“Keeping silent after Fukushima is barbaric,” is how composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto recently made clear his proactive stance toward Japan’s ongoing nuclear disaster.
With a stinging article in the June 15 edition of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, he has set out his opinions on the Japanese government’s energy policies in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 last year.
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