‘Goldman Sachs With Guns’ Joins Sumo on Ropes: William Pesek
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Events in Egypt have journalists around the world asking: Hmmm, could that happen here?
In Tokyo, the answer is no. The student riots of 1968 remind us never to say never. The thought of today’s youths congregating at Shibuya Crossing, tossing Molotov cocktails and demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, though, is a colossal reach. Mass protests in Japan are a rare, rare thing.