PRESS CONFERENCE
Tatsuya Yoshioka, Peace Boat, Aileen Mioko Simith, Green Action
Rebecca Harms, GREENS/EFA Group
Mycle Schneider, International Consultant on Energy & Nuclear Policy

The speech and Q & A will be in English

Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2012 Yokohama

The Japanese nuclear industry used to advertise itself as providing "the world's safest nuclear energy," but last year's massive earthquake and tsunami of March 11 laid waste to those claims as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant became the epicenter of the 21st century's worst nuclear disaster, and in some people's opinion, the worst ever.

Six Japan-based organizations which had presciently been calling for this East Asian nation to reassess its romance with nuclear power from well before the time the Fukushima disaster occurred are now organizing the largest conference on energy policy yet to be held to post-Fukushima Japan. The six organizations are the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, FoE Japan, Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, and Peace Boat. The conference has been endorsed by a host of international organizations and is expected to draw about 10,000 attendees from both Japan as well as the rest of the world to the venue at Pacifico Yokohama.

In advance of the main conference, four of the organizers will hold a press conference at the FCCJ to outline the significance of the event. The speakers are Tatsuya Yoshioka (Chair of Executive Committee, Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World / Co-founder and Director, Peace Boat), Aileen Mioko Smith (Director, Green Action), Rebecca Harms (Member of the European Parliament, Green German MEPs Spokesperson), and Mycle Schneider (Independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy).

Come and join us for an expert discussion of one of the most topical and critical problems that faces the Japanese nation today.

Rebecca Harms, GREENS/EFA Group

Mycle Schneider, International Consultant on Energy & Nuclear Policy

Tatsuya Yoshioka, Peace Boat & Aileen Mioko Simith, Green Action