Group Intro: New Era Asia Peace Academy
By Takano Satoshi In addition to working at the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, I am also serving as a coordinator for the New Era Asia Peace Academy (abbreviated as NPA). Since June 2020, NPA...
Category: Who’s Who/Group Intro
Who’s Who: Nataliya Gudziy From Ukraine with Love—the Strength of Music in the Face of Tragedy
By Inoue Akira (music composer, arranger) “History repeats itself” — humans have said this so many times. Each time a war or human-made disaster occurs, they utter, “We will never make the same mistake...
Group Introduction: Fukushima 30-Year Project ~Ten years of fighting something we can’t see~
By Sahara Maki (Director, Fukushima 30-Year Project) Even now, 11 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began, there is still much that is not known, and even among experts there are differing views....
Who’s Who: Yoshizawa Masami and the Ranch of Hope
(Interviewed by Caitlin Stronell, NIT editor) Following the meltdowns at TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in March 2011, the government issued an order that all livestock within a 20 km radius of the...
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: Kamata Satoshi
The Long-cherished Friendship between Kamata Satoshi and Takagi Jinzaburo through the Fight against the Nuclear Fuel Cycle By Takagi Kuniko It was about 1977 that I met Kamata Satoshi for the first time. Along...
Group Introduction: Sayonara Genkai NPP Kurume City Group
Let’s move forward cheerfully and actively! By Tsutsumi Shizuo, Representative, Sayonara Genkai NPP Kurume City Group In the face of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power disaster, I thought that we had to not only...
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: Kuse Shigetsugu “Strengthening local industry is the best way to keep nuclear dumps out”
By Tanaka Saneiki (Mr. Kuse’s son-in-law) and Yamaji Genta (head of the Toyotomi Town group to protect residents) In 1944, Kuse Shigetsugu was born in a family that ran a store in Tsuyama City,...
