Writer, antiwar activist Makoto Oda dies at 75

Writer, antiwar activist Makoto Oda dies at 75

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Oda (file photo taken in December, 2004), a Japanese writer who led the antiwar movements against the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, died on July 30 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 75. He had revealed in April he was battling a terminal phase of cancer.

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