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By Yoko Yamanaka* With his base in the Kita Kyushu1 citizens’ movement and in his role as the secretary of the We Want to Live in a Nuclear-Free Kyushu Collective (now Kyushu Network Against Nuclear Energy), Mamoru Fukae...
by Hiroaki Koide* I met Hironori Shinohara when I entered the faculty of Nuclear Engineering in Tohoku University in 1968. At the time, while exhibitions showing the horror of the atomic bomb were being...
by Hideyuki Sato Takeichi Saito sees the present and the future through the sea and through the sea he sees the future of his home town, Iwanai. Born in 1953, Takeichi started measuring the...
by Yoko Torihara* Misako Ogawa has been working for eight years as a member of the municipal assembly in the city of Kagoshima, 44 km from the Sendai Nuclear Power Station. She asks questions...
By Mamoru Fukae (Kyushu Denuclearization Network) 17 years have passed since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, which sent shock waves around the world. While the tragedy of the accident is being eroded from people’s...
For many years Dr. Saburo Murata has been treating atomic bomb victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Minamata disease* patients. He also works with nuclear industry workers who have been exposed to radiation,...
By Teruyuki Matsushita It was the beginning of the age of nuclear energy in Japan. This ‘dream-like’ form of energy was first produced at the nuclear power station on the Tsuruga Peninsula. It was...
By Takeo Hashizume Ms. Tomi Maeda, 77, years old woman, has been vocal opponent of the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture and has been involved in the Mothers’ group against the nuclear...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Tetsunari Iida: democratizing Japan’s energy policy By Eriko Arita, The Japan Times Tetsunari Iida set himself the task of democratizing Japan’s energy policy, which has long been decided only by bureaucrats...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Ms. Toshiko Baba By Ikuko Sugiura At first glance, Ms. Toshiko Baba seems to be an ordinary woman, but in fact she is quite unique. Her activity stems from nothing special,...