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CUJ: Local Energy Production For Local Energy Consumption

Resolution to aim for a clean break with nuclear power generation – We request a conversion of Japan’s energy policy
Nuclear power generation leads to radiation poisoning at every level: from the workers involved in uranium mining for the fuel used in nuclear reactors to the final disposal of high-level nuclear waste known in Japanese as [...]

We Oppose Full-Body Scanning at Airports

We Oppose the Introduction of Full-Body Scanning at Japan’s Airports
Statement by the Citizens Association Opposing Phone Tapping and Consumers Union of Japan
January 19, 2010
The U.S. government introduced whole body scanning at airports on December 25, 2009. This involves acquiring photographic images that reveal the nude body using X-ray techniques as a way to examine passengers. [...]

CUJ: Annul and Scrap the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the Japan-U.S. Status-of-Forces Agreement

Resolution to make the best use of Japan’s war-renouncing Constitution, and to request the removal of military bases
On May 28, 2010 the governments of Japan and the United States issued a joint statement outlining the relocation of the Futenma base in Ginowan City to Cape Henoko and the adjoining waters near Camp Schwab in Nago [...]

Change!

Change! The nationwide meeting on January 30, 2010 has passed the following resolution, for a change in the US-Japan relationship, and to not accept the Futenma base to be moved to Henoko. 
January 30, 2010 
In 1996, both the Japanese and the US governments agreed to close the Futenma base inside central Ginowan City in Okinawa, which [...]

World Peace Now In Tokyo March 20, 2010

Peace groups are gathering at noon in Tokyo on Saturday for a big anti-war event on the 7th anniversary of th [...]

World Social Forum: Challenging The Economic Order

CUJ and other NGOs including Attac Japan, People’s Plan and Space Allies/Allies Law Office are preparing for the World Social Forum 2010 to be held on January 24, 2010 in Tokyo and on March 21, 2010 in Osaka.

Before that, on November 23, 2009, a meeting will be held to discuss how we can challenge Davos [...]

Illegal financial activities of the United Nations Information Centre, Tokyo

Resolution:
Call for a complete investigation of illegal financial activities of UNIC-Tokyo, for the introduction of a system to enable citizens to participate in overseeing the proper use of monetary contributions to the United Nations, and for the introduction of a UN Freedom of Information Policy.
The illegal financial activities of the United Nations Information Centre, Tokyo [...]

World Social Forum Arakawa

Consumers Union of Japan will participate together with many other Japanese NGOs, including People’s Plan, Attack and No to WTO/FTA, in the World Social Forum event on January 26, 2008 in Arakawa, Tokyo.

Protest against surveillance of peace activism

Protest against surveillance letter (pdf)
On June 7, 2007 media revealed that the intelligence unit of Japan’s Ground Self Defense Force had conducted surveillance and made a detailed report about the activities of a large number of groups and individuals who worked on the issues related to the dispatch of Self Defense Force troupes to [...]


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