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英フィナンシャル・タイムズ紙／日本の運動に注目 “原発反対 世界に影響”
「しんぶん赤旗」 2012.07.18 日刊紙 １面
【ロンドン＝小玉純一】英紙フィナンシャル・タイムズ電子版は16日、最近、日本で広がる原発反対の運動について「本気の力を出し始めた」として、「世界第３の経済大国のエネルギー政策、したがって原発部門の世界的動向に対して、非常に大きな影響を与えうる」と論評しました。
同紙は最近の一連のデモを「数十年間で日本最大の抗議行動が相次ぎ、それぞれ数万人が参加している」「首都で最大の反原発イベントとNHKが述べた」と報じました。
同紙は「最近のデモが1960年代以来、政治問題を街頭に持ち込むことが少ない国での根本的変化を示していると、主催者や参加者がみなしている」と紹介。官邸前デモについては、「ソーシャルメディアによって組織された新しい活動家集団」や「左翼の労働組合組織・全労連」を含む「連携によって導かれている」と報じました。
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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/dad12af8-cf41-11e1-bfd9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz20vDS8YYP
July 16, 2012 2:47 pm
Japan nuclear protesters take to streets
By Mure Dickie in Tokyo
A string of some of Japan’s biggest protests in decades – each attended by tens of thousands of people – have in recent weeks given voice to a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment caused by the failure of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant on March 11, 2011.
Anti-nuclear sentiment grows in Japan 投稿者 gataro-clone
By challenging the government’s attempts to restart Japan’s nuclear industry, the demonstrations could have far-reaching implications for energy policy in the world’s third-largest economy, and thus for the sector’s global development.
On Monday, an estimated 75,000 people gathered near a Tokyo park in what was dubbed by state broadcaster NHK the capital’s largest anti-nuclear event yet.
Organisers and participants see recent demonstrations as signalling a fundamental change in attitudes in a nation where relatively few have been willing to take political issues to the streets since the 1960s.
Demonstrations are common in Tokyo, but they usually centre on a narrow issue of policy or labour grievance and rarely attract more than a few thousand people.
Anti-nuclear numbers have yet to match those who joined 1960s protests against Japan’s alliance with the US, but the anti-nuclear cause is being driven more by individual citizens, says Satoshi Kamata, a journalist and organiser of the Monday protest.
“It’s very late, but at last it is starting,” Mr Kamata says. “Japanese people historically have not been used to standing up for themselves, we have been a people that just put up with things . . . Finally that is changing.”
Organisers say anti-nuclear groups are belatedly working more closely together. Recent Friday night protests outside the prime minister’s office have been led by an alliance that includes new activist groups organised by social media as well as the left-wing labour union federation Zenroren.
Such co-operation combines the federation’s experience organising demonstrations with citizen groups’ ability to attract wider participation – but was initially hampered by a lack of mutual trust, says Yoshikazu Odagawa, Zenroren secretary general.
Mr Odagawa says a brief period this year when all of Japan’s nuclear power plants were offline became an inspiration. “That really brought groups together,” he says.
Anti-nuclear activists are also united in anger at the decision last month by Yoshihiko Noda, the prime minister, to restart two reactors at the Oi plant in western Japan in order to prevent possible summer power shortages.
One of the Oi reactors returned to full operation last week and the other is slated to begin generating electricity at the weekend.
Many participants on Monday directed particular ire at Mr Noda, whose popularity has been falling in recent opinion polls. “Noda! We’re angry!” read one banner. “Noda, step down!” was a common chant.
Gauging participation at recent demonstrations has been difficult. Organiser claims that 170,000 turned up looked exaggerated to journalists on the scene, but a police estimate of 75,000 reported by NHK appeared credible.
Like other recent protests, Monday’s event had to contend with sweltering weather and highly restrictive policing. Around the prime minister’s office, authorities have insisted on giving priority to traffic flow, forcing protesters to stay on congested pavements and then restricting access to the area on safety grounds.
Marchers on Monday were only allowed to set off in groups of a few hundred each and then required to walk three abreast in the outside lane of a busy city road.
Still, along with union veterans and peace activists from around the country, the demonstrations have attracted many newcomers to public protest ranging from young parents to the elderly.
Maki Sekiguchi, a Tokyo office worker attending with her husband and small child, said she had never been part of a demonstration before recently deciding to join the Friday night crowds around the prime minister’s office.
Ms Sekiguchi admitted she was still wary of talking about protest participation with acquaintances for fear of being thought “a bit strange”, and like other participants she was sceptical the protests would persuade the government to halt reactor restarts.
But she said none of this would stop her joining future demonstrations.
“We feel we have to do something,” Ms Sekiguchi said. “The government may not change its mind, but I still think it’s meaningful for us to do what we can.”
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