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（very truly I tell you, ）

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（unless a kernel of wheat
falls to the ground and dies, ）

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（it remains only a single seed.）

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（but if it dies, it produces many seeds.）

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（john 12:24）

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（smash the sanrizuka airport!）

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How long have you lived here?

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About 22 or 23 years, continuously.

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What prompted you to live here?

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When I was student,

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I spent three years here
at the struggle headquarters.

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After that, I worked
for a company in Tokyo.

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Then some 20-odd years ago,
the organization asked if I'd come back.

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And I agreed to, since
I'd been here before.

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How do you support yourself?

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For a long time, during the early years,

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the organization supported me,
as the fulltime staff.

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I'd help the farmers
and I joined in a variety of struggles.

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For the past few years, I've been working.

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I help out on a farm in a nearby town.

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（yamazaki hiroshi solidarity hut keeper）

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how old are you?

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I'm 63 this year.

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So, in a sense, you've
devoted your entire life

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to the attempt to realize your ideals.

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I suppose, at least at this stage.

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What is it that drives you to go that far?

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When I was a student,
I awakened to the need for social change,

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that society needed to
change fundamentally.

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That was the starting point.

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And that belief hasn't
changed in the slightest.

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Even after 40 years?　-yes.

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I am cleaning up around here
and finding all sorts of old documents.

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Leaflets and pamphlets
from the student movement.

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And old friends who were active
in the student movement back then

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invite me to their reunions,
and sometimes I'll go.

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There's hardly anyone like me,

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who hasn't changed his beliefs
since back in his student days.

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But I think they place
a kind of hope in me,

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they tell me, "you've
done well to stick it out."

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So, in a sense, everyone has changed,

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but there's still something
that remains unchanged.

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I understand your origins,
but why haven't you changed?

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Well, yeah.

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The reason I haven't changed...

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I guess it's because
none of the problems have been solved.

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If the world itself had changed...

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If discrimination
and oppression had been eliminated,

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of course I would change as well.

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But essentially, the world has not changed,

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in the 40 years since I was a student.

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So there's no reason why I should change.

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The world hasn't changed?

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Not in essence. There's still
discrimination, oppression, exploitation.

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I don't think there's
been any change at all

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in fundamental human freedom and democracy.

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Compared to the 70s,
when we had an opposition force

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and we believed we could change the world,

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I think we're actually
much worse off today.

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（we reject the land seizure
in the name of the Japanese farmer）

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"The wages of resistance: Narita stories"

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July 4, 1966

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（a plan to build a new
airport in sanrizuka）

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（was approved abruptly by the government.）

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August 22, 1966

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（the hantai domei
was formed by local farmers in sanrizuka.）

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（the fight against the land seizure began.）

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August 16, 1967

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（sects of the Japanese new left joined
in support of the opposition struggle.）

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Platoon 3, withdraw!

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The police will have to remove you.

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Smash the airport! Smash the airport!

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The students really clashed, head on.

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At first I thought they didn't need to
fight so hard against the riot police.

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But later, I was glad.

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In October 1967,

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there were 2,000 or 3,000 police,
against 200 or 300 of us farmers.

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That just made me detest the police.

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Seeing the students fight,
I thought, they're avenging us.

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The students knew how to fight back.

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I didn't realize that at the time.

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But now I know why it had to be done,

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because I've been
through the struggle myself.

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Even though they knew
they would be scattered,

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it was awesome how they
faced off with them, head on.

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This was heta village.

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Across the way was tsubaki's house,
then aoyagi, and kashima.

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There was a carpentry shop and a temple,

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then ryuzaki and ueda,

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Takahashi and another ryuzaki.

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Next to that was the
new house that uryu built.

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About 10 houses altogether.　-i see.

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（hagiwara yuichi former
hantai domei member）

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and on this side?

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There was uryu, who looked
after the ogawa film team.

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Then there was ryuzaki.

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Next were two uryu households,
one where you parked,

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and above that, another uryu home.

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Then there was sannomiya.

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And here...

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Who was it?

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This here was the ishii family.

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Next door was another
ryuzaki, then kawauchi.

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Next to kawauchi was ogawa,

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then kashima, and a temple.

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So there were two temples in this village.

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Next was the house where
akiba yoshimitsu was born,

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then the akiba family home.

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Then there was the ishii family,
but they moved away early on.

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Next was the home of
hagiwara, then ryuzaki.

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That's all for this road.

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Then behind here, near akiba's,

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on the far side of this hill
were two maedas and akiya.

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Beyond that is the yokobori area,

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where ogawa lived, and akiba seiji.

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And that's the entire heta village.

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Around 30 homes?

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Must be.

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There were ten here...

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（the history of heta village reached
back to medieval Japan.）

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up the hill was my home
and the two otsuki homes.

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That's 22...

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Ah, I've lost count.

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32... around 34 altogether.

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City people can't imagine it,

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but I knew all the houses
in nearby villages too.

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Like nakago?

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Right, nakago and higashi.

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And they're all gone now.

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That's right, the only village
that remains is shuku, above here.

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It's no good to always run from a fight,

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but you need to have a route of escape.

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That's really important
for those who fight.

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It will be clear.

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The fighters always fight,
and those who run always run.

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In the village of heta,
there were very few who wavered.

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Ryuzaki who lived over there
supported construction from the start.

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He moved away early on,
to yachiyo or someplace.

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I was probably the one
who wavered the most.

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What? You wavered?

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Yes, I did.

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In what way?　-whether to farm or not.

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You weren't sure?　-that's right.

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I never liked farming that much.

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The people in the village knew it
and thought I'd take off.

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But you proved them wrong.

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At first, I considered making a deal.

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How much would they pay to buy me out?

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I could sell my land and take the profit.

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I could start a new business,
I considered it, frankly.

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Then it just so happened that everyone,

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every home in the village
joined the opposition.

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I had to go along.

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At the time, I just
followed everyone's lead.

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（block the sanrizuka airport!）

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There was a rally in narita one day.

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It was the first time
that villagers from toho,

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tenjinmine, and toyama all joined with us.

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It was a rally, a protest action
at the narita city hall.

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They all pointed to
me, I heard them saying,

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he's probably going to go over
to the pro-airport side.

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And I did think about it,
but it bothered me to hear that.

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I didn't have any strong will to resist,
deep in my heart.

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I didn't know the meaning of resisting,

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or have any firm sense
of why we should resist.

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But there were people
pointing at me, behind my back,

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so I decided I'd show
them and join the opposition.

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So I got involved out of a sort
of childish motivation.

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I think people around
here, myself included,

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had just about zero
political consciousness.

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Then the government presented a unilateral
plan to build an airport here.

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When the villagers decided to oppose it,

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they started to learn how politics works,

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and gradually,
they developed a mistrust of politics.

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Getting involved in the struggle,

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I wasn't sure I'd be able to
take such a strong stance.

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I'm kind of amazed that
I've been able to become so active.

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Don't you dare harm farmers,

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even if you're ordered to.

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Your father and mother
would never tell you to.

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Your commanders are gangsters.

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If you obey them, you'll be gangsters too.

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Your parents didn't send you to school
to kill farmers.

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More than the men,
it was the women who bore the load.

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They'd get just 2 or 3 hours of sleep.

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And do housework.

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No time for that.

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They'd leave the house at 4 am.

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They made boxed lunches, for their family.

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Two meals worth of boxed lunches,
for family and supporters.

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They'd send them off with food.

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The women's corps worked so hard,

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virtually without sleep or any time off.

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How about farming?

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No one had time for that.

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That was out of the question.

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We thought we'd be all right
if we stuck to it for a year.

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Year after year, we
thought this will be the year.

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We have to buy time, no matter what.

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If they can destroy the fortress,
they'll just keep coming.

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So we've got to defend it at all costs.

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If they bring in cranes,
we'll lay our bodies on the line...

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That's right, that's what we need to do.

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However many can, even 3,
chain your bodies to this pole.

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They won't touch you,

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and you can look for a chance
to return to your stations in the fortress.

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Kill us together! Mother and child!

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Kill us together!

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I was with my kid.

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So they couldn't remove us.

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Go ahead! We're not afraid!

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We all held together.

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Every one of us cried.

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Why don't you stop? You have a conscience.

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Just stop doing this.

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You'll be a murderer, understand?

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The students worked so hard for us.

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It was a great help.

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The students used those staves,

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and the hantai domei formed scrums.

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We'd do anything to win.

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（tsubaki taka former women's corps member）

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when were these photographs taken?

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This was after the struggle began.

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After the struggle began,
we began to work together,

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help each other out in the neighborhood.

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When we finished in our own fields,

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we'd go help out others
who were shorthanded.

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We had fun farming together.

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People didn't sell land back then.

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Not at all, we thought
it all belonged to us.

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We joined the opposition,
because we wouldn't let go of our land.

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Nowadays people buy and sell land,
without a thought.

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Things have changed totally.
Nothing we can do about that.

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Now here are some
photos from the front lines.

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It was shot on-site?　-yes.

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Who's the man beating the barrel?

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That's kiyo.

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Your husband?　-yeah.

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When he beat the barrel,
everyone came running.

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We were on the edge of the village,
so we heard the police coming first.

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So I'd say, "they're coming!"

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And he'd run out and beat the barrel.

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Everyone from the village would gather.

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Back then, it was almost every day.

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Every day, at sunset, in the morning...

249
00:24:57,833 --> 00:24:59,666
During the day, at all times.

250
00:24:59,667 --> 00:25:05,800
It happened almost every day.

251
00:25:06,233 --> 00:25:14,233
At the worst, he'd beat
the barrel twice a day.

252
00:25:14,467 --> 00:25:16,932
You had no time to farm.

253
00:25:16,933 --> 00:25:20,433
We'd drop our scythes and come running.

254
00:25:21,567 --> 00:25:26,332
If we didn't, we'd be ostracized,

255
00:25:26,333 --> 00:25:28,467
because the whole village stood together.

256
00:25:30,967 --> 00:25:34,166
Is that the second fortress?

257
00:25:34,167 --> 00:25:35,200
This?

258
00:25:36,633 --> 00:25:38,100
I wonder where this is.

259
00:25:39,267 --> 00:25:41,766
This is ishii eisuke's wife.

260
00:25:41,767 --> 00:25:43,133
That's right.

261
00:25:45,633 --> 00:25:47,833
In the middle?　-sannomiya.

262
00:25:48,467 --> 00:25:50,267
And you.　-this is me.

263
00:25:51,533 --> 00:25:53,767
Three good friends.

264
00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:59,032
We worked the rice paddies together.

265
00:25:59,033 --> 00:26:03,666
This was the first expropriation,
in February or march, so it was cold.

266
00:26:03,667 --> 00:26:05,967
Real cold.

267
00:26:07,433 --> 00:26:10,133
We struggled to stay warm.

268
00:26:10,533 --> 00:26:15,300
We had stones and we'd roast them,

269
00:26:15,567 --> 00:26:21,499
then stick them in our bosoms to get warm.

270
00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:26,832
When we'd fight the police,
they'd press on us and "ouch!"

271
00:26:26,833 --> 00:26:31,633
We had to drop the stones,
because they'd press on us.

272
00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:37,100
Can't you understand how we farmers feel?

273
00:26:38,333 --> 00:26:41,100
You know what's right...

274
00:26:41,367 --> 00:26:44,467
Give it back! Give it back!

275
00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:48,633
We tried with all our strength.

276
00:26:55,467 --> 00:27:00,499
During the expropriation,
the whole family went.

277
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:02,700
The house was empty from early morning...

278
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:12,000
（sannomiya shizue former
women's corps member）

279
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,832
it was an old house.

280
00:27:17,833 --> 00:27:20,332
When we got home, the house was empty,

281
00:27:20,333 --> 00:27:25,500
and a mouse was walking around
like he owned the place.

282
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,267
We had to laugh.

283
00:27:37,067 --> 00:27:41,133
Back then, we were all so committed,
we took it in stride.

284
00:27:47,367 --> 00:27:55,367
Go home! Go home!

285
00:27:55,533 --> 00:27:58,866
Fools! Damn fools!

286
00:27:58,867 --> 00:28:06,867
Go home! Go home!

287
00:28:18,967 --> 00:28:24,000
We could never do this today.

288
00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:28,033
People would not unite like that.

289
00:28:37,367 --> 00:28:39,932
I doubt it. You fought for the village.

