Apparently, Mr Shii hopes to discover whether it is still true that, as the party's Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy declares, the Japanese people are enslaved by American imperialists working hand in glove with their unequal partners, Japanese monopoly capitalists.
In Iraq, this dangerous penchant for negotiations is what enabled Muqtada al-Sadr's pro-Iranian, pro-Hizbullah Mahdi Army to emerge from its April 2004 offensive against Coalition forces intact and free to become the power broker in Shii'te politics that it is today.