No 00003

date:Apr./07/2003

Sanrizuka struggle short history

A Cabinet meeting decided the new international airport construction plan "Sanrizuka airport (incumbent Narita airport) establishment" of the metropolitan area in the government on July 4, 1966.

It wasn't made to notice to the local farmer specified in the vast airport site in advance, and this plan was forced .
37 years of the airport opposition fight "Sanrizuka struggle" has started from here ? the Japanese peasant movement history ?.
Let's try to look back on the history.

?As for the historical backdrop

At that time, Vietnamese war of aggression by America expanded.
Okinawa under the American rule was the base of the strategic air force and the Marine Corps.

The Japanese Government provided the base of the mainland and an airport, harbor, and supported the logistics of the U.S. Armed Forces.
U.S. Armed Forces chartered plane making Haneda airport of Tokyo a relay station to send necessities to the front with 50000 soldiers every month.
Sanrizuka-Shibayama alliance saw the reality and added "Military airport construction is opposite" to the slogan of the opposition fight.
Though Sanrizuka struggle was the battle which to keep farmer's land and life, the slogan of "the military airport opposition" collected the sympathy of the students and workers who fought Vietnam anti-battle fight in those days.
Many people looked for solidarity, and interchange with Sanriduka farmers was enriched.

? compulsory purchase

Governmental policies in the new airport construction were conbined with the farmer ignoring and violence.

Expropriation Law was applicable, and a compulsory purchase (1971 years) by the large-scale injection of the police riot police was repeated.
They stepped in and destroyed the farmeres precious field .

Farmers carried through the resistance with whole family.
The Sanrizuka alliance decided a joint struggle with the student and worker who was at the head of anti-Vietnam war battle.

Forts were created and they confined themselves to underground tunnel using guerrilla tactics for resistance.

Riot police and the farmer, student, worker has fought each other for about several decades from now on, and Sanrizuka located at north of Chiba prefecture turned to the battlefield.
As for the opponents' arrestee, injured persons exceed about 3300 and 6500 until now.

? Airport temporary opening
The 1st runway of Narita airport opend 1978.
During this 10 years, 122 local farm village young men were arrested by the frameup in pretext of 3 policemen's death by a crash in expropriate compulsion in 1971 and there was unprecedented suppression which made the 55 people defendant from 122 arrestee with innocence.
Two support students were killed by police shooting and beating at the time of Air port opening.
? Dismantling of expropriation comittee
The power was put in the bribery of the opponens farmers and dividing them as well, at the same time using the policy of brandshing State Power by the police force after opening in1978.

Several farmers sit at the table of the political compromise by the strong fight for many years, and left from the opposition side.
But the Sanrizuka alliance including land owners is continuing a strong opposition fight at present.
It faced the matter that government started a compulsory purchase two terms by offense and defense over the construction, and opponents succeeded in driving a prefecture expropriation committee (expropriation decision organization) into dismantling, and extinguished the proceeding of Expropriation Law.
It is the golden pyramid of Sanrizuka struggle history that the compulsory purchase that a farmer was threatened became impossible.

?Opening of the interim runway

Cornered government opened the second temporary runway by practicing runway construction one-sidedly in the purcahsed land area in April, 2002. But it was shortened too much.
Jet planes fly in some upper 40 ? over thee opposition farmers, and it is the reckless attempt to press it for the removal.
It is the 36th year from the cabinet resolution in 1966.
Not only a interim runway is short but also a taxiway bends, and international standard is violated in the touchdown area as well in full of unbribable areas.
Before no less than one year passed, a 2 serious accidents happened including the overrun inncident.
Sanrizuka alliance requires instant closing of this reckless interim runway of the government, airport public corporation.

?Military use urgent again
In the backdrop of Koizumi policy which using State Power, he is required to operate Narita airport milirarily by the US side in accordance with contracting of Japan-US Defence guidelines agreement in 1996.
The use of the large airport is indispensable to the military activities of the U.S. Armed Forces in Asia so that airport facilities of the Arabian bay area may be so.
Sanrizuka sutruggle becomes the most aggressive foothold of the Japanese anti-battle side.
Sanrizuka fight requestss the solidarity of the antiwar movement of the world now when Iraq, North Korean war of aggression are to pull trigger of the third global war.