Iwashima Island residents are not the only Japanese citizens opposing the construction of a new nuclear power plant in their area. Elsewhere Japanese citizens have formed a number of grassroots groups opposing existing and proposed nuclear power plants. The Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) profiles the following:
They include:
• "Know Pluthermal" Shiribeshi Citizens' Network (Hokkaido)
• the National Network Against Nuclear Energy (formed in March 1978)
• The Committee to Consider Pluthermal and Saga's Next 100 Years (although Genkai-3 in Hokkaido is scheduled to become the first nuclear power plant in Japan to implement pluthermal, many people are continuing to raise concerns about issues of safety, economics, and whether pluthermal is necessary in the first place)
• Kariwa Women for the Protection of Life
• Anti-Nuclear Kagoshima Network
• Daichi Stop Nuclear Power Committee ("Nuclear energy is incompatible with organic agriculture)
• Stop Rokkasho Japan (initiated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto)
• No to Radioactive Waste! Committee for a Prefectural Ordinance
• KO-OK Productions: film-makers who say, "Radiation is not OK"
• Phase-Out Nuclear Energy Downtown Network
• Kansai Relief for Chernobyl Hibakusha: linking Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl to create a world without nuclear victims
• The Shizuoka Network of Citizens Opposed to the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant (focuses on the question of whether the Hamaoka NPP is capable of withstanding the widely predicted Tokai Earthquake
• The Iwate Committee to Protect the Sanriku Sea from Radiation (concerned about ocean pollution from radioactive liquid waste from the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant)
• The Chernobyl Children's Fund
• Acorn Forestry Club (doing business while opposing nuclear power in a nuclear town)
• Nagano Soft Energy Resource Center (a meeting place for people thinking about and taking action on energy and environment issues)
• The Association for the Preservation of Nagashima's Nature
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