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An appeal for improving labour conditions of Fukushima Daiichi workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Sumi Hasegawa  and
Paul Jobin
Sumi Hasegawa
Affiliation:
Université Mcgill
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Reacting to testimonies of workers published in Sekai (a progressive Japanese monthly journal) and recent radio broadcasts, this individual call from Canada echoes the requests of Japanese NGOs that have been engaged in negotiations with the Ministry of Health and Labor since April 2011 to defend the rights of the workers involved in the “cleanup” of the disasterstricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and of those hired to carry out “decontamination” work in Fukushima prefecture.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 16 , April 2013 , e1
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1 These negotiations are leaded by the Japan Occupational Safety and Health Resource Center/JOSHRC 全国労働安全衛生センター連絡 会議) and the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center/CNIC 原子力情報室 The last session (Feb. 2013) can be seen here. Some workers have come from Fukushima to join the meetings. See also JOSHRC Newsletter of December 2011 and March 2013.

2 See Asia-Paific Journal, David McNeill, Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster Zone; Roger Witherspoon, Fukushima Rescue Mission Lasting Legacy: Radioactive Contamination of Nearly 70,000 Americans

3 CNIC Newsletter, March 2013.