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The Japanese government’s decision to discharge Fukushima contaminated water ignores human rights and international maritime law
Greenpeace Japan strongly condemns the decision of the of Prime Minister Suga’s cabinet to dispose of over 1.23 million tons of radioactive waste water.
Greenpeace International3 min read -
A decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Greenpeace renews calls for the Japanese government to shift to a renewable energy future
Greenpeace Japan reiterates its calls for the government to build back better by promoting renewable energy policies instead of coal and nuclear. Japan has the capacity and the technology in place, but lacks the will to do so.
Greenpeace International3 min read -
A decade since the Fukushima disaster
Ten years have been a long journey. Looking back at the archives from the first team deployed to Fukushima on 26 March, 2011, it reminds us that a decade is a long time but also not enough to wash away the pain caused from the accident.
Sudhanshu Malhotra5 min read -
Nuclear weapons are illegal at last
Nuclear arms are the most destructive, indiscriminate and monstrous weapons ever produced - but today, we can all celebrate a major milestone in the long march towards peace: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is now part of international law!
Greenpeace International3 min read -
What does safety mean to you?
And despite the variations in conditions, we had shared worries - Will the health systems where we live hold? How do we keep ourselves and our families safe?
Jen Maman5 min read -
Fading memories of the atomic bombing – Hiroshima 75 years later
Memories of the Hiroshima atomic bombing are fading - we must pass them on to future generations.
Mitsuhisa Kawase8 min read -
Nuclear power and the collapse of society
On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…
Rex Weyler8 min read