Anti-Nuke Demo on May Day in Japan

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Workers rally at May Day event
Kyodo

Around 21,000 unionized workers rallied at a Tokyo park Sunday to push for a faster resolution to the nuclear power plant crisis in Fukushima and compensation for the victims, as well as support for areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami.

At the 82nd annual May Day event hosted by the National Confederation of Trade Unions, known as Zenroren, Chairman Sakuji Daikoku called for steering national energy policy away from nuclear power.

"Let's try to stop (the country from) promoting nuclear power and seek transformation of its energy policy," Daikoku said in a speech at Yoyogi Park in Shibuya Ward.

Mitsuru Ando, vice chairman of the union in Miyagi, the prefecture hardest hit by the disasters, brought up the victims' plight at the event, which was also attended by Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii.

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