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bananas

(27,509 posts) Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:02 PM Jun 2012

Japanese protesters fill streets as nuclear re-start looms

Source: Reuters

More than 15,000 anti-nuclear protesters blocked streets outside the Japanese prime minister's office on Friday, beating drums and chanting slogans against the restart of reactors nearly 16 months after the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.

The crowd blocked off a six-lane road and adjoining streets leading to the Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's official residence in central Tokyo. Police parked five armoured riot control buses in front of the entrance to prevent protesters entering the compound.

Several helicopters circled overhead as the sun went down on a clear, early summer evening.

The protest capped weeks of sporadic demonstrations and was the biggest gathering in central Tokyo since Noda said this month the restart of two reactors in western Japan was necessary to avoid damaging the economy.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/29/japan-nuclear-protest-idUSL3E8HT3VU20120629

Asahi: 150,000 to 180,000 protest in Tokyo streets — Top headline on Mainichi (NEW VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/asahi-150000-180000-protest-tokyo-top-headline-mainichi-new-video

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Japanese protesters fill streets as nuclear re-start looms (Original Post) bananas Jun 2012 OP

bideo desu! (video) AsahinaKimi Jun 2012 #1

Video from a helicopter (night time) bananas Jun 2012 #6

Hmm, who do I trust to count protesters... TheWraith Jun 2012 #2

That was the headline on Asahi Shumbun bananas Jun 2012 #7

Damn, and I thought we were #1 in stupid. What the people RKP5637 Jun 2012 #3

Good to see the cops aren't busting heads Populist_Prole Jun 2012 #4

When Building #4 (and its Spent Fuel Rods) Finally Falls Over... solarman350 Jun 2012 #5

Japan restarts nuclear reactor as protests mount maddezmom Jul 2012 #8

Good. Turn the rest of them on. n/t miyazaki Jul 2012 #9

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

1. bideo desu! (video)

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:13 PM

Jun 2012

bananas

(27,509 posts)

6. Video from a helicopter (night time)

Reply to AsahinaKimi (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 06:42 PM

Jun 2012

Via http://enenews.com/watch-up-to-200000-reported-lining-streets-of-tokyo-for-protest-photos-videos-nyt-reporter-see-office-workers-moms-w-small-kids-seniors-buddhist-priests-photos

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)

2. Hmm, who do I trust to count protesters...

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:14 PM

Jun 2012

Reuters, or the continually-wrong propaganda outlet Enenews?

bananas

(27,509 posts)

7. That was the headline on Asahi Shumbun

Reply to TheWraith (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 06:56 PM

Jun 2012

Enenews has a screen capture of a Microsoft translation, I tried to embed it in the OP but it won't show unless you go to enenews.com to see it (requires referer tag).

Here's the google translation of http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0629/TKY201206290577.html

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0629/TKY201206290577.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.asahi.com/national/update/0629/TKY201206290577.html%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1247%26bih%3D685%26prmd%3Dimvns&sa=X&ei=XYLvT8b3B4r96gG1o7GfBg&sqi=2&ved=0CFEQ7gEwAA

Primary residence before noisy protest in the "150,000 people" across the country

Protest ahead of citizens to restart on July 1, Kansai Electric Power Oiigenpatsu (Fukui), day and night to the opposite 29, was before the Prime Minister's Office. Have been, but have been carried out mainly at night every Friday, the organizers and people gathered to 18 150,000 greatly exceeding 45,000 about the last was the best so far, around official residence was abuzz ( approximately 17,000 people in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department investigated). There are protests all over the country, even in the same time, voices of opposition were spreading.

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The New York Times lists several crowd estimates and points out that "two-thirds of Japanese opposed the restart":

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/world/asia/thousands-in-tokyo-protest-the-restarting-of-a-nuclear-plant.html

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Estimates of the crowd’s size varied widely, with organizers claiming 150,000 participants, while the police put the number at 17,000. Local news media estimated the crowd at between 20,000 and 45,000, which they described as the largest protest in central Tokyo since the 1960s.

Protests of any size are rare in Japan, which has long been politically apathetic. However, there has been growing discontent among many Japanese who feel that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ignored public concerns about safety this month when he ordered the restarting of the Ohi power station in western Japan.

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Mr. Noda said he ordered the restarting of two of Ohi’s reactors to avoid power shortages that could cause blackouts during the sweltering summer and cripple industry. However, political analysts have warned of a public backlash after opinion polls showed that two-thirds of Japanese opposed the restart, with many saying that the government had failed to convince them that the plant had been made safe.

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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

3. Damn, and I thought we were #1 in stupid. What the people

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:26 PM

Jun 2012

want probably won't count.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)

4. Good to see the cops aren't busting heads

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 01:54 AM

Jun 2012

solarman350

(136 posts)

5. When Building #4 (and its Spent Fuel Rods) Finally Falls Over...

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 03:52 AM

Jun 2012

That'll be an "Extinction Event." The ENTIRE Northern Hemisphere will be encapsulated in a nuclear plume.

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)

8. Japan restarts nuclear reactor as protests mount

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 09:42 AM

Jul 2012

Japan restarts nuclear reactor as protests mount

By Shigemi Sato (AFP) – 2 hours ago

TOKYO — Engineers in Japan on Sunday began refiring an atomic reactor, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima, ending nearly two months in which the country was nuclear-free.

Local media reported that the process to restart Unit No. 3 at Oi in western Japan began around 9:00 pm (1200 GMT).

It had earlier been reported that control rods that have prevented an atomic reaction would be removed and fission would begin. The reactor was expected to reach criticality early Monday morning.

A noisy demonstration near the power station that had begun earlier in the day was continuing, live streamed footage showed.

more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hh1Sx7vdNJhduHMEEHh8B97WNgHQ?docId=CNG.23327dd58ceaf0d9fd4b724c6070d01a.601

miyazaki

(2,249 posts)

9. Good. Turn the rest of them on. n/t

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 12:20 PM

Jul 2012

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