2 antinuclear groups wrap up annual gatherings
NAGASAKI, Aug. 9 Kyodo - Two antinuclear
groups on Wednesday in Nagasaki wrapped up
their annual gatherings which started last
week in Hiroshima.
About 2,500 participants of the Wednesday
meeting of the Japan Congress Against A and
H Bombs (Gensuikin), backed by the Democratic
Party of Japan, the Social Democratic Party
and labor unions, set a target of making
Northeast Asia a nuclear free zone.
At a meeting of the Japan Council Against
A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), backed by the
Japanese Communist Party, 2,500 people agreed
to take action to realize a world free of
nuclear arsenals.
The origin of the two groups was a Tokyo
movement which started shortly after crew
members of the Japanese tuna boat Fukuryu
Maru No. 5 were exposed by radiation in a
March 1954 U.S. nuclear test while fishing
near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
One of the 23 crew members died from radiation
sickness.
==Kyodo
