The name of the endorsers is listed at the bottom.
27 countries, 325 organizations, 8000 individuals, as of June 6
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To: The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe
To: The Speaker House of Representatives, Tadamori Oshima
To: The President House of Councillors, Date Chuichi
Opposing the Ratification of the Japan-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in parliament
On November 11 last year, the Governments of Japan and India signed the Japan-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (henceforth referred to as ‘the Agreement’). We are strongly opposed to it as it violates the firm postwar stance and efforts made by the Japanese people to promote abolition of nuclear weapons and non-proliferation, as the only country to have suffered nuclear attacks.
On 24 February, the Government of Japan tabled ‘the Agreement’ in parliament. We, citizen groups and individuals from across Japan, have joined people in India and other parts of the world in a campaign to demand that this Agreement not be ratified.
India is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and it has twice conducted nuclear tests. This Agreement allows India to increase production of both its nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. Moreover, India’s neighboring country, Pakistan is also not party to the NPT and also possesses nuclear weapons. It is obvious that this Agreement will aggravate the nuclear arms race in the South Asian region.
This Agreement also allows India to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel to produce plutonium as well as to enrich uranium. Furthermore, the clause on Japan’s withdrawing of cooperation in the event that India conducts another nuclear test, is ambiguous. Compared to other nuclear cooperation agreements, it is incomplete and hence unacceptable by any measure. The media has reported that even within the Liberal Democratic Party, there is strong opposition to this Agreement.
While the Fukushima Daiichi disaster is still ongoingand Japan is still in a state of nuclear emergency, it is insensitive and irresponsible to export nuclear technology. In all the areas where nuclear power plant construction is planned in India, there are massive grassroots movements strongly opposed to them. The people are shouting ‘Japan, don’t export nuclear accidents!’
Nuclear manufacturers such as Toshiba and Hitachi are in financial trouble and are reviewing their nuclear export policy. The general and global shift away from nuclear power also seems irreversible.
We strongly urge that the Nuclear Export Bill be withdrawn. Instead, Japan should engage in international cooperation to promote renewable energy.
Campaign Against Ratification of the Japan-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
Signatories
●Australia
Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD)
Friends of the Earth
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network
Marrickville Peace Group
Medical Association for Prevention of War
Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church
Palestine Liberation Centre
People for Nuclear Disarmament NSW
People for Nuclear Disarmament, Western Australia
Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition
Adam Broinowski
Amy Weaich
Claude Mostowik
Don Jarrett
Gareth W R Smith
Jane Shircore
Jim Green
Jo Vallentine
John Hallam
Judy Blyth
Kathryn Kelly
Michele Madigan
Peter Murphy
Philip White
Reg Tydell
Romina Beitseen
Trevor Monti 田中利幸
●Austria
ARGE ja zur Umwelt, nein zur Atomenergie
PLAGE (The Independent Salzburg Platform Against Nuclear Hazards)
Wiener Plattform Atomkraftfrei
Christiane Schmutterer
Heinz Stockinger
Hildegard Breiner
Irene Gale
Paula Stegmüller
●Bangladesh
Borok Indigenous Tribals People’s Development Centre(BITPDC)
Borok Peoples’ Human Rights Organisation (BPHRO)
Center for Bangladesh Studies
Indigenous Peoples Development Services (IPDS)
International Council for the Indigenous Peoples of CHT(ICIP-CHT)
RISE Bangladesh
Mujibul Alam Khan
●Belgium
Yoko KAWASAKI
●Cambodia
Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Organisation (CIPO)
Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA)
Cambodia Organisation to Promote Kui Culture (OPKC)
●Canada
Artistes pour la Paix
Bruce Peninsula Environment Group
Greenspiration
Just One World
Kizuna Japon
Palestine Liberation Centre
Alice Medcof
Andre CLOUTIER
Angela Bischoff
Chaitanya Kalevar
Donald Seitz
Gareth W R Smith
Judi Richards
Tim Seitz
Ziggy Kleinau モントリオール9条の会 長谷川澄
●Czech 島田淳子
