are the spin doctors going to do now?

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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it

They won't do anything

This subject is locked down by all members of congress, presidential candidates and the media. I think we need to look at other venues beginning with the list of countries that lost soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of Bush lies and ask them when they are going to have balls enough like the Japanese to question what they were told about 9/11 and the war on terror. There are activists in most of these countries that need to see the video clip and matching translation so they can rightfully question their government on why they even listened to the Bush Bastards and when the real investigation is going to start...LIKE JAPAN. However, I am not computer savvy enough to put the clip together with English subtitles. We need this more than anything, error-free.

Contacted Bob Rae

I sent this to Bob Rae (a prominent opposition member in the Canadian government) He was confronted by Truthers recently and attempted to discredit them but looked awfully nervous doing it. I doubt it will be effective but here is my email.

Mr. Rae.
You're going to have to deal with this eventually because 25 Canadians were murdered on 9/11, so I'm giving you a heads up here.
I'm contacting you in particular because I recently saw a video on Youtube where you ridiculed the idea of American insider involvement in 9/11. I thought you looked uncomfortable at the time so I want to send you some information so you can be better prepared next time. It seems the opposition party in Japan are questioning the official version of 9/11 with relation to their country's involvement in supporting the "War on Terror."
You may choose to write this off as another fringe conspiracy theory if you choose, but realize that an overwhelming volume of evidence has been collected that proves that the official story cannot be true. And the opposition leader in Japan is only one of many credible people who realize it.
Just in case he is right, someone needs examine the evidence as well as their conscience and take a stand for truth and justice for the Canadian people.
Thank you. (My name)

I'm quoting from 911blogger.com below.
For more information here is the link. http://205.234.134.46/node/13340

"In the first video, he is saying this was a crime needing investigation, asking whether this was crime by Al Qaeda or by Al Qaeda only, asking whether the Japanese government did its own investigation given that it was a crime, asking about identification of the bodies of Japanese victims, and stating that this crime is the premise of the war and terror and if we don't know who did it how can we justify the war on terror. He didn't get much in the way of answers -- just statements that they relied on U.S. government reports and/or don't have the exact answers at hand. The Prime Minister answers first, basically just saying they relied on U.S. reports, then the Minister of Foreign Affairs answers about Japanese victims. A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answers about the bodies, not saying much other than they got reports from the U.S. Gov't about DNA identification. Fujita then questions whether that is enough, given that this is a crime, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs gets up and basically says they were satisfied with the information received, and I think he says they assisted with cremation. Fujita ends by saying that throughout the world there is much information being presented that raises doubts about 9/11, including by eminent people, and if the Japanese government is going to take responsibilty for the victims, and if it has any doubt about its prior determination that Al Qaeda was involved, then they need to act resolutely with integrity, and need to reconsider the premise of the fight against terrorism.

This is very rough and incomplete and maybe inaccurate, but it should do for now."

Wake-up Call

I agree with your idea, but I don't think Bob Rae is going to be of any help at all.( Even though I've enjoyed a few brews at his expense at a 'Have a Beer on BOB' event)
He's not in power now - and he's "establishment" to say the least.
Someone like the NDP's Pat Martin, or some of the Quebec MP's I think would be the quicker way to go.
But this Japanese parliament confrontation should be a wake-up call to voters from all countries who lost people on 9/11 or in the resulting invasions.
Makes you realize what losers we've elected.

Tell everyone.

All we can do is inform as many of these people as possible. It will be up to them to act on the information. We know they know the Truth. They just don't have the balls to act on the knowledge. It's the old story of leading horses to water. Eventually one more courageous person like Fujita will speak out, then another, then another etc.
We can't do much more than that since we don't write their speeches.

What other countries lost people on 9/11?

William Rodriguez has been on Italian TV. Were Italian nationals lost on 9/11? Let's see what we can stir up with other national parliaments. What about Moslems who were killed on 9/11? This could be interesting...

Is there a breakdown available, listing victim's nationalities?

mistake

There is a sentence in this translation that says:

" And the whole start of this war on terrorism was 911."

it's from the beginning of this video:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=IX9PQayrX-s

This is a mistake. Mr. Fujita said in Japanese:

「まさに今回の法案の原点は9.11なわけですけれでも」

I translate this as:

"And as we all know, the starting point [or premise] of this bill is 9/11"

jazzdicekey also has this mistake in his subtitles, which are now down so maybe he's working on them.

