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3,000 people demand adverse revision of education law be scrapped

In a situation that the current Diet session will end in about two weeks, a national rally was held in Tokyo on June 2 in order to scrap a bill to adversely revise the Fundamental Law of Education. 3,000 people took part in the rally, representing teachers unions irrespective of national affiliation as well as a wide range of grassroots organizations.

Tokyo University Graduate School Professor Takahashi Tetsuya pointed out that the move to adversely revise the law has rapidly increased in a short period of time. He warned against any optimistic view of the situation in the Diet and called on the participants to struggle strenuously until the bill is scrapped.

Japanese Communist Party House of Representatives member Kokuta Keiji and Social Democratic Party leader Fukushima Mizuho spoke at the rally.

In opposition to the bill, demonstrations and sit-ins took place in front of the Diet building, and a total of 337,000 signatures have been submitted to the Diet.
- Akahata, June 6, 2006