Food and agriculture that protect biological diversity: Aiming for a world without GMO (Image from Kagoshima prefecture
Consumers Union of Japan and other groups that we usually work with, including the No! GMO Campaign, has focus on the MOP5 negotiations to be held in Nagoya in October 2010 about biological diversity. Our network is called Japan [...]

The foot-and-mouth disease turmoil in Miyazaki Prefecture, involving the continual slaughter of livestock, has finally ended. Many people expressed their doubts about whether it was necessary to slaughter livestock over such a large area. This is a perfectly natural emotion from the point of view of the feelings of the general public. Doubts were also [...]

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 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. [...]

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 [...]

Consumers Union of Japan works closely with a number of local groups around the country and abroad, to promote consumer rights, peace, food safety and food security and many other issues. Here are some recent stories from our office in Nishi-Waseda. Read more in Japanese in CUJ’s newsletter, Consumers Report. To receive the newsletter, please [...]

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 [...]

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

cuj-jr-150 (pdf) Japan Resources No 150: Special Biodiversity Issue
Biological Diversity & Organic Farming
2010 is the Year of Biological Diversity and here in Japan, we are preparing for the United Nations conference in Nagoya in October, 2010. In this special issue of our English newsletter you will find articles about experts and activists in Japan and [...]

  12 years of campaigning for more domestic soybeans in Japan
Soybean Field Trust Movement: Nationwide Meeting in Shinjo, Japan 
Press Release: Conference Declaration 
Today, we have returned to Shinjo City in Yamagata Prefecture 12 years after the Soybean Trust Movement was launched here in this wonderful furusato (rural) environment. The Soybean Trust Movement responded to the appearance [...]