Category: Who’s Who/Group Intro

Group Intro: Kodoken Tsūshin, a Quarterly Issued by the Project to Protect Children’s Health and Future

By Ishida Nobuko(Member of Project to Protect Children’s Health and Future) In 2016, we, the Project to Protect Children’s Health and Future, abbreviated as Kodoken in Japanese, launched a quarterly newsletter, Kodoken Tsūshin. “There...

WHO’s WHO: Shibahara Yōichi, a key person who passes down the story of how the Ashihama NPP Project was stopped

By Yoshii Michiko, Professor at Dept. of International Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Okinawa University Mie Prefecture, located in the southern part of the mid-Japan region, where the biggest city is Nagoya, hosts no nuclear...

Group Intro: ‘Children’s Lawsuit Against Radiation Exposure’

By Konno Sumio, Representative Plaintiff A trial was held from August 2014 in which about 200 plaintiffs—parents and children from Fukushima—filed suit in Fukushima District Court calling to account the governments of Japan, Fukushima...

Who’s Who: Ito Nobuyoshi — a “measuring fanatic,” residing in Iitate, Fukushima, a village severely affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster

By Suzuki Yuzuru (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo; Director of the Takagi Fund for Citizen Science) “Did I do something wrong?” Ito Nobuyoshi often says. It is an expression of anger as...