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Brian SmallRyuicihi Sakamoto Interview in 2006 with David McNeill
.> Former Japanese pop heart-throb and musical pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto talks to David McNeill about music, the state of the planet -- and why he still reluctantly lives in New York City....> ... despite his impressive musical resume, Sakamoto is probably better known among many in Japan today for his environmental and political work. A longtime activist who once hung out with the radical left, he is Greenpeace Japan's most famous supporter, a staunch antinuclear campaigner and one of the founders of Stop-Rokkasho.Org, a grass-roots project trying to close the controversial nuclear reprocessing plant at Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.
.> He has led several successful campaigns against the government, including a recent petition against a law that would have banned the sale of electrical goods made before 2001. Like many musicians, Sakamoto hated the law because he said it would have forced poor budding musicians to buy new instruments. Unlike most, he fought it -- and won....> My biggest worry is the environment. That's much more serious than political conflict. China is building 18 new nuclear plants, and Japanese companies are helping them.
.> Connected to that, I'm worried about corporate earth. Water is not free any more. Our resources were free at one time, but now they are not. Everything is controlled by big corporations. I'm most worried about this. I've been thinking for a long time how to implement my feelings and political thought into my music, and I haven't succeeded. It is hard to find a way to do this. I don't know how to write protest songs. I don't want to sacrifice my art. My only tool to express my feelings is music..> ... you don't like a lot of what is going on in the world right now?.> Well, I'm very worried; politically and environmentally there are a lot of problems. That's why I started the Rokkasho project with a group of others. I'm very concerned about the danger of a nuclear leak and the proliferation of plutonium, which terrorists could steal. Japan has 43 tons of plutonium now. That's 5,000 Nagasaki nuclear bombs. The plant will produce another eight tons a year. What for?! Now we have North Korea's nuclear test, so the taboo in Japan is going away and people are talking about (developing) nuclear weapons..> The basic reason for this plant is the same as Japan's unnecessary dams. It is hugely profitable for the general contractors. They know nuclear power is unnecessary and dangerous, and that it will be dangerous for hundreds of future generations because of the radioactive waste. It is just for money, and it is absurd and stupid. I mean, we have to make money to live, I'm not against that, but why not choose something safer? - https://apjjf.org/-David-McNeill/2284/article.html
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Ryuichi SAKAMOTO: From Bach to Rock to Pop . . . and the Fate of the Corporate Earth
Ryuichi SAKAMOTO: From Bach to Rock to Pop . . . and the Fate of the Corporate EarthInterviewed by David McNeillJapan's expat rebel with many causes blends music and a wider world viewFormer Japanese