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VIDEO Japanese Raising Voices Against Nuclear Reactors’ Restart VOA, July 06, 2012 TOKYO — For the third consecutive Friday evening, thousands of Japanese took to the streets of their capital to vent frustration with the government’s move to restart idled nuclear power plants. Earlier
this week, for the first time since the meltdown of three reactors at
a coastal plant hit by the March 11th, 2011, earthquake and tsunami,
Japan resumed nuclear power generation. ….
Many citizens and even some national lawmakers are expressing
skepticism, saying concerns about profits and the economy are
outweighing safety considerations.

Tokyo housewife Setsuko Naoe says she felt compelled to join the
protests because officials have not learned any lessons from the
Fukushima meltdowns.

Naoe laments the Japanese media, especially the national
quasi-official NHK broadcaster, do not really report on the protests
but she says that will not discourage those who share her stance.

Despite Friday’s rally being one of the biggest Tokyo has seen in
decades, NHK gave the protests only a 20-second mention 40 minutes
into its main 9 p.m. television newscast.

For Mitsukazu Asakawa, the event reminds him of the protests he took
part in against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty more than 50 years ago.

Asakawa says since the 1960s, Japan has not seen such large street
demonstrations, which also took place in the same location. But these
rallies are different he points out – as they are not composed of
radical, young people but are rather part of a diverse grassroots
movement…… http://www.voanews.com/content/japenese-raising-voices-against-nuclear-reactors-restart/1364406.html

July 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual