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Exhibition to honor antinuke Austrian writer

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, opens an exhibition Feb. 15, 2013, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Jungk, an Austrian writer known for his efforts to focus international attention on the devastation caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. The exhibition is due to run through March 28, 2013.

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Ex-premiers Koizumi, Hosokawa attend antinuke rock concert

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Morihiro Hosokawa attend an antinuclear rock concert in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2014, with Koizumi emphasizing the need for Japan to abandon nuclear plants.

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Antinuke demonstration in U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Protesters march in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2012, the 67th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

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Antinuke demonstration in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Demonstrators call for the elimination of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in Manhattan, New York, on Aug. 6, 2012, the 67th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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Antinuke demonstration in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Demonstrators stage a "melt-in" protest in Manhattan, New York, on Aug. 6, 2012, the 67th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

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Antinuke mayors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Nobuto Hosaka (L), newly elected mayor of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, and Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, shake hands in Minamisoma on April 29, 2011. Hosaka was elected pledging to campaign for an end to reliance on nuclear power. Sakurai was picked by TIME magazine in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world after criticizing the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis via the video-sharing site YouTube.

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Antinuke plant demonstration in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power plant demonstrators protest in front of the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Tokyo on March 31, 2011, as the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues to pose radiation contamination risk following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Three demonstrators were arrested for disrupting traffic.

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Exhibit of over 1 mil. antinuke signatures starts at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Lee Sil Gun (R), an atomic-bomb survivor, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L), during an opening event on March 24, 2011, which highlights signatures collected from around the globe calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Toshiko Tanaka, another Hiroshima survivor, looks on (just right of Ban).

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2 Nagasaki students head to Geneva to deliver antinuke message

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ayaka Ogawa (L), a 16-year-old sophomore, and Mayuko Tsuda, a 17-year-old senior, from two Nagasaki high schools pose for photos at the Nagasaki city office on Ag. 16 before heading to the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva to spread the message of nuclear disarmament. The banner they hold reads: ""World without war and nuclear weapons.''

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2 antinuke groups wrap up annual confabs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Two major Japanese antinuclear groups wrap up their separate conferences in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, timed with the 58th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs (L) and the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (R) denounced recent U.S. nuclear strategy and voiced concerns over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

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Antinuke peace procession reaches Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A group of people from Tokyo, who are taking part in an annual nationwide peace procession to Hiroshima, heads for Hiroshima Peace Park on Aug. 4. The procession is conducted as part of efforts to urge nuclear disarmament.

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Antinuke conference begins in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A three-day international antinuclear conference gets under way in Hiroshima on Aug. 2. The conference is organized by the Japan Council Against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), which is backed up by the Japanese Communist Party.

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U.S. warship visits Nagasaki, stirs antinuke protests

NAGASAKI, Japan - The 3,282-ton U.S. rescue ship Safeguard, stationed at the U.S. Navy's Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture, calls at a port in the neighboring city of Nagasaki, western Japan, on Sept. 17 for a three-day goodwill visit. The visit, however, triggered protests by antinuclear and labor union groups.

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Antinuke group protests U.S. sales of A-bomb souvenirs

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the earring replicas of ''Little Boy'' (R) and ''Fat Man (L),'' the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, being sold as souvenirs at the U.S. National Atomic Museum. A Japanese antinuclear group accused the state-run museum Aug. 4 of insulting A-bomb victims for selling such goods.

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2 Nagasaki students head to Geneva to deliver antinuke message

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ayaka Ogawa (L), a 16-year-old sophomore, and Mayuko Tsuda, a 17-year-old senior, from two Nagasaki high schools pose for photos at the Nagasaki city office on Ag. 16 before heading to the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva to spread the message of nuclear disarmament. The banner they hold reads: "World without war and nuclear weapons.'' (Kyodo)

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Antinuke cyclists pedal around Washington on Nagasaki A-bomb day

Protesters ride their bicycles in front of the White House in Washington in an 11-kilometer loop during an event to call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons on Aug. 9, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack. More than 250 people attended the event organized by antinuclear advocate group Global Zero. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antinuke cyclists pedal around Washington on Nagasaki A-bomb day

