0. Photo of the day is marching and promoting on the Kobe Motomachi Shopping Street

1. At 7:00 in the morning, many Kobe citizens gathered at JR Maiko Station.

2. Commemorative photo before departure. Kobe is a large city with a population of 1.5 million.

3. There is also a person (Maeda-san) who gives me donations.

4. Commemorative photo with the Akashi Bridge in the background

5. It is not a long distance today both for the morning and afternoon march, but it would take a lot of time because we will be promoting while passing through the city.

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7. On roads where cars travel slowly,

8. A scene of a marching group actively appealing toward cars.

9. Pulling the fabric of the flag taut to make the message can be clearly seen while marching. The morning course is roughly divided into three sections, and the participating citizens take turns.

10. In the last section, only he and I were left. Sano Misako A photo taken with him next to the slogan on the elementary school fence.

“A clean, unpolluted river, and a kind heart”(?)

Kishida should go back to this elementary school.

11. There were people waiting to meet us at Shin-Nagata Station, our morning destination.

12. Those are the people from here. The Kobe area is where many Chosun people (including Koreans) have lived. They are a group that has been active under the name of Korea.

13. Shin-yong Kim, who is the representative of this group. He even invited a reporter from the Kobe News Paper and arranged an interview with me.

15. Three envelopes containing support money.

15. Yoshie Okauchi, who gave me a considerable amount of money as a support fund, also visited Samcheok, South Korea, in the past and supported the anti-nuclear movement.

16. Commemorative photo. (The one on the far right is Go Min-seok, who translated for me during the interview)

17. When I asked representative Kim Shin-yong (left) for a message, all three of them happily wrote one for me. The person in the middle is Uemae-san, who is a refugee from Fukushima. Since yesterday, she worked very hard even as an interpreter for me.

18. Meaningful messages.

Don’t pour contaminated water into the sea!

Store it!

Okauchi Yoshie

Don’t spill the poison into the sea!

Masako Uemae

 I support and cheer the Korean-Japanese citizens’ walking march

to block the ocean dumping of Fukushima’s radioactively contaminated water.

Shinyong Kim”

18-1. Takahashi-san, whom I walked with yesterday, also visited the cafe ‘NaDeulee(means Outing)’. message please.

Contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear accident should not be dumped into the sea.

Put yourself in the shoes of local residents!

All Asia and Pacific, coastal residents are also against it.

2023.8.9

Kobe City Takahashi Seiko”

19. Commemorative photo with the welcoming group in front of the attached cafe ‘NaDeulee (outing)’.

20. After gathering in front of Shin-Nakata Station at 4:00 pm and reading the March Declaration together.

21. Commemorative photo before departure.

22. about one hour walk to JR Kobe Station. Hara-san is also among us.

22. Walking through Kobe’s very long central shopping street, Motomachi.

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24. Arrived at Rokko-michi Station around 8:00 in the evening. 

Those who have been with me until the end of today’s march are, 

Shoichi Akiyoshi 

Hiroshi Miyamoto 

Matsubara Yasuhiko 

Takahashi Takezo 

Hara Tsunenri 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated and supported today’s march.

25. Hiroshima resident, Mr. Ahn Geum-ju sent me an article from a progressive newspaper.

And below is what Yasuo Kuwano introduced about me on his Facebook page. Even though there are a lot of over-praise about me,  introduce it as a reference.

https://m.cafe.daum.net/earthlifesilkroad/kUxW/86?svc=cafeapp

Korea-Japan Citizens’ Walk QR Code

Below is Wonyoung Lee’s LINE QR code

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