290
00:28:39,933 --> 00:28:43,567
Right. But in the end, we weren't able to.

291
00:28:55,633 --> 00:28:59,400
Your home was here?　-this is where.

292
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,933
Our land stretched over
to where the solidarity hut was.

293
00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:11,067
I hated to leave here.

294
00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:17,299
But so many people were hurt.

295
00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:22,566
If we had known, we
would have resisted earlier.

296
00:29:22,567 --> 00:29:25,200
We all thought that later.

297
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:27,666
Resisted? Or settled?

298
00:29:27,667 --> 00:29:29,266
Settled...

299
00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:32,167
Yes, settled, in the end.

300
00:29:42,767 --> 00:29:49,767
（tsubaki taka moved to a
new home in December 2001.）

301
00:29:57,933 --> 00:30:00,700
How is it, living in this new place?

302
00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:07,033
Life is hurried here,
people lock their doors.

303
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:14,667
It's not relaxed and informal,
where we feel free to stop by.

304
00:30:14,967 --> 00:30:19,199
The police warn us on
the public address system

305
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,100
to lock our doors, because
there might be burglars.

306
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:29,932
So everyone locks their doors,
and you can't just drop by like we did.

307
00:30:29,933 --> 00:30:31,166
（relocation memorial）

308
00:30:31,167 --> 00:30:33,699
no way around that. Right.

309
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,067
You have to ride the waves of time.

310
00:30:38,067 --> 00:30:43,099
If the airport hadn't been built,
it would've been different.

311
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:45,033
It would have.

312
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,999
（“airport refugees”）

313
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,332
the plaque says "airport refugees."
-right.

314
00:30:50,333 --> 00:30:54,233
It does say "refugees."

315
00:30:55,033 --> 00:30:59,800
But in fact we benefitted,
the airport is our patron.

316
00:31:00,767 --> 00:31:07,133
When we moved,
they paid us ￥20 million per 100 ㎡.

317
00:31:07,367 --> 00:31:12,200
They wouldn't pay ￥500,000 today.

318
00:31:18,867 --> 00:31:26,867
Go home! Go home!

319
00:31:39,233 --> 00:31:43,166
It is dark without
electricity all day here.

320
00:31:43,167 --> 00:31:46,766
Back in heta we could
make do without electricity.

321
00:31:46,767 --> 00:31:52,032
There was gas, and
firewood up in the hills,

322
00:31:52,033 --> 00:31:57,933
so we could cook rice,
we had water and fire.

323
00:31:58,067 --> 00:32:02,999
The toilet was a pair
of planks over a hole.

324
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,699
So we got by all right.

325
00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:11,133
In our new homes,
we can't manage without electricity.

326
00:32:14,533 --> 00:32:18,966
We had plenty of water. Now we have pipes,

327
00:32:18,967 --> 00:32:23,667
but back there we split bamboo
and fed water into the bath.

328
00:32:36,033 --> 00:32:40,867
The water flowed 365
days a year, without a break.

329
00:32:43,133 --> 00:32:46,966
It irrigated all the paddies.

330
00:32:46,967 --> 00:32:52,300
It was enough for all the
paddies, for every family.

331
00:32:53,767 --> 00:32:57,267
We could manage on our own...

332
00:32:58,467 --> 00:33:02,400
The paddies and the fields and the hills.

333
00:33:04,967 --> 00:33:07,967
Now it's all gone.

334
00:33:18,233 --> 00:33:25,233
（sannomiya shizue moved
to a new home in April 2006.）

335
00:34:22,733 --> 00:34:24,399
Can I eat it like this?　-what?

336
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,633
As it is?

337
00:34:26,267 --> 00:34:27,333
Raw?

338
00:34:27,833 --> 00:34:29,467
You can eat it raw.

339
00:34:30,933 --> 00:34:32,232
Oh, that's good.

340
00:34:32,233 --> 00:34:34,000
Is it good?　-sweet.

341
00:34:39,533 --> 00:34:40,566
The Greens are great.

342
00:34:40,567 --> 00:34:42,333
You can eat them.

343
00:34:43,833 --> 00:34:45,867
Sauté them in oil.

344
00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:47,433
Delicious.

345
00:34:49,233 --> 00:34:51,567
Very sweet.　-delicious, isn’t it?

346
00:34:53,067 --> 00:34:54,599
When did I come to toho?
It was after the war, right?

347
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,566
After the war.

348
00:34:56,567 --> 00:35:04,332
The war ended in 1945, so, ‘46 or ‘47…

349
00:35:04,333 --> 00:35:05,733
wait...

350
00:35:06,033 --> 00:35:13,233
The call for settlers
went out when I was 21,

351
00:35:13,567 --> 00:35:18,333
so I came to toho when I was about 23.

352
00:35:18,867 --> 00:35:21,266
Why did you want to settle here?

353
00:35:21,267 --> 00:35:26,467
I didn't think about it much.

354
00:35:27,433 --> 00:35:34,932
My father worked as a day laborer
on big farms here and there.

355
00:35:34,933 --> 00:35:41,366
There wasn't much of a future for me,

356
00:35:41,367 --> 00:35:45,766
since my father had no land or money.

357
00:35:45,767 --> 00:35:52,232
So the call for settlers sounded
like a good chance and he applied.

358
00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:54,167
Your father applied?　-yeah.

359
00:35:54,267 --> 00:36:00,333
（horikoshi shohei former
hantai domei member）

360
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:03,967
were you the 2nd or 3rd son?　-the 2nd son.

361
00:36:06,167 --> 00:36:08,632
Who were the settlers?

362
00:36:08,633 --> 00:36:10,600
Many of those in our group...

363
00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:18,566
Were evacuees, returnees from overseas,
after the war.

364
00:36:18,567 --> 00:36:21,166
People who had gone to war and returned.

365
00:36:21,167 --> 00:36:26,566
Or people who had worked
for companies overseas.

366
00:36:26,567 --> 00:36:30,566
Evacuees who had no family,

367
00:36:30,567 --> 00:36:36,000
who relied on friends
when they settled here.

368
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,466
How many houses in toho?

369
00:36:38,467 --> 00:36:41,133
There were 35 altogether at the start.

370
00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:48,732
Some gradually fell away,
and there were 30 in the end.

371
00:36:48,733 --> 00:36:56,733
（toho village was
settled after world war ii.）

372
00:36:57,367 --> 00:37:00,032
you cultivated with this.

373
00:37:00,033 --> 00:37:01,067
Yes.

374
00:37:01,367 --> 00:37:02,999
How?

375
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,732
You raised it like this,
bending your knees.

376
00:37:07,733 --> 00:37:11,767
You reached out and brought it down hard.

377
00:37:12,567 --> 00:37:17,999
If there was a stump here,

378
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,399
you'd first dig from the sides,

379
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,867
then come at the middle.

380
00:37:26,167 --> 00:37:30,532
This is specially made for bamboo groves,

381
00:37:30,533 --> 00:37:34,767
so it's thick here, and
the plate is narrow.

382
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,667
Otherwise, you couldn't get it in.

383
00:37:37,867 --> 00:37:39,933
And this handle is thick too.

384
00:37:40,767 --> 00:37:41,899
It looks sturdy.

385
00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:44,200
It used to weigh 3.8 kg.

386
00:37:45,133 --> 00:37:46,499
It wore this thin.

387
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,767
This is the third one I
used, to clear the land.

388
00:37:51,967 --> 00:37:53,166
The third generation.

389
00:37:53,167 --> 00:37:56,767
That's right, the third
generation survives.

390
00:37:57,833 --> 00:38:00,333
A bamboo grove...

391
00:38:00,867 --> 00:38:05,599
You'd spend a day clearing
10 or 12 square meters.

392
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:13,599
The bamboo roots would wither,
dry out and break down.

393
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,632
There was a tool for that too.

394
00:38:17,633 --> 00:38:20,867
You'd pound the roots
with it, break off the soil,

395
00:38:22,067 --> 00:38:25,333
separate the soil from the roots.

396
00:38:27,133 --> 00:38:33,566
If there were 3 or 4 stalks in a clump,

397
00:38:33,567 --> 00:38:38,233
you'd have to pound it 10 or 20 times
before it would break down.

398
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,367
So you wouldn't do it right away,

399
00:38:42,667 --> 00:38:46,900
you'd let it sit for a month or so,
until it dried out.

400
00:38:47,667 --> 00:38:51,599
You weren't able to harvest food right away.
- Yes.

401
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,532
How did you manage?

402
00:38:53,533 --> 00:38:55,967
We bought food on the outside.

403
00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:57,832
How did you earn money?

404
00:38:57,833 --> 00:39:03,499
The big farms would
be busy in spring and fall,

405
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:07,933
so we'd go there and work for a daily wage.

406
00:39:10,933 --> 00:39:13,999
There wasn't equipment like there is now,

407
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,667
everything was done by hand,
so big farms were shorthanded.

408
00:39:21,367 --> 00:39:25,232
Working outside, you
had no time to clear land.

409
00:39:25,233 --> 00:39:26,266
We wouldn't have time.

410
00:39:26,267 --> 00:39:31,700
If we were clearing land,
we wouldn't be able to eat.

411
00:39:33,467 --> 00:39:37,000
That was tough. I was
single, so I had it easy.

412
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:43,467
But there were evacuees with
five to a family, that was tough.

413
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:50,467
So they'd cut back on clearing,
and go elsewhere to work.

414
00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:53,300
Just to make ends meet.

415
00:39:55,033 --> 00:39:57,600
When you hear their stories,

416
00:39:58,767 --> 00:40:04,600
you realize how difficult
it was to settle here.

417
00:40:05,267 --> 00:40:10,099
There were no houses, no proper houses.

418
00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:15,200
Everyone lived in huts,
like charcoal shacks.

419
00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:26,832
I think I was 23 when I got married.

420
00:40:26,833 --> 00:40:29,333
So you were still
clearing the land.　-right.

421
00:40:29,967 --> 00:40:32,267
How long would I stay single?

422
00:40:33,233 --> 00:40:38,400
There'd come a time when
I couldn't remain alone.

423
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:43,699
And I also had the thought,

424
00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:50,299
that getting married and
struggling to raise kids

425
00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:55,100
would give me motivation,
thinking of the family.

426
00:40:56,233 --> 00:40:58,433
So you made the effort.　-yes.

427
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:05,932
In the end, how much land did you have?

428
00:41:05,933 --> 00:41:08,733
At first it was 1 hectare.

429
00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:14,367
Then the cooperative added 0.2 hectares,

430
00:41:14,667 --> 00:41:21,466
from small parcels that
had been undistributed.

431
00:41:21,467 --> 00:41:24,699
These were divided among 30 of us.

432
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:28,733
So I started with 1.2 hectares.

433
00:41:29,333 --> 00:41:35,432
It was different back then,

434
00:41:35,433 --> 00:41:42,500
field farmers only grew wheat and peanuts.

435
00:41:43,033 --> 00:41:48,200
It was hard to get by
on less than 2 hectares.

436
00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:52,467
That's not enough land to live off.

437
00:41:53,233 --> 00:41:57,667
So we were careful, didn't waste anything.

438
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:04,332
If someone sold some land,
I'd buy it and expand my farm.

439
00:42:04,333 --> 00:42:10,967
In the end I had about 2.2 hectares,
so I added 1 hectare.

440
00:42:12,733 --> 00:42:14,700
You really expanded.

441
00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:17,867
Yeah, I had the largest farm in toho.

442
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,600
（the airport land survey
arrived in to toho village.）

443
00:42:36,033 --> 00:42:40,732
what a sorry sight you are!
Japan is all washed up!

444
00:42:40,733 --> 00:42:42,100
（umezawa kanichi）

445
00:42:45,733 --> 00:42:47,533
isn't that right?

446
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,099
Did you ever hear what we had to say?

447
00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:54,800
What a sorry mess this is.

448
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,833
Early on, until the first expropriation,

449
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:05,699
over half of the families remained in toho.

450
00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:09,533
After the expropriation,
people started to leave.

451
00:43:11,300 --> 00:43:13,566
You held out until then.　-um.

452
00:43:13,567 --> 00:43:17,966
It got to be pretty tough,
with the expropriation.

453
00:43:17,967 --> 00:43:23,199
We had to mobilize every step of the way,
to keep fighting it.

454
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,400
It got hard to make a living.

455
00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:34,166
That was the biggest issue,
not the problem of right or wrong.

