Arab News Japan

TOKYO: About a hundred Japanese and foreign supporters of the Palestinian cause gathered in the popular Shibuya district of Tokyo on Friday to call for a boycott of Israel and Japanese companies that buy products from Israeli arms companies that are complicit in the killing of Palestinians.

The conflict in Gaza has cost the lives of nearly 40,000 people, mostly from the Palestinian civilian population. Japanese companies such as Kawasaki Heavy Industry and Nippon Aircraft Supplier continue to buy goods from Israeli companies, and the demonstrators protested against this business in the morning by parading in front of the headquarters of these companies.

Later in the day, they targeted robot manufacturing company Fanuc. The activists hope that all Japanese companies will be banned from trading with Israeli companies. 

An art student told Arab News that she did not want major Japanese companies to collaborate in the massacre of Palestinians. An American woman using a megaphone said it was scandalous that taxpayers’ money could finance companies complicit in the genocide.

A petition submitted to Fanuc asks the company to stop dealing with Israel, as it is contributing to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.