Posted on 09/24/2008 1:01:08 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
TOKYO — Groups opposed to Thursday’s arrival of the USS George Washington to Yokosuka Naval Base say demonstrations will grow in size and number in upcoming days.
"We want to express our opposition to America," Masahiko Goto, a lawyer and leader of a Yokosuka citizen’s group, said Tuesday. "We want a withdrawal of the deployment."
On the day of the ship’s arrival to its new forward-deployed base, a rally will be held at 6 a.m. at Kannonzaki Park near Uraga station, where protesters can watch the carrier as it approaches, organizers said. Protesters also will embark on boats to follow the ship in.
Base officials said Carney Gate, or the main gate, will be closed to pedestrians and outbound vehicles from 7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. All traffic will be routed through Womble Gate during that time, officials said.
Goto said throughout the day others will stay near the base, handing out English-language fliers citing safety concerns with the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and calling for peace. Another group will gather at Yokosuka Chuo station to urge opposition to the aircraft carrier’s arrival, he said.
The largest rally starts at 6:30 p.m. at Verny Park, next to Daiei Mall, organizers said. About 3,000 protesters are expected to march down Route 16 toward Yokosuka Chuo Station around 7:30 p.m., organizers said.
Other protests Thursday include a rally at Umikaze Park at 7:30 a.m. Opposition leaders said rallies will also be held at Yokosuka Chuo station on Friday and Oct. 3 from 7 to 8 p.m.; Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to noon; and Sept. 30 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
geez how stupoid are they?
Do they WANT to be another wholly owned subsidary of China?
Perhaps someone should sit them down and go over the US Navy safety incident reports and then compare them with their own nations safety record at land based nuclear plants.
Where’s MacArthur when you need him?
An excellent point.
Maybe if they began building their own we wouldn’t have to send our’s over to protect ‘em from the Chinese, Koreans and everyone else in Asia who hate the Japanese.
bttt
Faded away .
Leave them to the mercy of North Korea and their missiles.
Fine, the U.S.A. should pull our troops out of South Korea and Japan. Let them pay for their own defense. Let them both go it alone against their very large and “peaceful” neighbor communist China.
Same for Germany too.
It’s time.
If they don’t want a Nuke, we should just send the Hornet. It wouldn’t even have to enter port, after all, they didn’t last time.
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A lot of Democrats are desperate to stop the US from having a missile defense shield, because having it might “provoke” some tyrant to throw a missile at us. That is how their brains are mis-wired.
So why should we be surprised that some Japanese are equally defective?
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Forget MacArthur. How about Curtis LeMay?
NUFF SAID!!!!
Those yutes have been staging protests since the 80s at least. They did it the whole time I was stationed there in the 90s. Their tiny little JDF can’t protect them from anything and they need our troops and guns badly, even if we are only standing by.
Thank goodness cooler heads in their gubment prevail and we are welcome as long as No Ko continues to be a regional threat.
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