nuclear power for our children,” said hospital worker Takeshi Shinoda, wearing a “No Nukes” T-shirt and strolling with his 3-year-old son in a long line of demonstrators.
The movement’s leaders say they have collected 7.4 million signatures for a petition demanding a phase-out of nuclear power.
Until last month, 제주도출장마사지 when Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda decided to restart the reactor at Ohi plant in central Japan, all of this nation’s 50 working reactors had been offline. The second reactor at Ohi is set to go online later this week.
Noda has said some nuclear energy is needed to ensure an ample power supply and protect people’s livelihoods. Japan’s economy is still struggling after last year’s disaster, and the towering costs of oil imports to fuel non-nuclear power plants threaten to derail its fledgling recovery.
Critics are not convinced, saying Japan has done fine without atomic energy for more than a year.
The demonstrators also said they were offended by a parliamentary investigation that blamed Japanese culture for the Fukushima disaster.
The report, released earlier this month, said, “Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture our reflexive obedience, our reluctance to question authority, our devotion to `sticking with the program,’ our groupism and our insularity.”
Midori Tanaka, a schoolteacher marching at the park, said the right people should face up to their mistakes.
“Things can never change if we blame culture. We need to get to the bottom of this,” she said.
Oe said blaming culture was a cop-out, adding that individuals including the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operates Fukushima Dai-ichi should be held responsible.
Addressing the rally from a stage, Sakamoto said it was ridiculous to risk people’s lives for electricity.
“Life is more important than money,” he said in Japanese, then added in English, “Keeping silent after Fukushima is barbaric.”
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