Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: 45,000 rally against nuclear power

“They also now know that an incident a long way away affects each and every
one of us, that all of us have put radiation from Fukushima into our
mouths,” she said. “They realise that this will affect all of us for years
to come.”

At a separate anti-nuclear rally yesterday in Osaka, marchers called on the
government to drop plans to restart the plant at Oi, before the end of the
month. This morning, 250 local residents were due to file a lawsuit at the
Osaka District Court against Kansai Electric Power Co seeking an injunction
against the plant being restarted.

The last of its four reactors was shut down for a regular safety inspection in
December and stress-tests on all the reactors were completed and approved on
February 9, but the local authorities have so far withheld permission for
the plant to go back into operation.

Yuko Hirono, who took her four year old child to the Tokyo protest, is one of
the growing number of Japanese who are only too aware of how their lives
have changed in the last 12 moths.

“I didn’t want to just watch the protests on television, as if nothing has
happened or changed,” she said. “I think opposition to nuclear power is
growing.”

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