TOKYO - The local assembly in a Japanese city that hosts a U.S. naval base voted unanimously Wednesday against plans to deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier there, citing the feelings of people in a country where the US dropped two atomic bombs.
The 45-member Yokosuka City Assembly unanimously adopted a statement urging the central government to nullify the agreement with Washington to base a Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier in the city starting in 2008, replacing an older conventional carrier, city spokesman Takahide Kurabayashi said.
Yokosuka hosts the U.S. Seventh Fleet, the only U.S. fleet based overseas.
American troops have been stationed in Japan since the end of World War II in 1945, but the Japanese public has long been wary of any U.S. nuclear presence because of opposition to nuclear weapons and a fear of radiation leaks.
The decision to deploy the nuclear-powered carrier comes 60 years after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of the war.
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