Japanese actor Taro Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actor Taro Yamamoto holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2011. The 37-year-old actor, who has been calling for the elimination of nuclear power generation in Japan, lamented that the movement against nuclear power in the country, while showing some momentum in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, is not on a par with similar movements in other countries.

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