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도쿄전력노조와 민주당, 자민당의 커넥션을 분석한 Japan Press Weekly
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2011. 6. 15. 23:13
도쿄전력노조와 민주당, 자민당의 커넥션을 분석한 Japan Press Weekly(아카하타 영문서비스)의 기사.
민주당 303명의 중의원 중 112명이 도쿄전력노조의 후원을 받았고, 간 나오토 총리 에다노 관방장관 카에이다 경제산업상도 포함된다.
도쿄전력노조는 이런 관계망을 통해 핵발전을 '한시적 에너지원'으로 상정했던 민주당의 정책(2005년 당시)을 '지속적으로 증진시켜야 할 에너지원'(2007년)으로 변경시켰음을 자랑으로 삼아왔다. 또한, 1976년 정치펀드를 대폭 증가시키기위해 정치연맹을 구성해 舊민사당(舊사민주의우파), 그리고 민주당 의원들에게 정치자금을 지원해왔다.
한편, 도쿄전력 경영진들은 자민당 의원들에게 막대한 정치자금을 후원해왔다. 1998년 자민당 참의원으로 당선된 카노 토키오는 도쿄전력 부사장 출신임.
2011 June 1 - 7 TOP3 [NUCLEAR CRISIS]
112 DPJ members in Lower House backed by TEPCO union |
June 5, 2011
Akahata Sunday edition
Out of 303 Democratic Party representatives in the Lower House, 112 got into the Diet with the support of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. labor union in the 2009 general election.
Akahata Sunday edition on June 5 reported that these lawmakers include Prime Minister Kan Naoto, Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano Yukio, and Economy Trade and Industry Minister Kaieda Ban’ri.
The TEPCO union has exerted its influence over the DPJ’s atomic-energy policy. For example, the party in 2005 regarded nuclear power generation as a temporary energy source but in 2007 changed its position to endorsing it as an energy source that the party must steadily promote.
The TEPCO union boasted that this policy change was a result of the union-backed DPJ politicians influencing fellow party representatives.
Money is another tool used by the union to manipulate the DPJ representatives. For the purpose of raising political funds, the union established a political league in 1976. Since then, it has generously distributed cash to union-endorsed politicians, previously of the Democratic Socialist Party and currently of the DPJ.
DPJ Fujiwara Masashi of the Upper House, who once headed the Kansai chapter of the Rengo-affiliated Federation of Electric Power Related Industry Worker’s Unions of Japan, received 36 million yen in political donations from the TEPCO union’s political league between 2007 and 2010. Former TEPCO executive Kobayashi Masao, also a DPJ representative in the Upper House, received league donations amounting to 46.5 million yen.
Fujiwara at an Upper House committee meeting on April 26 criticized his party-led government for “deceiving the media and the public by pointing the finger of blame at ‘TEPCO, the evil’” when the government admitted that TEPCO should bear primary responsibility for compensating victims for the damage caused by its Fukushima plant nuclear accident. He is now scheming to have the government not hold TEPCO responsible for due compensation by attributing “the present disaster to the earthquake and the tsunami.”
In the meantime, TEPCO executives have made an enormous amount of donations and given robust support to Liberal Democratic Party politicians. In the 1998 House of Councilors election, the TEPCO board succeeded in sending its Vice President Kano Tokio to the Diet.
Thus, TEPCO has tactfully used its board money and its union money to influence politics.
The TEPCO union held a general assembly after the March 11 accident to confirm that it “will enhance its partnerships” with DPJ lawmakers “in order to instill further understanding and acceptance” of nuclear power generation. The union also resolved that it “will support political parties, legislators, and candidates who have policies close to the union” in elections.
Out of 303 Democratic Party representatives in the Lower House, 112 got into the Diet with the support of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. labor union in the 2009 general election.
Akahata Sunday edition on June 5 reported that these lawmakers include Prime Minister Kan Naoto, Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano Yukio, and Economy Trade and Industry Minister Kaieda Ban’ri.
The TEPCO union has exerted its influence over the DPJ’s atomic-energy policy. For example, the party in 2005 regarded nuclear power generation as a temporary energy source but in 2007 changed its position to endorsing it as an energy source that the party must steadily promote.
The TEPCO union boasted that this policy change was a result of the union-backed DPJ politicians influencing fellow party representatives.
Money is another tool used by the union to manipulate the DPJ representatives. For the purpose of raising political funds, the union established a political league in 1976. Since then, it has generously distributed cash to union-endorsed politicians, previously of the Democratic Socialist Party and currently of the DPJ.
DPJ Fujiwara Masashi of the Upper House, who once headed the Kansai chapter of the Rengo-affiliated Federation of Electric Power Related Industry Worker’s Unions of Japan, received 36 million yen in political donations from the TEPCO union’s political league between 2007 and 2010. Former TEPCO executive Kobayashi Masao, also a DPJ representative in the Upper House, received league donations amounting to 46.5 million yen.
Fujiwara at an Upper House committee meeting on April 26 criticized his party-led government for “deceiving the media and the public by pointing the finger of blame at ‘TEPCO, the evil’” when the government admitted that TEPCO should bear primary responsibility for compensating victims for the damage caused by its Fukushima plant nuclear accident. He is now scheming to have the government not hold TEPCO responsible for due compensation by attributing “the present disaster to the earthquake and the tsunami.”
In the meantime, TEPCO executives have made an enormous amount of donations and given robust support to Liberal Democratic Party politicians. In the 1998 House of Councilors election, the TEPCO board succeeded in sending its Vice President Kano Tokio to the Diet.
Thus, TEPCO has tactfully used its board money and its union money to influence politics.
The TEPCO union held a general assembly after the March 11 accident to confirm that it “will enhance its partnerships” with DPJ lawmakers “in order to instill further understanding and acceptance” of nuclear power generation. The union also resolved that it “will support political parties, legislators, and candidates who have policies close to the union” in elections.