*an anarchist comrade in osaka was arrested,,,

Hi rebel-jill.

I notice you and another of your comrades use terms like "gestapo" and "fascist" before. I don't know how it seems there, but from a European setting it appears very strange because the Gestapo was an organisation solely in Nazi Germany, and using words related to "fascism" sound very weird when not in the setting of an actually-fascist country (with a dictator, corporate trade unions, etc.)

Anyway, just a linguistic point you may or may not find useful.

Japan had a form of fascism too, maybe its a deliberate use to imply nothing's changed, or leftist hyperboly, or a translation isssue. I'll shut up.

I agree with the comments posted. I've asked Jill not to use terms associated with the third reich when he describes what happens here, because it obviously　is not relevant, and winds up getting him ignored. Not to mention the fact that Japan is essentially a normal bourgeois democracy (albeit with racial fixations), and the situation here is nothing at all like 1930s Germany. Imagining that it is would turn our opposition to the state of affairs into a strange charade indeed.

To re-interpret what Jill posts here, because it is somewhat important: one of the most active anarchists in Osaka has been arrested this week. He is often followed by the 'kouankan' i.e. the Japanese secret service, and has been followed by helicopters several times at demonstrations. He apparently blew up at them the last time they followed him and they cuffed him. His arrest is obviously convenient for the security services because of the upcoming anarchist protest at Hiroshima.

Please continue to speak bluntly.

旅さん、言葉を慎んだほうがいいですよ。日本はそもそも全体主義・ファシズムになっていないため呼ぶことはないものでしょう。むしろそれは第三帝国の犯罪を舐めてしまうから気をつけましょう。