March 13, 2007
Previously Unimagined in Gyoda
Today on my way to the bank I saw something I never thought I'd see anywhere in Japan, much less in my little town of Gyoda: A protest! Here I was for three years thinking I lived in pretty much the most apathetic country on Earth, but this is an obvious sign that such is not the case.
Granted, they were protesting a tax hike (when do people not protest a tax hike?), but it was a bit refreshing to see Japanese people get up and fight something they don't want instead of shrugging and accepting it with the obligatory しょうがない (shouganai: roughly it means "can't be helped").
Pictures to come, if I can get the pictures off of my phone.