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Sayo Saruta

Attorney

Letters from New York

Lawyer, (NY State registration registration year 2009 Japan-2002), working with international human rights NGO Human Rights Watch after graduating from Columbia University School of Law in May 2008. Currently, studying at the School of International Service at American University in Washington.

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Midori Hayashi

Professor Emeritus

Music and Gender Studies

Born in 1942. Researched on Mozart and taught at the Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. Also researched at the Department of French 16th-century music history at the Institute of Musicology in Paris, France. Kunitachi College of Music faculty from fiscal 1975 through fiscal 2007. Currently, the same professor emeritus, part-time lecturer Wayojoshidaigaku.

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Kazuo Hizumi

Attorney / Journalist

Why the Press is called Garbage

A Journalist-turned-lawyer. He focuses human rights and free speaches and fights with media control. There are voices after 3.11, 2013 telling that they lost confidence in the major news media. There are talks of stoping subscription to major national newspapers. I went to where there is no mechanism to ensure the independence of the media in Japan.

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Masanobu Inoue

Attorney

The safety of Japan and Article 9 of the Constitution

Registered as a lawyer in 1975. In November 1978, during the Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda administration, I researched the Defense contingency legislation. National movement against emergency law that I happened at that time. Camp meeting was also held at Fukuyama where I live, I will report on contingency legislation, since that time, became deeply involved in the issue emergency legislation.

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Ken Takada

Attorney

Watching Diet on Constitutional Issues

Do not forgive! Deputy Secretary-General Coordinating Committee for Constitution and Citizenship corruption secretariat meeting of Kujo. Involved in the civic movement while opposition amendment, anti-war peace, such as "communication JP", (Proceedings of Liaison Committee Constitution and Citizenship corruption! Do not forgive) (newsletters Japan Catholic Council for Justice and Peace) "I and the Constitution",

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Tatsuo Ikeda

Journalist

Special Topics

Born in 1930, served as director of Mainichi Shimbun newspaper company, and the managing editor in the central headquarters in Chunichi News Paper. He is the author of the cliff newspaper "misinformation and disinformation of the newspaper", and the coauthor to co-author "Okinawa and Japan-US security."