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Two American veterans journeyed to Japan to apologize for US war crimes. They found a growing grassroots antiwar movement.
A vibrant antiwar movement is blooming in Japan right now. Trade unions, civic groups, and an overwhelming number of young people are galvanizing the country around (...)
On August 30, tens of thousands of people (120,000, according to organizers), protested outside the Japanese parliament against new military legislation that would allow the military to fight abroad. This would happen for the first time since World War II to Japanese troops. According to its (...)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is pushing the country toward dangerous new militarization.
On September 18, a massive brawl broke out on the floor of the Japanese Diet as parliamentarians put up a last stand to preserve what many call the country’s “pacifist constitution.” Its Article Nine (...)
HIROSHIMA – Below is the full text of the Peace Declaration delivered Thursday by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Full text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration by Mayor Kazumi Matsui
In our town, we had the warmth of (...)
Shinzo Abe had promised Barack Obama that he would push through legislative changes allowing Japan to come to the aid of an ally.
Controversial plans by Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to allow his country’s troops to fight on foreign soil for the first time since the second world war have (...)
OSAKA — Every August, thousands of visitors from Japan and around the world gather in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to commemorate the dropping of the atomic bombs. In addition to the solemn ceremonies that draw survivors and VIPs, there are numerous side events dedicated to seeking the elimination of (...)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Four founders of the Article 9 Association, including Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, expressed concern Monday over moves to revise the pacifist Constitution under the newly launched government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“I earnestly hope that citizens will mount a (...)
Japanese civic movements held a press conference and released a statement on territorial conflicts between Japan, China, and Korea on Friday, September 28 .
This statement was initiated by a small number of activists of peace movement, intelligentsia, media people, and lawyers. In times of (...)
Japanese civic movements held a press conference and released the following statement on territorial conflicts between Japan, China, and Korea on Friday, September 28. This statement was initiated by a small number of activists of peace movement, intelligentsia, media people, and lawyers. So (...)
NAGASAKI – Nagasaki urged world leaders Thursday to conclude a treaty banning nuclear weapons at a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of its atomic bombing.
“The international community must act now by taking the first concrete steps toward concluding the Nuclear Weapons Convention,” Mayor (...)
Osprey deployment: Protests growing against deployment of Osprey in Japan
Protests are growing across the nation against the U.S. Marine Corps’ planned deployment of vertical takeoff and landing Osprey aircraft in Japan.
In response, the National Governors’ Association has adopted a resolution (...)
Hiroshima: Peace Declaration
August 6, 2011
Sixty-six years ago, despite the war, the people of Hiroshima were leading fairly normal lives. Until that fateful moment, many families were enjoying life together right here in what is now Peace Memorial Park and was then one of the city’s most (...)
Dear friends of peace in the United States,
January 16, 2009
We, concerned citizens from the Japanese archipelago, are sending an open letter to Mr. Barak Obama on the occasion of his inauguration as President of the United States, asking him to clarify whether and how far he is going to (...)
The Riddle: Patriotic Traitors
It is hard to believe that it happened but it did. In an 18-month working process begun in February 2005 and completed in June 2006, Japan willingly surrendered command over its military forces to the United States, committing itself unconditionally to the (...)
After nine years of stalling and prevarication over the replacement of Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, and nearly eighteen months of protests against its proposed replacement, a solution of sorts is finally stirring in the dusty halls of power in Kasumigaseki.
On September 24, the (...)
Japan’s defense policy is presently undergoing a comprehensive review for the first time since the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent launch of the global “war on terrorism” – meaning that this policy is now at a critical juncture.
The Council on Security and (...)
After several years of doldrums, the anti-base movement in Okinawa regained its momentum in mid-2004, winning the hearts and minds of many Okinawa people and proving its great power of resilience. In Okinawa island, dominated by an extremely heavy presence of U.S. bases, the anti-base struggle (...)
This talk was presented to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference April 10-13, Sydney by Norio Okada from the Japan Press Service (JPS).
I’m Norio Okada, editor of the Japan Press Service (JPS), Japan’s only progressive news for abroad. We are taking news to Asia-Pacific region and the rest of (...)
Below is the Peace Declaration issued on Aug. 9, 2015, by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. At 11:02 a.m., on the 9th August 1945, a single atomic bomb instantly reduced Nagasaki to a ruin.
A vast amount of radiation passed through people’s (...)
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