apan's other major antinuclear group, the Japan Council Against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), on Wednesday kicked off a series of conferences that will also end Wednesday in Nagasaki.
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Another antinuke confab starts in Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, Aug. 4 Kyodo - The Japan Congress Against A and H Bombs (Gensuikin) on Friday opened a six-day series of conferences in Hiroshima commemorating the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
articipants including foreign guest speakers in this year's symposium, which will end Wednesday in Nagasaki, are expected to discuss how to eliminate nuclear arsenals and scrap nuclear power plants.
The antinuclear group is backed by the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, the opposition Social Democratic Party, and the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) -- Japan's largest labor organization.
ensuikin Secretary General Koei Sato who opened the discussions, said, ''We have contaminated ourselves and all living things on the earth with radioactive materials in the 20th century. Let us discuss realizing a nuclear-free society.''
apan's other major antinuclear group, the Japan Council Against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), on Wednesday kicked off a series of conferences that will also end Wednesday in Nagasaki.
==Kyodo
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