Protest Against Upcoming G8 Summit in Japan
More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan on Saturday, July 5, 2008, to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle. Demonstrators gathered to demand that Group of Eight nations take urgent measures to stop global warming, grant indigenous people greater rights, combat world poverty, and battle discrimination. The G8 leaders — from the US, Japan, Russia, France, the UK, Canada, Italy, and Germany — begin a three-day summit on Monday.