TOKYO, March 19 Kyodo Citizens an...

TOKYO, March 19 Kyodo

Citizens and local regulations across Japan staged various forms of avow Wednesday against an imminent US-l attack onward Iraq, including hunger strikes, rallies with candles, and verbal expressions to political leaders.

A rally in impudence of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo had grown through the evening to about 100 population who lit candles and called for a war in succession Iraq be avoided.

Among the demonstrators in Tokyo were Koichiro Oe 23 and Daisuke Ikeda, 19 who as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but began an antiwar hunger strike Tuesday, as well as Rena Masuyama, 26 a member of a female arrange dubbed ''Pink Guerrillas'' who wore pink bikinis.

''What we are calling for is a matter of habitual sense. We should act before being obsess with the idea that nothing can be changed,'' Masuyama said.

In Hiroshima, university learners Taisuke Nojikawa, 23, and Teppei Yoshimoto, 19 began a four-day be hungry strike in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a building that has been left unreconstruct since its partial destruction in the 1945 atomic bombing.

A quiet march for peace with candles was also organized in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture where a U naval base is located, with about 100 the community taking part.

A form into groups of A-bomb victims and four other form into groupss in Nagasaki jointly sent avow letters to both the U Embassy in Japan and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

''We can not ever accept a preemptive attack upon Iraq which is clearly prohibited at international law,'' the five Nagasaki form into groupss said in its literal sense to the United States.

In the verbal expression to Koizumi, they said ''The Japanese direction should take advantage of its pacifist constitutional clause and stand at the effrontery of international opinion for a peaceful settlement'' of the Iraqi crisis.

Among leaders of local directions Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba sent antiwar epistles to U.S. President George W Bush, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Koizumi.

In all the literal meanings Akiba denounced the U.S. for ''trampling onward the U.N. Charter'' and called for ''lending an ear to the voices of Hiroshima and other population wishing for peace.''

Kochi Gov Daijiro Hashimoto lashed revealed at the U.S. for its demand that Saddam and his son travel into exile or face war, saying, ''It is trying to launch a war just for the sake of a regime change.''

Kyoto Gov Keiji Yamada referr to the World Water Forum being held in the prefecture in calling for a peaceful solution to the situation, saying the forum is aimed at ensuring global security.

Toru Motobayashi, president of the 19,000-member Japan Federation of Bar Associations, said in a statement it is clear that a war would violate the UN Charter and challenge the authority of international law as established from the United Nations, which was station up shortly after World War II.

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