"Tokyo wo senkyo seyo! (東京を占拠せよ！ Occupy Tokyo!")

Tokyo's "Occupation" last month was a relatively small-scale affair, with crowds measured in hundreds as against thousands and tens of thousands elsewhere in the world. But is size everything?

Uōru-gai wo senkyo seyo, (ウォール街を占拠せよ, Occupy Wall Street) was itself a laughably small movement when it started on Sept. 17 — a handful of demonstrators in a New York park protesting various social ills and claiming to represent "the 99 percent" — the vast and growing majority of have-nots enraged at the rapacious "1 percent" whose bloated wealth they feel contrasts gallingly with, and is to blame for, their own downward mobility.