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Closes Dec. 19
The Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis highlighted not only Japan¡¯s dependency on nuclear energy, but also how strongly the public felt about it. Sept. 19 saw the nation¡¯s largest-ever antinuclear-energy demonstration in Tokyo¡¯s Meiji Park, and other protestors ¡ª including musicians, celebrities and artists ¡ª have been voicing their opinion through marches, activities and announcements.
Artist collective Chim¡üPom have already received a fair amount of press about their activities. They added, guerrilla-style, an image of a burning Fukushima power plant to Taro Okamoto¡¯s ¡°Myth of Tomorrow¡± mural at Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, and then made a sand sculpture of a child wearing a gas mask in a Fukushima Prefecture playground that had been deemed unsafe for children.
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