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Anti nuclear rallies in Tokyo last Friday, and Sunday

Hundreds join anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo Bangkok Post, : 27/08/2012  AMOnline news: Asia Hundreds of anti-nuclear demonstrators marched in Tokyo Sunday, calling for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to abandon the country’s atomic energy programme following last year’s Fukushima accident.

People stage an anti-nuclear demonstration march in Tokyo’s shopping
district Shibuya. Hundreds of anti-nuclear demonstrators marched in
Tokyo Sunday, calling for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to abandon the
country’s atomic energy programme following last year’s Fukushima
accident.

Approximately 500 protesters, including mothers with their children
and young men banging drums, walked through the capital’s popular
Shibuya shopping district.

“This is part of the movement that has backed up the rallies outside
the prime minister’s office every Friday,” one of the participants
said.

In recent months about a thousand people have protested every Friday
outside the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, in an attempt to put
pressure on Noda to ditch Japan’s nuclear energy programme….
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/309543/hundreds-join-anti-nuclear-rally-in-tokyo

August 27, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general