A-Bomb Victims Stage Rally in Hiroshima

[callady]

A-Bomb Victims Stage Rally in Hiroshima

Sunday October 30, 2005 2:46 AM


TOKYO (AP) - Victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan joined a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Saturday to protest plans to base a nuclear-powered American warship in the country, an activist said.

The protest came as talks got underway between top Japanese and American security officials on how to realign the U.S. military presence in Japan.

About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who heads the Hiroshima Peace Movement Center.

``It makes me angry that America can even consider basing a nuclear carrier in Japan, the only country in the world to have suffered a nuclear attack,'' Kajikawa said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5379308,00.html

[donsu]

1. more power to them - no nukes in Japan! period.

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[ochazuke]

2. Nuclear technology

The Nimitz-class carrier will be powered by a nuclear reactor, right? And that's why the protestors are against it, right?

But the whole of Japan is like an unsinkable U.S. aircraft carrier with our bases at Yokota, Iwakuni, Hachinoe, Misawa, etc. And Japan is powered in part by a bunch of nuclear reactors, some of which (Monju, Tokaimura) have had safety problems in recent years.

I say de-nukafy the whole country. Not cold turkey of course, but it can be done. Japan could become the leader in 21st century green technology. Hey, it's not like the U.S. is jumping at the opportunity.