Japanese groups protest India's nuclear tests

TOKYO, May 14 Kyodo - About 20 members of four antinuclear and peace groups held protest demonstrations in front of the Indian Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday, after India carried out more underground tests Wednesday. They called out to India's Ambassador to Japan Siddharth Singh when he arrived at the embassy by car, but Singh ignored them. The groups, including survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, started a joint protest around 10 a.m. They said that India's nuclear tests will cause the resumption of the nuclear arms race. The four groups, including the Japan Congress against A and H Bombs (Gensuikin) and the National Council for Peace and Against Nuclear Weapons, issued a statement against India's second series of tests in three days, saying that whatever reasons India has, nuclear tests cannot be justified.