HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 14 (Xinhua) — Hundreds of Japanese residents took to the streets within the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima over the weekend to protest towards the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit.
Protests can even be held alongside the streets on Sunday, beginning at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, a cenotaph the place an atomic bomb was dropped by the United States on the finish of World War II.
About 200 residents carrying banners studying “No G7” and “No War” gathered in Hiroshima to protest towards the G7 summit on Saturday as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the town to examine summit-related venues.
Shigeo Kimoto, director of Japanese civic group Peace Depot, identified in his speech that each joint navy workout routines amongst G7 members within the Pacific area and Japan’s assertion that “Taiwan contingency is a contingency for Japan” are “absurd and dangerous.”
Japan, as soon as a ruthless invader in Asian nations and areas comparable to China and the Korean Peninsula, has intentionally hid its ugly historical past as a perpetrator by repeatedly stressing that it’s “the only country that suffered atomic bombings,” historian Toshiyuki Tanaka stated at Saturday’s rally.
“Now Japan is politically using Hiroshima, the site of the atomic bombing, to hold the G7 summit. It is time for people in Hiroshima to wake up,” stated Tanaka, additionally an emeritus professor at Hiroshima City University.
The protests had been launched by the chief committee of Citizen’s Group Questioning the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, whose declaration was additionally launched on Saturday.
According to the group’s declaration, the G7 summit in Hiroshima seeks to advance navy alliance below the identify of freedom and democracy, and that the essence of the summit was a gathering the place the wealthy bloc forces different nations to observe its guidelines.
The G7 consists of the United States, Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Canada and Japan. This 12 months’s G7 leaders’ summit will probably be chaired by Japan in Hiroshima on May 19-21.