●England
Donna Railton
●Finland
Women Against Nuclear Power
Ulla Klotzer
●France
Action des Citoyens pour le Desarmement Nucleaire (ACDN)
Echo-Echanges
Reseau Sortir du nucleaire (French network for a nuclear phase-out)
Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom – French section よそものネット フランス Catherine LIEBER Harsh Kapoor
Javale Gola
Kolin Kobayashi
Michel FERNEX
Paul Jobin
Sophie Morel
●Germany
Aktion Strom ohne Atom- Burgerinnen fur eine neue Energiepolitik
Anti-Atom-Gruppe Freiburg
Antiatomgruppe Osnabruck
Anti Atom Plenum Frankfurt
Anti Atom Plenum Koln
Arbeitskreis gegen Atomanlagen Frankfurt
BI Luchow-Dannenberg
Cattenom Non Merci
Friedenswerkstatt Mutlangen
Luneburger Aktionsbu ndnis gegen Atom
indien.antiatom.net
Sayonara Nukes Berlin さよなら原発デュッセルドルフ (Atomkraftfreie Welt-SAYONARA Genpatsu Duesseldorf e.V.) ベルリン・女の会
Annette Bänsch-Richter-Hansen
Dieter Heinrich
Gunter Hermeyer
Hironobu Takaoka
Petra Schild-Wagner
Sabine Leyendecker
Ute Schlumpberger
Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck 熊崎実佳 藤井隼人
藤井弘子 藤江-ヴィンター 公子
ヘルド比呂子
●India
Adivasi Navjeewan Gathan Navjvoti Agua
Adivasi Women’s Network
Anu Urja Abhyas Juth
Bhavnagar Jilla Gram Bachao Samiti
Civil Society Women Organization, Meghalaya
Indigenous Peoples Forum, Odisha
Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation
Karbi Human Rights Watch, Northeast India
Naga Women’s Union (NWU)
National Alliance of Anti-nuclear
Mithivirdi Anti-Nuclear Movement
Movements (NAAM)
Peoples Mission Meghalaya
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
Poovulagin Nanbargal
The Other Media
Amirtharaj Stephen
Amit Kumar
Amitadyuti Kumar
Anand Patwardhan
Antony Arulraj
Ashish Ranjan
Atul Anand
Bela Bhatia
Gabriele Dietrich
Krishnakant Chauhan
Kumar Sundaram
Nityanand Jayaraman
Pon Chandran
Rohini Hensman S.Paramaguru
Shriprakash
Suhas Kolhekar
Sujay Basu
Sukla Sen
Sundar Rajan
Vahida Nainar
VaishalI Patil
Veena Poonacha
Xavier Dias 竹内かおり
●Indonesia
Barisan Pemuda Adat Nusantara (BPAN)/Indigenous Youth of Archipelago
MURIA Institute Jepara Indonesia
Partai Hijau Indonesia (Green Party of Indonesia)
Adi Nugroho
Anung Karyadi
Dian Abraham
Nuruddin Amin
●Ireland
Junko Okura
●Italy Centro di documentazione Semi sotto la neve
Ponte fra Italia e Giappone – TomoAmici(日伊の架橋ー朋・アミーチ) 齋藤ゆかり
和田千重
●Korea
Energy Justice Actions / エネルギー正義行動
Incheon Ecology Lab. Gen.
No Nukes News(脱核新聞) People’s Solidarity Against the Yeongdeok Nuclear Power Plant
円仏教環境連帯 Kim Bok Nyo
Park Byung Sang Park Hye Ryeong
小原つなき
●Myanmar
Chin Human Rights Organisation
Kachin Peace Network
●Nepal
Active Society Nepal (ASN)
Adivasi Women’s Network
Bahing Kirat Mulukhim
Bahing Kirat Mulukhim Women Union Depart
Bote Adibasi Janajati Samuha
Chin Human Rights Organisation
Forum for public awareness rural development and environmental conservation (FPARE)
Garivi Unmulan tadha Sahayog Anusandhan Kendra Nepal
Hamro Mechi Samajik Sanstha
Hurhure Yuwa Club
Indigenous Nationalities Single Women Network (INSWN)
Indigenous Nationalities Women Youth Network (INWYN)
Indigenous Women Legal Awareness Group
Ritu Thapa
Janauthan Manch
Kanchangjangha Women’s Development Group
Karani Community Development Centre
Kathriya Society Nepal
Kirat Chamling Association (KCA)
Kirat Chamling Language Culture Development Association (KCLCDA)
Kirat Youth Society (KYS)
Kulung Mingma Guskham
Lok Kalyan Nepal
Nepal Manav Adhikar Samaj
Nepal Rana Tharu Samaj
NGO-Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN)
Pahadi Samaj Bikas Kendra
People Unity Youth Society (PUYS)
Prangbola Chhar Nham
Prasamsha Samudaik Bikas Kendra
Rasuwa Janajati Development Committee
Rasuwa Tamang Samaj
Routa Welfare Community Center
Shilichong Club Development Centre
Shilichong Club Social Development Centre
Siluti Namphunyak Paryatan Bikas Kendra
Spiral Farm House Nepal
Tharu Innovative Youth Society
Unity Society
Youth Awareness Society Nepal (YASN)
Youth Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, Nepal (YFIN Nepal)
●Philippines
BAI Indigenous Women’s Network
Kalipunan ng Mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KATRIBU)
Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya
Nuclear-Free Bataan Movement-Philippines
Nuclear Free Pilipinas
Corazon Valdez Fabros
Mitzi T. Chan
●Russia
Ecodefense
Vladimir Slivyak
●Thailand
Indigenous Women’s Network of Thailand
Supara Janchitfah
●Taiwan
Green Citizens’ Action Alliance(緑色公民行動連盟)
Mom Loves Taiwan Association
Taiwan Environmental Protection Union 地球公民基金会(Citizen of the Earth)
Gloria Kuang-Jung HSU
Pi-Yao, Lin
Shin-Min Shih
Sun-Han, Hung.
