Sunday, January 3, 2016

INSIGHT: Communities displaced by 2011 disaster deprived of rights to vote, live

From:  The Asahi Shimbun

By TOSHIHIDE UEDA/ Senior Staff Writer

In the lead-up to the fifth winter since the 2011 disasters, a man from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, was speaking into a microphone at the side of Hachiko, the iconic statue of the faithful dog, in front of Tokyo's Shibuya Station.

“I am giving this stump speech here because I don’t quite understand,” said Keizo Oguro, who was running in the Namie mayoral election, on Nov. 9.

Oguro, 59, a former chairman of the Namie town assembly, was canvassing for votes from residents of his town who had evacuated from the nuclear accident. He was unsuccessful in his bid on Nov. 15.  MORE

No comments:

Post a Comment