Office workers march in anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo

[bananas]

Source: Asahi Shimbun



Anti-nuclear protesters, many wearing business suits, marched through Tokyo’s Shinbashi district in the evening of Oct. 30.

Most of the attendees came straight from their offices to take part in the 40-minute demo.

The group started at a park near Shinbashi Station at 7 p.m and marched nearly 2 kilometers in the business district, shouting slogans such as “No to restarts,” “Stop contaminated water” and “Stop export.”

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The event organizer’s aim was to increase the involvement of office workers, who generally hesitate to join demonstrations. Ordinary people are generally not taking any action, the organizer said.

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About 600 people attended the march, the organizer said.

Read more: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310310072

[onehandle]

1. Now that's the way to dress for a protest.

Unwashed youths in black bandana masks, take note.

[yuiyoshida]

2. iiyo!

subarashiidesuyo! いいよ！すばらしですよう！

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Pretty cool

Shinbashi is usually known as a place for office workers to unwind after a day at the office. I wish I could have seen it in person.

[AnneD]

3. This reminds me of the protests ......

during the 30's. Hats, gloves, Sunday dresses and suits. Or the civil rights march....it was rare to see Dr. King without a shirt and tie.

[RobertEarl]

4. Wow.

That is almost unheard of in Japan.

Well, they have firsthand evidence of the danger nuke plants present, don't they?

[bananas]

6. This disaster is changing Japanese culture

we are seeing major changes in culture around the world, RobertEarl.
We saw the "Arab Spring" etc - this could be the "Japanese Spring".
Or, it could go the other way, if the forces of darkness maintain their hold on people...
in which case it will be the "Japanese Winter".

I appreciate your posts and your tenacity ...
tenacity is a word I didn't appreciate until one of my martial arts instructors tenaciously demonstrated the concept ... he just wouldn't let go ...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenacious

te·na·cious
adjective \tə-ˈnā-shəs\

: not easily stopped or pulled apart : firm or strong

: continuing for a long time

Full Definition of TENACIOUS
1
a : not easily pulled apart : cohesive <a tenacious metal>
b : tending to adhere or cling especially to another substance <tenacious burs>
2
a : persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired <a tenacious advocate of civil rights> <tenacious negotiators>
b : retentive <a tenacious memory>
— te·na·ci·ous·ly adverb
— te·na·cious·ness noun
See tenacious defined for English-language learners »
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Examples of TENACIOUS

The company has a tenacious hold on the market.
<a tenacious trainer, she adheres to her grueling swimming schedule no matter what>
But raw capitalism has also proved tenacious, evolving its own means of endlessly restimulating consumption … —Nicholas Fraser, Harper's, November 2003
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Origin of TENACIOUS
Latin tenac-, tenax tending to hold fast, from tenēre to hold
First Known Use: 1607
Related to TENACIOUS

Synonyms
dogged, insistent, patient, persevering, pertinacious, persistent

Antonyms
nonadhesive

Related Words
assured, certain, dedicated, determined, firm, hell-bent, intent, positive, resolute, resolved, single-minded, sure; adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, indurate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unregenerate, unyielding, willful (or wilful); unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering; resistant, wayward, wrongheaded; constant, devoted, faithful, good, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true; indomitable, unconquerable; hard, inflexible, relentless, stern, unbending, unflinching, unrelenting

Near Antonyms
quitting, surrendering, yielding; faltering, hesitant, hesitating, irresolute, vacillating, wavering; disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous

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Rhymes with TENACIOUS
audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious,...
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te·na·cious
adjective \tə-ˈnā-shəs\ (Medical Dictionary)
Medical Definition of TENACIOUS
: tending to adhere or cling especially to another substance : viscous <coughed up 150 cc. of thick tenacious sputum—Journal of the American Medical Association>

[RobertEarl]

7. I've been called worse!

Thanks, Bananas.

You too. More than a few of us have seen the urgency to educate and inform DU about what nuclear power can do as it is used to boil water. We have made an awesome team.

From my side comes 30 years of being an environmental activist whose concerns at a dwindling life force in the wilds, made me aware of just what Chernobyl had done to the whole planet. And now Fukushima. And what may be the next bad nuclear news. These Japanese have seen it up close and personal and they need our support.

The wilds need our help and support, and the chief usurper of the wild flora and fauna sure seems, to me, to be an out of control nuclear power. We must win this battle. Our heritage depends on us winning. Our future....

[RobertEarl]

8. US Energy Chief Offers Japan Help

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_US_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-31-06-16-32

TOKYO (AP) -- U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he expects deepening cooperation with Japan over the high-stakes cleaning up and decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The Fukushima plant has had a series of mishaps in recent months, including radioactive water leaks from storage tanks. The incidents have added to concerns about the ability of operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, to safely close down the plant, which suffered meltdowns after being swamped by the March 2011 tsunami on Japan's northeastern coast.

"We expect the relationship in the area of decommissioning between TEPCO and our national laboratories to expand and deepen in the coming years," Moniz said in a lecture Thursday in Tokyo.

"Just as the tragic event had global consequences, the success of the cleanup also has global significance. So we all have a direct interest in seeing that the next steps are taken well and efficiently and safely," he said.

[freshwest]

5. Good! Everything they have worked for all their lives should not be stolen by a man-made disaster.