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National › High school students eye 10,000 signatures for nuclear disarmament

About 80 high school students from Hiroshima and Okinawa prefectures began collecting signatures on the streets of the city of Hiroshima to appeal to the… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Sat, Jul 26 2008

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