Tokyo Declaration for A Nuclear Power Free Future
In January of this year, the eight-point “Yokohama Declaration for a Nuclear Power FreeWorld” was adopted at the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2012 in
Yokohama, which ended with the burning enthusiasm of over 11,500 people filling the airand expanding beyond. Since then, this fervent enthusiasm has continued to grow, leading
to weekly demonstrations held every Friday by anti-nuclear organizations in front of theJapanese prime minister’s official residence. It led in July 2012 to a huge rally of 170,000people promoting the gathering of 10 million signatures in support of a departure from
nuclear power dependency. These signatures have now surpassed the 8.2 million mark,and these protests have grown into a huge human movement of 200,000 people
surrounding the Diet.
Now, we stand gathered here in Tokyo with people from 10 countries, buoyed by theachievements of the first global conference in Yokohama, to carry on this historicalmovement toward nuclear power phase-out. We are holding this second global conference
because, despite one year and nine months having passed since the Fukushima accident,
the Japanese government ignores the fact that we are far from the “end” of this crisis andholds the Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, as if simply presuming thatJapan would continue to have nuclear power plants on its land.
Even now, there are 160,000 people from Fukushima who, being driven out of their homes,
are deprived of their basic human rights. Many parents and children face the fear ofradiation exposure. Children cannot play outside and it is undeniable that an extraordinary
proportion of them are suffering from thyroid abnormalities.
In order to take a hard look at reality and ensure that accidents like the one at Fukushima
never happen again, we have held the “Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World2” which, under the slogan “Nuclear Free Now”, comprises the “Goodbye to Nuclear Power
Plants Global Gathering,” “Global Demonstration” and “Citizen’s Plaza”. During these twodays we have seen the participation of over 5,500 people. Simultaneously and in
partnership with our events in reaction to the Ministerial Conference, the “Fukushima Action
Project” and “Mayors for a Nuclear Power Free Japan Conference,” have been fruitfully
convened in Fukushima.

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At this “Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2” we held meaningful
discussions on three themes: 'Nuclear Power Regulation'; 'Learning from Chernobyl'; and'Building a Nuclear Free Society.'
Regarding nuclear power regulation, we have determined that the current Nuclear
Regulation Authority of Japan is anything but independent from what is called the “NuclearVillage”, a web of nuclear-dependency and collusion between politics, the bureaucracy,industry and academia. Furthermore, we have established that there is a need for amechanism to facilitate stern scrutiny of nuclear regulation authorities by civil society not
only here in Japan, but around the world.
Through learning from Chernobyl, we have confirmed that the current safety standard of
20mSv per year must be replaced with a top limit of 1mSv per year. We have understood
the role that the IAEA played in underestimating the damage caused in Chernobyl, andhave shared our grave worries with the victims that the same thing may happen concerning
Fukushima decontamination and health management projects. The Japanese government
and prefectures should respond to such worries and immediately disclose relevant
information in full. We have also confirmed that the Japanese government has an obligation
to urgently establish an assistance plan for children and victims based on the Act on theProtection and Support for the Children and other Victims of TEPCO Disaster that waspassed in the Diet in June 2012.
Finally, regarding the building of a nuclear free society, our discussions advanced theviewpoint that a nuclear power free world is not just a society without nuclear power plants:
it is a decentralized society that successfully encourages energy conservation andrenewable energy, and one that protects people, communities, and jobs. Such afundamental shift would create a society where the local community holds power, energy isdemocratized, young people have hope, children play happily outside, men and womentake part evenly and parents do not worry for their unborn children’s health. This circulatory
society, horizontal rather than vertical, low energy rather than high energy, will be asustainable, global society that does not fail in its duty to pass the baton of life on to future
generations.
Concrete methods of realizing such a society include strengthening the network amongcommunity leaders, like the “Mayors for a Nuclear Power Free Japan” initiative, andestablishing a statutory structure, such as a “fundamental law of nuclear power phase-out.”
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Civil societies of the world need to take concrete, cooperative action to achieve the energy
shift and realize this comprehensive vision of a “nuclear power free society.”
As radiation goes beyond borders, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima need to berecognized across the world as tragedies for all humankind. These experiences of atomic
devastation must act as clear warnings to the future of humanity. Heeding these warnings,
Japan’s new government should take seriously the fact that every public opinion survey
records nuclear power phase-out by the 2030s as the will of the public, and thus that weneed to not only achieve the goal of “zero nuclear power by the 2030s,” but bring the dateforward. Although we may make further mistakes, there will be no turning back. This is theresponsibility that lies on the shoulders of the people of not only Fukushima, but of those allover Japan. It is our responsibility to the future of humankind.
Now, let us turn a new page, to a nuclear power free one. Let us create a future with ourown hands, not one where economic growth produces more money, more consumption andfurther widens the economic gap, but rather one that protects the lives and happiness ofeach and every person, and this wonderful and irreplaceable Mother Nature.
December 16, 2012
The Co-representatives of Nuclear Free Now Organizing CommitteeUehara Hiroko“Mayors for a Nuclear Power Free Japan” SecretaryGeneral, Former Governor of Kunitachi CityKamata Satoshi

Initiator of “Goodbye Nuclear Power, 10 Million Peoplein Action”, Journalist and Writer

