Activism
Hirasawa spoke out against "the nations that are headed towards carnage while ignoring international law" and the actions of the Japanese government in aiding such actions. Specifically, he pointed to the American response after the September 11, 2001 attack, which he believes to involve excessive murder of innocent people. As a result of his convictions, Hirasawa has offered free downloads of his music, which he hopes will be used as tools of objection.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Hirasawa started travelling around the country with a Geiger counter, measuring the radiation levels and reporting them in his twitter account. Around the same time, Hirasawa started making his own homemade yogurt from soy milk, reporting on the progress of his yogurt-making bacteria on his twitter account, with him updating often at odd hours of the night in Japan Standard Time; In an update, he said that he'd wake up his followers at 3:30 AM again to update them. On June 24, 2011, at 3 PM, a post was made on NO ROOM by a person who called itself "The short-term contract worker of parade punk, Stealth Man", the post included what this person called "My debut/retirement work", a song titled "Nuclear Power" (原子力, Genshiryoku?), a remix of the P-Model song "BOAT" made in the style of "The Aggregated Past - Kangen Shugi 8760 Hours" project with the song's lyrics changed to protest against Japan's use of nuclear power and to criticize the government and the media; the song and it's lyrics were available as a free download on the condition that users agree with the statement written on the download button; which was "I believe that this work is by Stealth Man and will download it unquestioningly", the song could be freely distributed, unless it was for profit, or with it's sound source altered, distribuiton ended at 3 PM on June 29, 2011. At the same time, Hirasawa updated his twitter account telling a story where Stealth Man had struck Hirasawa in the back of his head with a blunt object on June 23, 2011, at 3:30 AM; when he woke up, his hands were bound and his wallpaper was changed to include a boat and the katakana ス was wriiten on it. Hirasawa also claimed that he couldn't take down the song due to Stealth Man hacking that section of NO ROOM with what Hirasawa thought was a Stuxnet-like virus, which led to server maintenance of the TESLAKITE online shop; Hirasawa updated his twitter account with "I will refrain from making vulgar remarks. I’ll be noticed by him. Feign complete ignorance.", he also described the song as a "Hirasawa rip-off". Hirasawa later claimed on his twitter account that, as distribuition of Stealth Man's song came to an end, Hirasawa was attacked by Stealth Man once again, this time, Hirasawa stayed awake and made Stealth Man trip over and fall while he escaped. Hirasawa also took a disc from his pocket, containing the intrumental version of Stealth Man's song, which he posted on NO ROOM using similar terms and conditions as Stealth Man, with the statement written on the download button being "I can manage just fine without Stealth Man" and the file's distribuition ending at 3 PM on July 4, 2011. Hirasawa let the song be used on Japanese karaoke service provider Xing's JOYSOUND online song library, crediting Stealth Man with the vocals and lyrics of the song.
Read more about this topic: Susumu Hirasawa