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Japanese mark 2011 nuclear disaster with demos

Balloons in the shape of doves are released into the air during a memorial service for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster in Natori, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Albert Siegel
Press TV, Tokyo

It's been six years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. While the Japanese government commemorates the event, many citizens held a demonstration instead. They hope that the Japanese government will finally drop the use of nuclear energy for less-dangerous ones. From Tokyo, Albert Siegel has more. 

 


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