Japan: Anti-Nuclear Power Rally Held, Thousands March

TOKYO -- Thousands of Japanese people marched against nuclear power Saturday, amid growing worries about the restarting of reactors idled after the March 11 meltdown disaster in northeastern Japan.

Holding "No Nukes" signs, people gathered at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo for a rally Saturday, including Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe.

The protesters then marched peacefully through the streets demanding Japan abandon atomic power.

"I'm worried there could be more nuclear accidents," said Misako Terada, a 54-year-old housewife.

Last year's tsunami in northeastern Japan destroyed backup generators at Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, causing multiple meltdowns and setting off the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Protesters held a banner that said in Japanese, "Goodbye to nuclear power, call for 10 million people to act."

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[GRLCowan]

01:08 PM on 02/14/2012

The Japanese government has more than a billion dollars in extra royalty revenue on imported liquefied natural gas in 2011.

That leads to a question: how is the Japanese government paying these people to "demonstrate"?

[Callme Ish]

05:06 PM on 02/12/2012

Nuke lets us down time after time.
It is the most dangerous possible way to boil water.
99 accidents --the ones we know about, the ones that they did not succeed in covering up.
"They" try to cover up everything, until forced to fess up.

Stop nuke now.
Shut them down on accidents, and never let them get back up.

Solar is way way cheaper than nuke. Nuke was a stupid experiment, and it has proven itself time and time again that nuke and human life are incompatible.

Stop in here at the nukepimp (anti-nuke) and drop a comment, great resources here that show just how bad nuke is.

http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/

[Atoms4Peace1]

05:54 PM on 02/12/2012

You mislead people. 60 "accidents" were outside reactors not involving boiling water for electricity

You cant stop them

[Atoms4Peace1]

05:58 PM on 02/12/2012

Im trying to figure out how a submarine can run underwater with solar energy. Do you have any ideas?

[Genders]

09:50 PM on 02/12/2012

Bombs warships and sensing are the only nuke applications that make sense. Not energy. figure it out.,

[professor]

01:08 AM on 02/12/2012

"I'm worried there could be more nuclear accidents." Don't worry. There will be.

[Callme Ish]

05:08 PM on 02/12/2012

99 BIG Accidents, and this last year has seen a parabolic rise.

nukepimp.blogspot.com/p/nuke-accidents-civilian-and-military-99.html

[Atoms4Peace1]

06:00 PM on 02/12/2012

Drink the antinuclear koolaid.

[Atoms4Peace1]

05:59 PM on 02/12/2012

And all the little ants are marching. Red and black antennas waving. They all do it the same..

[Atoms4Peace1]

06:55 PM on 02/11/2012

The reactors will come back on line. These people are fools.

[ihatenuclearpower]

12:59 PM on 02/12/2012

You are an idiot.

[Atoms4Peace1]

05:08 PM on 02/12/2012

Its hard living life as a hater.

Enjoy life, enjoy what nuclear energy brings us every day.

No one is dying from Fukushima radiaiton.

You want real risk? Look at your cell phone. Its cooking the brain,

Kids need to understand that long term cell phone use will lead to brain cancer.

[Callme Ish]

06:34 PM on 02/12/2012

dont feed the trolls

[ihatenuclearpower]

01:00 PM on 02/12/2012

Fukushima is dead.

[Atoms4Peace1]

05:06 PM on 02/12/2012

No one said it wasnt.

Nuclear isnt Fukushima. Fukushima doesnt speak for the world.