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	From my point of view, this reflection paper focuses on the role of media in japan in giving information to people. Ideally, mass media has been used as the source of information to all states of government and citizens, thus making them relevant authorities not to cover information that threatens the government. Therefore the use of social media has brought a lot of change by protecting all the information that the mass media could not cover. Activists have been using social media platforms to unmask what is hidden by the government. These platforms include; Facebook, blog websites, Twitter, Instagram, telegrams, and WhatsApp. 
	Notably, the paper reflects the racial segregation and minority discrimination in Japan that came into concern after the 2011 disaster. Many people died during this time, and others were displaced from their homeland areas. Therefore this brought attention to the affected group and decided to investigate the matter. Activists formed organizations that organized peaceful demonstrations on the street of Japan, blaming the government for the disaster. Their argument claims that the disaster was just a political crisis targeting minority groups like Koreans. Thus, this digital platform on social media gave people know-how of their rights and rights of the government, thus fighting for their democracy (Slater et al, 2016).
	In this case, social media plays a big role in information networking to people. It made information easily accessible to people where the flat forms had a communication that does not pass through a single or unitary information manager. Individuals used to curate their sites blogging with exceptional influence that shaped the discourse on bulletin boards and direct with many followers. This is one way that led to the birth of an activist organization that used to criticize the government and fight for the role of minorities and foreigners who were mistreated and undermined. One of the cases is the demonstration against the deportation of a 19 year Filipino girl's parents for the overstay of visa card. They mobilized people and came out of the street to condemn the act claiming it was against human rights.
	Continually, Social media have become appropriated instrumentally as tools of coordination and mobilization by countless social movements and political organizations worldwide (Cadag, 2020).  Therefore, they consolidated and redistributed the important user-generated information, especially in ways that brought together the need of survivors. Survivors in trouble used texts and tweets to call out for help or alert others to those who needed its help. But in the flood of messages, it was necessary to create some effective method of searching and linking.
	As I sum up, social media activist movements give rise to the Fukushima anti-racism organization. One of the activists, Sadako, contributed to the organization and mobilization of demonstrations against minority discrimination and racism. Activists and other critics blame the government over minority discrimination that fought for the right of minorities and also for equal distribution of resources. They also fought political crises that were described as a source of all the disasters in Japan. 

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Cadag J.R D. (2020). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier. ternational Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition, Volume 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10254-9
Slater. D.H , Nishimura & Kindstrand. L (2016). 9b MOBILIZING DIScONTENT Social media and networked activism in Japan