Staff writer

Along Omote-sando Dori in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, crowded with hip youth and chic shoppers, a few passersby stopped their stroll last Sunday to hear a group of young people make a rather out-of-place call -- an invitation to visit the two South Asian nations that conducted nuclear tests last month.

"We are seeking people to accompany us to India and Pakistan to talk with the locals about the nuclear tests," shouted three campaigners, holding up a poster with photos of Japanese atomic bomb victims and others who have suffered from past nuclear tests.