456
00:43:34,167 --> 00:43:37,700
It's a matter of your livelihood.

457
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:47,099
Those who fought on until the end
, they had a hard time of it too.

458
00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:50,532
But more important was how the government

459
00:43:50,533 --> 00:43:56,466
ignored these people
who were struggling to be farmers.

460
00:43:56,467 --> 00:44:01,332
They decided to build an airport there,
without talking with us.

461
00:44:01,333 --> 00:44:03,399
That was what we were opposed to.

462
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:08,233
We said, stop the airport,
but that was a slogan.

463
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:16,667
We objected to how the government
abused our human rights.

464
00:44:16,867 --> 00:44:18,632
When did you come?

465
00:44:18,633 --> 00:44:21,532
I settled in toyomi.

466
00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:25,933
I started clearing land on August 15, 1946.

467
00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:29,532
A year after the war.

468
00:44:29,533 --> 00:44:31,733
They kept me overseas for a year.

469
00:44:35,667 --> 00:44:38,032
I started clearing land then

470
00:44:38,033 --> 00:44:42,266
and built a productive farm.

471
00:44:42,267 --> 00:44:44,033
Things were in good shape,

472
00:44:44,367 --> 00:44:46,899
the government was looking out for us.

473
00:44:46,900 --> 00:44:51,333
Now they say they want the land back,

474
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,732
but they've never asked our opinion.

475
00:44:57,733 --> 00:45:04,133
They just tell us it's been decided,
they turned against us.

476
00:45:04,533 --> 00:45:08,033
I was grateful back then.
I'm not grateful any more.

477
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:14,799
（the opposition farmers
of toho held out for decades, ）

478
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:20,800
（preventing the construction
of a 2nd runway at the airport.）

479
00:45:20,933 --> 00:45:26,232
that was land that you cleared yourself.

480
00:45:26,233 --> 00:45:32,067
It must have been a hard decision
to sell it and move here.

481
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,467
My son and I fought about
it for more than a year.

482
00:45:38,933 --> 00:45:42,167
Then my son said,

483
00:45:43,133 --> 00:45:46,667
father, don't you care
about your grandkids?

484
00:45:47,033 --> 00:45:51,967
That challenge was
the hardest thing to hear.

485
00:45:52,267 --> 00:45:56,466
That went on every day for a year.

486
00:45:56,467 --> 00:46:01,767
I was getting old,
so I had to think things through.

487
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,666
It wasn't a matter of right or wrong,
or a matter of pride.

488
00:46:07,667 --> 00:46:14,133
If I didn't think of the family,
it'd be my loss in the end.

489
00:46:14,767 --> 00:46:18,667
The 2nd runway was stalled
as long as I didn't move.

490
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,133
My son saw it as a chance.

491
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,099
Considering our situation at home,

492
00:46:31,100 --> 00:46:35,500
if we made our move when
the government was eager,

493
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:41,032
we'd have the advantage,
that was the chance."

494
00:46:41,033 --> 00:46:44,599
（private property:
Narita international airport corporation）

495
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,732
you were in the way of the 2nd runway.

496
00:46:47,733 --> 00:46:48,967
That's right.

497
00:46:51,467 --> 00:46:53,700
So we did it in secret.

498
00:46:56,567 --> 00:46:57,732
How?

499
00:46:57,733 --> 00:47:01,566
The prefectural governor
was the intermediary.

500
00:47:01,567 --> 00:47:07,200
He set up talks with the
minister of transportation.

501
00:47:10,767 --> 00:47:13,067
This is the farmland that you moved to.

502
00:47:15,033 --> 00:47:18,232
Up to the tea bushes, and the road.

503
00:47:18,233 --> 00:47:23,867
There's a bank with grass,
and a paved road in front of it.

504
00:47:24,167 --> 00:47:27,000
It's at a slight angle out there.

505
00:47:27,667 --> 00:47:31,700
I have a compost shed, across the field.

506
00:47:35,467 --> 00:47:37,467
How long have you farmed here?

507
00:47:38,567 --> 00:47:40,933
This is the 11th year.

508
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,233
Is it as good as your old field?

509
00:47:47,867 --> 00:47:50,533
It's not.

510
00:47:50,733 --> 00:47:52,367
There were lots of weeds.

511
00:47:52,867 --> 00:47:54,533
The weeds still grow.

512
00:48:03,967 --> 00:48:10,967
（horikoshi shohei
moved to his new home in August 2001.）

513
00:48:39,167 --> 00:48:42,232
Have you ever flown
from the narita airport?

514
00:48:42,233 --> 00:48:46,599
Never. I absolutely refuse to fly.

515
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:47,832
Really?

516
00:48:47,833 --> 00:48:50,000
For whatever reason.　-why?

517
00:48:51,167 --> 00:48:53,833
We have no need for airplanes.

518
00:48:54,500 --> 00:48:59,467
Advanced civilization caused problems
when it built airplanes.

519
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:02,900
The ones behind the airport are to blame.

520
00:49:03,367 --> 00:49:07,433
Stop the 300,000 flights per year!

521
00:49:07,567 --> 00:49:10,900
Stop the 300,000 flights per year!

522
00:49:11,033 --> 00:49:14,833
Stop the 300,000 flights per year!

523
00:49:14,967 --> 00:49:18,367
Stop the 300,000 flights per year!

524
00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:21,533
Smash the sanrizuka airport!

525
00:49:21,667 --> 00:49:24,099
Smash the sanrizuka airport!

526
00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:27,067
Reject the expulsion of toho residents!

527
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,733
Reject the expulsion of toho residents!

528
00:49:30,933 --> 00:49:35,533
Today, for the first time,
we carry bamboo staves and scythes.

529
00:49:36,133 --> 00:49:39,300
Today, we are armed for the first time.

530
00:49:39,867 --> 00:49:44,433
Today, for the first time,
we carry bamboo staves and scythes.

531
00:49:45,067 --> 00:49:48,167
Today, we are armed for the first time.

532
00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:56,300
Smash the airport! Smash the airport!

533
00:50:22,567 --> 00:50:26,199
We have to win, no matter what.

534
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:31,232
Unless we defeat them here,

535
00:50:31,233 --> 00:50:35,899
the sato administration
will do lots of terrible things.

536
00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:39,299
If they can build the airport,
they'll lord it over us.

537
00:50:39,300 --> 00:50:41,567
We've got to win, at any cost.

538
00:50:42,367 --> 00:50:49,066
It's great that my son is at the heart
of this fight against the government.

539
00:50:49,067 --> 00:50:54,233
I'm not being vain,
but I don't mind praising him openly.

540
00:50:54,767 --> 00:51:00,899
Until this struggle, he was like a child,
always reading comics.

541
00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:05,433
When I see how he's really grown,
I want to praise him.

542
00:51:06,167 --> 00:51:12,167
（yanagawa hideo former leader, youth corps）

543
00:51:13,133 --> 00:51:17,767
people with rice paddies had a good income.

544
00:51:18,367 --> 00:51:23,266
But here the land
was cleared late in the 19th century,

545
00:51:23,267 --> 00:51:27,467
so there were few paddies
and we ate wheat-rice.

546
00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:33,566
At home, you'd mix wheat with rice.

547
00:51:33,567 --> 00:51:35,132
Did you sell it?

548
00:51:35,133 --> 00:51:38,499
We didn't sell rice, we sold wheat.

549
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:41,000
But we earned very little from wheat.

550
00:51:42,033 --> 00:51:43,733
What year was it?

551
00:51:44,533 --> 00:51:47,266
In the early 1970s,

552
00:51:47,267 --> 00:51:53,567
my annual income was just around ￥400,000.

553
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,867
Only 400,000! Can you believe it?

554
00:51:58,533 --> 00:52:03,166
We were just growing wheat and peanuts.

555
00:52:03,167 --> 00:52:06,333
We grew a little taro too,

556
00:52:06,667 --> 00:52:11,300
but we didn't earn much from that.
We barely made ends meet.

557
00:52:11,867 --> 00:52:16,333
We were on the front line everyday,
hardly worked at all.

558
00:52:17,567 --> 00:52:19,267
The whole family.

559
00:52:21,733 --> 00:52:25,600
In the film "summer in
narita," there's a scene...

560
00:52:26,167 --> 00:52:29,332
Where you're harvesting watermelons.

561
00:52:29,333 --> 00:52:33,667
We grew watermelons, but they
only earned about ￥100,000 per field.

562
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:37,966
We were really poor.

563
00:52:37,967 --> 00:52:44,133
If it hadn't been for the struggle,
I would have quit farming.

564
00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:48,767
It wasn't worth it.

565
00:52:53,967 --> 00:53:00,967
（hantai domei new year
gathering January 13, 2013）

566
00:53:01,967 --> 00:53:06,633
over the last month or so...

567
00:53:08,367 --> 00:53:13,832
Ogawa mutsu, the former
leader of the women's corps,

568
00:53:13,833 --> 00:53:16,233
died at the beginning of December.

569
00:53:16,433 --> 00:53:23,567
And atsuta hajime died around January 5.

570
00:53:24,133 --> 00:53:28,333
I didn't hear this directly,
this is third-hand news.

571
00:53:28,533 --> 00:53:35,666
It was a private funeral,
there was no public gathering.

572
00:53:35,667 --> 00:53:42,967
So I didn't attend the funeral.

573
00:53:43,500 --> 00:53:51,000
But two of the elders
who were once active have died.

574
00:53:52,533 --> 00:53:54,900
Most of the activists

575
00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:01,466
who led the hantai domei have passed away.

576
00:54:01,467 --> 00:54:09,467
（most of the farmers
left the hantai domei.）

577
00:54:09,633 --> 00:54:15,867
at the same time, as yamazaki reported,

578
00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:22,033
the solidarity hut was seized last year.

579
00:54:22,533 --> 00:54:28,666
It's an absolutely unforgivable situation,

580
00:54:28,667 --> 00:54:36,100
but it's the logic of
power, might makes right.

581
00:54:36,433 --> 00:54:42,699
The powerful win, that's
the way the world works.

582
00:54:42,700 --> 00:54:48,667
I was reminded of that
often during the course of the last year.

583
00:54:48,933 --> 00:54:55,467
The weak lose out in the end.

584
00:54:56,633 --> 00:54:58,900
But in that context...

585
00:55:01,333 --> 00:55:06,032
No matter how hard the powerful press,

586
00:55:06,033 --> 00:55:11,199
they absolutely can't
crush people's spirits.

587
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:19,200
（yanagawa hideo
continues his resistance to this day.）

588
00:57:17,333 --> 00:57:19,433
Did you always do this?　-yeah.

589
00:57:21,567 --> 00:57:23,833
The spring flower-viewing.

590
00:57:24,333 --> 00:57:28,133
People who enjoyed it would gather.

591
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:33,367
It wasn't an official event,

592
00:57:34,167 --> 00:57:38,000
just something we'd do every year.

593
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,499
After all, a lot of people
opposed the airport,

594
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:42,499
because it would eliminate open space

595
00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:46,499
and lots of cherry trees
would be destroyed.

596
00:57:46,500 --> 00:57:49,700
That made people angry.

597
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,200
The problem is,

598
00:57:52,433 --> 00:57:58,799
we're down to those
who will stick it out to the end.

599
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,433
Like yanagawa said at our last meeting,

600
00:58:02,067 --> 00:58:09,466
those who are going to quit will quit,
no matter how you try to keep them.

601
00:58:09,467 --> 00:58:11,967
What I mean is...

602
00:58:12,067 --> 00:58:17,032
Take ishibashi,
compared to others who have dropped out,

603
00:58:17,033 --> 00:58:23,733
you can just tell he's
going to stick with it to the end.

604
00:58:23,867 --> 00:58:29,867
（shima hiroyuki former
hantai domei vice secretary）

605
00:58:30,433 --> 00:58:35,666
in the struggle, people have an
external face and an internal one.

606
00:58:35,667 --> 00:58:38,733
On the outside, they're committed,

607
00:58:38,967 --> 00:58:44,333
but they're always looking for a way out.

608
00:58:44,567 --> 00:58:47,899
Compared to the enticements
from the other side,

609
00:58:47,900 --> 00:58:52,499
our solidarity will always be weaker.

610
00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:58,766
No matter how often we see them,
they'll dupe us in the end.

611
00:58:58,767 --> 00:59:02,566
Like tomura was saying,

612
00:59:02,567 --> 00:59:08,833
they're stabbing you in the back
and you don't even realize it.

