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Archived websites of social movements in modern Japan : the aftermath of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants crisis, March 11 2011

Japan, Social movements after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants crisis, March 11, 2011 

This collection of archived websites documents the growth of new social movements following the crisis of  Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants in northern Japan on March 11, 2011.

 The explosion created layers of problems that could affect generations of people across Japan such as:

  •  Effects of low-dosage nuclear contamination on the human body, particularly unborn and young children and their mothers
  •  De-contamination of towns and villages close to Fukushima 
  • Reallocation of populations who lived in and around Fukushima to temporary housing - and loss of local communities, loss of jobs as the consequence
  • Food contamination,  food security and future of food and agriculture industries
  • Safety of the other active nuclear plants
  • Management of the exploded nuclear power plant

The social movements have taken up a variety of causes, such as;

  • saving children from most the contaminated  areas of Fukushima
  • measuring the daily levels of nuclear contamination in the air, soils and food
  • calling for a national referendum on the future of nuclear energy in Japan