This page provides links to articles about some of the groups working on nuclear, energy, environment, etc. issues in Japan. Our Links page directs you to other groups' sites.

Readers might also like to look at our Who's Who page, which focuses on individuals working for a phase-out of nuclear energy.

Rainbow Kayak Squadron (NIT 136, May/June 2010)
The Rainbow Kayak Squadron is a group of concerned individuals, including local outdoor guides and people from around Japan. Each member acts voluntarily in the belief that the Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant is a personal issue for himself or herself.

Niigata Women Thinking about Life and Nuclear Energy (NIT 135, March/April 2010)
"We believe that by enabling people who are now silent to raise their voices we can help put a break on the uncontrolled promotion of nuclear power. "

Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (NIT 133, Nov./Dec. 2009)
The group is made up of citizens of Osaka and surrounding regions.

"Know Pluthermal" Shiribeshi Citizens' Network (NIT 131 July/Aug. 2009)
The purpose of the network is to help people who are so used to the existing nuclear power station that they have given up hope of doing anything about it to understand what pluthermal is all about.

Hangempatsu Shimbun and the National Network Against Nuclear Energy (NIT 129, March/April 2009)
The National Network Against Nuclear Energy was formed in March 1978. A newspaper entitled Hangempatsu Shimbun (Anti-Nuclear Power Newspaper) has been published each month since May of that year.

The Committee to Consider Pluthermal and Saga's Next 100 Years (NIT 128, Jan./Feb. 2009)
Although Genkai-3 is scheduled to become the first nuclear power plant in Japan to implement pluthermal, many people are continuing to raise concerns about issues of safety, economics, and whether pluthermal is necessary in the first place.

Kariwa Women for the Protection of Life: Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Hairo! Hairo! "Close down all nuclear power plants!!" (NIT 126, Sep./Oct. 2008)

Anti-Nuclear Kagoshima Network: Study of Warm Water Released from Sendai NPP as Citizens' Science (NIT 124, May/June 2008)

Daichi Stop Nuclear Power Committee: "Nuclear energy is incompatible with organic agriculture, which places importance on life." (NIT 122 Jan./Feb. 2008)

Stop Rokkasho Japan: A new movement initiated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto (NIT 120, Sep./Oct. 2007)

No to Radioactive Waste! Committee for a Prefectural Ordinance (NIT 118, May/June 2007)

KO-OK Productions: film-makers who say, "Radiation is not OK" (NIT 116, Jan./Feb. 2007)

Phase-Out Nuclear Energy Downtown Network: a grassroots gathering place (NIT 114, Sep./Oct. 2006)

Kansai Relief for Chernobyl Hibakusha: linking Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl to create a world without nuclear victims (NIT 112, May/June 2006)

The Shizuoka Network of Citizens Opposed to the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant focuses on the question of whether the Hamaoka NPP is capable of withstanding the widely predicted Tokai Earthquake. (NIT 110, Jan/Feb 2006)

The Iwate Committee to Protect the Sanriku Sea from Radiation is concerned about the ocean being polluted with radioactive liquid waste from the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. (NIT 108, Sep./Oct. 2005)

The Chernobyl Children's Fund, Japan was founded in 1991 by photojournalist, Ryuichi Hirokawa. (NIT 106, May/June 2005)

Acorn Forestry Club: doing business while opposing nuclear power in a nuclear town (NIT 104, Jan./Feb. 2005)

Nagano Soft Energy Resource Center: a meeting place for people thinking about and taking action on energy and environment issues (NIT 102, Sep./Oct. 2004)