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2016 February 3 - 9 [US FORCES]

Local peace groups protest entry of USS N-sub into Yokosuka Port

Antinuke and peace organizations in Kanagawa Prefecture on February 8 requested the U.S. Navy at the U.S. Yokosuka base to have its nuclear-powered submarine Texas leave Yokosuka.

The USS Texas came to Yokosuka on February 5. With this, the number of entries of U.S. nuclear-powered vessels into Yokosuka Port has totaled 919.

The Kanagawa prefectural and Yokosuka city councils against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), together with the Miura Peninsula Liaison Council against Deployment of a U.S. Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier, protested the arrival of the USS Texas.

Pointing to the repair work involving radiation control on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan which the U.S. deployed to the Yokosuka base last year, the three organizations voiced their anger at the U.S. military using Yokosuka as its stronghold for aggression.

They stated that the U.S. militaristic reaction to recent developments would not lead to a breakthrough but work to add fuel to the tension in the already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula.

Past related article:
> Yokosuka citizens protest against arrival of US nuclear aircraft carrier [October 2, 2015]