Wednesday, February 19, 2003

- TERAO Terumi on Demonstration in Nagoya, Japan

Rally and Demonstration in downtown Nagoya, Japan

Feb. 16th 1:30pm:Rally “Stop the War! 2-16Gathering”
at the Hisaya-Square
Number of attendant:200
2:30pm:Peace Demonstration started
Number of demonstrators:400

Organized by Peace Action against the Contingency Legistration, the rally attracted about 200 citizens mostly from Aichi Prefecture and from Gifu and Mie Prefectures including several permanently-residing Koreans. Also, 15 people from Canada, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Tunisia and the United States attended the rally.

Headed by drums and a sanshin(a traditional three-string-lute of Okinawa) performance, 200 attendants of the rally started lively for the Peace March, crying out “NO War, Love Peace” and other anti-war phrases, sometimes in English.  An Iranian man and many Japanese pedestrians joined the march