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I've been writing little news pieces lately for practice, and I'm presently
hung up on this passage. I'm trying to express the idea "This decision caused
many protests, which have remained peaceful thus far." I could split these
clauses into two sentences and have an easy time of it, but I've been trying
to dig up some information on how I could actually convey that "which"
appositive relationship.

I had a look at [this excellent
discussion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/14541/relative-
clauses-distinguishing-whom-with-which-that), but I don't think the examples
provided address my usage case, because the closest equivalency I can draw to
those would involve changing the sentence to "This decision cause many
protests which are peaceful," or "many peaceful protests," and I specifically
want to retain the indication that the protests are ongoing and that their
remaining peaceful is not a certainty.

I'd field some guesses, but I've come up short on any material that gets any
closer to discussing what I have in mind, so I'm at a loss.
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Rendering an appositive "which" clause in Japanese
Your original text seems to be an instance of a very English way of sentence-
building, which adds comments as appositive afterthoughts. This sort of idea
is often hard to transplant into Japanese, because the language doesn't have
any postmodifing (i.e. adding adjectives after) mechanism. It is often
separated or linked by conjunctions, like multiple sentences.

So a possible translation is:

> この決定は多くの抗議活動を巻き起こしたが、それらは今のところ平和裡に行われている。

But if I'm allowed to translate freely, I'd reword it as:

> この決定は多くの抗議活動を巻き起こしたが、現時点で暴動には発展していない。  
>  _This decision caused many protests, but they have not exploded into
> violence thus far._
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