Mike Smitka is bang on as usual. He should take a week to go see the line-up in the battle over restarting the reactor In Osaka. He'd get a great paper out of it.
One thing about the Japanese nimby battles these days, as I reflected seeing all those spare policemen at Narita, is that the Japanese version of such situations is no longer complicated by helmet and scarves and gerabo-wielding Chukaku teenagers -- or ex-teenagers.
Who was the political scientist, David XY who wrote an, I thought absurdly sympathetic, book about these people at Narita?

Ronald Dore