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eArticle 9 Associationf holds a speech assembly

 

The national gArticle 9 Associationh (A9A) held a public assembly on March 8 in Tokyo to commemorate Oda Makoto, writer and one of the 9 founders of A9A who died in July last year.

 

Seven of the A9A founders were present at the assembly and called on an audience of 2,300 to carry on Odafs pacifism.

 

Oda Makoto was a well-known public figure and peace activist from the Vietnam War era.

 

Critic Kato Shuichi said, gTo take Odafs ideas means that we will not allow any regressive interpretational revision to the Constitution.h

 

Playwright Inoue Hisashi spoke about Odafs idea of a gnation of conscientious military objectorsh. He also stated that Japan has a commendable Constitution and we should apply it to international relations, citing examples of neutral countries that played a humanitarian role during World War II.

 

Other founders including Oe Kenzaburo, Nobel Prize writer; Tsurumi Shunsuke, philosopher; Okudaira Yasuhiro, constitutional scholar; and Miki Mutsuko, the widow of former Prime Minister Miki Takeo, also spoke.

- Akahata, March 9, 2008

 

 




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