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[video] One Less Nuclear Power Plant vie Vimeo

Posted on 2013/11/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Seoul Metropolitan Government is working on many projects to achieve for “One Less Nuclear Power Plant”. Watch the video at One Less Nuclear Power Plant

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Next Sunday (Nov 24) “Narrating the Nuclear” roundtable at AAA in Chicago

Posted on 2013/11/16 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

If you are in the Chicago area, or if you are coming to the Chicago area for the next weekend, please attend! Date & Schedule November 24 Part I “Nuclear Weaponry”: 8:00am-9:45am, As part of AAA Executive Program Committee (executive … Continue reading →

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Japan’s ex-PM Koizumi urges Abe to abandon nuclear power via Reuters

Posted on 2013/11/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – Former Japanese premier Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday urged his old deputy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to abandon nuclear power, adding to pressure on the government to re-consider its position on unpopular atomic energy. Koizumi was one of Japan’s … Continue reading →

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Koizumi defends anti-nuclear drive, seeks policy change via The Japan Times

Posted on 2013/11/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

YOKOHAMA – Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended his anti-nuclear stance Sunday, urging the government, in light of the meltdown calamity at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that started in 2011, to drop its quest to restart atomic power … Continue reading →

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Music in Japanese Antinuclear Demonstrations: The Evolution of a Contentious Performance Model via Japan Focus

Posted on 2013/10/28 by norma field

By Noriko Manabe Since Japan’s triple disaster of March 11, 2011, music has served to inform and give voice to unspoken opinions in several spaces—cyberspace, recordings, festivals and concerts, and public demonstrations. 1 In particular, music has been an integral … Continue reading →

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Norma Field, champion of Japan’s leftist literature, retires — but not from anti-nuclear activism via The Japan Times

Posted on 2013/10/18 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

In 1998, Norma Field visited Sharon Stephens at home. Stephens was ill with the cancer she’d thought — they’d all thought, for the past nine years — had relented. This was two weeks before the end. Field had come to … Continue reading →

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Tens of thousands of protesters attend anti-nuclear events in Tokyo via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2013/10/16 by norma field

With all the nation’s 50 nuclear reactors offline, an estimated 40,000 people attended a series of demonstrations in central Tokyo on Oct. 13 organized by three anti-nuclear civic groups to express their opposition to the government’s push for restarts. In … Continue reading →

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밀양송전탑 공사 재개 via 환경운동연합 소개　

Posted on 2013/10/06 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

밀양 주민들이 위험하다. 이제 나흘 째인데, 주민들은 지금 너무 힘들다. 나흘 째 노숙을 하면서 주민들의 건강은 급속도로 나빠지고 있다. 주민들은 어떻게 하든 이 송전탑 공사만큼은 막아야 하기 때문에 누렇게 익어가는 나락을 버려두며, 출하하지 못해 비닐하우스에서 시들어가는 고추를 바라보며, 일년 농사를 … Continue reading →

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AN INTERVIEW WITH 281_ANTI NUKE via The New Yorker

Posted on 2013/10/02 by norma field

The stickers went up a few months after Japan’s triple disaster in 2011—an earthquake and tsunami that took twenty thousand lives, and an ongoing nuclear crisis that threatens more. They first appeared along the shabby backstreets of Shibuya, in downtown … Continue reading →

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Koizumi’s call for nuclear-free Japan raises speculation about his intent via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2013/10/02 by norma field

Some political sources say Koizumi is simply expressing his true feelings about nuclear power. But others point to a political motive behind this anti-nuclear stance. They say Koizumi may be trying to protect, albeit indirectly, the Abe administration and even … Continue reading →

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