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By Philip White* Kamanaka Hitomi was a late comer to nuclear issues, but in a short time she has had a huge impact on the grass-roots movement in Japan. Her film Rokkasho Rapsody has...
By Baku Nishio* The National Network Against Nuclear Energy was formed in March 1978, bringing together networks throughout Japan opposed to nuclear energy. A newspaper entitled Hangempatsu Shimbun (Anti-Nuclear Power Newspaper) has been published...
By Hatsumi Ishimaru* Collecting Signatures The Genkai nuclear power station is located in the north west of the island of Kyushu on the tip of Saga Prefecture. With a population of 8,000, Genkai Town...
By Akihiro Tatewaki* I first met Hokuto Muto in September 2006 at a viewing of the film “Rokkasho Rapsody” hosted by a group called “With the Earth”. It might sound like a very global...
By Yukiko Kondoh* Hi! We are the Kariwa Women for the Protection of Life. Hairo! Hairo! It’s off to work we go.1 On 27 May 2001 a citizens’ referendum was held in Kariwa Village...
By Tomiko Takeshige* It is planned that a nuclear power plant will be constructed in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea National Park. Takashi Yamato (30) lives on the island of Iwaishima, 3.6...
Study of Warm Water Released from Sendai NPP as Citizens’ Science By Takeo Hashizume* Members of Anti-Nuclear Kagoshima Network (author left) Kyushu Electric Power Company is carrying out environmental studies with a view to...
By Hiroshi Nakashima* In 1955 the Ningyo Toge uranium deposit was discovered in Kagamino, Okayama Prefecture where Teisuke Ishio lives. Ever since then, the local office of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has...
By Kyoko Noguchi* Farmer, Mikio Shimaoka, speaking at a meeting organized by Daichi Stop Nuclear Power Committee. He played a key role in stopping the Kubokawa nuclear power plant plan. “Rather than shout a...
By Masashi Kuwabara* Sadao Kaneko was born into a farming family in 1956 in Teradomari Town (now part of Nagaoka City) in Niigata Prefecture. In the 1970s, when he was a university student in...