Grassroots Anti-Nuclear Movement - Kusanonehankakuundo

...From the following year, 1978, the Conference on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons again dropped out due to differences of opinion regarding the peaceful use of atomic energy, but the holding of unified conferences that included the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, the National Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and civic groups became a regular practice, and a unified delegation was sent to the first UN Special Session on Disarmament in 1978, and to the second General Session in 1982. In the midst of this, new anti-nuclear movements arose in Europe and the United States in the fall of 1981 due to President Reagan's theory of limited nuclear war and the deployment of theater nuclear weapons to NATO. In Japan, in addition to the established anti-nuclear movement, grassroots anti-nuclear movements such as the March 21st Hiroshima anti-nuclear rally, the May 23rd Tokyo anti-nuclear action, and the October 24th Osaka anti-nuclear rally gained momentum in 1982, and the anti-nuclear movement as a whole was reaching a new turning point. The majority of the 190,000 to 500,000 people who took part in these rallies and actions were ordinary citizens who were not affiliated with the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs or the National Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and depending on these developments, it could be said that there is the potential for new developments in Japan's anti-atomic and hydrogen bomb movement in the future.

*The following is an explanation of some of the terms that refer to the "grassroots anti-nuclear movement."

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…翌78年からは，核禁会議は原子力の平和利用をめぐる意見の対立からふたたび脱落したが，日本原水協，原水禁国民会議に市民団体を加えた統一大会の開催は定着し，78年の第1回国連軍縮特別総会に続いて，82年の第2回総会にも統一代表団を派遣した。　こうしたなかで，1981年秋からレーガン･アメリカ大統領の限定核戦争論やNATOへの戦域核配備などによってヨーロッパ，アメリカなどで新たな反核運動が起こったのを受けて，国内でも，既成の原水爆禁止運動とは別に82年には3･21広島反核集会，5･23反核東京行動，10･24反核大阪集会などの草の根反核運動が盛り上がり，原水爆禁止運動全体も新しい転機を迎えている。これらの集会や行動に参加した19万～50万の人たちの大部分は，日本原水協，原水禁国民会議の組織には所属しない一般市民であり，これらの動きによっては，今後，さらに日本の原水爆禁止運動は新たな展開を迎える可能性をはらんでいるといえよう。…

※「草の根反核運動」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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