Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi received boos and weak applause Friday after his speech at the annual atomic bombing memorial ceremony in Hiroshima.
The response was apparently over local disapproval of moves by the government and the Liberal Democratic Party to revise the pacifist Constitution.
Koizumi spoke before a crowd of about 45,000 at the 59th anniversary ceremonies of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in which he reiterated his pledge to observe the war-renouncing Constitution.