Saturday, March 31, 2012

(UPDATED with Video) Goshi Hosono Is Being Shouted Down by Protesters in Kyoto

Hosono and his officials are right now in Kyoto, trying to persuade Kyoto residents that they have to accept disaster debris, and the protesters want to have none of that. Hosono has to shout to be heard over the ruckus.

He's trying to appeal to the people in Kyoto by showing some craft piece made by a Miyagi elementary school child. "Do you think this is contaminated? Do you?"

Live at Yasumi Iwakami's IWJ UStream: http://t.co/nk7UkkdN

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Update 3/31/2011:

Here's the recorded video of the event.

At about 7 minutes into the video: No.3 guy at Ministry of the Environment (politician) starts to speak, appealing to the small crowd at Kyoto Station how important it is to help out the people in the disaster affected area whose towns are still buried under the mountain of debris. "See this photo?" he says.

Shouting starts about 8 minutes. "We're against it!" (Hantai!)

At 8:55, you see two guys in bright green vests holding up signs that says "Kizuna". How much more blatant can you get, to show you are the Ministry's shills?

At 11:30, Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment, takes the stage. He is immediately being shouted down by angry crowd. He has to change the microphone to be heard above the shouting.

At 16:00, Hosono desperately grabs a craft piece made by an elementary school kid in the disaster affected area, and tries to tell the angry audience "Do you think this is contaminated? Do you?" People keep shouting at him, "Kaere, Kaere (Go back, go back)".

At 23:00, Governor of Kyoto takes the stage. People keep shouting him down.

At 27:40, Fukuyama, DPJ politician from Kyoto and advisor to then-Prime Minister Kan when the disaster struck, takes the stage. People keep shouting "Go back, go back". Fukuyama pleads with them that he is from Kyoto, and he comes back here. People keep shouting "Go back, go back".

People are telling him to go back to where he belongs, which is the center of the central government who wants Kyoto to accept and burn debris.

At 32:00 Fukuyama resorts to citing "democracy" as the reason why these protesters should quietly listens to him. People keep shouting "Go back, Go back".



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That was rich. "Democracy". Was it a democracy to simply decide to spread the disaster debris all over Japan without even asking people?

Good for Kyoto people. I've never seen anything like this where people refuse to quietly listen to a politician, and instead they shout them down.

I am surprised that they didn't call in the police, but as Iwakami's IWJ was there netcasting live, that would have really made the already ugly scene for the Ministry of the Environment even uglier.

There is ZERO coverage of this incident in the national newspapers, not even in their local Kyoto versions. All there are in the local versions of the national papers is how eager and willing and ready Kyoto is to accept and burn the disaster debris.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, Goshi Hosono, the craft piece and the student are both radioactive! And someone needs to ask where HIS family is living.....

Anonymous said...

It's not a matter of thinking. It's a matter of testing.

Do they even consider what the piece is made of, where the materials to craft it came from, or whether those materials were affected by radioactive particles at some point? I doubt it. Their minds are too simple to comprehend past the first apparent step of the item's creation.

Aside from that, I fail to see the relevancy. Did that child build the buildings hit by the earthquake and radiation? Are they going to burn hundreds of craft pieces and inhale the smoke?

Richard said...

I'm watching live... this is fantastic !!

Throw those politicians in jail now... go, grab them, arrest threm!

Richard said...

What is that they are chanting.. it sounds like a sense of purpose from the crowd?!

Chibaguy said...

Thanks Ex Skf! Kyoto gets it and finally people are waking. 帰れ、帰れ、帰れ! He could not even get out of there. Finally, something to cheer about. Wake up Kanto!

Anonymous said...

They also said "Kodomo wo mamore!" which means "protect the children". I WISH this would happen all over the country...There is going to be nowhere left to go for vacation, no safe region from which to buy food, no peace of mind...

Anonymous said...

Proves why they should still be the capital. Real class, real culture, real intellect, real cuisine and let's face it.. The ONLY reason most people tour Japan.
They have most to lose.
Kudos Kyoto! You shame us in Osaka.

Anonymous said...

I have always had a feeling that the people of Kyoto are much more open-minded, progressive thinking and intellectual than Japanese averagely are.

And the city is a treasure!

Chibaguy said...

The people of Kyoto seem to understand what is at stake. However, I would not use a blanket statement saying they are more intellectual. If the same situation happened there I think the response would be completely the opposite. There is no reason to send debris all over Japan. This is a nation and the best thing Kyoto can do is reject debris and force the government to move those in harms way out of hell.

Anonymous said...

日本に京都があって、良かった!

Anonymous said...

The video has been "privatized".

Anonymous said...

Try this link

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21485310

Anonymous said...

Lets hope someone assasinates that shit Hosono.....

Anonymous said...

I would hope the national and international media would broadcast this wide, without spinning the story....

I know I am a dreamer.

Anonymous said...

If you follow the link of Anon 9:02AM, you can see at 3:28 how the old, small politician (governor of Kyoto???) who was speaking before Hosono is drilling in his nose very thoroughly!

Wow, Japanese politicians have world class style.... like a 6 year old kid.

Anonymous said...

Same old crap, the govt will use the old bribe/bully technique not only to burn and disperse this poison, but also to restart the reactors.

Anonymous said...

Greatly inspiring for others who want to stand against this foolish government. However his handlers will make it more difficult for such a thing to happen again.

Need to get this video into CNN, other media outlets. Would help if it got a lot of youtube hits.

Can it go viral in Japan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFi7QkngopM&feature=player_embedded

Anonymous said...

one year on:
the question remains: if to be honest means for the government to say:"tokyo is not safe." and "Alot of agricultural land has been contaminated." and etc.
would this lead to a better outcome?
To be honest, this kind of land-locked contamination has never happened. how would YOU deal with it?
i don't understand enough "japanese" to even make an educated guess, after all what is japanese for me, is just what has been exported ... made in japan.
i feel i have to comment because, though i'm not a religious person and sending worthless prayers to japan, maybe i do can sympathize a bit ( a tinny bit) with the government. every country has bad people and good people. not all government can summary be bad.
just getting a revolution would mean to replace ALL government people-brains with .. n00bs.
like i said, i don't know enough "japanese-ness" and even less on how to deal with 900 tons of reactive uranium spewing around a island and waste is waste and a problem.
if it boils down to being "good", i think everybody with a certain amount of responsibility will agree, that the more you get the harder it gets.
to end: pro-nuclear monkey proponents, i think, even at this point, will never be convinced -another kind of terrorist- and maybe tho hard as it might be, it's time to think about what ideas might actually help japan in this situation, at this time ...

Anonymous said...

Thank you arevamirpal for the update.

For Iwakami and any other independent journalists in Japan, thank you. The stories you have to report are very important for your countrymen and the rest of the world to see. The global MSM is reporting very little for obvious reasons. Is it possible in this challenging time for you to try and make some of your important stories more accessible for the worldwide audience by captioning or translating the content? The widest possible audience of the actual stories without industry filtering is a goal to strive for.

Again, thank you all for this work you are doing.

kintaman said...

This video gives me hope that the people may possibly rise up and stop these criminals in their tracks. Please Japan, show your strength and honor. Remove these criminals.

Anonymous said...

Kyoto will always be in my heart. I HAD to leave it because of the criminal behavior of that government, it was not my choice, it was just a MUST to protect my kid. I hope one day I can go back there. I hope Kyoto people will not disappoint me.

doitujin said...

around 44min, when they're chanting "kodomo wo mamore" etc., that's strong...

because the govn't decides kind of everything above the heads of the citizens, i don't have much hope left, but i'll try.

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