- Occupy Tokyo by Liora Leah
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Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:53 CST
You've heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Berlin, Tel Aviv and elsewhere around the world. But did you know that huge demonstrations have been taking place in Tokyo as well? We certainly didn't until a SOTT forum member sent us the details. The general lack of awareness of the protests in Japan is probably due to the fact that there has been zero coverage of 'Occupy Tokyo' - which has grown out of the country's large (and growing) grassroots anti-nuclear movement - in Japan's mainstream media.
Several large demonstrations have taken place all over Japan in recent months, especially in Tokyo. The general mood is the same as elsewhere: ordinary people in Japan are fed up with their leaders' lies, particularly the lies told by TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and how the government has handled the Fukushima disaster. Or rather, how it has avoided handling it. This should all be eerily familiar to Americans of course; BP's lies and the US government's enabling role from the moment the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April 2010 has continued to this day, with the tragedy continuing to unfold in deathly silence(1). What is happening in Japan is almost a carbon copy; denial, smear campaigns, heavy-handed tactics and, of course, total media blackout. Up to one million people may have died as a result of Chernobyl(2), although we'll never really know the true death toll. Fukushima is many orders of magnitude worse...(3)
People in Japan are very angry. Even though the Fukushima disaster is nowhere near ending (in fact, it is getting worse), Japanese media are simply not covering the fallout of the worst nuclear accident in history. Aftershocks from the Magnitude 9 earthquake which struck off the coast of Japan on March 11th are hardly mentioned in the Japanese media, but the fact is they are still ongoing and people are constantly stressed out by them (4). The economic aftershock is also beginning to take hold in a big way(5). The good news, says the SOTT forum member in Japan, is that people are now starting to wake up the fact that the Japanese government, TEPCO, and the media have been lying all this time and that more people are starting to take action to actually deal with the situation rather than wishfully think it will just blow away out into the Pacific Ocean.
Like citizens in other 'democratic' countries, Japanese people have had a crash course this year in learning that their own media is as controlled, if not more so, than those 'less democratic countries' everyone loves to point fingers at. To paraphrase Japanese independent journalist, Mr Uesugi, "In Japan, control of the media is worse than in China and similar to Egypt." An outrageous example of this information blackout was a recent demonstration by over 60,000 people in Tokyo which was never mentioned by the Japanese mainstream news at all. On top of protests focused on the Japanese government's handling of the Fukushima disaster, an 'Occupy Tokyo' movement is gaining momentum as well. Nobody is receiving much information about this either, unless they check out alternative websites. What follows is an overview of some of the events that have taken place in Japan, Tokyo in particular, in the past three months.
Go to: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/237704-Occupy-Tokyo-Mass-demonstrations-go-...
for photographs of Occupy Tokyo
Article Links:
1) http://www.sott.net/articles/show/237359-US-As-Dolphins-Die-Gulf-Residents-As...
2) http://www.sott.net/articles/show/208454-Book-s-Astounding-Allegation-Chernob...
3)http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227529-Helen-Caldicott-Fukushima-is-many-orders-of-magnitude-worse-than-Chernobyl
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227529-Helen-Caldicott-Fukushima-is-many-orders-of-magnitude-worse-than-Chernobyl
4) http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/1901-big-aftershocks-new-zealand-japan.html
5) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2011/October/opinion_October74.xml§ion=opinion&col=
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