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People dance to tune of antiwar music near prime minister's office

A disc jockey (L) plays antiwar music as about 250 people dance to its tune in front of the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2015, in a show of their opposition against government moves to change peace-oriented security policies.

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Japanese antiwar journalist Muno turns 100

TOKYO, Japan - Takeji Muno, a prominent antiwar journalist in Japan whose career has included covering both wartime prime ministers, Fumimaru Konoe and Hideki Tojo, speaks during an interview in Saitama north of Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, ahead of his 100th birthday on Jan.2, 2015. Wary of the "smells of war" brought about by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies such as a national secrecy law and the push for the right to exercise collective self-defense, Muno vowed to continue to speak out for as long as he lives.

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Japanese antiwar journalist Muno turns 100

TOKYO, Japan - Takeji Muno, a prominent antiwar journalist in Japan, reacts during celebrations for his 100th birthday at his home in Saitama north of Tokyo on Jan. 2, 2015. Wary of the "smells of war" brought about by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies such as a national secrecy law and the push for the right to exercise collective self-defense, Muno vowed to continue to speak out for as long as he lives.

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Demonstrators' pro-Article 9 stance

TOKYO, Japan - People hold up placards with slogans "Don't destroy Article 9," referring to the Japanese Constitution's war-renouncing clause, and "Antiwar" at a public meeting in Tokyo on June 17, 2014, demonstrating against the government's drive to lift Japan's self-imposed ban on exercising the right to collective self-defense.

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Nuclear rally near White House

WASHINGTON, United States - Peace wishers from Japan and the United States sing an antiwar song near the White House in Washington on May 6, 2010. They were among some 100 participants in a rally calling for abolition of nuclear weapons led by a peace group, the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.

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Antiwar activist who torched Hinomaru flag

NAHA, Japan - File photo shows Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, taking part in a mass protest rally over history textbooks at a Ginowan park in the prefecture on Sept. 29, 2007. The 64-year-old former village assemblyman, who was convicted of torching the Hinomaru flag at a national athletic meet in 1987, has vowed in an interview with Kyodo News to keep fighting to achieve peace in Okinawa ahead of the 40th anniversary on May 15, 2012, of the island's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. control.

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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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People moving to Okinawa from elsewhere in Japan seen critically

YOMITAN, Japan - Antiwar landowner Shoichi Chibana (C) shows tourists around his 236 square meter land in the Sobe Communication Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. His land, part of the U.S. military facility, was returned to him in June 2006.

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Okinawa landowner to win back plot inside 'Elephant Cage' on Mon.

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist who owns a plot of land in the U.S. Navy's communication facility in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, poses on a road leading to the facility commonly known as the ''Elephant Cage'' on July 24. Cbana will win back his land on July 31 when the Japanese government's expropriation expires.

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Antiwar citizens demand Britain's withdrawal from Iraq

LONDON, Britain - Antiwar citizens rally at Trafalgar Square in central London on March 18, demanding withdrawal of British troops from Iraq ahead of the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war on March 20.

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Antiwar groups sit in to oppose extension of SDF mission

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of antiwar civic groups stage a sit-in at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 9 to oppose an extension of the Self-Defense Forces' aid mission in Iraq.

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(6)Hiroshima marks 59th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba aired concern over the ''egocentric worldview'' of the United States and moves in Japan to revise the antiwar Constitution in his annual Peace Declaration Aug. 6 to mark the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Japanese antiwar 'kyogen' comedy to be staged in Paris

KYOTO, Japan - Scriptwriter Takeshi Umehara speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on March 10. He said that a Japanese traditional ''kyogen'' comic theater presentation will be staged from April 27 to 29 in Paris to deliver an antiwar message. Kyogen is a comic form of Noh drama and one of the traditional theaters in Japan that flourished from the mid-14th century.

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Japanese soldiers wrote antiwar letters from Chinese front

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an archive compiled by an Imperial Japanese Army research team in 1940 analyzing the results of censorship on mail. Japanese soldiers at the front line during the 1937-1945 war with China wrote antimilitary letters to their families and friends, even though they knew their correspondence would be censored by the army, said scholars Aug. 11 after discovering the correspondence among materials at the Defense Agency's library in Tokyo.

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6 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six Japanese ''human shields'' stage what they call their last antiwar demonstration in Iraq in Baghdad on April 11. They left the country April 12y as they judged their task of trying to help protect life-supporting facilities for local people has been accomplished. The six people, including Kazuyo Yuasa (2nd from L), a citizen of Osaka, said they now want to tell the Japanese people about the reality of war.

