Japan displays amazing demonstration at PM residence against the restart of the Ooi nucler plant - media there and here trying to ignore but the people power is growing strong in Japan !

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/messrs-edano-and-hosono-comment-on.html

FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012

Messrs Edano and Hosono Comment on 45,000-Strong Protest at PM Official Residence on June 22, 2012

As I posted earlier, they were inside the Prime Minister's Official Residence as the protest was on-going.

Portirland blog, posting the TV Asahi's program video (probably will be taken down shortly by Asahi soon), shows what the response was from each of them.

"Minister, there is a huge demonstration right now outside the Official Residence, against the Ooi Nuke Plant restart..." What do you think?

First, Mr. Yukio Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry:

(...) No comment.

Then, Mr. Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment/Minister in charge of the nuclear accident, with the same question:

I'm in a hurry now.

Then Hosono's car scooted right past the demonstrators:

Here's the video of the 11-minute segment in Asahi's report, while it lasts, if you understand Japanese. Ministers' non-comment and comment are about 5:40 into the video. Extremely brief.

and......

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/45000-joined-demonstration-against-the-restart-of-ohi-nuclear-plant-internet-movement/

[Hydrangea revolution] 45,000 joined demonstration against the restart of Ohi nuclear plant

Posted by Mochizuki on June 22nd, 2012 · 4 Comments

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↓ Mr. Hirano, the organizer is only 27 years old. He talks “Most of them joined as individual. I think they got the information from Twitter to join.”

Following up this article..11,000 people joined demonstration in front of official residence of JP PM

“Kanteimae” (=in front of the official residence of Japanese prime minister)demonstration was held on 6/22/2012. According to the organizer, 45,000 people joined, mass media reported it was 40,000 people. Metropolitan Police Department reported it to be 11,000 people.

The line of people reached 700m.

Mr. Higashihara, a Salaryman from Tsuchiura Ibaraki commented he knew the schedule of the demonstration on facebook. They haven’t even decided the way of processing nuclear waste, can’t understand why they have to restart Ohi nuclear plant. He thought he should say something.

They are planning to collect 100,000 people for the next Friday.

NHK ignored this demonstration.

↓ Pro-nuke joined to disturb the demonstration

↓ TV Asahi “Hodo station” reported it