NUCLEAR SUBMARINES STAY OUT OF JAPAN!
As Japan's new premier Eisaku Sato was taking the oath of office before Emperor Hirohito November 9, thousands of demonstrators® in the streets, marching to the parliament building, shouted, "Yan-~ kee, go home!" The demonstrators, estimated by the authorities to number 10,000, gathered in a park before fanning into the streets, They were ’ protesting calls by United States nuclear submarines at Japanese ports,
a Leaflets were distributed by the participants demanding that the ‘government reverse its decision to let the nuclear pig boats come to Japan so that the crews can find recreation ashore there,
On November 8 more than 20,000 persons took part in demonstrations. In‘southern Japan they sought to'march on the U.S. naval°bage at Sasebo, Six persons were arrested. The day before in Yokosuka some 84 students, including six girls, were injured and 32 others were arrested. Forty-five policemen-were reported injured. Among demonstrators! placards appeared such slogans as "We oppose the port calls by the nuclear submarines"; "Don't make Japan a nuclear base"; and "We want peace,"
‘Both the Socialist and Communist parties are sponsoring the demonstrations. In Peking the People's Daily declared in an editor- ‘ial that the visits of nuclear Submarines in Japanese ports consti-~ tute "a serious provocation on the part of American imperialism with hekes? to the independence and security of this country and peace in Asta.