This Sunday's Protest against US Realignment in Japan

Planned Route for Protest

Regarding this Sunday’s planned protest -- group will meet in Verny Park between 1300-1400. From 1410-1610 they will divide into two groups and walk from Verny Park down 16, while the other half will split to the Honch and walk to Mikasa Dr. All will end up at the city hall park. Protest route map attached. This group is one of the tamer ones but the numbers will be large (they are trying to get around 20,000). Rally theme is “stop assignment of a CVN” and “cancel the agreement of US forces realignment.”

Isn't Japan so courteous as to warn us ahead of time of their protests? The last protest I witnessed took about 2-3 hours and it appeared to be 20,000 people or more. It was a LOT of people.