613
00:59:09,767 --> 00:59:12,967
（tomura issaku hantai domei chairman）
that's why, you know...

614
00:59:13,133 --> 00:59:18,599
It makes you angry, of course.

615
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,632
But that's the way people are.

616
00:59:21,633 --> 00:59:25,967
It's extremely difficult to read
what's going on inside of people.

617
00:59:26,367 --> 00:59:31,467
In the end, farmers had a tendency

618
00:59:31,900 --> 00:59:34,999
to cave in to authority, to go soft.

619
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:39,600
When the 2nd expropriation began...

620
00:59:41,533 --> 00:59:49,433
We said we'd commit,
that we'd lay our lives on the line.

621
00:59:50,567 --> 00:59:54,300
But when that escalates,
it leads to killing.

622
00:59:54,667 --> 00:59:57,067
That makes you step back...

623
00:59:57,667 --> 01:00:01,567
We've done well to keep
the struggle going until now.

624
01:00:02,833 --> 01:00:06,732
We can win this, if we stick to our guns.

625
01:00:06,733 --> 01:00:10,000
That's why we're fighting,
because we can win.

626
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,499
It's awesome, in the midst of this...

627
01:00:15,500 --> 01:00:17,532
We absolutely can win.

628
01:00:17,533 --> 01:00:23,100
We've already clearly
demonstrated that we can win.

629
01:00:23,333 --> 01:00:28,533
You must not create a
situation where people will die.

630
01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:37,700
It's actually very
simple for people to die,

631
01:00:37,733 --> 01:00:41,300
whether it's suicide or at
the hand of someone else.

632
01:00:42,900 --> 01:00:45,000
The process is intense,

633
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:49,166
the conflict is overwhelming.

634
01:00:49,167 --> 01:00:52,667
But death itself occurs very simply.

635
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:57,600
For example, one firebomb is
enough to kill a riot policeman.

636
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,733
He'll catch fire and die.

637
01:01:02,700 --> 01:01:10,700
The government isn't saying it's ok
to kill a policeman.

638
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,832
But they say they'll build the airport
even if people die.

639
01:01:14,833 --> 01:01:19,267
And that amounts to
saying, it's ok to kill people.

640
01:01:20,367 --> 01:01:26,433
Revenge follows revenge,
just like the Vietnam war.

641
01:01:26,733 --> 01:01:29,267
Hey, police! Stop throwing rocks!

642
01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:32,033
Everybody, listen!

643
01:01:32,633 --> 01:01:37,867
The police with their disgraceful shields
are committing every kind of violence.

644
01:01:39,700 --> 01:01:41,433
Listen, everybody!

645
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:44,499
Listen, everybody!

646
01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:47,200
The riot police are committing
every kind of violence.

647
01:01:47,533 --> 01:01:55,533
（first land expropriation,
February 22 to march 6, 1971）

648
01:01:58,767 --> 01:02:00,900
stop it, you assholes!

649
01:02:04,733 --> 01:02:05,400
Stop it!

650
01:02:05,401 --> 01:02:07,200
They'll kill them.

651
01:02:07,467 --> 01:02:08,932
They will.

652
01:02:08,933 --> 01:02:11,732
Three of them are down.

653
01:02:11,733 --> 01:02:14,132
Someone said 3 have died.　-murderers!

654
01:02:14,133 --> 01:02:22,133
（461 were arrested. 1,427 were injured.）

655
01:02:22,767 --> 01:02:24,700
until the first expropriation,

656
01:02:25,867 --> 01:02:31,000
we believed we could stop them
if we put our bodies on the line.

657
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:39,667
But the first expropriation betrayed
those expectations.

658
01:02:39,967 --> 01:02:43,267
After things settled down,

659
01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:48,566
I remember talking with fumio
on the wall around the fortress.

660
01:02:48,567 --> 01:02:55,666
He said, "how long will
this go on?" He was wistful.

661
01:02:55,667 --> 01:03:01,733
（ishige hiromichi former
youth corps member）

662
01:03:02,433 --> 01:03:04,099
there was a sense back then

663
01:03:04,100 --> 01:03:11,300
that these conditions would go on forever.

664
01:03:13,700 --> 01:03:19,700
（september 16,
1971 the second land expropriation began.）

665
01:04:20,033 --> 01:04:26,266
When we went through
the woods to the north road,

666
01:04:26,267 --> 01:04:29,033
there were no riot police there.

667
01:04:30,267 --> 01:04:37,732
But there was a battle at the crossroads,
people throwing firebombs.

668
01:04:37,733 --> 01:04:45,733
（the opposition forces clashed
with the police at toho crossroads.）

669
01:04:45,833 --> 01:04:49,833
when we went into the
woods, we heard clattering.

670
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:56,732
But when we came out, the
first skirmishes were over.

671
01:04:56,733 --> 01:04:59,032
Looks like there’s been a fierce fight.

672
01:04:59,033 --> 01:05:00,766
We headed to the toho crossroads.

673
01:05:00,767 --> 01:05:06,767
（akiba kiyoharu former youth corps member）

674
01:05:07,333 --> 01:05:11,133
there was a sense that "we did it!"

675
01:05:11,500 --> 01:05:17,832
When we got to the crossroads,
students were beating some police.

676
01:05:17,833 --> 01:05:22,466
Some women shouted,
"you'll kill them! Stop beating them!"

677
01:05:22,467 --> 01:05:26,767
I remember those women crying out,
"stop beating them!"

678
01:05:27,267 --> 01:05:29,699
At the crossroads,

679
01:05:29,700 --> 01:05:33,166
we saw police who'd been put in handcuffs,

680
01:05:33,167 --> 01:05:39,732
and others who'd been stripped half-naked.

681
01:05:39,733 --> 01:05:43,067
We thought, "this is a major victory."

682
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:47,966
After we retreated to the
hills, we heard the radio.

683
01:05:47,967 --> 01:05:52,800
They reported that 1 or 2
riot police had been killed.

684
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,899
I knew that it was now very serious.

685
01:05:56,900 --> 01:05:59,966
It was the first time
police had been killed.

686
01:05:59,967 --> 01:06:05,033
（three riot police died.）

687
01:06:05,233 --> 01:06:09,099
some of my friends were downcast.

688
01:06:09,100 --> 01:06:12,900
I was down too, exhausted.

689
01:06:13,567 --> 01:06:20,333
There were lots of meetings,
fumio went and I did too.

690
01:06:20,900 --> 01:06:26,332
The confrontations continued.
There was arson at the construction site.

691
01:06:26,333 --> 01:06:31,533
People stopped coming out.
I stayed away too.

692
01:06:31,967 --> 01:06:38,732
In the midst of this,

693
01:06:38,733 --> 01:06:41,467
fumio said to me one day,
"someone might commit suicide."

694
01:06:50,167 --> 01:06:53,267
Keep an eye out, ok?

695
01:06:58,267 --> 01:07:05,233
Then, fumio died on October 1.

696
01:07:07,333 --> 01:07:10,767
When you're young... maybe
it's not true of everyone,

697
01:07:11,933 --> 01:07:17,933
but you have the sense that if you're ok,
others are too.

698
01:07:18,267 --> 01:07:26,267
So I thought, I'm sure
I can get through this.

699
01:07:26,633 --> 01:07:33,532
But fumio didn't think he could,
I realized that later.

700
01:07:33,533 --> 01:07:39,800
（sannomiya fumio youth corps leader）

701
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,433
On the day that fumio died,

702
01:08:02,967 --> 01:08:09,233
I borrowed his truck to go to a
market in chiba, and returned it.

703
01:08:09,667 --> 01:08:13,266
It was fall, so the night was cold.

704
01:08:13,267 --> 01:08:15,266
But he had the window open
and was writing something.

705
01:08:15,267 --> 01:08:17,700
I asked what it was and he hid it,

706
01:08:18,567 --> 01:08:22,399
saying, "I'll show you later."

707
01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:24,433
I should have insisted.

708
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:29,799
Was it a suicide note?

709
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,700
I thought it might be,

710
01:08:33,033 --> 01:08:38,700
but he wouldn't show me.

711
01:08:39,100 --> 01:08:42,200
We chatted about plans for the next day.

712
01:08:42,733 --> 01:08:46,133
I said, "see you," though I was troubled.

713
01:08:47,367 --> 01:08:52,333
I went to close the window,
but he said, "leave it open."

714
01:08:53,100 --> 01:08:55,833
I wondered why, when it was so cold.

715
01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:00,933
It really troubled me, but I left it open.

716
01:09:01,667 --> 01:09:06,867
It was raining
and I was still troubled when I got home.

717
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:13,233
Something's strange, I thought,
but I was tired and went to sleep.

718
01:09:13,700 --> 01:09:18,099
The next morning I was still in bed
when his father came by.

719
01:09:18,100 --> 01:09:20,832
I heard him talking with my father,
who asked him to come in.

720
01:09:20,833 --> 01:09:23,467
His father won’t come in the house.

721
01:09:25,100 --> 01:09:31,732
He said, "no, I think
we found a suicide note."

722
01:09:31,733 --> 01:09:37,000
And our yellow and black rope is missing.

723
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:43,232
I heard that and I jumped out of bed.

724
01:09:43,233 --> 01:09:48,567
I didn't even take a look
at the note his father had,

725
01:09:49,833 --> 01:09:53,466
but I knew he'd gone to kill himself.

726
01:09:53,467 --> 01:09:58,100
I went to find ryuzaki, but he was out.

727
01:09:58,967 --> 01:10:03,233
Uryu lived next door, and he was home.

728
01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:09,433
I told him and he said,
"we have to look for fumio."

729
01:10:10,367 --> 01:10:14,866
Thinking he hadn't gone too far,

730
01:10:14,867 --> 01:10:18,533
we looked at a nearby
shrine and in the fields,

731
01:10:19,333 --> 01:10:26,600
and we found his truck parked near
an outbuilding at the shrine.

732
01:10:26,833 --> 01:10:30,667
We went to tell his father
that we found his truck.

733
01:10:30,867 --> 01:10:35,932
His father said he had to
be somewhere close by.

734
01:10:35,933 --> 01:10:39,633
By now, members of the
youth corps had gathered,

735
01:10:41,733 --> 01:10:46,700
so we went to where his truck was parked.

736
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:51,932
I was too scared to
look in the outbuilding,

737
01:10:51,933 --> 01:10:57,966
but others in the youth
corps were brave enough.

738
01:10:57,967 --> 01:11:00,967
They went inside, but he wasn't there.

739
01:11:01,700 --> 01:11:05,499
So we walked down toward fumio's house,

740
01:11:05,500 --> 01:11:09,132
and my friend uryu in the rear pointed

741
01:11:09,133 --> 01:11:12,099
and said, "ah..."

742
01:11:12,100 --> 01:11:14,367
I looked, and saw fumio.

743
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:26,633
All day long that day, it drizzled.

744
01:11:27,533 --> 01:11:29,533
The weather was terrible.

745
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:32,467
And then...

746
01:11:34,033 --> 01:11:39,999
Uryu masahiko was the first to spot him,
and said, "ah..."

747
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:43,532
He didn't say, "there
he is." He said, "ah..."

748
01:11:43,533 --> 01:11:46,200
It was like a moan.

749
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:49,933
That's how we found him.

750
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:52,733
And then...

751
01:11:53,433 --> 01:12:01,400
Ryuzaki's father got
a knife from his house,

752
01:12:02,067 --> 01:12:05,599
and we cut the rope.

753
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:10,733
Yanagawa and I caught
him and lowered him down.

754
01:12:39,667 --> 01:12:45,466
（october 1, 1971 sannomiya
fumio killed himself.）

755
01:12:45,467 --> 01:12:49,800
（he was 22 years old.）

756
01:13:14,967 --> 01:13:19,032
You weren't aware of what he was thinking?

757
01:13:19,033 --> 01:13:22,000
No, I wasn't, but...

758
01:13:22,967 --> 01:13:27,532
The night he died...

759
01:13:27,533 --> 01:13:33,166
In the middle of the night,
I heard "mother, mother!"

760
01:13:33,167 --> 01:13:38,299
It's still a mystery to me.

761
01:13:38,300 --> 01:13:44,467
I woke up,
but I don't know if it was a dream or real.

762
01:13:44,667 --> 01:13:47,866
It's always troubled me.

763
01:13:47,867 --> 01:13:51,967
I woke up, hearing "mother, mother!"

