Can pigs fly - History of the No Nuke Movement in Japan

Preliminary version of the documentary
Synopsis:
Can pigs fly? tells the story of the Japanese No-Nuke-Movement from its beginning in the 1950ies through the reaction in Japan to the Tschernobyl Melt-Down and the accident in Tokaimura in 1999 to the recent desaster of the Fukushima breakdown. Through examples the film shows the attempts of protest like the one of surfers against the Nuclear Industry Complex of Rokkasho and the resistance of 20 years and still ongoing protest of the fishers of Iwaishima against the not yet build Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant. Activists and a scientist on social movements analyze the strategies of the Nuclear Industry and the Japanese Government to pacify or suppress protest through bribing people in the poor rural areas of Japan with money or job opportunities. The struggle is also compared to other Social Movements in Japan like the one against Narita Airport near Tokyo and the one against the US-Military Bases in Japan. The film also briefly touches the question of Nuclear Weapons in Japan and why the Japanese society has (had) not much interest in the Nuclear question. The documentary ends with pictures of the protests of the old and new No-Nuke Movement in the post-Fukushima era.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Japan
• Tokyo
• Anti-Atom
• No
• Nuke
• Movement
• documentary
• history
• Genpatsu
• Nuclear
• Power
• AKW