So, what happens after the nuke protest?

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[floatl][/floatl]"Peaceful Rally Ended with Dozens in Handcuffs"
FCCJ: The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan | PRESS CONFERENCE: 2011 Sep 29 15:00 - 16:00
Karin Amamiya , Author; Kojin Karatani, Philosopher; Eiji Oguma, Keio University Assistant Professor; Satoshi Ukai , Hitotsubashi University Professor
Police arrested 12 demonstrators at a peaceful rally in Shinjuku against nuclear power plants on September 11. Five of the 12 are still in police custody, being held without charge. The arrestees included a French national and his Japanese partner.
Police changed the route for the demonstration just before nearly 10,000 people gathered for the march. During the demonstration, witnesses say the police intentionally divided the protesters into small groups then deliberately provoked sections of the crowd. The incident has barely been reported by the Japanese press ...more...

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So much for accuracy in journalism...the headline contradicts a fact found just three words into the story.

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So much for accuracy in journalism...the headline contradicts a fact found just three words into the story.

Who said that they're mathematicians?

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The incident has barely been reported by the Japanese press ...more...

One reason for this, I would guess, is that the Japanese Communist Party was closely related to organization of the rally. I'm not saying this is good or bad, but JCP-run events getting turnouts in their tens of thousands are one of those things the Japanese media tends to pretend never happened, like the caste system, Hirohito riding around his white horse geeing up the troops to behead Allies and Eisaku Sato winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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One reason for this, I would guess, is that the Japanese Communist Party was closely related to organization of the rally. I'm not saying this is good or bad, but JCP-run events getting turnouts in their tens of thousands are one of those things the Japanese media tends to pretend never happened, like the caste system, Hirohito riding around his white horse geeing up the troops to behead Allies and Eisaku Sato winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Avoiding the truth/reality and promoting some fake "We Japanese" alternate reality, TIJ