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2009 September 9 - 15 [US FORCES]

U.S. Aegis warship enters a Kyoto port

Peace activists, including labor and women’s organizations, requested Kyoto Governor Yamada Keiji to express opposition to the port call of the Curtis Wilber which is equipped with nuclear capable Tomahawk missiles.

They also questioned his responsibility as the head of local government for managing all civil ports in the prefecture by asking, “Do you think it’s okay to allow a warship which we don’t know if it is carrying nuclear weapons or not to freely enter Kyoto’s civil ports?”

Japanese Communist Party representative Maekubo Yoshiyuki, a Kyoto Prefectrural Assembly member, demanded that the prefectural government ask the U.S. forces if the aegis destroyer carries nuclear weapons.
- Akahata, September 15, 2009