Group Introduction: No Nukes Wakayama
The nuclear plant was defeated but the battle against the interim storage facility continuesIt...
Category: Who’s Who/Group Intro
Who’s Who: Hajime Mikami
-Co-Representative, Mayors for a Nuclear Power Free Japan Network; -Organiser, Genjiren (Promotion of Zero Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy Federation); -Free spirit Hajime Mikami began to speak out about the dangers of nuclear power...
Group Introduction: Enemira-Tottori (Future of Energy) ~Passing on the feelings of our ancestors to the future
We established our association with the feeling that we wanted to pass on a nuclear-free homeland to our future children after we found out about the serious situation that occurred due to the nuclear...
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...
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...