Using a press conference over an injunction request against TEPCO’s support for Japan Atomic Power Company as its focus, this essay critically depicts the political reality behind anti-nuclear activism in Japan.
Through the figures of lawyer Yuichi Kaido, Mizuho Fukushima, and the bizarre scene shown in the television news, it exposes the distortions of Japan’s public discourse and political movements.

2019-06-18
Several old men and old women, with several middle-aged and elderly women in strange red hats behind them, as if wanting to declare outright that they were the Communist Party,
and the one directing it all was once again lawyer Yuichi Kaido…Mizuho Fukushima’s husband.

I had been watching Rakuten vs. Hanshin when it became time for the news.
That same crowd was now holding a press conference saying that, as shareholders, they had filed a request for an injunction against TEPCO’s support for Japan Atomic Power Company…
There were several obviously left-wing middle-aged men and women, old men and old women, and behind them several middle-aged and elderly women in strange red hats, as if wanting to proclaim that they were the Communist Party,
and the one directing it all was once again lawyer Yuichi Kaido…Mizuho Fukushima’s husband.
Surely all those clear-eyed people who had been peacefully watching baseball must have felt sick to their stomachs.