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Article 9 Peace Walk starts in Hiroshima

 

   With the aim of raising public awareness of the importance of Article 9, the gArticle 9 Peace Walkh on February 24 left the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima City for Makuhari in Chiba City where the Global Article 9 Conference will be held on May 4-6.

 

   About 300 people took part in a rally held at the marchfs starting point. Speeches were delivered by Asai Motofumi, Hiroshima City University Hiroshima Peace Institute president and co-representative of the Global Article 9 Conference in Hiroshima to be held on May 5, and Asami Yasuhito, Hitotsubashi University professor and co-representative of the organizing committee of the march. Asami said, gThis is a parade to tenderly convey the message of Article 9 to ordinary people.h

 

   Participants from the U.S., Vietnam, and Iraq also spoke. Kato Gyoe, 67-year-old priest of the Japan Buddha Sangha, who will walk for 71 days all the way to Makuhari, said, gDropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the worst form of violence against human beings. Nonviolence is the way to overcome it. I will walk with the spirit of the war-renouncing Article 9.h

 

   Rally participants adopted an appeal demanding that the government determine the causes of the collision of a Self-Defense Forces Aegis destroyer and a fishing boat as well as establish a foreign policy based on Article 9.
     - Akahata, February 25, 2008

 

 




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