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MAJUR O--Seven mem*
|
cbers of the Japanese on- —
raeae wan
Be
. tined opposition to nus
clear power.
Along with the three
-- th} nuclear Congress, ‘Ger
~
Hfroshima
victims, four
itkan', visitedthe dis-
+) tflet center of the Mar=
shalls last week to meet
- with Marshallese victims |
other Japanese travelled
to Maluro: Kazuyosh! Yau
makawa of Fukuoka, Ta=
of the 1954 Bikint. radia= . das Maruyama, of Fukue= ka, and Yoshikazu Shime
tion accident.
1945, Tadao Matwki,
- whe was nine, and Ma~
moru Nishimoto, who
was born in 1948, hada
persanal-interest in com=
ing face to face with. the
Marshallese victims since
‘the two oldar men and
the younger Nishimoto
are them salves victims—
of atemic radiation.
Matsunoka and Matsuki
were {Ilvlng in Hirashima
when tha Americans ex
_o
ploded the first tactical. ly employed atomlc bomb,
Nishimoto!s mother and
| father, as wallas two
older brothers warelliv=
Ing-In tha elty at the
7. tima,. ,
ka, and Yoshikazu Shim=
ena of Saga,
Japaness journalist Mae
da Tatwo accompanied
the group as Interpreter.
MEET WITH ATAJL |
BALOS OF COM
On Monday, October
31, the Gensuiken mem=
bers met-with Rep. Ata|l
Balos for nearly two hours
to discuss the an-geing
=
medical treatment of the
Rengelsp and Utirlk bomb
victins,
Kazuyosh! Yamakewa
spacking for the group,
said he was very pleased
to haar fram Cangrasiman
Balos that the United Sta= .
test has apparently chang:
ed its policy regarding ~—.
the Range lap/Utirik pao
ble,
All thrae, In tha course
"Since President Corter
of time, joined the Gene . has Inltlated “human -
sulken organization asa
personal committment to
power In any farm, ram -
-gardlass of the possiblity
of sowcalled ‘peaceful!
‘applications,
"In thls connectlon thay
wore joined by four of -
bat
om:
—INOD
Cit
2’ i uO atid o gnd °
tights" diplomacy In the
radim of world affetrs we.
opposethe use of nuclear ‘hope the new Carter pox
' thelr Gansulken comrades
In dmisslon ta the Mor®
shalls to rastate and un
darscore Ganasuiken's cone
coo
Hey will move to confirm
continuad communlcation
and exchange between
bhea Micronasian victins, ~
the Untrad Statas Trustae’ shlp administratian, and
Japanase whe ara Intefas: ..
- tad In there problams,"ha
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Three of the Japanese;
Noboru Matsunaka, who was thirteen years old in