●Turkey
Metin Gurbuz
Pinar Demircan
●UK
Japanese Against Nuclear 小林茂夫
●USA
able
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
Boston Downwinders
Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World
Massachusetts Peace Action
No Nukes Action
Nuclear Watch South
On Behalf of Planet Earth
Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 仏法山禅源寺
Ayumi Temlock
Banbose Shango
Guntram Mueller
Mohammad Imran
Paula Sharaga
Rachel Clark
Renita Sina Chirayil
Roberta Hill
Sheila Parks
William Mark Casebier 大道魯参
●Vietnam
Centre for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas (CSDM)
Vietnam Indigenous Knowledge Network (VTIK)
●Regional
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Asia Indigenous Women’s Network (AIWN)
●Australia
Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD)
Friends of the Earth
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network
Marrickville Peace Group
Medical Association for Prevention of War
Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church
Palestine Liberation Centre
People for Nuclear Disarmament NSW
People for Nuclear Disarmament, Western Australia
Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition
Adam Broinowski
Amy Weaich
Claude Mostowik
Don Jarrett
Gareth W R Smith
Jane Shircore
Jim Green
Jo Vallentine
John Hallam
Judy Blyth
Kathryn Kelly
Michele Madigan
Peter Murphy
Philip White
Reg Tydell
Romina Beitseen
Trevor Monti 田中利幸
●Austria
ARGE ja zur Umwelt, nein zur Atomenergie
PLAGE (The Independent Salzburg Platform Against Nuclear Hazards)
Wiener Plattform Atomkraftfrei
Christiane Schmutterer
Heinz Stockinger
Hildegard Breiner
Irene Gale
Paula Stegmüller
●Bangladesh
Borok Indigenous Tribals People’s Development Centre(BITPDC)
Borok Peoples’ Human Rights Organisation (BPHRO)
Center for Bangladesh Studies
Indigenous Peoples Development Services (IPDS)
International Council for the Indigenous Peoples of CHT(ICIP-CHT)
RISE Bangladesh
Mujibul Alam Khan
●Belgium
Yoko KAWASAKI
●Cambodia
Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Organisation (CIPO)
Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA)
Cambodia Organisation to Promote Kui Culture (OPKC)
●Canada
Artistes pour la Paix
Bruce Peninsula Environment Group
Greenspiration
Just One World
Kizuna Japon
Palestine Liberation Centre
Alice Medcof
Andre CLOUTIER
Angela Bischoff
Chaitanya Kalevar
Donald Seitz
Gareth W R Smith
Judi Richards
Tim Seitz
Ziggy Kleinau モントリオール9条の会 長谷川澄
●Czech 島田淳子
●England
Donna Railton
●Finland
Women Against Nuclear Power
Ulla Klotzer
●France
Action des Citoyens pour le Desarmement Nucleaire (ACDN)
Echo-Echanges
Reseau Sortir du nucleaire (French network for a nuclear phase-out)
Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom – French section よそものネット フランス Catherine LIEBER Harsh Kapoor
Javale Gola
Kolin Kobayashi
Michel FERNEX
Paul Jobin
Sophie Morel
●Germany
Aktion Strom ohne Atom- Burgerinnen fur eine neue Energiepolitik
Anti-Atom-Gruppe Freiburg
Antiatomgruppe Osnabruck
Anti Atom Plenum Frankfurt
Anti Atom Plenum Koln
Arbeitskreis gegen Atomanlagen Frankfurt
BI Luchow-Dannenberg
Cattenom Non Merci
Friedenswerkstatt Mutlangen
Luneburger Aktionsbu ndnis gegen Atom
indien.antiatom.net
Sayonara Nukes Berlin さよなら原発デュッセルドルフ (Atomkraftfreie Welt-SAYONARA Genpatsu Duesseldorf e.V.) ベルリン・女の会
Annette Bänsch-Richter-Hansen
Dieter Heinrich
Gunter Hermeyer
Hironobu Takaoka
Petra Schild-Wagner
Sabine Leyendecker
Ute Schlumpberger
Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck 熊崎実佳 藤井隼人