Misao Redwolf

Metropolitan Coalition Against NukesYoshioka Tatsuya

Co-founder and Director of Peace Boat

Reference
Nuclear Free Now ParticipantsIrène BOURÉ

Solicitor at Law, France

Thomas BREUERHead of Climate & Energy Unit, Greenpeace Germany, Germany

Sophie CAMARD

Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Regional Councillor, member ofEurope Ecology The Greens, France

Jacques CHARTON

Roquevaire-city Deputy Mayor, member of Europe Ecology The3Greens, FranceKarima DELLIPolitician with Europe Ecology The Greens, and member of theEuropean Parliament, FrancePascal DURAND

National Secretary of Europe Ecology The Greens, FranceChristophe ELAIN

IndependentWHO activist, France

Olivier FLORENS

Vice President of the Vaucluse General Council, Europe Ecology
The Greens, FranceUwe FRITSCHE

Physicist and Scientific Director of IINAS, Germany

Paul GUNTER

Director of Beyond Nuclear's Reactor Oversight Project, USA

KIM Hye Jeong

Chair of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movements andJoint Action for a Nuclear Free Society, South KoreaAmie KRONBLAD

Member of 'Liberal Women' Sweden, former local assemblymember, Sweden

LAI Wei-Chieh

Chairman of the Board of Green Citizens Action Alliance (GCAA),
TaiwanAndrey OZHAROVSKIY

Nuclear expert with Bellona Foundation, Lithuania

Christophe PISTNER

Physicist at The Öko-Institut, Germany

Michaëlle RABILLER

Head of the Energy Information Center in the Savoy Association forDevelopment of Renewable Energy (ASDER), France

Mycle SCHNEIDER

Independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy,
FranceMiranda SCHREURS

Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre andProfessor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany

Eric SCHULZ

Co-chairman of Europe Ecology The Greens, in Strasbourg City,
FranceHélène SHEMWELL

Poitou-Charentes regional councilor and Vice-President of the"Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energies" Commission, France

SUH Hyung Lim

A climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace East Asia, SouthKorea

Mélodie TESTIJournalist for “La Provence”, France

Reinhard UHRIG

Environmental and anti-nuclear activist ,Germany

Alexey YABLOKOVCouncilor for Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Monica ZOPPÈBiology Researcher at the Institute of Clinical Physiology,
National Research Council, Italy

From Japan4ISHICHI Masaru

Wakasa Association of Concerned Residents about Plutoniumthermal power

UEDA Maki

Former Takamatsu City Council member

UENO Chizuko

Professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Board chairperson ofWomen's Action Network (WAN)

OGASAWARA Atsuko

Asako House

KATO Kenichi

Mayor of Odawara City

KANEKO Masaru

Professor of Economics at Keio University

KAWAI Hiroyuki

Lawyer, Chief of Lawsuit Layers for Halting Hamaoka Nuclear
Power Plant

GOTO Masashi

Director, APAST (Union for Alternative Pathways in Science andTechnology)

KONDAIJI Harumi

Tsuruga City Council Member

SAKAGAMI TakeshiRepresentative, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear PowerPlants (Fukuro-no-kai)

SATO Eisaku

Former Governor of Fukushima Prefecture

SHIMIZU Toshiyasu

Association of Iwai-shima Residents Opposing the Kaminoseki
Nuclear Power Plant Construction, Kaminoseki Town Council
memberAileen Mioko SMITH

Environmental Journalist, Director of Green Action

TERAMACHI Midori

Non-affiliated and Citizen-centred Network for sending more
women to the Congress

NAKATE Seiichi

Representative, Fukushima Network for Saving Children fromRadiation

HASHIMOTO Noriko

Association of Iwai-shima Residents Opposing the KaminosekiNuclear Power Plant Construction

BAN Hideyuki

Co-representative, Citizens' Nuclear Information Center

FUJINAMI Cocoro

Entertainment Personality, High School Student

FURUYA Shota

Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)

MATSUURA Masayo

Association of Women Afraid of Nuclear Power

MATSUSHITA Teruyuki

Living with Forests Acorn Club, former Mihama Town Council
Member

MITSUTA Kanna

Director of FoE Japan, Part-time lecturer at Hitotsubashi University

YAMADA Koji

Energy Shift Yamagata

YAMADA Makoto

National Network of Pediatricians protecting Children fromRadiation

5YOSHIDA Yuko

Director, Chernobyl Health Survey and Health Care Support forVictims – Japan Women's Network

WATANABE Eri

NGO FoE Japan

Nuclear Free Now Organizing Committee
Peace Boat, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, Green Action, Citizens' Nuclear
Information Center, FoE Japan, Greenpeace Japan, 10 Million People's Assembly to say
Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants, Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, earth garden,
Women's Action Network, THE ATOMIC CAFE, 69nokai
In partnership with: Fukushima Action Project
In cooperation with: Yokohama Catholic Council for Justice and Peace, Japan NGO Center forInternational Cooperation (JANIC), Japan Iraq Medical Network (JIM-NET), Peace Boat USEndorsed by: All-Japan network to oppose Rokkasho retreatment plants to prevent
contamination, Patagonia Japan … and more.

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