Protesters pose for photos in front of the White House in Washington on Aug. 9, 2015, before riding their bicycles in an event to call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. More than 250 people attended the event organized by antinuclear advocate group Global Zero on the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

People visit an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" next to a Tokyo museum exhibiting the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, in April 2016. Former Fukuryu Maru crew member Matashichi Oishi, who led a fundraising campaign in the late 1990s to erect the monument, hopes to transfer it to the Tsukiji fish market site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

Matashichi Oishi, an 82-year-old former crew member of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, seeks support for his petition to set up an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" at the Tsukiji fish market site, during a gathering in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2016. The toxic tuna catch, unloaded from the Fukuryu Maru, was shipped to Tsukiji and buried there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Student activist aspires to take up antinuke fight in future

Protestors stage an antiwar rally in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2015. The event was organized by student group SEALDs and scholars opposed to security laws. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Student activist aspires to take up antinuke fight in future

Mitsuhiro Hayashida, one of the university students who founded SEALDs, a group protesting against security laws, speaks at an event to discuss peace issues in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2015. The 23-year-old descendant of an atomic bomb survivor has also engaged in efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antinuke activists gather after suit proceedings in western Japan

Lee Jin Seop, a South Korean national and one of around 9,800 plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to halt the restart of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, speaks to other plaintiffs and supporters at a meeting held in the city of Saga following his testimony at the Saga District Court on Oct. 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antinuke activists gather after suit proceedings in western Japan

Antinuclear activists gather in the city of Saga, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 9, 2015, following oral proceedings in a lawsuit they filed seeking to halt the restart of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai atomic power plant in Saga Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. warship visits Nagasaki, stirs antinuke protests

NAGASAKI, Japan - The 3,282-ton U.S. rescue ship Safeguard, stationed at the U.S. Navy's Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture, calls at a port in the neighboring city of Nagasaki, western Japan, on Sept. 17 for a three-day goodwill visit. The visit, however, triggered protests by antinuclear and labor union groups.

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Antinuke mayors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Nobuto Hosaka (L), newly elected mayor of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, and Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, shake hands in Minamisoma on April 29, 2011. Hosaka was elected pledging to campaign for an end to reliance on nuclear power. Sakurai was picked by TIME magazine in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world after criticizing the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis via the video-sharing site YouTube. (Kyodo)

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Antinuke plant demonstration in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power plant demonstrators protest in front of the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Tokyo on March 31, 2011, as the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues to pose radiation contamination risk following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Three demonstrators were arrested for disrupting traffic. (Kyodo)

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Exhibit of over 1 mil. antinuke signatures starts at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Lee Sil Gun (R), an atomic-bomb survivor, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L), during an opening event on March 24, 2011, which highlights signatures collected from around the globe calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Toshiko Tanaka, another Hiroshima survivor, looks on (just right of Ban). (Kyodo)

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Ex-premiers Koizumi, Hosokawa attend antinuke rock concert

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Morihiro Hosokawa attend an antinuclear rock concert in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2014, with Koizumi emphasizing the need for Japan to abandon nuclear plants. (Kyodo)

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Antinuke petition to U.N.

Sueichi Kido (C), secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations, meets with Romanian Ambassador Ion Jinga (2nd from L), who currently chairs the General Assembly committee, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 10, 2018, to deliver a petition with 8.3 million signatures calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 antinuke groups wrap up annual confabs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Two major Japanese antinuclear groups wrap up their separate conferences in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, timed with the 58th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs (L) and the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (R) denounced recent U.S. nuclear strategy and voiced concerns over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. (Kyodo)

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Antinuke peace procession reaches Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A group of people from Tokyo, who are taking part in an annual nationwide peace procession to Hiroshima, heads for Hiroshima Peace Park on Aug. 4. The procession is conducted as part of efforts to urge nuclear disarmament. (Kyodo)

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Antinuke group protests U.S. sales of A-bomb souvenirs

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the earring replicas of ''Little Boy'' (R) and ''Fat Man (L),'' the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, being sold as souvenirs at the U.S. National Atomic Museum. A Japanese antinuclear group accused the state-run museum Aug. 4 of insulting A-bomb victims for selling such goods.