Today (March 31), Zengakuren, National Coordinating Center of Labor Unions, workers, farmers and other people protested against TEPCO and Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.An extraordinary number of the security police and TEPCO’s “security personnel” both in dark plain clothes took photos and videos of the protesters and intimidated them.
In front of the TEPCO head office, the security police arrested three students: ODA Yosuke, president of Zengauren, SAKANO Yohei, acting presindent of Zengakuren, and SAITO Ikuma, president of the Federation of Cultural Clubs of Hosei University. Please see photos of them two or three minutes before the arrest:
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I wonder if the purported reason for arrest is failure to apply for a permit. I don’t know the ins and outs of the regulations, but few gatherings in Japan in recent decades are called “demonstrations” because permits for “parades” are more easily gained. The more TEPCO and the state have to conceal, the more courage ordinary citizens will need to protest the destruction of their lives.