The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus Volume Issue Article ID 4914 Jan 01, 1970 Appendix to A New Wave Against the Rock: New social movements in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear meltdown List of the Principal Antinuclear Demonstrations and Rallies in Japan from March to September 2012 Date March 12 Location Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Number of Participants 18 TEPCO Headquarters 200 27 Ginza 1200 April 20 Nagoya 300 TEPCO Headquarters 300 3 TEPCO Headquarters 350 Shinjuku 300 Kyoto 500 9 Aomori 10 10 Kōenji 15000 Shiba Park 2500 Sapporo 400 Kanagawa 400 Toyama 100 Nagoya 150 Kumamoto Naha 11 KEPCO Headquarters 60 150 16 Osaka 4000 Shibuya 1600 120 17 Niigata 40 23 Shiga 70 24 Yoyogi 5000 TEPCO Headquarters 300 Shizuoka 1300 Asahikawa 50 Ehime 300 Aichi 80 26 Hiroshima 1500 Shibuya 1000 Osaka 300 29 Hyōgo 500 Kōchi 200 30 Ehime 100 May 1 Shiba Park 520 Gunma 500 Osaka 80 Miyagi 3 Shinjuku 500 Takatsuki 100 Osaka 5 Setagaya 500 Sapporo 400 7 Osaka 500 Chiba 200 8 Nagoya 1500 Shiga 800 1200 Ginza 200 14 Yamaguchi 150 15 Shibuya 800 Iwaki 500 Fukui 150 21 Kagoshima 200 Kōchi 70 22 Shibuya 500 Kanagawa 200 Ōma 210 23 Ministry of Education 650 24 Shinjuku Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency 27 Ginza 6500 28 Shibuya 300 Kichijōji 30 Hakodate 100 29 Nishi-tokyo 70 June Hibiya 4 Aomori 1350 Wakayama 40 5 Osaka 300 11 Shinjuku 30000 Meiji Park 6000 Shibuya 1500 Yokohama 4000 Osaka 5000 Date 60 1
Sapporo 600 Asahigawa 90 Ebetsu 50 Hakodate 300 Kushiro 50 Oshamanbe 9 Kamishihoro 15 Tomakomai 20 Aomori 70 Sendai 500 Akita 52 Kōriyama 350 Maebashi 1000 Tsukuba 550 Mito 30 Utsunomiya 180 Chiba 410 Matsudo 750 Koshigaya 120 Saitama 200 Saitama 75 Koganei 500 Edogawa 30 Kodaira 100 Kunitachi 700 Machida 300 Kamakura 200 Hadano 50 Yokosuka 100 Niigata 220 Fujikawa Hokuto 150 Kōfu 93 Nagano 80 Ueda 50 Hamamatsu 200 Shizuoka 260 Gifu 500 Nagoya 300 Nagoya 800 Aisai 300 Ise 80 Tsu 1500 Toyama 130 Takashima 100 Kanazawa 100 Fukui 160 Kyoto 640 Kyoto 300 Kyoto 75 Maizuru 50 Kobe 500 Kakogawa 25 Okayama 500 Kurashiki 35 Fukuyama 200 Hiroshima 100 Hiroshima 300 Hiroshima 33 Matsue 40 Ube 17 Kaminoseki 50 Yamaguchi 105 Yamaguchi 200 Tokushima 50 Takamatsu 150 Kōchi 300 Nakamura 55 1055 Kumamoto 200 Amakusa 24 Kagoshima 150 Iriomote 85 Naha 200 Naha 200 Naha 100 Yonaguni 10 Nakagami District 200 12 Koganei 150 Saku 270 19 Fukushima 1500 24 Hibiya 480 25 25 Fukushima 1500 July 2 Meiji Park 20,000 3 Osaka 150 7 TEPCO Headquarters 8 Saga 800 9 Shibuya 100 Nakamura 14 10 Nishi-tokyo 150 11 Shiba Prefectural Offices 300 12 Ehime 150 17 Iwaki 380 23 Shibuya 1000 Shinjuku 600 Chiba 70 24 Shibuya 100 25 Kamakura 100 28 TEPCO, Hokuden, Chūden, Kyūden Annual General Meetings 2
