Category: Who’s Who/Group Intro

Who’s Who: Hara Asuka – a Rising Star in Niigata under the NPS Restart Crisis

By Kuwabara Mie (Hara Asuka and Kuwabara Mie’s NPS Restart Holdback Project)   In Niigata Prefecture, the controversy over the restart of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki–Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, whose operation...

Group Intro: Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center – First 25 Years of CNIC’s History in Retrospect – A Very Subjective Narrative from 1975 to 2000

By Nishio Baku The Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) celebrates its 50th anniversary in September 2025. Taking this opportunity, I would like to review the events of CNIC’s early days for the record. These...

Group Intro: Aomori Prefecture Citizens’ Association to Protect the Future from Nuclear Waste

By Ito Kazuko   In December 1983, the prime minister at the time, Nakasone Yasuhiro, announced that the Shimokita Peninsula would become a nuclear power Mecca, and on April 9, 1985, the governor of...