Over several decades, Japan’s nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources in the form of elaborate advertising campaigns to persuade the Japanese public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power, including advertisements in places like the waiting room of an airport in Aomori, left. But in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a growing number of Japanese citizens are questioning that message.
Tens of thousands have regularly held protests against nuclear power, and some young Japanese have used social media to organize and publicize demonstrations that have been virtually ignored by major newspapers and television networks.
