The founders of an antirevisionist group stressed the need Saturday to remove nuclear power from the nation's energy policy in light of Article 9 of the Constitution and the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant.
"Our Constitution represents our determination to never again experience the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate in literature, referring to the two cities obliterated by atomic bombs in the final days of World War II. "But we have seen the nuclear disaster in Fukushima."
Oe, one of the nine founders of the Article 9 Association, made the remarks at the group's national rally in Tokyo, which drew about 700 like-minded people.