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Group calls for end to Iraq war in 1,000th demonstration

NAHA, Japan - Members of a citizens' group, which has been organizing weekly antiwar marches near the Okinawa prefectural government office for nearly 20 years, call for a stop to the U.S.-led war in Iraq during their 1,000th parade in Naha on April 4. The so-called ''lunch time demonstrations'' began on Feb. 17, 1984 in protest at the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

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Protesters shout antiwar slogans outside U.S. Conslutate

OSAKA, Japan - Demonstrators shout antiwar slogans outside the U.S. Consulate General in Osaka on March 28.

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Antiwar rallies continue in Japan

KOBE, Japan - Young Japanese mothers and their children hold up antiwar placards during a parade in the western Japan port city of Kobe on March 25.

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(4)Antiwar demonstration in Japan

OITA, Japan - Teachers from two Oita Prefecture schools stage a 48-hour hunger strike outside JR Tsukumi Station on March 23 in protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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(3)Antiwar demonstration in Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Demonstrators hold antiwar placards around the atomic-bombed dome in Hiroshima on March 23 to protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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(1)Antiwar demonstration in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Students spread a huge banner in demonstration on the Sanjo Ohashi Bridge in Kyoto on March 23 to protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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(2)Antiwar demonstration in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Two demonstrators carry the effigies of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) and U.S. President George W. Bush during a parade in Osaka on March 23 to protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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Antiwar civil servant reports plight of Iraqi people

OSAKA, Japan - Mamoru Toyota, a local government worker who has visited Iraq twice since the end of last year, reports on the current situation in Iraq at an antiwar rally in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on March 22. He said the number of cancer patients has increased sharply among Iraqi people and that medicine is running very short in the country.

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(11)U.S. launches war on Iraq

OSAKA, Japan - A driver puts up an antiwar placard inside his car in Osaka on March 20.

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(12)U.S. launches war on Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Protesters shout antiwar slogans outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on March 20.

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(8)U.S. launches war on Iraq

SYDNEY, Australia - Protesters hold up a placard criticizing Australian Prime Minister John Howard at an antiwar rally in Sydney on March 20. Earlier in the day, Howard announced that Australian navy, air force and army personnel have begun combat missions in Iraq.

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(13)U.S. launches war on Iraq

OSAKA, Japan - Protesters shout antiwar slogans outside the U.S. Consulate General in Osaka on March 20.

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(1)Antiwar protests continue in Japan, police intervene

TOKYO, Japan - Protesters denouncing the U.S.-led war on Iraq clash with police near the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 20. About 80 people gathered near the embassy, but police on high alert expelled many.

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(2)Antiwar protests continue in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People sit in front of the U.S. consulate general in Osaka's Minato Ward on March 20 to protest against the U.S. war on Iraq launched the same day. Some 100 people gathered for the protest.

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Antiwar protests continue as Japan throws support behind U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - People march through the Ginza shopping district in central Tokyo on March 15 to protest against a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq. Some 10,000 people took part in the demonstration, organizers said. People staged rallies and demonstrations in various parts of Japan as part of recent international actions against war.

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Peace Boat sets off for Kobe on antiwar protest

TOKYO, Japan - A cruise ship chartered by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Peace Boat leaves Tokyo's Harumi pier for Kobe port March 14 to protest a possible U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The 16,000-ton ship is scheduled to arrive in Kobe on March 15, a day designated for more global peace rallies in at least 400 cities around the world.

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(2)Tens of thousands rally across Japan to protest war on Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - With ''No War' placards in hands, young people take part in a gathering organized by an antiwar network of some 50 local civic groups at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on March 8 as part of a nationwide joint action against a war on Iraq.

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(6)Tens of thousands rally across Japan to protest war on Iraq

SHURI, Japan - Carrying ''Hey Bush, freeze!'' placards and chanting antiwar slogans, 16 residents of the Hokkaido village of Shuri stage a peace walk on an ice floe drifting off the Shiretoko Peninsula on March 8 as part of a nationwide joint action against a war on Iraq.

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(1)Tens of thousands rally across Japan to protest war on Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Antiwar protesters march through Tokyo's Ginza shopping district March 8 to voice their opposition to a war on Iraq and the Japanese government's support for the U.S. position.

