Four months on, and the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is still leaking.
And Japanese people are still angry. A protest culture of sorts has arisen from the destruction.
Not that it's an entirely new development (from what we hear, the peasants didn't so much like the shogunate, and folks haven't always been demure in the face of U.S. military bases).
But protests haven't been a particularly fervent mainstay of modern-day Japan, either.
Until now. 1,200 people demonstrated outside TEPCO's headquarters in Tokyo back in March and just last Saturday several rallies rolled into one in Shinjuku-ku, accounting for more than 20,000 people. That's a lot for Japan.
(GlobalPost in Kyoto: Anti-government criticism on the rise)
Now, these gatherings aren't exactly raucous (Vice has a good parody here), but they are a new development, as noted by The Diplomat — even if they are a few Molotov cocktails short of a revolution.
GlobalVoices has rounded up a selection of anti-nuke songs that have become popular in Japan since the quake. Here are a few:
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