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2015 July 22 - 28 [POLITICS]

More than 4,000 medical and welfare service providers oppose PM Abe’s war bills

A group of medical, nursing-care, and welfare service providers opposing the controversial war bills on July 24 held a rally in the Diet building and released a statement calling for the scrapping of the bills.

In the rally, 80 people including doctors, dentists, nurses, nursing-care facility operators, and medical students, took part.

Doctor Ito Mami, who runs a clinic in Chiba Prefecture that focuses on home and palliative cares, reported, “More than 4,000 people in the fields of health care and welfare services have expressed their support to our group since its founding two weeks ago.” She expressed her determination to increase opposition among the people, including her patients and her clinic users, in order to kill the bills.

Amaha Michiko, who was 19 years old when WWII ended, has long worked at a women’s protection facility in Chiba since the war’s end. She said, “If Japan again turns into a war-fighting nation, more and more taxpayers’ money will be spent for military purposes. Socially weak people are always discarded in a militarized society. I’ll do everything I can to block this move.”