Their appearances belied the seriousness of their gathering on a hot Friday night last month in Tokyo.
The seven urban-casual-hip young men and women met at a community center near JR Iidabashi Station not to talk fashion or mull entertainment options, but instead were strategizing on ways to reach out to listeners of a community FM radio station on Aug. 17 to launch a new peace movement.
Their two-hour discussion covered the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Okinawa and the war in Iraq.
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