29 Hokkaido Electric Power Company, Okinawa Electric Power Company, Shikoku Electric Power Company Shareholders Meetings 30 Kushiro 31 Shibuya 400 August Osaka 700 2 Ginza 200 6 Ginza 7000 Maizuru 130 Kamakura 200 13 Nakamura 19 14 Sapporo 20 Kushiro 21 Sapporo 27 Shibuya 1200 September Hyōgo 200 3 Kanagawa 150 Sendai 100 Kashiwa 400 9 Fushimi 50 10 Nagoya 90 11 Shinjuku 20,000 Encircling METI 2000 Shibuya 900 Sapporo Hachinohe 10 Akita 700 Sendai 200 Fukushima 40 Tsuchiura 1180 Takasaki 600 Utsunomiya 120 Matsumoto 300 Ōmachi 20 Matsumoto 860 Niigata 250 Chiba 300 Saitama 160 Yokosuka 130 Hokuto 120 Nagoya 200 Ise 90 Kyoto 40 Kyoto 1600 Kyoto 2600 Kyoto 100 Uji 80 Osaka 310 Osaka 700 Kanazawa 280 Gifu 700 Okayama 400 Okayama 700 Matsue 18 Miyazaki 1050 Kōchi 200 Matsuyama 100 Utsunomiya 120 Hiroshima 3000 Nakamura 20 1200 Kagoshima 1300 17 Tachikawa 400 Hyōgo 32 18 Sapporo 2000 Nishi-tokyo 200 Amami 11 19 Meiji Park 60,000 Nagoya 2000 Shibuya 1500 Koganei 200 Asahikawa 400 Kushiro 70 Nagasaki 300 23 Itabashi 370 24 Shibuya 1600 Okinawa 210 25 Yaesu 150 October 1 Kawagoe 200 8 Shibuya 50 Nakamura 5 9 Ebisu 1050 15 Roppongi 500 Kyoto 50 22 Shibuya 1000 23 Ginza 200 29 Urawa 150 Kyoto 30 30 Shibuya 40 November METI Fukushima 10000 3 Nerima 250 5 Shibuya 1100 6 TEPCO Headquarters 160 Kichijōji 800 Kobe 150 3
11 Encirclement of METI 1300 12 Nakamura 14 13 15000 Sendai 400 Shibuya 80 20 Sumida 220 Osaka 300 Urawa 60 21 Ginza 200 23 Kawaguchi 200 26 Shibuya 450 27 Bunkyō 500 December Kyoto 200 3 Shibuya 1000 4 Nishi-tokyo 150 5 Ginza 150 10 Hibiya Park 5500 Naha 20 11 Encirclement of METI 1300 Mitaka 380 Osaka 280 Shiga 13 Matsuyama Kōchi 60 Nagoya 400 Ibaraki 100 Funabashi 180 17 Shibuya 950 19 Shinbashi 400 21 Ginza 150 23 TEPCO Headquarters 80 Shibuya 40 Sōka 180 Kanagawa 75 Nagano 26 Hirosaki 80 Sapporo 25 Kunitachi 100 Kobe 50 Fukushima 26 Osaka 200 28 TEPCO Headquarters 40 January 2012 11 Osaka 14 Yokohama 4500 15 Yokohama 80 18 Ginza 150 22 Tsuyama 50 Urayasu 28 Chigasaki 250 29 Shibuya 900 February 2012 Hamamatsu 130 200 Yokohama 100 4 Ōmiya 150 Shiga 500 5 Kunitachi 150 Hino 320 Osaka 50 8 NISA 40 9 Kyoto 150 11 Shinjuku 500 11 Yoyogi 12,000 Kushiro Osaka 200 19 Fuchū 8 Suginami 5000 12 Shimane 1300 18 Urayasu 50 Sapporo 1000 21 Ginza 100 23 Osaka 100 25 Yoyogi 600 26 Nishi-tokyo 100 March 2012 140 3 Misato 900 4 Koshigaya 700 Utsunomiya 50 Mitaka 150 10 Kushiro 300 11 Koganei 150 Yokohama 1000 Ueda Nagoya 800 Kyoto 6000 Sagamihara Zama 45 Encirclement of the National Diet 30,000 Hakodate 600 Sapporo 2500 Otaru 400 Tomakomai 260 Nishi-oburi Region 210 Iwamizawa 1000 Fukagawa Kitami Asahikawa 50 Hirosaki 1300 Yuzawa 70 4
Ōdate 200 Morioka Kōriyama 16,000 Iwaki 250 Musashino 8000 Shiagawa Meguro 150 Nerima Sumida 200 Bunkyō 200 Itabashi 500 Kita 850 Adachi 700 Tama 400 Machida 500 Yokohama 1000 Asahi-ku Tsurumi-ku 240 Izumi-ku Seya-ku Totsuka-ku Kanazawa Bunko Kawasaki-shi 1650 Samukawa 140 Shōnan 650 Kawaguchiko-machi 400 Ōmiya 3000 Misato Saitama 800 Makuhari Seaside Park 1000 Funabashi 500 Kashiwa 600 Ichikawa 600 Inzai 250 Koga 200 Hitachinaka 3000 Nasushiobara Takasaki 2500 Kōfu 400 Matsumoto 2000 Ina 200 