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Sat, 06/11/2011 - 18:11
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Thousands rally against nuke plants as crisis runs into 4th month
TOKYO (Kyodo) - Thousands of antinuclear protesters took to the streets across Japan Saturday as the country's worst nuclear crisis ran into its fourth month since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
In Tokyo, about 6,000 protesters marched to Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry which supervises the utility industry, according to the organizer Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, commonly known as Gensuikin.
Thousands of protesters also marched on the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku shopping district and Shibuya, a popular hangout for young people, carrying signs and balloons reading ''Bye-Bye Nuclear Plants'' and ''Protect Fukushima.''
In Fukushima City, the Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation held a forum to discuss nuclear power issues.
''We are being tossed about by a tsunami of radioactive materials and are still in pain,'' said Kenta Sato, 29, from the town of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture whose residents were forced to evacuate by the nuclear accident.
A group of protesters in white protective gear marched in the partly evacuated city of Minamisoma and approached the no-go zone in a 20-kilometer radius from the radiation-leaking plant.
Elsewhere, hundreds staged a rally in downtown Hiroshima and near the Atomic-Bomb Dome at the epicenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, calling for the nation's exit from nuclear power.
Miwa Watanabe, 36, who has temporarily moved from Fukushima with her son to live with her parents in Hiroshima, said, ''I am the third generation of (A-bomb) victims and have been living with a fear of radiation, but I never dreamed of coming to have the same fear in Fukushima.''
Similar rallies organized by concerned civic groups were also held in Osaka and prefectures where nuclear power plants are located, including Hokkaido and Fukuoka.
In Tokyo, about 6,000 protesters marched to Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry which supervises the utility industry, according to the organizer Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, commonly known as Gensuikin.
Thousands of protesters also marched on the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku shopping district and Shibuya, a popular hangout for young people, carrying signs and balloons reading ''Bye-Bye Nuclear Plants'' and ''Protect Fukushima.''
In Fukushima City, the Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation held a forum to discuss nuclear power issues.
''We are being tossed about by a tsunami of radioactive materials and are still in pain,'' said Kenta Sato, 29, from the town of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture whose residents were forced to evacuate by the nuclear accident.
A group of protesters in white protective gear marched in the partly evacuated city of Minamisoma and approached the no-go zone in a 20-kilometer radius from the radiation-leaking plant.
Elsewhere, hundreds staged a rally in downtown Hiroshima and near the Atomic-Bomb Dome at the epicenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, calling for the nation's exit from nuclear power.
Miwa Watanabe, 36, who has temporarily moved from Fukushima with her son to live with her parents in Hiroshima, said, ''I am the third generation of (A-bomb) victims and have been living with a fear of radiation, but I never dreamed of coming to have the same fear in Fukushima.''
Similar rallies organized by concerned civic groups were also held in Osaka and prefectures where nuclear power plants are located, including Hokkaido and Fukuoka.
