The 8.9 earthquake that shook Japan to its core has reverberated globally all the way to mainland Germany.
Earlier this week thousands of Germans protesters demaned that their country's nucelar power plants be shut down in result of Japan's disasterous nuclear reactor woes. According to CNN News, Thorben Becker, of the Federation for Enviornmental Protection, claims that although this push for the closing of German nuclear raectors has been evident, the devistation of the Japanese reactors has prompted a much larger demand to close these facilities. With radiation fears being felt abroad (almost seemingly more so than domestically in Japan), German protesters marched in Berlin for the closing and removal of their nuclear power plants.
By forming a "...45-kilometer human chain between Stuttgart and the nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim," as reported by the Berlinian police, protesters sought this defiance out to be a peaceful one. In total, roughly 60,000 people showed up to this support raly, orgnized by a conglomeration of anti-nuclear reform groups.
However German chancellor Angela Merkel announced a three-month extension period for the plants, as well as a law that extends the lifespan of the German nuclear facilities.
Even though Japan is seemingly on the other side of the world, it's effects have and will continue to be ever-lasting.
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