Ueda 200 Okaya 240 Saku Nagano 1000 Niigata 250 Shizuoka 1200 Shimizu Hamamatsu Numazu Mishima Nagoya 6000 Toyohashi 500 Gifu 800 Tajimi Hidatakayama 600 Tsu 130 Nabari 250 Kanazawa 250 Toyama 400 Tsuruga 1200 Osaka 8000 Kawachinagano 200 Kobe 2500 Himeji 200 Maizuru 1200 Nagaoka-kyō 200 Jōyō 160 Ōtsu 1000 Nara 2000 Wakayama 2500 Okayama 1000 Hiroshima 2000 Yanai 1200 Yonago Tottori 400 Takamatsu 100 Matsuyama 160 Tokushima 400 Kōchi 1100 5000 Kitakyūshū 3000 Ōmuta 400 Nōgata Iizuka Kurume 300 Genkai 650 Saga 450 Nagasaki 1000 Kumamoto 1500 Ōita 1000 Miyazaki 450 Kagoshima-shi 2000 Urasoe 200 17 Kodaira-shi 70 Kunitachi-shi 170 Tokorozawa 250 18 Koganei 150 Urayasu 50 19 Ginza 120 20 Sendai 1000 Kumagaya 35 Kobe 80 Osaka 150 24 Hibiya Park 6,000 Iwanai, Hokkaido 1500 5
25 Shibuya 1200 29 120 Outside the Prime Minister s Official Residence 300 31 Kyoto 400 April 2012 Hamatsu 250 1 Ibaraki 3100 Kunitachi-shi 100 Saitama 6 Prime Minister s Residence 1000 7 Nagoya 250 Ōtsu-shi 600 8 Iwaki 200 13 Shiga 75 Kumagaya 150 Kanagawa 500 Kyoto 70 Musashino Protest Outside the Prime Minister s Residence 1000 14 Kasukabe 70 Nakamura 14 15 Ashikaga 30 Ikebukuro 250 16 Ginza 100 19 Encirclement of the National Diet (hereafter held every first Thursday of the month) 20 Prime Minister s Residence 1600 21 Osaka 400 Takasaki 60 22 Yoyogi 1000 Kichijōji 400 Osaka 80 Kyoto 150 Nara 50 25 Shinjuku 17 Kyoto 50 27 Prime Minister s Residence 1200 Nagoya Chubu Electric Power 29 Shibuya 1200 May 2012 5 Shiba Park 5,500 Osaka 400 Matsumoto 400 Sapporo 450 Kawagoe 100 Toyama Nagoya 200 Nagoya 250 Sapporo 600 Kyoto 6 Suginami 4,000 Adachi 100 Matsuyama 35 11 Hachiōji 150 12 Prime Minister s Residence 700 Nakamura 12 13 Okayama 50 18 Prime Minister s Residence 1000 18 Ginza 80 19 Kyoto 80 Chigasaki 100 20 Shibuya 1000 Nishi-tokyo 100 Osaka 500 Akita 22 Kitakyūshū 50 25 Prime Minister s Residence 700 26 Hino 30 Kushiro 30 27 Shibuya 1000 June 2012 Narimasu 300 Gunma 100 Saga 2500 Ageo 140 1 Prime Minister s Residence 2700 2 Kobe Kyoto 170 Kitakyūshū 72 3 Hibiya Park 1150 4 Osaka 40 7 Shimbashi 550 8 Prime Minister s Residence 4000 9 Prime Minister s Residence and Surrounds 800 Osaka 400 Fukui 50 Nakamura Hakodate Takamatsu 40 10 Kyoto 300 Kyoto 350 Kunitachi 90 11 Kodaira 100 Osaka City Hall 12 Sapporo 15 Prime Minister s Residence 12,000 16 Teshima 100 Hiroshima 90 17 Mitaka 257 Fuchū 120 6
Sapporo Fukui 2200 18 Osaka City Hall 22 Prime Minister s Residence 45,000 23 Shinjuku 270 24 Asakadai 250 Funabashi 2000 25 Ginza 70 Encirclement of KEPCO AGM, Osaka Hundreds 29 Prime Minister s Residence 200,000 Nagasaki 50 30 Sapporo 50 30 2 Ōi Nuclear Power Plant Gate July 2012 1 Shinjuku 7000 Yokohama 300 Yokosuka 6 Prime Minister s Residence 150,000 7 Shibuya 1000 7 8 Makuhari Messe 15,000 8 Sumida 150 Kōchi 9 Kyoto 90 13 Prime Minister s Residence 150,000 Kagoshima 70 Kyoto 30 14 Maebashi Nakamura 26 Kyoto 90 15 Funabashi 850 Aichi 1000 Ashikaga 60 Osaka 