STAGE PEACE MARCH
Some 15,000 Japanese housewives staged an outdoor rally followed by a chanting parade in the downtown streets of Tokyo August 23 to deliver a three-point protest to the Diet.
The resolution, which will be advanced through the Diet by the Japan Socialist party and the Japan Communist party, asks the government and the Diet to drop their pro-American attitude on the war in Vietnam, not to ratify the Japan-Republic of Korea “normalization" treaty, and to initiate countermeasures against the rising cost of living.
The action followed a two-day national convention of the Japan Housewives Association headed by Natsu Kawasaki, a former represen= tative of the Japan Socialist party in the House of Councillors,
THE "DEA CONS FOR DEFENSE AND JUSTICE"
"By Evelyn Sell
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