"GET U.S. TROOPS OUT OF VIETNAM!". SAY JAPANESE
PACIFISTS
A three-day convention was held by the Japan Peace Committee at Kawasaki, near Tokyo, April 24-26, On the first day a call was issued to all Japanese pacifists to intensify struggles for the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam.
Speaking before some 3,700 labor, youth and women delegates, Chairman Yoshitaro Hirano declared that “the only way for us to solve the Vietnamese problem is to step up our struggles: ‘to demand immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam." eS.
He called for public campaigns against the use of American military bases in Japan and for struggles aimed at eventual sorape ping of the Japan=U.S.Security Pact,
On the final day, ona special motion of the secretariat, a collection was taken up for relief goods to be sent to the Vietnamese freedom fighters.
Some fifty representatives were selected as a delegation to go at once to the U.S. embassy:’-to protest continued U.S. military action in Vietnam. The delegation also protested to. the Japanese government on its endorsement of U.S. policy. " A street demonstration was then staged to protest U.S. military action in Vietnam.
‘This was the third rally sponsored by the Japan Peace Committee. The first was held in Osaka in 1962 and the second in Shizuoka fast year’.
Among the leading sponsors of the committee present | were. Dr. Hiroshi Suekawa, president of Ritsumeikan University at Kyoto; Torazo Ninagawa, governor of Kyoto Prefecture; the Rev. Eijun Otani, Buddhist leader, and Dr. Shoichi Sakata, nuclear physicist and professor at Nagoya University. 7