The columns appeared the day after the interviewee had taken part in the protests
All subsequent references to this series are from, Koko kara–teiten kansoku•kokkai mae Fixed Point Observations: Outside the National Diet], Tokyo Shimbun, Morning edition.
According to an announcement on the group’s homepage, the composition of MCAN changed in from the original 13 groups that founded the organization on , to 11 groups and “other sympathetic individuals”. See.
If we assume that 30% of the “other, no reply” category were LDP voters then the LDP’s reliance on the antinuclear vote is 70
MCAN spokesperson Misao Redwolf has 7,142 followers on Twitter. The official MCAN Twitter account has 23,664 followers. These figures are both current as at , an official Twitter account in the name of SEALDs had 59,261 followers and leading SEALDs member Okuda Aki had 24,384 followers.
Email message to the author, . I obtained permission to cite this source as it accurately reflects the attitudes of Japan’s newspaper reporters.
Taken from a comment made by Misao Redwolf in a roundtable discussion. See Oguma (ed), Genpatsu o tomeru hitobito, 17.
When asked about the future of Japan’s nuclear power plants in a public opinion poll conducted by the Asahi newspaper group from , 16% of respondents said “reduce them to zero immediately,” 58% said “reduce them to zero in the near future” and 22% said “don’t reduce them to zero.” 28% were in favor of restarting existing nuclear reactors while 55% were opposed. Asahi Shimbun, , Morning edition.
The tenth region was added in 1972, following the return of Okinawa to Japanese control
Noda Kazusa, “Shogeki no deta ‘ato 10 nen de jiminto no 9 wari ga takai suru’,” President Online, . (suite…)