Who’s Who: Naomi Katagiri
Naomi Katagiri: Striving for a better future for Niigata Prefecture Naomi Katagiri is the chairman of New Future Niigata, which was launched in March 2017. The 67-year-old leader is the vice president of Ishikawa...
Category: Who’s Who/Group Intro
Group Introduction: A SEED JAPAN
A SEED JAPAN (Action for Solidarity, Equality, and Environment and Development) was established in 1991 as the Japanese section of the international campaign to deliver the voices of youth to the Earth Summit (United...
Who’s Who: Atsuo Nakamura~ Actor/Activist
Actor Atsuo Nakamura rose to stardom when he played the hero in a popular TV drama series in 1972. In the drama, set in the Edo era, he played a lone-wolf gambler, whose pet...
Group Introduction: Live Music Event OhMAGROCK vol. 10
Time flies so fast. We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our live music event OhMAGROCK this summer. I became involved in the action to oppose the Ohma Nuclear Power Plant construction project, Ohma...
Who’s Who: Tetsuji Imanaka ~Nuclear Scientist Activist
Tetsuji Imanaka was born in Hiroshima in 1950, a second generation hibakusha. In the post-war recovery period, energy was a big problem in resource-poor Japan and many young people saw nuclear power generation as...
Group Introduction: Tarachine — Mothers’ Radiation Lab Fukushima
On March 11, 2011, we in Fukushima experienced an unprecedentedly severe earthquake and tsunami, which were followed by explosions in a nuclear power station. While the earthquake and tsunami were devastating, we were aware...
Who’s Who: Masa Takubo ~a prophet crying in the wilderness
by Philip White ( international liaison officer and NIT editor for Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center from 2004-2011) Masa Takubo is somewhat of a rarity in the Japanese anti-nuclear movement. He is a minority actor...
Group Introduction: Beautiful Energy
by Jacinta Hin, Co-Founder of Beautiful Energy Beautiful Energy is a movement for peaceful energy born during the early days ―the summer of 2012― of the Friday protest against the restart of nuclear plants...
Who’s Who: Ruiko Muto, The Tohoku Ogre** by Miwa Chiwaki* (NIT No. 173)
Hello, everyone. My name is Miwa Chiwaki. Today, I would like to introduce to you Ms. Ruiko Muto, the Chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Plaintiffs and one of the Joint Representatives of Hidanren...
Group Introduction: NO to nukes at Kaminoseki YES to Seto Inland Sea Nature Conservation Citizen’s Network (Kaminoseki Dousuru Net) (NIT No. 172)
Activities Kaminoseki Dousuru Net was founded in November 2009. In September of that year, marking 27 years since the Kaminoseki NPP construction plans emerged, the Chugoku Electric Power Company made a big push forward,...
