Category: Local movements

Who’s Who: Hara Asuka – a Rising Star in Niigata under the NPS Restart Crisis

By Kuwabara Mie (Hara Asuka and Kuwabara Mie’s NPS Restart Holdback Project)   In Niigata Prefecture, the controversy over the restart of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki–Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, whose operation...

Group Intro: The Group of Citizens Seeking a Court Decision Ordering the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants Over 40 Years Old

By Shibayama Yasuko (Secretary General, Group of Citizens Seeking a Court Decision Ordering the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants Over 40 Years Old) We, the Group of Citizens Seeking a Court Decision Ordering the...

Group Intro: Aomori Prefecture Citizens’ Association to Protect the Future from Nuclear Waste

By Ito Kazuko   In December 1983, the prime minister at the time, Nakasone Yasuhiro, announced that the Shimokita Peninsula would become a nuclear power Mecca, and on April 9, 1985, the governor of...