藤井弘子 藤江-ヴィンター 公子
ヘルド比呂子
●India
Adivasi Navjeewan Gathan Navjvoti Agua
Adivasi Women’s Network
Anu Urja Abhyas Juth
Bhavnagar Jilla Gram Bachao Samiti
Civil Society Women Organization, Meghalaya
Indigenous Peoples Forum, Odisha
Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation
Karbi Human Rights Watch, Northeast India
Naga Women’s Union (NWU)
National Alliance of Anti-nuclear
Mithivirdi Anti-Nuclear Movement
Movements (NAAM)
Peoples Mission Meghalaya
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
Poovulagin Nanbargal
The Other Media
Amirtharaj Stephen
Amit Kumar
Amitadyuti Kumar
Anand Patwardhan
Antony Arulraj
Ashish Ranjan
Atul Anand
Bela Bhatia
Gabriele Dietrich
Krishnakant Chauhan
Kumar Sundaram
Nityanand Jayaraman
Pon Chandran
Rohini Hensman S.Paramaguru
Shriprakash
Suhas Kolhekar
Sujay Basu
Sukla Sen
Sundar Rajan
Vahida Nainar
VaishalI Patil
Veena Poonacha
Xavier Dias 竹内かおり
●Indonesia
Barisan Pemuda Adat Nusantara (BPAN)/Indigenous Youth of Archipelago
MURIA Institute Jepara Indonesia
Partai Hijau Indonesia (Green Party of Indonesia)
Adi Nugroho
Anung Karyadi
Dian Abraham
Nuruddin Amin
●Ireland
Junko Okura
●Italy Centro di documentazione Semi sotto la neve
Ponte fra Italia e Giappone – TomoAmici(日伊の架橋ー朋・アミーチ) 齋藤ゆかり
和田千重
●Korea
Energy Justice Actions / エネルギー正義行動
Incheon Ecology Lab. Gen.
No Nukes News(脱核新聞) People’s Solidarity Against the Yeongdeok Nuclear Power Plant
円仏教環境連帯 Kim Bok Nyo
Park Byung Sang Park Hye Ryeong
小原つなき
●Myanmar
Chin Human Rights Organisation
Kachin Peace Network
●Nepal
Active Society Nepal (ASN)
Adivasi Women’s Network
Bahing Kirat Mulukhim
Bahing Kirat Mulukhim Women Union Depart
Bote Adibasi Janajati Samuha
Chin Human Rights Organisation
Forum for public awareness rural development and environmental conservation (FPARE)
Garivi Unmulan tadha Sahayog Anusandhan Kendra Nepal
Hamro Mechi Samajik Sanstha
Hurhure Yuwa Club
Indigenous Nationalities Single Women Network (INSWN)
Indigenous Nationalities Women Youth Network (INWYN)
Indigenous Women Legal Awareness Group
Ritu Thapa
Janauthan Manch
Kanchangjangha Women’s Development Group
Karani Community Development Centre
Kathriya Society Nepal
Kirat Chamling Association (KCA)
Kirat Chamling Language Culture Development Association (KCLCDA)
Kirat Youth Society (KYS)
Kulung Mingma Guskham
Lok Kalyan Nepal
Nepal Manav Adhikar Samaj
Nepal Rana Tharu Samaj
NGO-Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN)
Pahadi Samaj Bikas Kendra
People Unity Youth Society (PUYS)
Prangbola Chhar Nham
Prasamsha Samudaik Bikas Kendra
Rasuwa Janajati Development Committee
Rasuwa Tamang Samaj
Routa Welfare Community Center
Shilichong Club Development Centre
Shilichong Club Social Development Centre
Siluti Namphunyak Paryatan Bikas Kendra
Spiral Farm House Nepal
Tharu Innovative Youth Society
Unity Society
Youth Awareness Society Nepal (YASN)
Youth Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, Nepal (YFIN Nepal)
●Philippines
BAI Indigenous Women’s Network
Kalipunan ng Mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KATRIBU)
Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya
Nuclear-Free Bataan Movement-Philippines
Nuclear Free Pilipinas
Corazon Valdez Fabros
Mitzi T. Chan
●Russia
Ecodefense
Vladimir Slivyak
●Thailand
Indigenous Women’s Network of Thailand
Supara Janchitfah
●Taiwan
Green Citizens’ Action Alliance(緑色公民行動連盟)
Mom Loves Taiwan Association
Taiwan Environmental Protection Union 地球公民基金会(Citizen of the Earth)
Gloria Kuang-Jung HSU
Pi-Yao, Lin
Shin-Min Shih
Sun-Han, Hung.
