Monthly Archives: March 2019

Request Regarding Smart Meters

20/03/2019Uncategorizedtopnewsfridfrid

Request Regarding Smart Meters

February 19, 2019

To: TEPCO Power Grid Corporation

Thank you for endeavoring to maintain the power transmission and distribution network.

We are concerned about the reports of fires in defective smart meters made by Toshiba Toko Meter Systems Co., Ltd. Some 90,000 smart meters produced by Toshiba Toko have been installed in your region, and so far, 16 cases of fires have been reported by December 2018.

We request that you stop installing smart meters, and that you respond to the consumers who want you to replace their smart meters with analogue ones.

Sincerely,

Denjiha.org Nomura Osami

Consumers Union of Japan Amagasa Keisuke

Youth Strike for Climate Change Movement Reaches Japan

06/03/2019Civil Rights, EnvironmentEnvironment, topnewsfridfrid

On March 15, 2019 a campaign to demonstrate against the lack of action to stop climate change will hold events around the world. Here in Japan, events are planned at Yoyogi Park, Tokyo (15:00) and at the City Hall in Kyoto (12:00-1300). Again, on March 22 a demonstration will be held outside the Japanese Parliament Building in Tokyo (start 15:00). Bring your own plackard!

(Photo from the February 22, 2019 demonstration in Tokyo)

Fridays for Future Japan (Facebook)