764
01:13:52,067 --> 01:13:56,599
Was that a dream?

765
01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:00,633
Back then, I decided it
must have been a dream.

766
01:14:01,367 --> 01:14:07,700
But I still wonder, what was that?

767
01:14:17,033 --> 01:14:18,533
After that...

768
01:14:21,233 --> 01:14:27,433
The struggle had an added purpose,
for the youth corps.

769
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:33,199
In addition to squashing the airport,

770
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,667
we had the goal of
getting revenge for fumio.

771
01:14:39,867 --> 01:14:45,966
In concrete terms,
that meant taking more extreme action?

772
01:14:45,967 --> 01:14:50,267
Well, it meant doing whatever
it took to squash the airport,

773
01:14:51,233 --> 01:14:54,767
to get revenge for fumio.

774
01:14:58,300 --> 01:15:00,800
They were one and the same.

775
01:15:02,667 --> 01:15:05,900
We had dual motivation.

776
01:15:09,367 --> 01:15:17,367
So, people died on the government side,
and they died on the hantai domei side.

777
01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:23,300
It was a standoff on both sides,
neither could give in,

778
01:15:24,133 --> 01:15:28,500
that's the situation that emerged.

779
01:15:30,867 --> 01:15:32,967
That's what it means for people to die.

780
01:15:36,100 --> 01:15:39,833
It took us both to a place
where there was no turning back.

781
01:15:45,967 --> 01:15:47,533
Just now...

782
01:15:47,767 --> 01:15:54,100
The riot police have raided...

783
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:59,200
The sannomiya home in heta village.

784
01:16:01,500 --> 01:16:06,467
For the first time in Japan's history,
a police raid after a funeral.

785
01:16:21,267 --> 01:16:26,032
It was just after the three
policemen were killed.

786
01:16:26,033 --> 01:16:28,900
And that bothered him.

787
01:16:31,133 --> 01:16:36,633
It bothered him, he felt sorry for them...

788
01:16:37,533 --> 01:16:44,033
It was wishful thinking,

789
01:16:44,900 --> 01:16:47,867
but he thought if he died...
They'd be more lenient.

790
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:52,899
They wouldn't give up on
the airport, he knew that.

791
01:16:52,900 --> 01:16:56,200
This is all my speculation.

792
01:16:58,333 --> 01:17:00,932
He thought if he died, they'd quit.

793
01:17:00,933 --> 01:17:05,067
Maybe, somewhat. That's what I think.

794
01:17:09,533 --> 01:17:11,066
（my family.）

795
01:17:11,067 --> 01:17:13,599
（these parents had this kid.）

796
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:16,700
（i experienced a sudden mutation.）

797
01:17:26,133 --> 01:17:28,333
Who was the first to realize
something was amiss?

798
01:17:28,833 --> 01:17:30,799
Who was the first to realize
something was amiss?

799
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:38,133
By chance, his grandfather
went into his room.

800
01:17:38,300 --> 01:17:42,166
His helmet was on his desk.

801
01:17:42,167 --> 01:17:47,232
When he put the helmet away,

802
01:17:47,233 --> 01:17:51,333
he found the suicide note
and we were shocked by it.

803
01:17:53,533 --> 01:17:56,533
That set off the panic.　-right.

804
01:18:04,500 --> 01:18:10,533
（photos by kitai kazuo）

805
01:18:18,033 --> 01:18:22,333
I despise those who
brought an airport to this land.

806
01:18:23,467 --> 01:18:27,233
To the hantai domei, the women's corps,

807
01:18:27,733 --> 01:18:32,033
the elders' corps, the children's corps,

808
01:18:32,467 --> 01:18:37,500
and our youth corps: Keep the faith.

809
01:18:39,467 --> 01:18:46,067
I have lost the spirit
to continue fighting.

810
01:18:47,833 --> 01:18:54,100
Please keep battling and smash the airport,
by any means.

811
01:18:56,833 --> 01:18:58,267
To mother:

812
01:18:59,667 --> 01:19:03,133
I have been a burden for many years.

813
01:19:04,333 --> 01:19:08,666
Whenever I was arrested,
I'm sure you worried,

814
01:19:08,667 --> 01:19:11,767
and it must have been a terrible ordeal.

815
01:19:13,533 --> 01:19:18,367
I felt bad about this,
but I never said anything.

816
01:19:20,100 --> 01:19:23,167
I am sure you have a
heavy burden now as well.

817
01:19:25,100 --> 01:19:27,533
If it were not for the airport,

818
01:19:28,367 --> 01:19:32,067
I would likely be married now,

819
01:19:32,933 --> 01:19:35,500
and would have become a proud farmer.

820
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,267
I'm sorry...

821
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:46,433
I have been unable to do anything at all
for you and father.

822
01:19:48,867 --> 01:19:51,467
I'm sorry to have only caused you worry.

823
01:19:54,667 --> 01:19:56,467
But there was no way around it.

824
01:19:57,367 --> 01:20:00,900
When they brought
the airport to this place,

825
01:20:01,900 --> 01:20:04,500
we had to fight resolutely.

826
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:12,933
But I guess I am sensitive,
and I couldn't endure the fight.

827
01:20:14,233 --> 01:20:18,233
People are weak, after all.

828
01:20:20,900 --> 01:20:27,033
The power of the state is terrifying.

829
01:20:28,500 --> 01:20:31,667
It takes the lives of struggling farmers,

830
01:20:32,967 --> 01:20:35,133
and it crushes them.

831
01:20:39,067 --> 01:20:43,133
I have many things I want to say,
but I can't express them.

832
01:20:44,233 --> 01:20:49,367
I was very upset until a while ago,
but now I feel relieved.

833
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:56,733
When I'm gone, wrap me
in that torn youth corps flag.

834
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:03,400
See me off together, if you can.

835
01:21:05,067 --> 01:21:09,000
I apologize for letting you down.

836
01:21:11,967 --> 01:21:14,933
Smash the sanrizuka airport!

837
01:21:17,567 --> 01:21:22,433
Please continue living in
sanrizuka, to the very end.

838
01:21:24,633 --> 01:21:26,133
Be well, everyone."

839
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:05,467
（kitai kazuo photographer
of the opposition struggle）

840
01:22:10,433 --> 01:22:12,000
hello!

841
01:22:28,700 --> 01:22:30,300
It's been a long time.

842
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:32,632
You look well.

843
01:22:32,633 --> 01:22:37,500
I'm doing ok, but my back hurts today.

844
01:22:40,133 --> 01:22:41,832
Are you over 70?

845
01:22:41,833 --> 01:22:45,899
Not quite, I'm 68.

846
01:22:45,900 --> 01:22:48,133
Just 68?

847
01:22:48,533 --> 01:22:51,400
How old are you?　-I'm 65.

848
01:22:52,767 --> 01:22:55,832
Just 3 years younger than me?

849
01:22:55,833 --> 01:22:58,067
I thought you were much older.

850
01:23:00,233 --> 01:23:03,367
Back then, it seemed that way.

851
01:23:04,733 --> 01:23:07,233
I thought you were way past 70.

852
01:23:07,433 --> 01:23:09,232
Shima is about 70, isn't he?

853
01:23:09,233 --> 01:23:13,199
I think so. He was born in 1942...

854
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,233
So he's just about 70 now.　-yes.

855
01:23:16,567 --> 01:23:20,933
So I'm a few years younger than him.

856
01:23:21,333 --> 01:23:26,233
You're the same age as maeda.

857
01:23:26,467 --> 01:23:29,366
Shima was the oldest of the youth corps,

858
01:23:29,367 --> 01:23:33,967
and the rest were 4 or 5 years younger.

859
01:23:34,867 --> 01:23:38,433
Shima was the oldest.

860
01:23:42,500 --> 01:23:46,233
I'm one of the last.
Koizumi is hanging in there.

861
01:23:47,167 --> 01:23:49,700
Really.　-we're the last ones.

862
01:23:52,267 --> 01:23:56,066
There are photographs of everyone.

863
01:23:56,067 --> 01:24:02,667
But when I think of the sanrizuka struggle,
your face comes to mind.

864
01:24:03,767 --> 01:24:05,366
You're the symbol.

865
01:24:05,367 --> 01:24:08,433
I'm not, but I'm still holding out.

866
01:24:11,300 --> 01:24:14,066
It's 50 years now.

867
01:24:14,067 --> 01:24:16,500
A lot has happened in 50 years.

868
01:24:16,767 --> 01:24:20,799
A lot has happened, but for me,

869
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:25,833
it's fumio's suicide
note that kept me going.

870
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:32,167
That nailed me, it was the knock-out punch.

871
01:24:33,133 --> 01:24:36,666
He died at the peak, that was tough.

872
01:24:36,667 --> 01:24:40,632
His mother still gets choked up,

873
01:24:40,633 --> 01:24:44,899
when she talks about him, poor thing.

874
01:24:44,900 --> 01:24:46,433
That's a curse.

875
01:24:48,167 --> 01:24:54,899
Did fumio's death
make it hard for people to compromise?

876
01:24:54,900 --> 01:25:00,933
Well, that's how it turned out.

877
01:25:01,533 --> 01:25:04,900
We didn't make a conscious decision.

878
01:25:05,233 --> 01:25:06,900
It was like a curse, in a way.

879
01:25:10,033 --> 01:25:13,699
When we filmed back then,
you were growing watermelons.

880
01:25:13,700 --> 01:25:18,067
Yeah, no one grows watermelons now.

881
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:25,733
The bugs must find cabbage delicious.

882
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,567
The leaves are tender.

883
01:25:36,533 --> 01:25:41,400
They got these too, ruined ‘em.

884
01:25:54,500 --> 01:25:58,466
I'll just have to chop these up.

885
01:25:58,467 --> 01:26:01,767
Back in the youth corps,
everyone stood together in opposition.

886
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:09,867
But now, you resist on your own,
you're not doing it with others.

887
01:26:10,767 --> 01:26:14,033
You don't try to mobilize others.

888
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:16,467
There's none of that.

889
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:18,100
You're on your own.

890
01:26:18,567 --> 01:26:21,532
It was always that way with me.

891
01:26:21,533 --> 01:26:24,633
Oh, I see.

892
01:26:26,167 --> 01:26:28,833
That's why I split from the kitahara group.

893
01:26:29,300 --> 01:26:31,233
We were more free.

894
01:26:33,533 --> 01:26:36,932
The kitahara group mobilized,
they tried to exert control.

895
01:26:36,933 --> 01:26:42,500
But our group didn't do that.
We were free. Open.

896
01:27:15,367 --> 01:27:20,233
But that's a tough
freedom, a tough way to go.

897
01:27:20,500 --> 01:27:21,766
Why's that?

898
01:27:21,767 --> 01:27:29,232
Given the conditions,
just being free isn't enough.

899
01:27:29,233 --> 01:27:31,000
Well,

900
01:27:35,533 --> 01:27:41,199
it's not unconstrained freedom.

901
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:45,299
I imagine you had to pay
a price for that freedom.

902
01:27:45,300 --> 01:27:47,260
There's no way around
that. It's your own choice.

903
01:27:58,300 --> 01:27:59,800
Ah, there it is.

904
01:28:01,267 --> 01:28:02,533
The tower.

905
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:06,700
It's been a while.

906
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:09,267
It's shorter now.

907
01:28:10,767 --> 01:28:14,366
Ah, they cut the top off.

908
01:28:14,367 --> 01:28:19,567
No, it was torn down, and we rebuilt it.

909
01:28:21,567 --> 01:28:25,667
It's amazing, the
lengths people will go to.

910
01:28:27,933 --> 01:28:31,000
They don't think about the aftermath.

911
01:29:07,933 --> 01:29:11,333
I didn't think we'd be able to get in.

912
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:14,000
It's been a long time.

913
01:29:15,533 --> 01:29:21,167
That 60-meter tower would
have blocked the plane that just landed.

914
01:29:21,367 --> 01:29:24,133
They couldn't fly, they had to remove it.

915
01:29:25,700 --> 01:29:28,733
（a trial flight is attempted.）

916
01:29:31,100 --> 01:29:35,633
（the tower forces the plane
to change its flight path.）

917
01:29:38,333 --> 01:29:44,199
was the tower taken down
during the land expropriation?

918
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:46,467
It was after that.

919
01:29:47,100 --> 01:29:49,067
After the expropriation.

