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Global Noise Demo in Tokyo against IMF and World Bank

15 October 2012

Protesters march with a banner after a rally against the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group in Tokyo October 13, 2012. On Saturday about 300 hundred demonstrators, some waving wads of fake note bills and dressed in grotesque costumes meant to mimic the super rich, walked down the luxury shopping street of downtown Tokyo near the meeting’s venue. The banner reads, "Global noise. Global Unite. IMF and WB are ruled by great powers." REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: (...)

Japan : Rise of ”Hashism" - From Osaka to the National Political Arena

2 May 2012

Starting Point - "Osaka Metropolitan Government" and "Osaka Restoration Association" "Critics of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto sometimes describe his politics as ’Hashism’, referring to a supposed similarity between some of his tactics and those of fascism."("The Asahi Shimbun", March 3, 2012) Hashimoto, a former lawyer and TV personality, was elected Governor of Osaka Prefecture in 2008 with his popularity and aggressive campaign against administration and public sector workers. He (...)

Disaster - earthquake and nuclear explosion

15 March 2011

Sadly, as time passes on, the reality is waking us. We see new figures whenever we switch on TV, which may be, I feel, the same as our friends in Pakistan or Haiti who are still being suffered by natural disaster. Yesterday the governor of Miyagi announced that the count of bodies would amount to over 10,000. And today the No.3 reactor at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has exploded, and now (2 am on the 15th, in local time) core melting is happening at the No.2 reactor. It is quite clear (...)

Counter-summit against G8 at Japan and Peoples’ Forum in Africa – No rest for the struggles !

14 July 2008

Report prepared by Eric De Ruest, Pauline Imbach and Eric Toussaint on the basis of messages from Japan and Mali. For the CADTM international network the beginning of this summer resonates with the counter-summit ! Myriam BOURGY (CADTM – Belgium), Sushovan DHAR (VAK – India) and Yoko AKIMOTO (ATTAC Japan) attended the G8 counter summit at Hokkaido in Japan. A gathering of anti-globalisation activists under high security, numerous persons were prohibited from entering the islands, the (...)

Japan follows singapore in dealing with foreign activists

9 July 2008

Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese authorities’ heavy handed approach to security for the official gathering. 21,000 police personnel have been deployed to the island of Hokkaido, most of them to the city of Sapporo and nearby Toyako, where the meeting will take place next week. Large numbers of them, (...)

Make use of G8 summit to ask for debt write-off

9 July 2008

Jakarta - The Anti Debt Coalition (KAU) has called on the government to capitalize on the summit which will take place near Lake Toya Hokaido, Japan, on July 7-9, 2008 to ask for the writing off of Indonesia’s foreign debt. This had to be done by Indonesia on the ground that 91 percent of its bilateral foreign debt which now stood at Rp258.96 trillion was to G-8 countries, KAU Chairman Dani Setiawan said here on Thursday. The debt writting off was a form of responsibility of (...)