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“We want genpatsu in Tokyo!” - The new sarcastic edge of Japan's anti-nuclear demos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Hase Michiko
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These are some of the quotes on the signs carried by some 110 demonstrators in Tokyo on September 25, 2011. The colorfully clad marchers chanted them cheerfully, insisting that “genpatsu are absolutely necessary for Japan's economic growth” and that building one in Tokyo, the largest consumer of electricity, would be most efficient.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e81
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Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.' As footnote

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[1] See here for a video and photos of the demonstration.

[2] See the website of the organizers.

[3] See here, for example.

[4] In this video, one can see and hear an explosive unleashing of the young protestors’ anger and energy. Also noteworthy was the fact that it was called by someone not affiliated with established organizing bodies like unions and peace organizations and that the participants joined the demonstration spontaneously, many of them for the first time in their lives, having learned of it through social media.

[5] Address by H.E. Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan, at the United Nations High- Level Meeting on Nuclear Safety and Security, September 22, 2011, New York.

[6] http://410nonuke.tumblr.com/

[7] 4月24日 渋谷脱原発 エネルギーシフトパレード デモ ダイジェスト [via YouTube]

[8] Official site: sayonara-nukes.org; videos; a series of aerial photos See here for links to the Asia-Pacific Journal's complete coverage of the 3.11 disasters and their aftermath.