920
01:29:49,500 --> 01:29:53,100
It was during the trial of
the youth corps members,

921
01:29:54,433 --> 01:29:57,366
when everyone was so downcast.

922
01:29:57,367 --> 01:30:01,599
The one place where we felt
we had won a battle was the tower.

923
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:05,040
（we seriously condemn the construction of
the airport!） then they toppled it with ease.

924
01:30:05,933 --> 01:30:09,933
（may 6, 1977）

925
01:30:32,933 --> 01:30:36,932
（“I ran over there.）

926
01:30:36,933 --> 01:30:40,932
（the tower was toppled in a dirty move.”）

927
01:30:40,933 --> 01:30:44,933
（tsubaki kiyokatsu ）

928
01:30:49,167 --> 01:30:52,967
it really has been a long
time. It's been 40 years.

929
01:30:54,633 --> 01:31:00,799
After they toppled it, I
didn't want to come here.

930
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:02,332
It's a bad memory.

931
01:31:02,333 --> 01:31:03,933
We'd been done in.

932
01:31:04,900 --> 01:31:12,900
（may 20, 1978 narita
international airport opened.）

933
01:31:14,033 --> 01:31:18,900
smash the airport! Stop the 2nd runway!

934
01:31:19,133 --> 01:31:25,033
Smash the airport! Stop the 2nd runway!

935
01:31:25,733 --> 01:31:29,033
Why do you force the
riot police to do this?

936
01:31:30,033 --> 01:31:33,567
Police! Stop the violence
against the hantai domei!

937
01:31:34,167 --> 01:31:39,433
Police! Back off the hantai domei!
Give the hantai domei some room!

938
01:31:39,833 --> 01:31:42,666
We can't move forward.

939
01:31:42,667 --> 01:31:49,667
（shima hiroyuki attempted
to arrange a negotiated settlement.）

940
01:31:50,300 --> 01:31:55,500
there was a pigsty there,
and yanagawa and I used to talk.

941
01:31:56,900 --> 01:32:01,067
Even today that guy is...

942
01:32:01,267 --> 01:32:06,733
He'll fight to the last,
never give an inch.

943
01:32:08,667 --> 01:32:13,833
Ishii is like that too,
part of the militant faction.

944
01:32:14,667 --> 01:32:22,667
If we kept quiet, the
struggle would escalate.

945
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,466
A fight to the end...

946
01:32:25,467 --> 01:32:29,800
Police had died, there
were deaths on our side,

947
01:32:30,033 --> 01:32:34,133
and factional violence,
more people would die.

948
01:32:34,767 --> 01:32:41,699
That would be terrible,
so I talked with ishii and yanagawa.

949
01:32:41,700 --> 01:32:47,132
There was just a slight chance, but...

950
01:32:47,133 --> 01:32:52,999
Someone on the government side
might have second thoughts.

951
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:57,767
The riot police were using force,

952
01:32:58,733 --> 01:33:02,167
coercing us,

953
01:33:02,833 --> 01:33:06,132
instead of asking for cooperation.

954
01:33:06,133 --> 01:33:11,467
They'd already seized
land with that approach.

955
01:33:12,467 --> 01:33:16,866
But, what if...

956
01:33:16,867 --> 01:33:23,066
There were some officials
who had a conscience?

957
01:33:23,067 --> 01:33:25,966
We could have talks with them,

958
01:33:25,967 --> 01:33:33,199
maybe we could avoid further deaths,
and find a way to farm in peace.

959
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:37,033
I suggested we try to make
a move in that direction.

960
01:33:38,467 --> 01:33:42,733
There was little chance it would work.

961
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:48,532
But if we were going to try,

962
01:33:48,533 --> 01:33:53,833
we needed to tell the leaders
that we were going to reach out.

963
01:33:54,367 --> 01:33:59,132
And leaders like tomura and ishibashi...

964
01:33:59,133 --> 01:34:02,100
Tomura was still...　-he was still alive.

965
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,732
This was discussed before he died.

966
01:34:05,733 --> 01:34:11,400
He died in the midst
of it, with a lot of rancor.

967
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:12,732
Toward him?

968
01:34:12,733 --> 01:34:17,900
No, toward us.
People said we were betraying the struggle.

969
01:34:18,233 --> 01:34:21,899
Among the supporters and the hantai domei,

970
01:34:21,900 --> 01:34:26,299
people were still
not ready for a negotiated settlement.

971
01:34:26,300 --> 01:34:32,999
There were still those passionate
enough to use violence.

972
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:37,132
There were supporters who said,
"that shima jerk, we'll kill him."

973
01:34:37,133 --> 01:34:41,133
There were still people who went that far.

974
01:34:42,100 --> 01:34:45,799
In the new left at that time,

975
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:52,499
nobody believed in settling things
through negotiation.

976
01:34:52,500 --> 01:34:58,633
They believed that perpetual struggle
would lead to a revolution.

977
01:35:11,667 --> 01:35:16,033
I kind of feel sorry for shima.

978
01:35:17,300 --> 01:35:19,867
He may regret how life worked out.

979
01:35:22,733 --> 01:35:24,533
He went to university.

980
01:35:27,133 --> 01:35:32,067
He had dreams of something more,
but he went off course.

981
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:39,900
When people talked about
a third land expropriation,

982
01:35:41,700 --> 01:35:45,400
they were probably trying to scare us.

983
01:35:45,667 --> 01:35:51,899
Rumors were flying that,
during the next expropriation,

984
01:35:51,900 --> 01:35:55,900
they'd bring the self-defense forces,
instead of the riot police.

985
01:35:56,767 --> 01:35:58,633
If that had happened,

986
01:35:59,033 --> 01:36:02,966
narita airport would have
become some kind of monster.

987
01:36:02,967 --> 01:36:04,600
That’s right.

988
01:37:42,367 --> 01:37:48,700
At the start, my 3 brothers
and I were all in the opposition,

989
01:37:48,867 --> 01:37:51,467
but now I'm the only one left.

990
01:37:52,133 --> 01:37:55,867
We were always able
to talk about everything,

991
01:37:56,267 --> 01:38:00,966
but they made their deals
without letting me know a thing.

992
01:38:00,967 --> 01:38:04,666
The more this has happened,

993
01:38:04,667 --> 01:38:10,867
the more important it is for me
to get along in the village.

994
01:38:12,033 --> 01:38:14,200
As a result, whatever it takes...

995
01:38:15,000 --> 01:38:18,000
More than money or property,

996
01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:24,100
what I care about is my relations
with people in the village.

997
01:38:26,967 --> 01:38:32,067
Thinking back on it,
our fathers made a show of being opposed,

998
01:38:32,833 --> 01:38:36,200
but they were also shrewd.

999
01:38:36,300 --> 01:38:42,333
My father was sharp,
so he left heta village

1000
01:38:42,667 --> 01:38:48,233
and moved here,
when a friend told him about this property.

1001
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:54,733
Soon after he moved, some
militants committed arson.

1002
01:38:55,767 --> 01:38:59,133
Arson itself wasn't so surprising.

1003
01:39:00,067 --> 01:39:05,832
Those were the times, but our home
was the first home to be targeted.

1004
01:39:05,833 --> 01:39:10,032
The media was critical,
so no statement was issued.

1005
01:39:10,033 --> 01:39:15,199
The sects would claim responsibility
for attacks on the airport,

1006
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:19,466
by issuing statements that
trumpeted their resistance.

1007
01:39:19,467 --> 01:39:23,400
Sometimes they claimed
things they hadn't done.

1008
01:39:23,533 --> 01:39:30,866
But this attack on a family that had
simply moved from the airport site

1009
01:39:30,867 --> 01:39:36,333
was strongly criticized in the media,
so no one could issue a statement.

1010
01:39:36,933 --> 01:39:40,933
That's how I see it,
that's why there was no statement.

1011
01:39:42,200 --> 01:39:45,766
It couldn't be helped,
my father did what he did.

1012
01:39:45,767 --> 01:39:52,000
In some ways he was very
shrewd, everyone knew that.

1013
01:39:52,767 --> 01:39:56,500
And I think that's why
my family was targeted.

1014
01:39:59,133 --> 01:40:04,300
Farmers of my father's generation
joined the opposition struggle, but...

1015
01:40:06,600 --> 01:40:08,500
How should I say this?

1016
01:40:09,900 --> 01:40:15,766
There were people who
came out here to offer support,

1017
01:40:15,767 --> 01:40:19,666
were involved in the court cases,

1018
01:40:19,667 --> 01:40:22,000
and some settled here
and still live out here.

1019
01:40:22,267 --> 01:40:27,866
Some of them say, "I sacrificed
my life for the farmers of sanrizuka."

1020
01:40:27,867 --> 01:40:32,633
But the farmers were cunning.

1021
01:40:33,233 --> 01:40:37,533
I've been told,
"your father, especially, was shrewd."

1022
01:40:40,400 --> 01:40:45,132
But I think about fumio,

1023
01:40:45,133 --> 01:40:47,367
when he put the rope around his neck...

1024
01:40:57,200 --> 01:41:03,100
I don't think my father
ever understood the reason fumio died.

1025
01:41:03,367 --> 01:41:06,000
A lot of people didn't understand.

1026
01:41:06,900 --> 01:41:13,567
Not that everything I say is right,
there's no way to prove it.

1027
01:41:15,467 --> 01:41:18,200
But when I think of some of the things
he said before he died,

1028
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:25,467
it starts to make sense to me.

1029
01:41:27,467 --> 01:41:32,799
He said he was tired from the struggle,

1030
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,433
he wrote his suicide note to his family.

1031
01:41:36,033 --> 01:41:41,033
But I think he believed his death
would help his friends.

1032
01:41:50,433 --> 01:41:54,899
I'm a fool, so I talk about it,

1033
01:41:54,900 --> 01:41:58,300
but I think yanagawa
and ishige understand this.

1034
01:41:58,600 --> 01:42:00,700
They know this too.

1035
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:06,467
It must have been hard to live
with that all these years.

1036
01:42:09,633 --> 01:42:11,533
Hello, I'm yanagawa.

1037
01:42:13,267 --> 01:42:17,467
（reform, forevermore）
these days, I'm farming alone,

1038
01:42:18,300 --> 01:42:22,166
and it's been many years
since I spoke in public.

1039
01:42:22,167 --> 01:42:25,632
Usually there's no one to talk with,

1040
01:42:25,633 --> 01:42:29,267
so I don't speak at all.

1041
01:42:29,733 --> 01:42:35,666
I've been asked to talk for 30 minutes,

1042
01:42:35,667 --> 01:42:40,200
but honestly, I'm not sure I can.

1043
01:42:40,500 --> 01:42:46,467
It might be shorter, but I'll do my best.

1044
01:42:46,733 --> 01:42:51,266
20 years ago, when there
was talk of reconciliation,

1045
01:42:51,267 --> 01:42:55,732
there was a more friendly atmosphere.

1046
01:42:55,733 --> 01:43:03,733
The police surveillance wasn't so heavy.

1047
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:09,600
But recently,
they've been coming by my house regularly,

1048
01:43:10,300 --> 01:43:14,233
several times a day.

1049
01:43:14,700 --> 01:43:20,867
When I'm farming, they
stop on the road and watch.

1050
01:43:22,233 --> 01:43:28,767
If I'm wearing a cap that covers my face,
they'll check carefully.

1051
01:43:28,967 --> 01:43:33,767
So, in a sense,
it feels like a throwback to the past.

1052
01:43:34,200 --> 01:43:38,933
Every day I want to curse
at them, but it's no use.

1053
01:43:40,967 --> 01:43:47,300
One other thing I have to report,
there was a funeral yesterday.

1054
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:53,967
It was for a supporter who came
to sanrizuka to join the struggle,

1055
01:43:55,633 --> 01:44:00,000
and then married a local
member of the youth corps.

1056
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:04,133
When the reconciliation was reached,

1057
01:44:06,467 --> 01:44:12,499
and the authorities issued a sort
of apology for what took place,

1058
01:44:12,500 --> 01:44:17,133
it brought a certain
closure to the struggle.

1059
01:44:17,600 --> 01:44:22,866
Our group, the atsuta faction, was open,

1060
01:44:22,867 --> 01:44:27,267
there were no organizational
constraints on anyone.

1061
01:44:27,667 --> 01:44:34,433
To bring things to a close,
some people moved and others quit.

1062
01:44:34,533 --> 01:44:37,600
I have no problem with
the choices people made.

