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Wow. Real political dialogue between a popular mass movement and a Japanese leader? I'm not saying anything is going to happen -- for all I know Noda will file the notes from the meeting in the appropriate trash can -- but still ... can anybody ever remember anything like this happening in Japan before? It wasn't that many decades ago when the government would just round up the usual suspects and move on.

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Look these people need to realize that just protesting won't change anything... they'll need to get politically active.

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NewsmanAug. 04, 2012 - 10:08AM JST

Wow. Real political dialogue between a popular mass movement and a Japanese leader? .... It wasn't that many decades ago when the government would just round up the usual suspects and move on.

Your optimism about Japanese democracy is greatly misplaced.

The greatest miscalculation the Japanese government has made with their nuclear policy is that they didn't build all the nuclear power stations on Okinawa and it surronding islands.

If they had they'd be none of this mass protest in Tokyo. The only protesting would be on Okinawa and that's far far away from Kasumigaseki.

For real deomocratic mass protest, you need the quality of empathy within society.... something very lacking in modern Japan.

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Japan is paying an extra 60 billion USD more to buy all the fossil fuel that is needed to substitute for the shut-down reactors.

Wouldnt it be nice if these protesters volunteered to pay for that out of their own pocket instead of rolling the burden over to us all via the deteriorating economy.

But I seriously doubt any of these touchy-feely types thinks that far.

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Willibi well said! These protestors are stupid. There's no alternative to nuclear power for Japan. At least if the power goes off they won't be upset if just their houses and businesses lose power. And if electricity rates go up, they will be delighted to pay the extra costs of course.

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Yes lets pay for the screw up that these companies have made! (by going nuclear) How laughable. And anyway all the utilities except for TEPCO have actually lowered their prices of electricity since apparently the price of fossil fuels have slumped.

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The problem is not woth Noda ONLY. members of the nuclear village, nuke operators and political crooks pushing noda to the wall to restart the nuke plants should be named and shamed. they are hiding under Noda. This does not mean Noda is innocent but we seem to be dealing with symptoms to the disease rather than the cause

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These people at least kept raising their voices!

Noda's responding, but Tanigaki and Yamaguchi (Komeito's head) must be blocking their ears!

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zichiAug. 05, 2012 - 12:07AM JST

why were all the reactors shut down? Nothing to do with protestors. In case you have already forgotten. Last year's earthquake automatically shut down a number of nuclear plants. The nuclear disaster happened. The earthquake also damaged a number of fossil fuel plants too. The gov't demanded the shut down of the Hamoaka plant until a new sea defense is built.

Yet most were restated last year anyway, or kept moving until "mandatory inspection time". They were taken down for no reason other than a few loud voices.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the pro nuclear supporters offered to pay the ¥50 trillion the clean up at the Fukushima plant will need?

If you give them nuclear energy to pay for it, they can pay the ridiculous and completely un-subtanciated (except for a single source which does not break it down far enough) number of 50 trillion yen over 30 years and still pay less than they would for any other energy type.

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