Saturday’s Nuclear Protests in Tokyo…
I found it interesting what a mix of people were talking in protest…
Some of the protesters started to tire a little bit…
Even Ronald McDonald was protesting…
Lairs!! (the sign says)
Protesting puppies…
The protest ended at Shinjuku Station and huge crowds began to gather…
This guy started getting a little rough…but this is the only type of this behavior I saw.
It was so crowded it was hard to capture the scene in the densely packed crowd…
Then I realized why they have press buses and with a simple ‘excuse me’ to the security guard watching who climbs on top I was on top. I must have looked official…
I switched to wide angle…
I actually got an email from this guy after the last protest asking if he can use my photos as he made all of the balloons for the demo…he recognized me on the street and stopped me.
‘I want to see grandma and grandpa who live in Fukushima. I can’t eat vegetables from there’…
Change the energy policy…
‘The government should protect our lives’…
By late afternoon the square behind Shinjuku Station where everyone gathered was completely surrounded by police…
A second trip onto of the press and speech bus…The crowd was really thick.
ShootTokyo action shot…
‘We don’t need nuclear energy’…
Japanese Word of the Day: 守る (まもる) mamoru – To protect, to guard, to defend.
example: 日本はこくみんをまもれ！
Japan should protect its citizens.
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.