Fulford's transcript does say starting point of the war on terrorism at a later point in the transcript, and starting point of the two terrorism bills later. But not here, after "You may recall that in November I asked you if terrorism was war or if it was a crime."

It's very confusing because the Japanese and English transcripts here

http://jazzdicekey.gionsyouja.com/Content/911.html

are not in the same order, and it's not clear if we have all the videos and in what order.

Can we get this resolved? Also, if you are still working on this, could you say that? Thank you .

I think Fujita is referring to the government's new anti-terrorism bill, which was the subject of his questions to the Prime Minister in November about whether 9/11 is a war or crime.

The first of these questions from November is translated here:

http://911blogger.com/node/13340#comment-174198

It's possible that when he says "bill" he is referring to the JDP's alternative anti-terrorism bill, which seeks to eliminate terrorism through development aid, but I'm almost sure he is referring to the government's anti-terrorism bill, which I haven't see yet think refers to military assistance.

This context is very important --- whether or not to make "Al Qaeda did 9/11" the premise for a new law. These two questions -- (1) was 9/11 a crime or act of war?; and (2) is there enough evidence that Al Qaeda did 9/11 to make this the premise for new laws and state actions? -- are of overriding importance. In addition to the implications for democratic governance, he is implying a question of international law when he asks whether 9/11 is a crime or war : Is there a sound factual basis for the "war on terrorism"?

Fujita's entire presentation in this streaming video

You can watch Yukihisa Fujita's entire presentation in this streaming video (presentation begins at 18 minutes into the stream

link here

Q

This goes to a WMV streaming video. Is there a direct link?

Thank you

This is great. Actually, the first part of the Fulford transcript above, ending with the statement of Mr. Inuzuka, is at the very beginning of the video. Fujita goes on to talk about the war renunciation clause of the Japanese Constitution, saying that it sets a fundamental principle that cannot be given a political interpretation based on circumstances, as he says the Prime Minister is doing. Fujita is quite a guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution

The first video here:

http://www.911blogger.com/node/13392

starts at 9:43 of the streaming video you posted. In the transcript above, it begins:

"I would like to talk about the origins of this war on terrorism. " This sentence was cut out of the first video, which starts a little later, but it is in the subtitles.

Japan's anti-terrorism law

Here's the law passed in October 2001. It's mainly about use of the Self-Defense forces.

http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/policy/2001/anti-terrorism/1029terohouga...

Prime Minister's statement about the law

http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/terro0109/speech/pm1029.html

Cabinet decision to implement the law

http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/terrorism/measure0510.html

It's been extended

http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/terrorism/measure0510.html

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2006/75275.htm

So it looks like Fujita is saying, in the context of debate on whether this law should be extended again, that 9/11 is the premise for this extension, and that there are questions that need to be investigated before the legislature votes again to extend.

Here's his party's counter-proposal for “spades rather than guns” and “water rather than oil”

http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/news/071225/02.html

Yes, that post certainly deserved a downvote... not

I think it has been that suggested people with off-topic agendas, vendettas, etc., lay off Dwightvw. Those of us who value his skills in this area are watching.

wtcdemolition.com/blog

Thanks, cassiea

I cheated and uprated my comment up above, after thinking "WTF"?

I'm ambivalent about the rating system. People should judge comments for themselves. I would prefer the ability to hide my own long comments, or automatic hiding for comments over a certain length. The rules here used to suggest only downrating comments that violated the rules, which I thought was a good suggestion, but it was never followed.

Correction: they were talking about this law

Replenishment Support Special Measures Law just passed for refueling of U.S. military vessels.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/pm/fukuda/state0801.html

That's the word I couldn't understand: kyuuyu-shinpo or kyuuyu-shinpou. I think the latter, which is an abbreviation for "new law on refueling." (Sorry if this is boring - I' want whoever is making subtitles to read this. I haven't heard back from the German website.)

It's missing from the above transcript, which goes back to my concern about the translation not setting the context.

The law allows "allows Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels to provide refueling support for the U.S.-led multinational force in the Indian Ocean," and Fujita's party opposes it.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:IIqKSHwDV9cJ:www.breitbart.com/%3Fi...

Thanks to "paranoia," who also has other links on Japanese politics and counte-terrorism policies here:

http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/pm/fukuda/state0801.html

Japanese-English translation is not that hard

There are thousands of people that could do it quite well. I've decided there's way too much baggage attached to this translation, and I will not associate myself with it anymore. I will translate it myself once a Japanese transcript becomes available.

Downrate away. I'll do it myself.