Huge Demonstration in Tokyo Against Nuclear Power and Restart Nuclear Reactor

Between 60,000 and 100,000 people have marched this morning through the streets of Tokyo. Organized by several anti-nuclear Japan, the event called for an end to nuclear energy. She also recalled the outcry against the government’s inaction and inability to stop the nuclear disaster Fukushima. For Japan, the people live every day in fear of radiation and contamination. Many admired personalities of the people joined the procession of protesters. It includes the musician Ruychi Sakamoto and Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.

For several months, the Japanese government periodically tries to restart the nuclear reactors shut down after the earthquake of March 11, 2011 For now, only 11 of the 54 reactors in the country are still running. But every day or almost an earthquake somewhere in Japan. The population is afraid to see happen a second Fukushima, even as the first tragedy is ongoing. The political will to restart the nuclear reactors is even arrested lived worse than Japan has lived for six months without these reactors and it is very well suited.

The Japanese organizers have chosen the date of Monday, September 19, rather than the Sept. 11, the anniversary of the disaster of March 11. It must be said that the time was more to meditation, in memory of the 20,000 people who died in the earthquake and tsunami that followed. However, several demonstrations took place across Japan, September 11, 2011. On this occasion, many witnesses noted the presence of agitators, attempting to provoke protesters to make them stop. Some bloggers, such agitators were members of the Japanese extreme right, closely linked to the local mafia (the famous yakuza). One of their interventions has also nearly caused a diplomatic incident with France. The agitators had indeed ordered the police to arrest a protester French. His wife, Japanese, received several blows from the agitators, while her husband was arrested arbitrarily. The Ambassador of France in Japan intervened with the Japanese authorities

This one example highlights the issues facing the Japanese people today. While the Fukushima nuclear disaster is still ongoing and that the government conspicuous by its absence, the political will to restart the reactor in a highly dangerous period arouses suspicion. Some commentators on believe that the bonds of corruption would join the government, the extreme right and the mafia around the nuclear issue. It is true that one may wonder why the last conference set up by the authorities in Fukushima was funded by the man who considers himself as the. The purpose of this conference, chaired by Professor Shinichi Yamashita hilarious, was to end the fear of radiation. The Japanese themselves, marched to say they would rather do away with the radiation for short …