{"id":4616,"date":"2019-10-07T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnic.jp\/english\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T02:02:32","slug":"group-intro-sayonara-nukes-yonezawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/?p=4616","title":{"rendered":"Group Intro: Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CNIC’s Sawai Masako speaking about radioactive waste management in Japan and Germany at Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa’s 36th Gathering on 30 July 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

by\nBan Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yonezawa\nis in Yamagata Prefecture, which was the destination for a large number of\nFukushima evacuees. Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa was born on 27 April 2013 when a\nmovie screening and talk by a Fukushima evacuee was held. The speaker, Shiga\nKeiko, had lived in Minami Soma, and narrowly escaped being swallowed by the\ntsunami. She spoke about her harrowing experience, deeply impressing the\naudience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before\nthis, planning meetings to set up the group were held three times from the end\nof 2012. It was decided that the group would not be influenced by any political\nparty or other organizations and would appeal to members of the general public,\nfocusing on ending nuclear power generation as a matter of preserving life and,\ninstead of making political criticisms, would think about the nuclear power\nissue in terms of human lifestyles. \nTakahashi Hiroshi, professor emeritus at Yamagata University, became the\ngroup’s leader. Group members include people from a wide variety of\nbackgrounds, for example, people who used to work in the nuclear industry and\norganic farmers. There are about 30 members in total but they do not pay\nmembership fees, instead volunteering their time. It is the pro-active way in\nwhich members happily engage in activities that has kept the group going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\ngathering has been held every month except December since the group was\nestablished, a total of 64 times up to September 2019. The themes of the\ngatherings each month are decided at planning meetings. Many of the gatherings\naddress issues related to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, including the truth\nabout how the accident happened and people’s lives after the disaster, as well\nas the problems, for example children exposed to radiation, faced by evacuees.\nOther issues related to nuclear energy are also addressed, for example renewable\nenergy, with talks by the presidents of community electricity companies in\nIitate and Aizu (both in Fukushima), as well as technical issues, opposition\narguments, and even Constitutional violations. Not just speeches, but\nmovie-screenings are also held, with movies from anti-nuke directors such as\nKawai Hiroyuki and Kamanaka Hitomi. Actor Nakamura Atsuo has also performed his\nsolo reading plays “The Dosimeter\nBeeps” and another play which depicts the conflict a family faces before\nthey evacuate. Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa has also organized outdoor excursions,\nparades and concerts as well as a study trip to Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant.\nDuring elections, they send open letters to all candidates asking their position\non nuclear power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a different speaker for each gathering, so audiences have been able to hear lots of different opinions over the years. The one exception of a repeat speaker is Sawai Masako from CNIC! We have also received lots of support from Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director Yonezawa is in Yamagata Prefecture, which was the destination for a large number of Fukushima evacuees. Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa was born on 27 April 2013 when a movie screening...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}