1063
01:44:37,767 --> 01:44:45,767
But the supporter and our
comrade decided to move,

1064
01:44:49,167 --> 01:44:57,167
and for various reasons,
she was deeply troubled by the move.

1065
01:44:58,033 --> 01:45:06,033
She ended up... taking her own life.

1066
01:45:07,033 --> 01:45:10,267
This was a very sad turn of events.

1067
01:45:10,700 --> 01:45:16,033
In this sense, the sanrizuka struggle...

1068
01:45:16,867 --> 01:45:21,267
No matter how much time passes,

1069
01:45:22,233 --> 01:45:26,932
it is still a heavy burden for people.

1070
01:45:26,933 --> 01:45:33,032
Those who took part in it
made a deep commitment,

1071
01:45:33,033 --> 01:45:37,767
they put their lives on the line,

1072
01:45:39,500 --> 01:45:45,200
and they still carry that with them today.

1073
01:45:46,733 --> 01:45:52,733
（the corps of supporters
defended the fortress.）

1074
01:45:55,333 --> 01:45:59,100
so the sanrizuka struggle...

1075
01:46:00,067 --> 01:46:08,067
Has left many unresolved
issues at the site.

1076
01:46:09,533 --> 01:46:17,533
But even more important are
the many people who were involved,

1077
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:24,100
and the feelings they
still carry with them.

1078
01:46:24,367 --> 01:46:32,367
I think of this as the
spiritual problem of sanrizuka.

1079
01:46:34,667 --> 01:46:42,466
When it comes to this problem
of the spirit in sanrizuka,

1080
01:46:42,467 --> 01:46:49,732
unless we find a way to resolve this...

1081
01:46:49,733 --> 01:46:55,899
Addressing this as a technical matter
or a question of means

1082
01:46:55,900 --> 01:47:03,533
will never fundamentally
resolve the problem.

1083
01:47:05,133 --> 01:47:09,033
Immediately abolish
the land appropriation law

1084
01:47:09,333 --> 01:47:12,633
that is killing the farmers
living on the construction site.

1085
01:47:13,333 --> 01:47:19,366
Acknowledge the procedural
and administrative errors

1086
01:47:19,367 --> 01:47:22,632
committed during the
first stage of construction.

1087
01:47:22,633 --> 01:47:27,033
Show good faith by halting
the second stage construction.

1088
01:48:36,700 --> 01:48:42,700
（koizumi hidemasa supporter
who settled in sanrizuka）

1089
01:48:44,500 --> 01:48:49,032
during the Vietnam war,

1090
01:48:49,033 --> 01:48:53,700
I was involved in nonviolent sit-ins
and protests in Tokyo.

1091
01:48:55,167 --> 01:48:58,133
In about 1968...

1092
01:48:59,100 --> 01:49:04,000
I heard about how the sanrizuka farmers
were putting up a stand.

1093
01:49:04,233 --> 01:49:09,732
One of the activists
at the sit-ins was involved out here,

1094
01:49:09,733 --> 01:49:12,167
and he invited me to come out.

1095
01:49:14,300 --> 01:49:16,867
So I started coming here...

1096
01:49:19,467 --> 01:49:22,000
I came out a number of times.

1097
01:49:23,200 --> 01:49:26,866
And then when I met grandma...

1098
01:49:26,867 --> 01:49:32,100
I decided to settle here
after I met grandma yone.

1099
01:49:32,833 --> 01:49:40,833
（oki yone a grandma whose home
and land were confiscated for the airport）

1100
01:49:41,167 --> 01:49:43,600
they decided to confiscate yone's home,

1101
01:49:44,433 --> 01:49:48,467
and since it was run-down,
they'd just pay a little money.

1102
01:49:49,633 --> 01:49:53,833
That's how it was done.

1103
01:49:54,767 --> 01:49:58,100
I think it was less than one million yen.

1104
01:49:58,333 --> 01:50:00,166
If you consider that,

1105
01:50:00,167 --> 01:50:06,800
she's run off her land
for just a million yen.

1106
01:50:09,333 --> 01:50:14,367
You can't buy land or build a house
with so little money.

1107
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:19,666
Yone only managed because she lived there.

1108
01:50:19,667 --> 01:50:23,500
Washing clothes in the river,
gathering firewood, cooking rice.

1109
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:29,366
She'd help out in the village
and earn a little money.

1110
01:50:29,367 --> 01:50:32,766
She'd buy miso and soy sauce,
grow her own rice and vegetables.

1111
01:50:32,767 --> 01:50:36,233
That's how she managed.

1112
01:50:37,633 --> 01:50:41,433
But they tore down her house,

1113
01:50:43,233 --> 01:50:46,067
and told her to live on 1 million yen,
but that's not possible.

1114
01:50:47,267 --> 01:50:55,267
There's electricity,
a washing machine, the gas bill.

1115
01:50:55,733 --> 01:51:01,166
They decided to make an example of her.

1116
01:51:01,167 --> 01:51:03,832
This is what happens if you resist.

1117
01:51:03,833 --> 01:51:08,833
（reject the confiscation
in the name of all Japanese farmers!）

1118
01:51:17,300 --> 01:51:21,200
Declaration of struggle by oki yone

1119
01:51:22,100 --> 01:51:27,567
my land and home are at stake,

1120
01:51:27,833 --> 01:51:31,100
so I will fight to the end.

1121
01:51:32,200 --> 01:51:35,732
If the airport and government dogs come,

1122
01:51:35,733 --> 01:51:40,266
even if I am crushed by a bulldozer,
along with my family graves,

1123
01:51:40,267 --> 01:51:46,200
I will fight with bags of shit
and the sword my husband left me.

1124
01:51:47,633 --> 01:51:52,500
If we don't fight here,
the airplanes will start flying.

1125
01:51:54,433 --> 01:51:57,767
I was sent out as a baby-sitter at 7,

1126
01:51:57,900 --> 01:52:01,033
and life has always been hard.

1127
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:07,800
I never lived a comfortable or happy life.

1128
01:52:08,367 --> 01:52:12,633
So the struggle has been
most enjoyable for me.

1129
01:52:14,067 --> 01:52:21,000
My body should be my own, but it is not,

1130
01:52:21,300 --> 01:52:27,067
so I have given my body
over to the hantai domei.

1131
01:52:27,567 --> 01:52:35,432
For six years, I have fought
with the hantai domei and its supporters.

1132
01:52:35,433 --> 01:52:40,733
No matter what anyone
says, I'll fight until we win.

1133
01:52:41,767 --> 01:52:47,100
Everyone, let's fight together to the end.

1134
01:53:31,367 --> 01:53:38,366
（two years after the confiscation,
yone developed bile duct cancer.）

1135
01:53:38,367 --> 01:53:44,367
（hidemasa became yone's adopted son.）

1136
01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:49,600
while she was at the hospital,
she kept saying she wanted to go home.

1137
01:53:49,833 --> 01:53:53,266
There was still a chance she'd get better,
so we kept her there.

1138
01:53:53,267 --> 01:53:59,867
When it looked like there was no hope,

1139
01:54:00,267 --> 01:54:03,533
we took her home in the car.

1140
01:54:05,433 --> 01:54:10,599
We were on the way home,
and she'd ask, "where are we going?"

1141
01:54:10,600 --> 01:54:13,100
We're going home, grandma.

1142
01:54:13,567 --> 01:54:17,667
When we got there, she
didn't think it was her home.

1143
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:22,767
It was the hut built by
the hantai domei in toho.

1144
01:54:24,667 --> 01:54:30,266
When she said, "I want to go
home," I realized, it wasn't to toho.

1145
01:54:30,267 --> 01:54:36,633
It was to the house in tokko
that had been confiscated.

1146
01:56:52,167 --> 01:56:56,233
Her house was destroyed in 1971,
and she moved to toho.

1147
01:56:56,600 --> 01:57:02,467
The one field that remained
was inside the airport.

1148
01:57:02,800 --> 01:57:09,599
That field was right where the toll road
came into the airport,

1149
01:57:09,600 --> 01:57:15,800
it was located right near the toll booth.

1150
01:57:16,433 --> 01:57:20,499
So there was the highway on both sides,

1151
01:57:20,500 --> 01:57:24,866
and the field sat smack in the middle.

1152
01:57:24,867 --> 01:57:31,867
（the story of the field
that yone and her husband cleared）

1153
01:57:32,700 --> 01:57:37,033
yone and her common-law husband, minoru,

1154
01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:44,432
cleared the field together
and farmed it as their own.

1155
01:57:44,433 --> 01:57:48,900
Minoru died and left yone alone.

1156
01:57:49,300 --> 01:57:54,700
Then, after the war, the
government distributed land,

1157
01:57:56,067 --> 01:58:03,267
but only to farmers who owned more
than a certain minimum.

1158
01:58:03,733 --> 01:58:09,532
Yone was advised to put the title
to the land in someone else's name,

1159
01:58:09,533 --> 01:58:12,432
while she continued to farm the land.

1160
01:58:12,433 --> 01:58:20,433
（the title was put in the
name of a village leader.）

1161
01:58:20,767 --> 01:58:26,567
the title was transferred
to a man named fujisaki kanji,

1162
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:29,166
who was a school teacher.

1163
01:58:29,167 --> 01:58:31,232
To become the nominal owner of the land.

1164
01:58:31,233 --> 01:58:35,666
It was actually yone's land,
and she continued to farm it.

1165
01:58:35,667 --> 01:58:43,667
If it hadn't been for the airport issue,
it would have remained yone's land.

1166
01:58:43,967 --> 01:58:50,366
Even after she died,
it wouldn't have become fujisaki's land.

1167
01:58:50,367 --> 01:58:52,866
But the airport issue was involved.

1168
01:58:52,867 --> 01:59:00,099
（the title holder sold yone's
field to the airport corporation.）

1169
01:59:00,100 --> 01:59:02,900
soon after I was adopted,

1170
01:59:03,267 --> 01:59:06,933
I went to talk directly with fujisaki.

1171
01:59:07,400 --> 01:59:13,032
At that time, he told me
honestly what had happened.

1172
01:59:13,033 --> 01:59:18,899
He said he was just the title holder,
and had never tried to claim the land.

1173
01:59:18,900 --> 01:59:24,700
But when yone died,
he didn't know that she had adopted me.

1174
01:59:24,900 --> 01:59:30,166
He didn't think anyone would farm it,
so he sold it to the airport corporation.

1175
01:59:30,167 --> 01:59:37,766
He told the corporation
he was just holding the title.

1176
01:59:37,767 --> 01:59:42,200
They told him they'd
take care of everything,

1177
01:59:42,500 --> 01:59:45,400
if he'd sell the land, and he did.

1178
01:59:52,200 --> 01:59:55,866
I had never gotten a straight story
from the hantai domei,

1179
01:59:55,867 --> 01:59:59,733
but I learned the truth
from fujisaki himself.

1180
02:00:00,233 --> 02:00:04,800
And since I had heard the
actual story from fujisaki,

1181
02:00:06,167 --> 02:00:08,399
I couldn't just let it go at that.

1182
02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:13,400
（koizumi filed suit in court.）

1183
02:00:14,267 --> 02:00:20,033
but when fujisaki appeared in court,
he told an entirely different story.

1184
02:00:20,233 --> 02:00:24,132
That yone asked to farm
the land, and he let her.

1185
02:00:24,133 --> 02:00:27,433
That the land always belonged to him.

1186
02:00:34,533 --> 02:00:37,532
（23 years later...）

1187
02:00:37,533 --> 02:00:43,533
（the government and airport corporation
apologized and agreed to a formal settlement.）

1188
02:00:44,067 --> 02:00:48,600
what I wanted from the
settlement was this field.

1189
02:00:52,467 --> 02:00:56,433
It wasn't about money, I
wanted the field returned.

1190
02:00:58,700 --> 02:01:05,132
I thought it might be impossible,

1191
02:01:05,133 --> 02:01:08,899
that I couldn't get
land on the airport site.

1192
02:01:08,900 --> 02:01:15,299
The original site was not an option,
because they already built the road.

1193
02:01:15,300 --> 02:01:17,099
But if not there,

1194
02:01:17,100 --> 02:01:25,100
then the next option was other land
the airport corporation had obtained...

1195
02:01:27,733 --> 02:01:30,666
Within the grounds of the airport.

1196
02:01:30,667 --> 02:01:36,066
Outside the site was easy,
they would have paid lots of money.

