Inejirō Asanuma Quotes
1898–1960 Japan
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The military clique, writhing in its death agonies, has invaded even our Waseda to maintain its power.
The reason you are fighting so hard in the Diet is because you carry the blood of Tametomo.
This must truly be called a national tragedy.
The stationing of American military bases in Japan and Okinawa, which are gradually being fortified with nuclear weapons of all sizes, poses a serious threat.
We must be youth of the mind as well as youth of action.
In any case, I believe that at this time we should sever our military relationship with the United States.
When people ask about my ancestors, I reply, ‘Most likely descendants of exiles.’
We, the Japan Socialist Party, earnestly hope for the normalization of diplomatic relations with China at the earliest possible date.
America has social order, but it feels as though the sense of nation is thin.
There can be no national independence without economic self-reliance.
The stationing of foreign troops in Japan for twenty-five long years is an unnatural situation unprecedented since the founding of the country.
We must recognize that if a nation’s security is guaranteed by another country’s military for a long period, independence will turn into subordination.
The spirit of revolution must be a flame.
The whole world cannot be solved by ideology or theory. It feels as though everything moves with reality at the center.
On the one hand, while engaging in such student activism, I also rowed boats, wrestled sumo, and was active as a member of athletic clubs.
Now, let us perform remote worship toward the Imperial Palace.
Cars are like geta. For the Mongols, horses are geta; for Japan, bicycles are geta. Petroleum civilization: one automobile for every four people.
The basic way to correct politics is for the government itself to uphold the Constitution and conduct clean, honest governance.
There can be no national independence without economic independence. Japan must break free from dependence on the United States.
Truly, speech was my only weapon of struggle throughout more than thirty years of mass movements.