●Turkey
Metin Gurbuz
Pinar Demircan
●UK
Japanese Against Nuclear 小林茂夫
●USA
able
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
Boston Downwinders
Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World
Massachusetts Peace Action
No Nukes Action
Nuclear Watch South
On Behalf of Planet Earth
Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 仏法山禅源寺
Ayumi Temlock
Banbose Shango
Guntram Mueller
Mohammad Imran
Paula Sharaga
Rachel Clark
Renita Sina Chirayil
Roberta Hill
Sheila Parks
William Mark Casebier 大道魯参
●Vietnam
Centre for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas (CSDM)
Vietnam Indigenous Knowledge Network (VTIK)
●Regional
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Asia Indigenous Women’s Network (AIWN)
“We would like to invite you to visit Fukushima and see its condition firsthand,” the letter said.
The News Minute, November 8, 2016 – 08:53
Ahead of Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan, where he is expected to sign a Nuclear agreement, women affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster have written a letter to the Indian Prime Minister.
This comes even as reports suggested that negotiations on a final text of the proposed Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between India and Japan have made “significant headway”.
Modi will be in Japan for two days, November 11 and 12.
Read the full text of the letter here:
To the Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
We are women living in Fukushima prefecture, where a massive accident unparalleled in history occurred on March 11, 2011, at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
As a result of this accident our lives changed dramatically. Among us, there are those who lost their homes, those who lost their jobs, those who lost their hometowns and friends, those who lost their future, those who lost their joy in life, and those who lost their very lives. All of this was taken by the nuclear accident.
Even now, some five and a half years after this accident, the accident is still unresolved. We live surrounded by radioactive debris which emanated from the reactor. Even as our government pushes us to return to our homelands, many people think of their children’s health, and they feel that they cannot return to their original homes. At the current stage, in Fukushima prefecture alone, some 174 children have been found to have contracted thyroid cancer. We are deeply worried about the wide-ranging health hazards that will appear in the years to come.
Presently court proceedings to determine legal responsibility for the nuclear accident itself have not yet been opened, and the accident’s cause, the question of human error, the question of whether the accident was handled appropriately, have not yet been clarified. Now, the problem of restarting nuclear power plants across Japan has surfaced, and battles are being fought through the courts to keep these plants from restarting. As with Takahama Nuclear Power Station, some nuclear plants’ operation has been suspended.
Under these circumstances, the fact that Japan is attempting to sell nuclear power plants to other countries, is embarrassing and most unfortunate. When we consider that a similar type accident might happen at one of India’s nuclear power plants, we are filled with concern. That is, as women who experienced firsthand the suffering that the Fukushima accident has brought, we do not wish anyone in the world to have the same experience we did.
Mr. Modi, we would like to invite you to visit Fukushima and see its condition firsthand. The destroyed reactor, the towns where people can no longer live that have become like abandoned towns, the mountains of radioactive rubble, the towering incinerators, and children who can no longer play freely outside. After you have seen the reality of Fukushima, then we urge you to think carefully about the nuclear cooperation agreement.Nuclear power plants will not bring happiness to your citizens. We who experienced the injury of the nuclear accident, we came to understand this through our own bodies and lives.
Mr. Modi, for the Indian people and the future of India, please do not sign the India-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. We beseech you to make a wise judgment.
By-Fukushima Women Against Nukes
(Fukushima Women Against Nukes is a network of women that started in September 2012, using various direct actions such as sit-ins, demonstrations as well as petitioning TEPCO and others to demand justice for everything that the Fukushima Daiichi disaster has taken away from them. They are also strongly opposed to restarting any of Japan’s nuclear reactors and are working for a nuclear free world. Website: http://onna100nin.seesaa.net)