Actions against U.S. war on Iraq and nuclear war plan take place

As the U.S. Bush administration's threat of war against Iraq increases, the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) used its monthly action to call on the public to oppose the U.S. war plan.

On November 6, Gensuikyo activists in Tokyo assembled at Ueno railway station to call on passers-by to oppose U.S. plans for preemptive use of force.

On the 6th and 9th days every month, Japan Gensuikyo and its regional organizations take to the streets to collect signatures in support of the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Representatives of Japan's women's peace movements on November 6 visited women members of parliament to urge them to help Japan promote peace diplomacy in opposition to the planned U.S. attacks on Iraq. This is a duty of "Japan as a country with its war-renouncing constitution and a victim of nuclear war," declared a statement delivered to the 72 women Dietmembers by the Liaison Council on Women's Year of the Constitution. (end)