Ganbare Nippon! Zenkoku Kōdō Iinkai (頑張れ日本！全国行動委員会) (literally: Do Your Best, Japan! National Action Committee), usually abbreviated toGanbare Nippon (頑張れ日本), is aJapanese conservative nationalist group founded on February 2, 2010.[1] One of the founders was right-wing filmmaker and playwrightSatoru Mizushima.[2]
The inaugural chair was former Chief of Staff ofAir Self-Defense ForceToshio Tamogami.[3][4] As of March 2015 he was no longer the head of the group.[5]
Ganbare Nippon has participated in a number of demonstrations and actions concerningright-wing issues.
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In January 2011 the group organized a protest against the rulingDemocratic Party of Japan. Around 1,900 people joined the event calling on the DPJ to step down. Several lawmakers attended, includingTakeo Hiranuma, head of theSunrise Party of Japan.[6]
In January 2012 it protested against the conservativeYomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The Yomiuri had editorialized in favor of the Imperial succession being opened to female members of the Imperial family.[7]
Following avisit to the disputedSenkaku Islands by a group of 14 Hong Kong pro-China activists, five of whom went ashore, who were deported by Japan without being charged, Ganbare Nippon arranged an unauthorized visit to the Senkakus.[8]
About 150 people on about 20 boats leftIshigaki Island inOkinawa Prefecture and sailed to the island to hold a service for Japanese who died near the Senkakus duringWorld War Two.[9]
After the service ten people swam ashore, five of those who swam ashore were from the organizing group and five were local assembly members fromTokyo,Hyōgo Prefecture,Suginami andArakawa Wards in Tokyo, andToride inIbaraki Prefecture. They raised severalHinomaru flags after landing.[10][11] Tamogami said: "With the Chinese activists just having landed, this is a way of telling them not to mess around. We hope to convey to both China and to Japanese people, through the media, or whatever means, that the Senkakus are our territory.”[12] The flotilla arrival at the archipelago set off anti-Japanese rallies in more than 25 Chinese cities,[13][14] Chinese protestors overturned Japanese-branded cars and smashed windows of Japanese-themed businesses.[15][16]
Japan formally nationalized the three Senkaku islands that had been held in the ownership of Kunioki Kurihara.[17][18] Substantial Chinese protests followed, and on 18 September 2012, Ganbare Nippon organized an anti-Chinese counterprotest inTokyo which was attended by about 50 people.[19]
On 10 March 2015, Ganbare Nippon organized a protest in Shibuya againsthomosexuality, with slogans such as "Normal love is between a man and a woman" and "LGBT ruins society".[20]
Members of Ganbare Nippon ran in the2021 Japanese general election under the banner ofKunimori Conservative Party (新党くにもり), fielding two candidates. In theWakayama 3rd district, Nana Honma received 19,034 votes (12.83%), while in theChiba 10th district Mari Azusa received 10,272 votes (5.8%).
CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY FUJIMURA: 1.There is no doubt that the Senkaku Islands are clearly an inherent territory of Japan, in light of historical facts and based upon international law......
