Anti-nuke Friday Action on April 22nd Appeal to stop Sendai Nuclear Plant

In the weekly Anti-nuke Friday Action on April 22^nd, just after the unpredictable Kumamoto Earthquake, people were angry with the government, who won’t stop the nearby Sendai Nuclear Power Plant. In this recent earthquake, there were two successive quakes measuring 7 on the Japanese seismic scale. The series of quakes are all along an active fault and it is quite evident that the Japanese Archipelago is entering a period of brisk seismic activity. We should immediately stop the plant and start the decommissioning of the reactors.

 There were two women from Kagoshima to push for the stop of Sendai Plant in front of the Diet Building. It’s quite clear that the plant is not operating for the people. For whom is it, then? (KINOSHITA Masaaki)

鹿児島の女性が川内 原発停止を訴える～4.22金曜行動レポート

4 月22日金曜日の脱原発の抗議集会では、人々は予測不可能な熊本地震への脅威と、それでも川内原発の稼働を停めようとしないこと への怒りのスピーチが行われた。今度の地震でもわかるように、地震自体、震度7が2度もあったように日本列島は地震の活発期に入っていることと、それがいずれも活断層にそって起こっていることで、これらの事態から推しても、ただちに原発の停止と廃炉に向けての作業にとりかかるべきである。万が一原発が再び大惨事を起こせば、日本の悲惨は世界の笑いものとなる。さっそく鹿児島からも2人の女性が、川内原発の停止を訴えにきて、官邸前や国会前でスピーチした。誰のための原発か。もはや国民のための原発でないことは確かだ。（木下昌明） 報告・動画（5分40秒）

2000 gather outside Sendai Nuclear Power Plant from across Japan; Report of August 10 protest

At 8.30am on August 10, we were standing right in front of the main gate of the Kyushu Electric Power Company's Sendai nuclear power plant, together with . Japan was about to have an active nuclear reactor, ending a period of no nukes realized and lasted for some time after the Fukushima disaster of March 11, 2011. The government had rushed to the restart: People living outside of the range of 10km radius were left without emergency evacuation plans; No one had been fully assured of the safety. The protesters outside the Sendai power plant came from all over Japan, including Fukushima, Tokyo and neighboring prefectures and various places where other nuclear power plants are located. We all regarded the issue as theirs; It is not just a matter for people of Kagoshima, the prefecture where the Sendai plant is located. “No one has ever been held responsible for the Fukushima disaster: No one is ready to take the responsibility for possible accidents to come. Japan is not qualified to run a nuclear reactor.” Many of us stood on top of the car, parked there in face of numerous policemen and other security personnel surrounding the protesters, one after another to speak to the others there. “The government has chosen the Sendai plant as the first to reactivate because it is the farthest from Tokyo among all the nuclear power plants, I think. They discriminate against the residents of regions far from the capital. Don't insult the residents of Kyushu!” shouted a woman from Oita, a prefecture in Kyushu. A former worker at a nuclear power plant spoke of his desire to stop recurrence of the tragic experience he and his co-workers had. “We just cannot understand at all,” said a French protester. (By HORIKIRI Satomi)

In Tokyo, protest was staged outside the branch office of Kyushu Electric Power Company in the evening of August 11. Many of the protesters had just returned from Kagoshima.

8.10 現地報告 : 川内 原発ゲートの真ん前に私たちは立っていた

 ８月１０日、朝８時半。九州電力川内原発 ゲートの真ん前に私たちは立っていた。３・１１後、原発ゼロを実現してきた日本が、再び原発時代を始 めようとしている。１０キロ圏外の避難計画はなく、安全性には何の確信もない中での見切り発車。地 元・鹿児島だけの問題ではないと、福島から、首都圏から、そして全国の原発地域から人々が集まった。 「いまだ福島原発事故に誰も責任をとっていない。その覚悟もない。そんな国に 原発を動かす資格はな い」 おびただしい警備の中に堂々と置かれた宣伝カーの上で、次々とマイクをにぎる。大分県の女性は 「東京から川内が一番遠いから再稼働第一号になったんだと思 う。九州をバカにするな。田舎差別だ」と 叫ぶ。「自分たちのような悲劇をくりかえさないでほしい」と訴える元原発作業員、 「われわれの理解力 を超えている」と語るフランス人も。（堀切さとみ）

No nukes! ~ ‘Stop restarting nuclear plants! Rally in Fukuoka’ draws 15,000 people

A rally to stop restart of the nuclear plants drew 15,000 people to Maizuru Park in Fukuoka City on June 7. “We will never let them switch on the Sendai Plant,” people demanded. Participants applauded when a Fukushima resident said, “It’s unbelievable that (the company and the government) want to restart the nuclear plants,” and a local resident from Sendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture, said, “We the residents feel extremely angry.
We should never let them restart the plants at any cost.” To this, the audience applauded. During the speech by HIROSE Takashi, anti-nuclear activist, YAMAMOTO Taro, an upper-house member, reported the event from a helicopter hovering overhead. The participants waved yellow balloons to Yamamoto in response. A sense of tension, enthusiasm and solidarity was shared. People from Tomari, Oma, Takahama, Oi, Ikata and Shimane—host cities of nuclear power stations came to join the rally. (AOYAMA Harue)

原発いらんばい！～「ストップ再稼働！大集会 in 福岡」に1万5千人

 6 月7日、福岡市中央区の舞鶴公園で「ストップ再稼働！大集会 in 福岡―川内原発のスイッチは押させない」が開かれ、1万5千人が参加。福島からの「原発事故被害の続くなか再稼働は信じがたい」という訴えや、川内現地か らの「住民は大きな怒りを感じている。何としても再稼働を止めましょう」という発言に大きな拍手が送られた。広瀬隆さんの発言時には、山本太郎さんリポー ターのヘリコプターが上空に出現。参加者は黄色い風船を振って応えた。夏の再稼働へ向けて、今までにない脱原発市民団体の緊張感と熱意、一体感が感じられ た気がする。泊・大間・高浜・大飯・伊方・島根など原発現地各地からも参加者が来ていた。（青山晴江）