cuj-jr-148 (pdf) Japan Resources No 148 We are having warm days and chilly evenings right now in Tokyo, with a lot of activities and conferences, in addition to the busy political climate. Here is our English newsletter. We think you will find this issue particularly interesting, with articles about nuclear energy protests, the “failure” of cloning [...]

Report From Our Visit to the National Livestock Breeding Center: NLBC Researchers Recognize “Failure of Cloning” By Koketsu Michiyo, CUJ/FSCW   Food Safety Citizens Watch visited the National Livestock Breeding Center (NLBC) in Fukushima Prefecture on September 9, 2009. This is the center that has been designated to continue the work that started in 1998 [...]

Today CUJ celebrates World Foodless Day 2009 at an event at the Tokyo Women’s Plaza in Shibuya, Tokyo with many NGOs, including PAN Japan, Tanemaki, Coop Shizenha in Tokushima, and other groups that focus on natural agriculture and rice farming, protecting rice paddies, as we together work for ensuring that consumers have access to safe food. The theme [...]

Applying the “Precautionary Principle” would help Japan avoid problems like the Econa food oil scandal In September, Kao Corp. announced [1] that it would “temporarily” stop sales of its best-selling Econa food oil products, called Enova in North America [2]. The news was a shock to everyone in Japan as the products carried the designated [...]

By Tomiyama Yoko, Consumers Union of Japan/Co-chair of No Nukes Festa 2009 On October 3, 2009 a big manifestation with 7000 people from all over Japan met in Meiji Park, Tokyo for the No Nukes Festa 2009. The theme of the event was to highlight the links between nuclear weapons and energy production using nuclear [...]