Category: Fukushima

The Fukushima Daiichi disaster and human rights—UN report highlights basic deficiencies in Japanese policy and practice

By Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) Last September 26 through October 7, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, made an official visit to Japan to investigate the situation regarding...

CNIC Statement: We strongly protest the government’s decision to begin the release of contaminated water into the ocean

23 August 2023 The government announced that if weather conditions permit, it will release  the radioactively contaminated water held at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the ocean on August 24. The government...

Report on the 2023 Fukushima Prefectural Residents’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Tour

By Ito Fumika (Editor and Writer) On March 19, 2023, the author participated in the 2023 Fukushima Peoples’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima held in Iizaka Town, Fukushima City. The main auditorium of...

CNIC Statement: Japan’s Upper House of the Diet throws out the lessons of Fukushima in passing the GX Bill

31 May 2023 On 31 May 2023, the House of Councilors passed the “GX bundled bill,” including legislation to extend the operation period of nuclear power plants and to promote the use of nuclear...

Stop the release of radioactive waste water from Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific Ocean~ Voices from around the world

On 13 April 2021, the then Prime Minister of Japan, Suga Yoshihide, announced that his government had authorized the release into the Pacific Ocean of over one million tons of radioactive wastewater from the...