Firstly, there are so many problems involved in the Tsukiji relocation plan, that a majority of people do not acknowledge the reality. They simply think that officials would not use so many deceptions.

Secondly, only a part of Japanese massmedia report on the Tsukiji issues, sporadically. Particularly since the neoliberalism became prevailing in Japan through 1990s and 2000s, the journalism in this country has lost power.

The problems with Tsukiji are reported by Bloomberg Press:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aU2Vm13hogCA&refer=japan

The Tokyo Governor Mr Ishihara is completely irresponsible.
He is irresponsible because he knows that he is an old man and he probably won't be Governor any more when the pollution comes out in the future at the new site.

How about starting a letter writing campaign? You could give the url to people involved, and encourage everyone to pass it round. Would Mr Ishihara perhaps reconsider if he was hounded by loads of emails? Perhaps the press would like that story too...?

Hi Hazel,

Thanks for your comment. Last summer we organized a demonstration, for which more than 2,ooo people gathered. If we can send him tens or hundreds times more of letters than the number, I fear he is not surprised because he was elected as Governor by more than 3,000,000 voters (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara). Incidentally, the number of the demo participants was reported by massmedia in undervalued way, from 300 to 1,000 - of course, we protested them, but either we were ignored or the correction was too small.

Hi, Hazel-san,
I am interested about your idea of starting a letter writing campaign.
I just thought about it, came up to a broad idea of the letter and I wish you to tell me if it would work.
It goes like this:

Dear Governor Ishihara,
We wish you to stop your plan to relocate the Tsukiji Market to the new Toyosu site because the site is highly polluted and the measures you are planning in order to prevent the pollution to come out isn't efficient enough in the long term point of view. Blah-blah-blah...

Sincerely,
Naoto Nakamura

(If you agree with the idea I wrote in this letter to the Tokyo Governor Mr Ishihara, please sign your name after the last name and pass it to your friends. When the total of the signs gets one-hundred, send it to the email address of the Tokyo Government as shown below:
12345@xxx.com)

What do you think about it?
I got the same kind of chain letter before for a campaign I don't remember anymore, so I'm really not sure if these kinds of things work.

A street demonstration of the campaign to prevent the Tsukiji Market relocation takes place from the main gate of the Market on June 27th, 2009. The time appointed for meeting is 11:30am and the demonstration starts at high noon.

I submitted a notice for the demonstration at the 'Events' section of this site as well.
www.greenvoice.com/tsukijidemo20090627

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