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Mother's Day action for defense of Constitution On Mother's Day, May 14, the New Japan Women's Association (NJWA) conducted street campaigns and demonstrations throughout Japan, calling for the war-renouncing Constitution to be defended. In front of Omiya Railway Station in Saitama Prefecture, NJWA members, all wearing a carnation corsage, collected signatures in protest against the constitutional revision. Holding a handmade tapestry on which Article 9 is written, they appealed to passers-by by saying, "Our children and grandchildren must never be sent to battlefields to kill or be killed." A nineteen-year-old female college student signed the petition and said, "I don't believe that we should revise the Constitution which was established based on the reflection of the past war." The NJWA Kyoto Prefectural organization conducted a peace march in downtown Kyoto. Led by a banner that read, "Let us pass the peace Constitution on to our children," about 100 participants chanted, "No more war!" and "Defend Article 9!" - Akahata, May 15, 2006 |
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