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The unions are even among the strongest supporters of the nuclear policy of the Japanese government.

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They want a continuation of this nuclear policy.

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And as she mentioned before:

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The Japanese government is not interested in decommisioning nuclear power plants. 

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They even want to put into operation those plants that have already been shut down.

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And they have a strategy:

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They want to export these enterprises to other countries,

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for example to Vietnam, to the USA, and so on.

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Previously there had been two movements in Japan: 

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One against nuclear weapons.

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For example against the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

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This movements was very strong.

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The other movement, the one against nuclear energy,

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was never as strong as it is in your country.

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It is only now that these two movements come together.

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An, as she mentioned before, on August 5th in Hiroshima,

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one day before the memorial day, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 

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We have had a new start -

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of the movement against nuclear weapons,

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and of the movement against nuclear power plants:

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a joint movement against the Japanese nuclear policy.

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 Together with a great number of people.

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That is where we stand today.

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One more thing:

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The people in Fukushima and in the other affected areas

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were not so humble. (?)

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During this horrible catastrophy they stood up for themselves.

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Yes, we will fight and live.

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And the farmers there:

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Thier harvest was devastated, contaminated.

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And they say: What do we have left? (?)

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We are not responsible for this.

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The government, and TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company,

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they do not take responsibility.

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What will become of my life and my harvest?

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What are the Japanese people going to eat?

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These people are not only victims,

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they have become very combative people.

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This is a new beginning, and with this we will establish

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 a very close connection between unions and the student movement.

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It will become stronger, for example with this year's November reunion.

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It is very difficult for us, 

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but we have a paractice:

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As a union, we invite every individual, (...?) to join this association.

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An this way we try to ... every power plant worker ...

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 You try to reach individual persons?
- Yes.


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We already invited affected people in Fukushima and ...

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In Iwaki, which is close to the power plant.

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We have organized two functions in the affected areas.

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Those two reunions have given to the affected people a lot of...

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enthusiasm, how do you say that, given a lot of support to them.

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I am sure of that.

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But to this day, there has not been any official participation of nuclear power plant workers.

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It is very difficult.

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If a single worker has a unionist idea,

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then the operator of the nuclear power plant will tell him:

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"You - you don't need to work here any more!"

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So we have to be extremely cautious.

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But surely our movement has been a great support for those workers.

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I'm sure of that. But in the power plants it might continue like that. (?)