On the 3 month anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan, set a tsunami in motion and the start of Japan’s nuclear crisis mass demonstrations were held across Tokyo in; Nerima, Kodaira, Oizumi-Gakuen, Ochanomizu, Edogawa-ku, Shiba Park, Oji, Kasumigaseki, Shibuya, Kunitachi, Machida and Shinjuku. I attended the Shibuya and Shinjuku demos. The first woman’s sign simply reads ‘family first’…
I was surprised to see the number of children that were protesting…
Even dogs…
In Shibuya, the police had broken the protesters in small groups which seemed to remove a lot of the energy from the protest…
Down shift… I like the drawing on the sign on the left. One thing about Nuclear Protest photos…if you study them for a minute there is always something interesting you didn’t notice at first as there is so much happening.
We must stand up together…
Lots of people taking pictures…You don’t see these types of protest on this scale in Tokyo.
There is a lot of anger and frustration at the government’s management and mismanagement of this disaster…
Bye Bye Nuclear Power…
I was again impressed with how professionally the police were able to handle protests of this size… Interestingly I was speaking to a few reports who mentioned that they bumped into many uncover police officers within the protesters…interesting.
Shibuya was interesting but it was fairly mellow as far as Nuclear Protests so I decided to hear to Shinjuku and see how that one was progressing…
I quickly realized Shinjuku was on a completely different scale…
Fitted with their own Punk Rock Banks…
Sayonara Nuclear Power…
House Music DJ…
What will happen mommy?
Can you drink a little more? (referring to Japan raising the acceptable limits of radiation)
Mama, what’s my future…
Hey wait he is shooting me!
Japanese Word of the Day: 不満 (ふまん) fuman – dissatisfaction, displeasure, discontent, unhappiness, disgruntled
example: 日本ではみんな、原発につよい不満をもっています。
Everyone in Japan is very frustrated with the current nuclear situation.
Dave Powell is a photographer based in Tokyo, Japan who shoots with a Leica M9. He is the publisher of ShootTokyo, a friendly daily photography blog which he calls a “labor of love.” You can follow him on Twitter @ShootTokyo and visit his photo blog site at http://www. shoottokyo.com.
