Word: gensuikyo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Partai Komunis Indonesia, the third largest Communist Party in the world (after China and Russia), dominates the streets and, through the streets, President Sukarno. Pro-Peking Communists also work hand in hand with Singapore's Barisan Socialist Party, have long since captured Japan's 10 million-member Gensuikyo, its Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (which nonetheless lost considerable support with the advent of Red China as a nuclear power). Though India's 160,000-member Communist Party is split down the middle, the pro-Chinese wing holds the psychological whip hand, having won 40 seats...
...never been invaded by antinuclear demonstrators. By last week, while Hiroshima staged noisy ban-the-Bomb rallies, Nagasaki had not witnessed a single demonstration against U.S. nuclear tests over Christmas Island. Explains Hiroshi Wakiyama, a businessman who in 1960 quit as chairman of Nagasaki's small chapter of Gensuikyo, Japan's antinuclear council: "We don't want to go around bragging about being victims of the atomic bomb. It is not compatible with the character of Nagasaki...
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