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Tomorrow Party of JAPAN. Japan likely to reverse nuclear energy phase-out | Asia | DW.DE | 27.12. As the country nears the two-year anniversary of the second-worst nuclear accident in history, the protests continue every Friday night outside the official residence of the prime minister of Japan. The demonstrations are very Japanese in their nature; more colorful than confrontational and polite instead of provocative. But it seems likely that these people, drawn from all walks of life in this post-nuclear disaster nation, are to be disappointed in their campaign to have the government adhere to its predecessor's promise to do away with Japan's reliance on nuclear energy by the latter half of the 2030s.
Shinzo Abe became the country's new prime minister on December 26 Even in the run-up to the nation's general election on December 16, the LDP was making its intention to re-evaluate the promises made in the wake of the disaster known. Blackout fears "There are too many issues" that needed to be resolved, Yagi said. The previous government was put under pressure to act Mr. Mr. Mr. In Stressful Wake of Fukushima Disaster, Japan Now Dealing With 'Atomic Divorce' It's been almost two years since the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan, and caused one of the world's worst nuclear accidents. The reactor at Fukushima went into a triple melt-down and radiation contaminated much of the surrounding area.
The radiation risk persists, leaving people in the region in a constant state of anxiety and stress. One psychologist says suicide, depression, alcoholism, gambling and domestic abuse are all up in the region. The stress has even created a new phenomenon: "genpatsu rikon," or "atomic divorce," says Abigail Haworth. Haworth wrote a piece on the issues for the magazine of Britain's Observer newspaper. "One psychologist I spoke to said she was basically overwhelmed," says Haworth There's also a perception of discrimination against people from the region, who are perceived as 'tainted.'
Why Japan Can’t Quit Nuclear Power Hiroko Sata, an 87-year-old nurse, walked out into the Tokyo street on Nov. 11 to see about the commotion. To her left, more than 1,000 people were banging drums and shouting slogans. “What in the world is going on there?” She asked me and my translator, grimacing at the disturbance. The protesters, we told her, had gathered in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to commemorate the 20-month anniversary of the disastrous triple-meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011. Sata, who is older than Japan’s nearly 60-year-old civilian nuclear industry, remembers a time without nuclear power. Now, behind Sata, the protesters are chanting, “Stop nukes immediately!” Fukushima filled the streets with people. Sata regards the crowd. Which may explain why, just a month after the November protest, Japanese voters elected as prime minister Shinzo Abe, who is more open to restarting Japan’s stalled nuclear industry than his predecessor.
Perhaps not. After Fukushima, nuclear power on collision course with Japanese public. On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by a massive earthquake–measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale –and a tsunami with waves up to 65 feet high, leading to a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. As a result, Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants were taken offline for safety checks.
The last one was powered down on May 5, 2012. But in May, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, in the face of overwhelming public opposition, decided to restart Japan’s nuclear power plants. Now, a growing movement is protesting the decision. Weekly demonstrations, with turnout initially numbering in the hundreds, have been taking place on Friday evenings in front of the Prime Minister’s office.
Japan is the third-largest consumer of nuclear energy, after the U.S. and France, and is followed by Russia and Germany. Additionally, Japan, already the world’s biggest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) bought record amounts of LNG last year to replace the nuclear energy. Fukushima - Local Children Unwitting (and Unwilling) Radioactive Guinea Pigs. Seventeen months after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six–reactor complex at its Fukushima Daiichi, discussions continue about the possible effects of the radiation “dusting” the prefecture’s inhabitants received, and their consequences.
Far outside most media coverage, 2012 is shaping up to be the media battleground between the massed proponents of the ongoing ‘safety’ of nuclear power, as opposed to a motley coalition of environmentalists, renegade nuclear scientists and anti-nuclear opponents, largely bereft of media contact. Select the reports you are interested in:NO-SPAM: Under no circumstances will we EVER rent, sell or give away your email The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami double punch that effectively destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s power plant complex has effectively become the newest “ground zero” in the debate over nuclear power. The children of Fukushima. The 1945 U.S. So, why might this be significant? By. Japanese nuclear protesters for human chain - The Business.
TEPCO becomes state-run company. Fukushima man-made catastrophe hitting West Coast is no hoax - National Human Rights. Commission reports government, regulators and Tepco collusion betraying human right to safety Findings of the 19-member commission on the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, based on the experts' six-month investigation, conclude that it is a man-made event that could have been prevented, as Japan's high-level radiation in air, water, food and dairy products bombards California. "A report released last week by the Diet's Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission backs what many members of the public have long believed: The fiasco at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was 'a profoundly man-made disaster — that could have and should have been foreseen and prevented,'" reports The Japan Times.
The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, concluded the panel, "was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and Tepco, and the lack of governance by said parties. (Watch "Who says Fukushima fallout is a hoax? Seriously? " Japan ignores protests to resume nuclear power | Blogburger. The Japanese government has ordered that a reactor at the Oi nuclear power plant be reactivated on Sunday, defying widespread public opposition and warnings from seismologists about active fault lines close to the facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co. tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s reactor building number 3 photographed on March 11, 2012 Photo: REUTERS/Kyodo 10:19AM BST 28 Jun 2012 Kansai Electric Power, the operator of the plant, said the reactor should be ready to restart operations at 9 pm on Sunday, making it the first to be returned to service since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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Eurasia Review. By RT Around 20,000 people gathered in Tokyo to protest the Japanese government’s unilateral decision to restart two nuclear reactors. Many in Japan are wary of nuclear power, as memories of last year’s devastating Fukushima disaster as still fresh. Slogans chanted by protesters included “No to the restart!” , while posters brandished “No nukes”. Activists promised to hold another anti-nuclear rally next week. Opposition to the government’s decision to restart the reactors just a month after the country’s last nuclear power plants were shut down has been on the rise.
Last week, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda gave the go-ahead to restart two nuclear reactors at the Oi plant in western Japan. Authorities said the decision was necessary to prevent a power crunch in the country, which is scant on energy resources, and has traditionally relied on oil imports and the atom. About the author: RT RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in Russia.