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Anti-nuke activists mark 1st anniversary of weekly...
Protesters call for an end to the use of nuclear power outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on March 29. (Soichiro Yamamoto)
Anti-nuclear activists gathered outside the prime minister's office on March 29 to call for an end to Japan's dependency on nuclear power and mark the one-year anniversary of...
Weekly anti-nuke protests still going strong, but...
Protesters calling for the abolition of nuclear power plants on March 15, the first Friday after the 2nd anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture (Satoru Ogawa)
Anti-nuclear demonstrations that have been a fixture in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Friday nights for nearly a year are still drawing sizable crowds, but...
Opponents of nuclear power vow to continue protests ...
Anti-nuclear demonstrators protest outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Dec. 21. (Soichiro Yamamoto)
Anti-nuclear protesters who have been gathering for months each Friday near the prime minister's office continued expressing their opposition Dec. 21 in an effort to underscore ...
Anti-nuclear rallies pass the 6-month mark
Protesters denounce Japan's dependence on nuclear power, during a weekly Friday night rally outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo's Nagatacho district, Sept. 28. (Hiroki Endo)
Anti-nuclear campaigners have demonstrated outside the prime minister's office weekly for six months now, bringing their message to the heart of government.
Anti-nuclear protests signal new activism in Japan
Protesters hold handmade signs and banners criticizing the restart of the Oi nuclear power plant and the government's appointment of a new nuclear regulator in front of the prime minister's office on Aug. 17. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
This is Japan's summer of discontent. Tens of thousands of protesters--the largest demonstrations the country has seen in decades--descend on Tokyo every Friday evening to...
EDITORIAL: Anti-nuke protests offer an opportunity...
Anti-nuclear demonstrators gather before the Diet building on July 29. (Jun Ueda)
A myriad of lights cast a soft glow around the Diet building as dusk fell on July 29.
Former Prime Minister Hatoyama joins anti-nuclear...
Yukio Hatoyama addresses a crowd of protesters outside the prime minister's office on July 20. (The Asahi Shimbun)
In a rare move by a former Japanese prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama joined a boisterous anti-nuclear demonstration outside his old office on July 20, a fresh sign that the...
Huge changes occurring in protest techniques in...
An aerial shot of the June 29 demonstration against nuclear power held near the Prime Minister's Office (Provided by Tadashii hodo heli no kai [Organization for proper reporting by helicopter])
Where "revolution" could once be defined in Japan as something akin to the violent protests in 1960 against the revision of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, today's growing...
Anti-nuclear protesters put heat on Noda
Protesters, including elderly people, shout opposition to the reactivation in Tokyo’s Nagatacho district on July 13. (The Asahi Shimbun)
Fifteen weeks ago, there were only 300 of them. On July 13, according to police estimates, there were 10,000 people in Tokyo’s streets with a single, simple message for Prime ...
VOX POPULI: The utter folly of not telling the truth
What is called "dengon gemu" (message game) in Japanese goes by many different names in English, including broken telephone and Chinese whispers.
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