Don't appeal against court decision to halt Tomonoura project!

Japan Press Weekly

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Don't appeal against court decision to halt Tomonoura project!

Japanese Communist Party Hiroshima Prefecrural Committee Chair Murakami Shoji on October 5 urged Hiroshima Governor Fujita Yuzan to refrain from appealing against the court decision that had ordered a halt to a pubic works project in the scenic area of Tomonoura.

The Hiroshima District Court on October 1 ordered an injunction against the project to build a bridge and reclaim part of the port in Tomonoura that Hiroshima prefectural and Fukuyama city governments are promoting.

Together with one prefectural assembly member and four city assembly members of the JCP, Murakami, who will also run for the Hiroshima gubernatorial election slated for November, visited the prefectural government to demand that it accept the court ruling and call off the project.

Murakami said, "The national government also intends to review large public works projects. If you promote the project as it is, Hiroshima will face severe criticism from the public and leave a stain on Hiroshima's future."

- Akahata, October 6, 2009