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Tokyo Elections and the Future of the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Kenji Kunitomi — 2014-02-18T11:58:04Z

What to make of the Tokyo gubernatorial election results? How can we organize a campaign to stop reactivating nuclear power plants that connects the whole country? How effective is the “single-issue” focus?

- IV469 - February 2014 / Japan, Nuclear power

40,000 march against nuclear power in Tokyo

Kenji Kunitomi — 2013-10-19T09:46:50Z

Right-wing nationalist Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims radiation from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor is perfectly under control at his presentation speech to the International Olympic Committee general assembly in Buenos Aires on September 7.
Ths shameless assertion by Abe is completely false. Highly radiation-contaminated water is massively leaking into the soil and sea everyday, and both TEPCO and the government could nothing to control Fukushima nuclear disaster.

- IV465 - October 2013 / Japan, Nuclear power

“Stop the Vicious Cycle of Territorial Disputes”

Kenji Kunitomi — 2012-09-29T13:47:11Z

Japanese civic movements held a press conference and released a statement on territorial conflicts between Japan, China, and Korea on Friday, September 28. The statement was initiated by a small number of activists of peace movement, intellgentsia, media people, and lawyers.

- News from around the world / Japan

One Year after Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Kenji Kunitomi — 2012-03-07T15:01:01Z

One year has passed since tremendous scale of earthquake and tsunami catastrophe which severely attacked and destroyed towns and villages in North-East coastal region of Japan. Nearly 20,000 people were killed and missing, 341,000 have been evacuated, and many people lived in affected zones lost their fundamental basis of daily existences, such as houses, public transport, health care, jobs, and their communities.

- IV446 - March 2012 / Japan, Nuclear power

Good Bye Nuclear Power demonstration

Kenji Kunitomi — 2011-09-25T08:32:11Z

More than 60,000 people shouting " no nukes", joined a rally and demonstration in Tokyo on September 19.

- News from around the world

September 19 "Goodbye Nuclear Power Plant" Rally in Tokyo

Kenji Kunitomi — 2011-09-12T14:54:50Z

Six months have passed since the Northeastern-Japan earthquake/tsunami and the Fukushima Nuke disaster. Faced with the deadly serious situation of the radiocative contamination and its possible effects on their livelihood and future life, people are waging various kinds of activities to decommison all the nuclear power plants. Antinuke campaigns have been gaining momentum in the whole country.

- IV440 - September 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, Japan, Solidarity after disasters , Nuclear power

“If we want the world without nuclear plants, we must challenge the capitalist system”

Kenji Kunitomi , Ryota Sono — 2011-04-26T06:23:01Z

TEPCO had explained that â€˜nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl would never happen here because Japanese nuclear technologies are excellent' said Ryota Sono, 29 years old, a radical peace activist and member of the Precarious Workers General Union. Ryota has initiated protest actions against the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima caused by huge earthquake and Tsunami on March 11. His initiatives have gained big sympathies particularly among the younger generation. Kenji Kunitomi interviewed Ryota Sono on April 23th in Tokyo.

- IV435 - April 2011 / Japan, Nuclear power

"No APEC People's Forum"

Kenji Kunitomi — 2010-11-15T17:02:56Z

The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit conference of 21 countries and regions of Asia-Pacific region was held on November 13 and 14th in Yokohama, Japan.

- News from around the world / Japan

New NCIW/JRCL joint weekly analyses elections

Kenji Kunitomi — 2009-09-29T18:21:50Z

This analysis of the elections comes from “Kakehashi” (Bridge), a newspaper which is, from this month, produced weekly in co-operation between two Fourth Internationalist organisations: the National Council of Internationalist Workers (NCIW) and the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL). The decision to publish a co-edited weekly is important for both organizations to develop a organizational reunification after a split in 1989.

- IV416 - September 2009 / Japan

Neoliberal counter-reform and militarisation

Kenji Kunitomi — 2007-02-09T20:22:59Z

After five years of the premiership of Jun'ichiro Koizumi, Japanese workers faced much harsher conditions and militarisation proceeded apace. His successor Shinzo Abe will continue conservative policies, but with a much more nationalist-populist twist.

- IV386 - February 2007 / Japan