{"id":4427,"date":"2019-06-03T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnic.jp\/english\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T07:05:22","slug":"group-introduction-foe-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/?p=4427","title":{"rendered":"Group Introduction: FoE Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FoE Japan: Building a peaceful and sustainable world for all<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Fukakusa Ayumi, FoE Campaigner, Climate change and energy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Demonstration against the export of NPPs from Japan <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The non-governmental organization FoE Japan, a member of\nFriends of the Earth International, has been committed to environmental and\nhuman rights issues since 1980, aiming to build a peaceful and sustainable\nsociety where all life on Earth (humans, ethnic groups, living creatures and\nnature) can live together with dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While providing support to those who have been suffering from the March 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi NPS disaster, we are committed to policy-recommendation activities to realize an \u201cenergy shift\u201d in society by stopping destructive and dirty energy including nuclear, large hydro dam, and coal thermal power generation. We are also engaged in a wide variety of research and policy-proposing activities to stop climate change, such as requesting industrialized countries, which are the major carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) emitting countries, to support people in developing countries who are facing serious impacts from climate change; encouraging forestry businesses to shift to environmentally friendly tree use; and listening to the locals who suffer from environmental destruction and human rights abuse resulting from large-scale development projects in which Japan is involved, and demanding the cancellation or improvement of those projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011, we have been\nmaking special efforts to stop the use of nuclear energy and provide support to\npeople in Fukushima. We are engaged in protecting the rights of victims, in putting\nforward policy recommendations to prevent the Japanese government from exporting\nnuclear technology and from restarting the nuclear power plants once totally suspended\nafter the disaster in Japan, and in conducting recuperation holiday programs\nfor children living in Fukushima Prefecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, the Japanese Diet passed the Nuclear Disaster\nVictims\u2019 Support Act and we were committed to its establishment. Since then we\nhave been working hard to substantiate the contents of the act. In 2016, we\nparticipated in a newly established organization named Cooperation Center 3.11 as\na founding member. The Center aims to provide consultation and support to those\nwho relocated after the nuclear disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the deregulation of the electric power retailing\nmarket in Japan, FoE Japan has been operating as the secretariat of the Power\nShift Campaign, which encourages consumers to switch to renewable power\nsuppliers that care for local communities, human rights and sustainability, while\nrequesting power suppliers to introduce more sustainable and renewable energy.\nWe also publish policy recommendations to influence governmental energy policy-making,\nsuch as the governmental Strategic Energy Plan, to build a momentum toward a\nnuclear phaseout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a campaign organized to stop the Japanese export of\nnuclear power plants, we exchange ideas with civil communities in the countries\nplanning to import the nukes, conduct local surveys, collect the scarcely-heard\nvoices of those living in the municipalities where siting of the plants is planned,\nand introduce the collected information to people in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using such fancy wording as \u201cvolume reduction\u201d (of radioactive\nwastes) and \u201crevitalization\u201d (of Fukushima), the Japanese government contrives\nto distribute the water and soil contaminated by the nuclear disaster widely\nacross the country. FoE Japan closely watches governmental councils and\nadministrative discussions, communicates with nay-saying residents in the\nvicinities of the sites of the government-planned \u201cvolume reduction\u201d demonstration\nexperiments, and publishes policy recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also organize a recuperation holiday program (\u201cFukushima Poka-Poka Project\u201d) for families living in disaster-affected, high-dose areas. The program has been functioning as a means of providing children in Fukushima with opportunities to play outdoors without restraint, and their mothers with opportunities to share concerns about exposure to radiation. The program accepts more than two hundred participants each year. While the national and municipal governments are promoting evacuees\u2019 return to disaster-affected areas, the importance of such a holiday program is increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FoE Japan will make further efforts in the future to\nrealize a nuke-free, sustainable society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Children enjoying a holiday thanks to the Fukushima Poka-Poka Project <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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