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(7)Tens of thousands rally across Japan to protest war on Iraq

IWAKUNI, Japan - Protesters shout antiwar slogans outside the Iwakuni Base of the U.S. Marines Corps in Yamaguchi Prefecture on March 8. They held the rally as port of a nationwide joint action against a war on Iraq.

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Okinawa musician calls for more peace efforts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa singer Shokichi Kina, who recently held a peace concert in Baghdad, speaks of the tense situation in Iraq at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20. Kina called for greater action in Japan to promote peace along with global antiwar efforts against a possible U.S.-led attack on the country.

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(1)Antiwar demonstration held in various parts of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Wearing ''George W. Bush'' masks, people rally outside JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Feb. 15 to protest against a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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(1)Antiwar demonstration held outside U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Nearly 400 people gather outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 15 to protest against a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq. The protesters chanted ''No War'' and sang peace-related songs, including those by Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

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(2)Antiwar demonstration held in various parts of Japan

NAHA, Japan - Demonstrators parade in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on Feb. 15 to protest against a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq. The banner read: ''Stop U.S. attack on Iraq.''

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(3)Antiwar demonstration held in various parts of Japan

OSAKA, Japan - People hold a rally in Osaka's Nakanoshima on Feb. 15 to protest against a possible U.S.-led war on Iraw.

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(2)Antiwar demonstration held outside U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Holding placards and banners, people gather outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 15 to protest a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq. Some citizens' groups submitted statements to the embassy urging the U.S. government to avoid going to war against Iraq.

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Koizumi renews remorse for WWII aggression on war anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi delivers his speech on the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 15, renewing Japan's expression of remorse for its wartime aggression and an antiwar pledge. ''Representing the people of Japan, I once again express deep remorse and offer sincere condolences to the victims (of the war),'' Koizumi said at the annual government-sponsored ceremony at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan hall.

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U.S. antiwar lawmaker Lee visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Aug. 3 Kyodo - U.S. Congress member Barbara Lee (L) shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba at city hall Aug. 3. Known for her antiwar stance, Lee visited the atomic-bombed city on her first visit to Japan.

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3 coded letters written by ex-JCP head Nosaka unearthed

TOKYO, Japan - Three coded letters written by Sanzo Nosaka, a controversial Japanese Communist Party leader who was later expelled by his party and died seven years ago at age 101, shed light on his underground life in the United States after he sneaked into the country in 1934. The photo shows copies of the letters, translated into German, which were sent by Nosaka from New York to his Comintern handlers in Moscow in 1934 and now preserved at Russia's National Archives. The letters prove that Nosaka did more than produce antiwar propaganda during his four-year stay in the U.S., as generally believed by Japanese historians.

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Antiwar groups sit in to oppose extension of SDF mission

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of antiwar civic groups stage a sit-in at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 9 to oppose an extension of the Self-Defense Forces' aid mission in Iraq. (Kyodo)

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Antiwar citizens demand Britain's withdrawal from Iraq

LONDON, Britain - Antiwar citizens rally at Trafalgar Square in central London on March 18, demanding withdrawal of British troops from Iraq ahead of the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war on March 20. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi renews remorse for WWII aggression on war anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi delivers his speech on the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 15, renewing Japan's expression of remorse for its wartime aggression and an antiwar pledge. ''Representing the people of Japan, I once again express deep remorse and offer sincere condolences to the victims (of the war),'' Koizumi said at the annual government-sponsored ceremony at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan hall. (Kyodo)

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6 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six Japanese ''human shields'' stage what they call their last antiwar demonstration in Iraq in Baghdad on April 11. They left the country April 12y as they judged their task of trying to help protect life-supporting facilities for local people has been accomplished. The six people, including Kazuyo Yuasa (2nd from L), a citizen of Osaka, said they now want to tell the Japanese people about the reality of war. (Kyodo)

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Group calls for end to Iraq war in 1,000th demonstration

NAHA, Japan - Members of a citizens' group, which has been organizing weekly antiwar marches near the Okinawa prefectural government office for nearly 20 years, call for a stop to the U.S.-led war in Iraq during their 1,000th parade in Naha on April 4. The so-called ''lunch time demonstrations'' began on Feb. 17, 1984 in protest at the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. (Kyodo)

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(3)Antiwar demonstration in Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Demonstrators hold antiwar placards around the atomic-bombed dome in Hiroshima on March 23 to protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq. (Kyodo)