150 16 Yoyogi 170,000 3000 Ōita 100 Kyoto 300 Maizuru 120 Sapporo 1500 20 Prime Minister s Residence 90,000 21 Warabi 150 22 200 Kumamoto 60 Tokushima 650 Sayama 100 Hirosaki 50 Funabashi 100 27 Prime Minister s Residence 2500 Minamiaizu 10 28 Nakano 1300 Funabashi 65 29 Encirclement of the National Diet 200,000 Kyoto 380 Okayama 150 30 Ginza 70 August 2012 3 Prime Minister s Residence 80,000 Minamiaizu 10 4 Kawagoe 150 Osaka 400 9 Totsuka 10 Prime Minister s Residence 90,000 Tokushima Tahara 11 Matsumoto 520 Kyoto 100 Niigata 100 Nagano 200 Minamiaizu 10 Nakamura 12 Tokushima 50 Takasaki 80 17 Prime Minister s Residence 60,000 18 Toyama 800 Niseko 250 19 Musashino 24 Prime Minister s Residence 40,000 25 Ōmiya 180 26 Nishi-tokyo 100 Shibuya 500 Roppongi 300 27 Ginza 50 30 Minamiaizu 31 Prime Minister s Residence 40,000 September 2012 Kyoto 650 1 Nagoya 500 Minamiaizu 19 Osaka Matsue 1300 2 Yokohama 250 Hamamatsu 80 Akita 50 Yokohama 250 4 Akita 10+ Yurihonjō 7 Prime Minister s Residence 40,000 Kaminoseki 500 Minamiaizu 15 8 Sapporo 800 Nakamura 30 7
Osaka 1000 Nakatsugawa 9 Mitaka 600 10 Kyoto 50 Satsumasendai 1000 Chichibu 20 Yokkaichi 300 Osaka 60 Prime Ministers Residence and Surrounds 300 11 Osaka 100 Gunma 100 12 Kitakyūshū 14 Prime Minister s Residence 40,000 Nagareyama 100 15 Minamiaizu 14 Kyoto 50 Kyoto 100 Gifu 300 Sendai 16 Musashino 50 Chiyoda 10 Koganei 100 Inuyama Osaka 50 17 Shibuya 1500 Funabashi 1100 Shōnan 600 Kushiro 30 Sendai Okayama 20 20 Minato ward 10s 21 Prime Minister s Residence 40,000 Kobayashi 22 Osaka 200 Hirosaki 20 Ōmiya 115 Chigasaki 150 Hakodate 150 23 Osaka 1500 Osaka 80 Hachinohe 40 Yaizu 200 24 METI Headquarters 1300 25 Ginza 70 28 Prime Minister s Residence 27,000 29 Sakado-Tsurugashima 150 30 Shibuya 1000 Hakodate 330 Hirosaki 25 Regional cities where Friday rallies were held from July to September 2012 Sapporo Asahikawa Hakodate Aomori Hachinohe Iwate Towada Sendai Ōsaki Akita Yamagata Fukushima Kōriyama Iwaki Minamiaizu Mito Utsunomiya Takasaki Chiba Mobara Ōamishirasato Yachimata Ichihara Kashiwa Tachikawa Hachiōji Niigata Kashiwazaki Toyama Kanazawa Fukui Kōfu Nagano Suwa Itō Fujinomiya Shizuoka Yaizu Higashi-ku Nagoya Naka-ku Nagoya Atsuta-ku Nagoya Agui Toyota Inabe Gifu Kakamigahara Ōgaki Tarui Sekigahara Nakatsugawa Ena Takayama Ōtsu Iga Kyoto Osaka Habikino Kobe Himeji Nara Wakayama Shingū Tottori Yonago Matsue Okayama Kurashiki Miyoshi Yamaguchi Tokushima Takamatsu Matsuyama Kōchi Kami Kitakyūshū Saga Nagasaki Isahaya Kumamoto Minamata Ōita Miyazaki Kagoshima Satsumasendai Kirishima Kanoya Yakushima Amami Besides these rallies, there were many movement activities such as petitioning, refugee support, collecting signatures, demanding referenda, lectures, meetings, occupations outside the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and actions by Japanese citizens abroad. There were a number of movements. This list is based on research undertaken by Kinoshita Chigaya. 8