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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Protest Against Japan-U.S. Joint Military Drill with Ospreys~800 Gather in Aibano
On
September 29, a gathering against Japan-U.S. joint military exercises was held
in Aibano Exercise Area of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) in Takashima
City, Shiga Prefecture, with Ospreys to be deployed. Under strong sunshine as
if midsummer, about 800 people gathered in protest. People talked
enthusiastically and unanimously
about the circumstances that military exercises in Aibano have surely been more
enforced than ever before, while others said we needed a new
united front. After the gathering they marched around Omi-imazu Station.
In front of the SDF base, they passionately chanted slogans. “I feel encouraged to have a big
assembly like this,” YAMASHIRO Hiroji said. “I am pleased to see that there is
still a respectable mass movement and a peace movement in this country.”
(MASAKI Toshu)
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