We saw a lot of, not just domestic, but also international civic sector bonding together, inventing new things like the Line end-to-end encrypted messenger was invented because of the earthquake in Japan. All that increased the solidarity and in a sense, the Occupy movement that I participated in back in 2014, is like that too. We occupied — thoroughly peacefully — our parliament for three weeks that is also like a earthquake in the sense that half a million people supported us on the street and many more online.

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