1197
02:01:36,067 --> 02:01:38,700
But that wasn't my purpose.

1198
02:01:41,400 --> 02:01:47,366
I agreed to a settlement
because I wanted land on the inside.

1199
02:01:47,367 --> 02:01:51,366
（two years after the settlement...）

1200
02:01:51,367 --> 02:01:58,667
（yone's field was returned on
the grounds of the airport.）

1201
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:09,133
When I reached the
settlement, someone said,

1202
02:02:09,967 --> 02:02:14,766
now you'll be able to
build a fine new house.

1203
02:02:14,767 --> 02:02:16,066
Who said that?

1204
02:02:16,067 --> 02:02:18,867
Someone in the hantai domei.

1205
02:02:19,033 --> 02:02:23,066
That's what people think
when they hear "settlement."

1206
02:02:23,067 --> 02:02:27,966
I tied the settlement to getting this land,

1207
02:02:27,967 --> 02:02:33,733
but generally that's what
a settlement would imply.

1208
02:02:41,900 --> 02:02:47,232
Yone had a mind of her own,

1209
02:02:47,233 --> 02:02:51,567
about why she resisted, and
continued after her house was destroyed.

1210
02:02:51,900 --> 02:02:55,432
Yone wasn't just a cute grandma,

1211
02:02:55,433 --> 02:02:59,999
she wasn't just a good person.

1212
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:04,299
Here was a woman who was very poor,

1213
02:03:04,300 --> 02:03:08,433
sent to work at age 7,
never schooled, couldn't read.

1214
02:03:09,667 --> 02:03:12,932
One grandma who lived like that,

1215
02:03:12,933 --> 02:03:18,000
an ordinary grandma fought
the state to the very end.

1216
02:03:19,300 --> 02:03:24,600
It's that feeling that I was drawn to.

1217
02:03:27,233 --> 02:03:31,100
That feeling is what I want to carry on.

1218
02:03:34,667 --> 02:03:37,266
（voice of oki yone）
TV and newspapers only tell

1219
02:03:37,267 --> 02:03:40,567
（voice of oki yone）
a little of what's really going on.

1220
02:03:41,900 --> 02:03:46,233
Outside of narita,

1221
02:03:46,733 --> 02:03:53,167
they say the airport
issue is already settled.

1222
02:03:53,733 --> 02:04:00,100
After the 3rd fortress fell,
people think we've given up.

1223
02:04:00,400 --> 02:04:05,600
In Tokyo they say,
"are they still fighting?"

1224
02:04:07,200 --> 02:04:12,567
Now my land's going to be taken away.

1225
02:04:14,567 --> 02:04:16,233
I'm determined to fight to the end.

1226
02:04:22,733 --> 02:04:26,832
Yone was all alone, a poor farmer.

1227
02:04:26,833 --> 02:04:31,800
She had nothing to lose,
so she fought the confiscation.

1228
02:04:32,700 --> 02:04:35,433
After she moved to toho,

1229
02:04:35,600 --> 02:04:40,700
the hantai domei collected contributions,
100 yen per person.

1230
02:04:42,133 --> 02:04:45,832
Her fields and paddies were taken,
she had no way to live.

1231
02:04:45,833 --> 02:04:50,466
So she got support from the hantai domei

1232
02:04:50,467 --> 02:04:53,667
and managed to live.

1233
02:04:55,167 --> 02:05:03,167
If she used that money to buy fish,

1234
02:05:03,800 --> 02:05:06,667
there were some who would say,

1235
02:05:08,433 --> 02:05:10,933
how can you buy fish
with other people's money?

1236
02:05:11,433 --> 02:05:18,033
When she heard things like that,
I'm sure it caused her pain.

1237
02:05:18,800 --> 02:05:21,967
That was going on too.

1238
02:05:42,900 --> 02:05:44,566
What did you enjoy the most?

1239
02:05:44,567 --> 02:05:47,800
I had nothing to enjoy.

1240
02:05:48,967 --> 02:05:53,733
There was nothing happy
in my life. Life was hard.

1241
02:06:00,700 --> 02:06:03,232
Do you want to remarry?　-not at all.

1242
02:06:03,233 --> 02:06:05,800
You're happy alone?　-it's
easier to be alone.

1243
02:06:06,967 --> 02:06:09,533
I can drink when I want to.

1244
02:06:36,500 --> 02:06:41,100
Fumio, everyone came to see you.

1245
02:06:47,267 --> 02:06:49,167
Someone's coming.

1246
02:06:51,733 --> 02:06:54,200
Oh, it's not Mrs. Sannomiya.

1247
02:06:55,000 --> 02:07:00,499
I've been wanting to pay my respects.

1248
02:07:00,500 --> 02:07:01,699
Are you filming?

1249
02:07:01,700 --> 02:07:03,167
It's ok.

1250
02:07:04,867 --> 02:07:06,632
Who is it?

1251
02:07:06,633 --> 02:07:10,432
Tsutomu... ryuzaki.

1252
02:07:10,433 --> 02:07:11,499
Oh, tsutomu.

1253
02:07:11,500 --> 02:07:12,600
And hiroko.

1254
02:07:12,833 --> 02:07:16,632
What, hiroko! From my son Akira's class.

1255
02:07:16,633 --> 02:07:19,299
She's fumio's age, and visits his grave.

1256
02:07:19,300 --> 02:07:22,833
Ah, mrs.　-tsubaki! Hello.

1257
02:07:22,967 --> 02:07:24,999
You're a classmate of fumio?

1258
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:26,000
That's right.

1259
02:07:27,167 --> 02:07:29,600
I lived two doors down.

1260
02:07:29,700 --> 02:07:33,500
He was a shining star. What a shame.

1261
02:07:33,767 --> 02:07:40,733
We're relatives, through her aunt.

1262
02:07:41,133 --> 02:07:45,467
The airport changed
everything, all of our lives.

1263
02:07:45,733 --> 02:07:47,632
All of a sudden.

1264
02:07:47,633 --> 02:07:49,400
That's right.

1265
02:07:49,500 --> 02:07:51,699
The government's to blame.

1266
02:07:51,700 --> 02:07:53,380
They brought the airport here arbitrarily.

1267
02:07:54,167 --> 02:07:56,799
But the imperial family land was here,
so we lost out.

1268
02:07:56,800 --> 02:08:01,600
They should have explained things.

1269
02:08:02,833 --> 02:08:06,033
They just brought it without warning.

1270
02:08:06,367 --> 02:08:09,533
Fumio was really capable.

1271
02:08:09,767 --> 02:08:14,233
He was always first.

1272
02:08:14,700 --> 02:08:15,999
In his class?

1273
02:08:16,000 --> 02:08:16,533
Yeah.

1274
02:08:16,534 --> 02:08:20,699
I was first just once in junior high.

1275
02:08:20,700 --> 02:08:23,132
But fumio was always first,

1276
02:08:23,133 --> 02:08:24,699
and he was a good athlete too.

1277
02:08:24,700 --> 02:08:28,266
He is good at track
racing.　-it was a real shame.

1278
02:08:28,267 --> 02:08:29,733
Why did he die?

1279
02:08:30,467 --> 02:08:32,267
Did he feel responsible?

1280
02:08:33,733 --> 02:08:36,032
I don't really know.　-it
was the airport struggle,

1281
02:08:36,033 --> 02:08:42,033
the police were killed with fire bombs.

1282
02:08:42,633 --> 02:08:44,866
He took responsibility for that.

1283
02:08:44,867 --> 02:08:51,166
He came by our shop, and was acting odd.

1284
02:08:51,167 --> 02:08:54,133
I knew right away, but I didn't show it.

1285
02:08:55,533 --> 02:08:57,067
Y'know.

1286
02:08:58,200 --> 02:09:01,700
I'm so glad to see you.　-and you too.

1287
02:09:02,067 --> 02:09:05,199
I wondered who's coming...

1288
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:10,900
I wondered too.
Visiting the sannomiya family grave...

1289
02:09:13,300 --> 02:09:15,499
Sorry to interrupt.

1290
02:09:15,500 --> 02:09:16,400
We were finished.

1291
02:09:16,401 --> 02:09:19,200
Sorry to interrupt.

1292
02:09:19,767 --> 02:09:21,567
Good-bye.

1293
02:09:21,867 --> 02:09:23,867
Thank you.

1294
02:09:24,333 --> 02:09:26,266
Take care.

1295
02:09:26,267 --> 02:09:28,499
Be well.

1296
02:09:28,500 --> 02:09:31,267
Come again.　-i come often.

1297
02:09:37,567 --> 02:09:38,899
Who is she?

1298
02:09:38,900 --> 02:09:41,567
She's a ryuzaki.

1299
02:09:44,467 --> 02:09:46,200
Ryuzaki.

1300
02:09:48,200 --> 02:09:52,867
The first family to support the airport.

1301
02:09:53,800 --> 02:10:00,567
So they were ostracized,
shunned by the village.

1302
02:11:56,467 --> 02:11:59,133
When the photographer kitai visited,

1303
02:11:59,367 --> 02:12:07,367
he asked you why you
have continued to resist.

1304
02:12:08,500 --> 02:12:10,732
I'd like to ask you the same thing.

1305
02:12:10,733 --> 02:12:16,900
Why is it that you
continue to fight on alone?

1306
02:12:17,233 --> 02:12:18,266
Well, it's hard to say.

1307
02:12:18,267 --> 02:12:23,033
One reason is that people died here.

1308
02:12:26,567 --> 02:12:29,332
Other than fumio?

1309
02:12:29,333 --> 02:12:33,567
Fumio's death was most important.

1310
02:12:34,600 --> 02:12:38,832
People died...

1311
02:12:38,833 --> 02:12:42,499
And I never had a good reason to quit.

1312
02:12:42,500 --> 02:12:44,067
A long time has passed now.

1313
02:12:45,767 --> 02:12:52,500
It has, but it's not a matter of time.

1314
02:13:03,300 --> 02:13:10,099
When kitai asked you what is
the main reason you still resist,

1315
02:13:10,100 --> 02:13:14,432
you said it was fumio's suicide note.

1316
02:13:14,433 --> 02:13:16,967
That's right.

1317
02:13:17,667 --> 02:13:22,066
What concretely does it mean to you?

1318
02:13:22,067 --> 02:13:25,433
He was asking us to continue living here.

1319
02:13:25,533 --> 02:13:27,899
In the note?　-yes.

1320
02:13:27,900 --> 02:13:33,199
To continue living here, to create an
environment where we can live here,

1321
02:13:33,200 --> 02:13:40,067
that's what fumio was saying.

1322
02:13:40,567 --> 02:13:45,633
He was telling us to do it right here.

1323
02:13:46,233 --> 02:13:51,233
To put it simply, he
told us to keep fighting.

1324
02:13:51,867 --> 02:13:54,733
But then he took the easy path.

1325
02:13:58,167 --> 02:14:00,733
Fumio was the lucky one, in dying.

1326
02:14:01,367 --> 02:14:03,500
He had it easy.

1327
02:14:06,267 --> 02:14:10,200
But that's what he left behind.

1328
02:14:11,800 --> 02:14:15,000
We had to take that seriously.

1329
02:17:38,900 --> 02:17:40,899
（sannomiya fumio's suicide note:）

1330
02:17:40,900 --> 02:17:42,566
（the entire note was several pages long.）

1331
02:17:42,567 --> 02:17:45,566
（extracts were included in the film.）

1332
02:17:45,567 --> 02:17:47,566
（in addition to the note to his mother, ）

1333
02:17:47,567 --> 02:17:49,566
（he addressed last words to his father,
his grandfather, ）

1334
02:17:49,567 --> 02:17:52,100
（and his brother.）

1335
02:17:53,133 --> 02:17:56,132
（oki yone's declaration of struggle:）

1336
02:17:56,133 --> 02:17:57,466
（yone was unable to read or write, ）

1337
02:17:57,467 --> 02:17:59,799
（so supporters transcribed her words）

1338
02:17:59,800 --> 02:18:02,333
（and painted them on a large sign.）

1339
02:19:15,100 --> 02:19:18,032
（can our cameraman
throw a rock while he's shooting?）

1340
02:19:18,033 --> 02:19:20,733
（ogawa production）

1341
02:19:31,900 --> 02:19:33,299
（this film received generous support
from many individuals and organization.）

1342
02:19:33,300 --> 02:19:34,780
（we express our deep-felt gratitude.）