The action, coordinated by ZENKO (Japan), protested FANUC’s role in Israel’s ongoing genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.
FANUC is a Japanese robotics company deeply complicit in Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere. It provides Israeli military company Elbit Systems with crucial robots used to make 155mm projectiles, Israel’s most commonly used ammunition, particularly in its ongoing genocide.
155mm projectiles are cluster munitions and one of the world’s most indiscriminate and inhumane lethal weapons, exploding into 2000 pieces of shrapnel upon impact. Israel has fired hundreds of thousands of these unguided shells on Palestinians in Gaza.
FANUC is knowingly selling robots that enable genocide and other atrocity crimes.
The BDS movement applauds these activists and calls for continued public pressure worldwide on FANUC to stop supplying Elbit with robots — and end its complicity in genocide.
Yamanashi, Japan
Protestors demonstrated outside the building, reading out their demands to workers.
Chugoku branch in Okayama, Japan
Activists from several cities gathered in Okayama for a rally outside the FANUC factory.
Hiroshima, Japan
Activists protested outside a FANUC factory, shouting their demands.
Yokohama, Japan
Activists read out their demands to FANUC factory workers.
Nagoya, Japan
Activists and the local community protested outside a FANUC Service Centre and delivered leaflets to 400 households.
Hokkaido, Japan
Demonstrators made their demands heard while battling record-breaking snowfall.
Michigan, US
Activists protested outside the FANUC US Head Office. Michigan is FANUC's biggest manufacturing center outside Japan.
Berlin, Germany
Activists dropped a banner from Berlin’s Hiroshima-Steg footbridge, close to both the Japanese embassy and the Memorial to historical Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany.
Maynooth, Ireland
Activists protested outside Maynooth University.
