A group of people who survived the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki urged Washington to scrap its nuclear weapons at a protest rally ahead of President George W. Bush's visit to Tokyo on Friday.
Some 30 protesters led by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo around 11 a.m., carrying a banner reading, "No More Hibakusha."
"We, the hibakusha, never tolerate the threat of nuclear weapons by any party, notwithstanding if it is the United States or North Korea," group leader Eiji Nakanishi read from a statement.