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27 Mar 2011

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Bangkok Post

Anti-nuclear protests in Japan

Hundreds of people joined anti-nuclear protests in Japan on Sunday following the country's worst ever atomic accident at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima plant. In the capital, about 300 people...marched past the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power...chanting: "We don't need nuclear plants!'' A similar number of demonstrators turned out in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, gathering outside the offices of regional energy company Chubu Electric Power...Environmentalists have long warned of the risked posed by Chubu Electric Power's Hamaoka plant...The facility sits atop a subduction zone near the junction of two plates in an area feared to be overdue a major quake...