Repression in the wake of the G8 in Japan

[Bilan]

Please post information relevant to the G8 protests in Japan taking place this year.

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Union offices raided in the wake of G8

Protesting against Kyoto Police raid of union office

10th of June before 9 in the morning, 19 police men from Kyoto
Prefecture Police Security 3rd department (so called public safety
dep.)
raided and searched the union office which is used by Rakunan Union,
Rakunan Workers Network, Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokodo) , (and )
also an house of 'A' who is a member of Rakunan Union for the
suspect of
"fraud related incident" (with an arrest warrant), which is an
apparent
excuse to crush the movement against the summit.

Kyoto Police('Hori' is the person in charge) claims that the union
member
A unlawfully received unemployment allowance in 2004, which is
claimed
to be found as a proof after the search of his house. ('A' denies
this of
course.) This is something which happened in 4 years ago and even if
what they claim was true, it should had been dealt by 'Hello Work'
(something like JobCenter). Responding to our question, Hori said
it was
conducted originally by the 3rd Department. Answering to another
question why they had to search the union office for an suspected
incident of an individual, he gave no convincing reasons other than
saying "It is Independent Workers Network (Jiritsu Rooren) which is
used
as a contact address for Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokodo).

Kyoto police did the search based on their made-up story, 'A'
received the
allowance to fund Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokoodo) to find out
his
relation to the group for the proof of their fake story.

They spend three hours searching and occupying the office for the
proof,
which of course can not be found. Instead, they brought back a
list of
members of Rakunan Union and a list of members payment of union fee.
Are they going to claim that these are the proof of his "fraud"??

[Bilan]

More than ever anti-G8 activists, anarchist and communist need our
international solidarity, take action against Japanese business
interests in the countries you live and contact the Japanese
embassies and consulates also and protest this repressive measures
to prevent people organising against capitalist tyranny!
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From ABC OSAKA - Preliminary information:

Over 40 people have been arrested in pre-emptive sweeps of broad
left and anarchist groups.

Tabi/Rebel_Jill is apparently doing well inside, and is full of
spirit. Tabi will be out of the 27th most likely, they probably
won't let
him out before the g8. We've already gathered about 700 dollars for
his defense. A bank account has been set up at the post office to
support Tabi:

Yuubin Furikae Kouza 00200-5-38572 Meigi 5-16 Kitsuke Kokushoku
Enkai


Kin-chan from the Kamagasaki Patrol (Osaka), who is constantly
followed by police and usually has a helicopter following him at
demonstrations, was arrested yesterday morning. The police haven't
even
come up with a charge for him apparently. Falsifying the reasons
may be difficult since there are no problems with his address
registration or parole. Nevertheless he will be held for 23 days
for sure.

The same day a union in Rakunan, Kyoto was raided, had their office
searched and 2 of their members arrested (details below in
Japanese).

Not clear when this happened just yet but 4 members of the Chuukaku-
ha Leninist organization were arrested in Tokyo, apparently members
of the leadership.

On May 29th, there were 38 people arrested at Hosei University in
Tokyo, at a political assembly against the G8 at the University.
This hasn't made the activist newswires.

[Mather]

I would also add that organising demonstrations outside Japanese embassies (which can be done in most countries) is a good way to get this out to the wider public.

I am going to see if this can be done in London.

Hopefully something along this line can be done in Australia too.