Okinawans are raising outcries against the recent arrest of an ex-U.S. marine on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman. Such serious crimes involving U.S. servicemen have taken place in Okinawa more than once a month on average for the last 40 years.
Local opposition parties in Kagawa will jointly support a JCP candidate in the single-seat constituency there. This is the first time that a JCP candidate in the summer Upper House election will be backed by other opposition parties.
Three Hibakusha, who attended a ceremony at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in which U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a speech, called for politics which will never again create Hibakusha anywhere in the world.
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