Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Create No Nukes World With Us
By Saito Yoko, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance, Kwansei Gakuin University Introduction The number of evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture due to the accident at the Tokyo...
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...
By Omori Naoki (Professor, Center for the Research and Support of Educational Practice, Tokyo Gakugei University) Children exposed to radiation or forced to evacuate as newborns in 2011 are currently in their 5th or...
By Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director Very soon now, ten years will have passed since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Some aspects of the “recovery” from the hard infrastructure...
This is the second part of our series: “Nine years after 3.11: Listening to the voices of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster victims” I was robbed of my hometown by the government and TEPCO By...
CNIC Statement 22 June, 2020 The Asahi newspaper reported on June 3 that the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, the Environment Ministry and the Reconstruction Agency are investigating ways that evacuation orders, which...
More than nine years have elapsed since the tragic nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). For those forced to undergo the harsh experience of...
Fukushima Prefecture has been implementing thyroid gland examinations for children (born between April 2, 1992 and April 1, 2012) who were living in the prefecture at the time of the earthquake and nuclear disaster....
Evacuation orders lifted for parts of the long-term evacuation zones Though nine years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, the zones designated as “Difficult-to-return-zones” still exist in seven municipalities, covering a total of...
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...
