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60,000 in Tokyo protest government plans to restart nuclear power<\/h1>\n
posted on\u00a0JUNE 3, 2013 by\u00a0ADAM WESTLAKE in\u00a0FEATURES<\/a>,\u00a0NATIONAL<\/a> with\u00a0130 COMMENTS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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\"60,000<\/a>Approximately 60,000 people rallied in Japan\u2019s capital ofTokyo<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, June 2nd in order to protest recent government plans to restart the country\u2019s idled nuclear reactors. People gathered in Shiba Park and later marched towards the parliament building. Among the organizers wasKenzaburo Oe<\/a>, a Nobel literature laureate, who called on the Japanese government to leave the nuclear power plants in suspension out of fears for safety.<\/p>\n

The Japanese government has previously stated that it will most likely allow those reactors to return to power which have been approved by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA<\/a>), whose new safety guidelines are scheduled to be adopted in July. One of Japan\u2019s largest-ever protests saw 170,000 people gather in a\u00a0similar fashion in July 2012<\/a>, around the same time that then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda decided on the first two reactor restarts since the March 2011 Fukushima disaster. As of now, the anti-nuclear<\/a>\u00a0protestors say they have collected over 8 million signatures of those opposed to reactor restarts.<\/p>\n

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As they marched through the streets, the protestors carried signs and banners that had messages such as \u201cNo Nukes! Unevolved Apes Want Nukes!\u201d As of today, the two reactors that were restarted last summer, located in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, are the only ones out the country\u2019s 50 that have returned to operation. While Sunday\u2019s rally was organized between three different groups, Kyodo news reported that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department had put the number of protesters between 20,000 and 30,000.<\/p>\n

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