Today, we watched some movies that are taken by ordinary people. Those movies are published on Youtube in order to show a reality that mass media do not report: Seatle battle in 1999, Occupy wall-street, and discussion between government officer and citizens in Fukushima.
A few days ago, I read an article about Japanese political attitude written by Osamu Hashimoto, a novelist. According to him, Japanese people have conducted politics in closed group even after introducing democracy. Governers and politicians have kept the habit and wanted people not to participate in their job. In addition, people don't have will to participate in politics due to politician's leading. Special Security Law (Tokutei himitsu hogo hou) is one of the typical examples. The law means that secret must be treated in closed group.
This view is accurate. Many Japanese people often look down on those who enthusiastically claim about politics. Those who walk in demonstration are abnormal. Yet, recently, these situations have changed. Some demonstrations are held in order to improve younger's political attention; it is easy to join and looks like a festival. In the internet, a famous website delivering movies partly becomes a platform of political discussion for youngers (Unfortunately, the quality of arguement is not high.). SNS helps these movement to gather young people. It is able to say that Japanese political attitude starts to change through new technologies.
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