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Nagasaki A-bomb survivors' chorus group to visit N.Y.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Yoshiko Hirahara (extreme L), head of chorus group Himawari consisting of A-bomb survivors from Nagasaki, announces a plan to join an antinuclear concert scheduled for May 2015 in New York during a press conference at the Nagasaki municipal office in southwestern Japan on Jan. 8, 2015.

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Japan-U.S. antinuclear disaster drill held at Yokosuka base

YOKOSUKA, Japan - A U.S. soldier undergoes screening during a Japan-U.S. joint drill at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base near Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014. The drill was conducted on the assumption that a crew member of the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington had been exposed to radiation on the nuclear-powered ship and had suffered a broken bone.

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Ex-PM Kan delivers antinuclear power lecture in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan stresses the necessity of breaking with nuclear power during a meeting held at the South Korean National Assembly in Seoul on Oct. 11, 2014.

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Ex-premiers Koizumi, Hosokawa attend antinuke rock concert

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Morihiro Hosokawa attend an antinuclear rock concert in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2014, with Koizumi emphasizing the need for Japan to abandon nuclear plants.

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Writer Oe speaks against nuclear plants

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe speaks during an antinuclear power event in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2014.

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Symposium in Hiroshima on abolishing nuclear weapons

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice director of the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition of Nagasaki University, lectures at an antinuclear symposium in Hiroshima on Aug. 2, 2014.

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Symposium in Hiroshima on abolishing nuclear weapons

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kazumi Mizumoto, vice president of the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, speaks during the panel discussion of antinuclear symposium in Hiroshima on Aug. 2, 2014.

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2 ex-PMs inspect wind power system at Tokyo show

TOKYO, Japan - Former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from L) and Morihiro Hosokawa (far R) inspect a wind power generating system during an exhibition for the promotion of photovoltaic energy at Tokyo Big Sight on July 31, 2014. The two are now in the vanguard of an antinuclear power campaign.

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Antinuclear demonstration in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Participants at the World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, organized by the Japan Congress Against A- and H-bombs (Gensuikin) and others, stage an antinuclear demonstration in Fukushima City on July 27, 2014.

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Antinuclear group head speaks at world conference

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Koichi Kawano, chairman of the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs (Gensuikin), calls for abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy at the World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs began in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on July 27, 2014.

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Protesters around TEPCO shareholders' meeting site

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power protesters are stopped by security guards in front of the venue of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 26, 2014.

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Ex-PM Hosokawa

TOKYO, Japan - Undated photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. Hosokawa will suspend his activities with an antinuclear nonprofit organization for the time being due to poor health, people familiar with the matter said May 15, 2014.

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Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows the birthplace of Nakae Kariyado (1854-1907), one of the leaders of movements for freedom and human rights in Fukushima Prefecture, surrounded by overgrown trees in Namie in the prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows Hidefumi Owada, a former school teacher and antinuclear activist, holding a crane figurine belonging to the abandoned garden of his home in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The amount of radiation in the garden remains high, leaving no time for Owada, a devoted gardener, to attend to his once-proud garden. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Ex-PMs Koizumi, Hosokawa launch antinuclear body

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese prime ministers Morihiro Hosokawa (L) and Junichiro Koizumi head for a meeting to launch the Japan Assembly for Nuclear Free Renewable Energy in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. The move to set up the entity to promote renewable energy comes as the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues its push to restart atomic power plants that are deemed safe enough under enhanced nuclear regulations.

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Ex-PMs Koizumi, Hosokawa launch antinuclear body

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses a meeting to launch the Japan Assembly for Nuclear Free Renewable Energy in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa also spoke at the meeting. The move comes as the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues its push to restart atomic power plants that are deemed safe enough under enhanced nuclear regulations.

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Antinuclear activists call for banning nukes at U.N.

NEW YORK, the United States - Hiroshi Takakusaki (L), a representative of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), presents a petition signed by heads of municipal governments in Japan calling for a complete ban on nuclear arsenals to Enrique Roman-Moray, who chairs the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 2, 2014, with Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, looking on.

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Antinuclear activity in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 25, 2014, shows Misao Redwolf (holding microphone), an illustrator whose real name is undisclosed, at a rally against nuclear power generation in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo. Redwolf is one of the organizers of the antinuclear rallies which have been held on Friday nights near the premier's office and the Diet building since March 2012, a year after the outbreak on March 11, 2011, of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

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Antinuclear activity in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 25, 2014, shows Misao Redwolf, an illustrator whose real name is undisclosed, at a rally against nuclear power generation in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo. Redwolf is one of the organizers of the antinuclear rallies which have been held on Friday nights near the premier's office and the Diet building since March 2012, a year after the outbreak on March 11, 2011, of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

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Antinuclear advocates fly balloons

TOKAI, Japan - Antinuclear advocates release about 1,000 balloons near Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 27, 2014, in an event to gauge the direction in which radioactive substances will spread in the event of accident at the plant.

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Antinuclear candidate Udayakumar in India

KUDANKULAM, India - SP Udayakumar (R), an antinuclear activist running in the general election from the Aam Aadmi Party, talks with supporters in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, in March 2014. Voting in the nationwide election started on April 7, 2014 and will end on May 12.

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Ex-premiers Koizumi, Hosokawa

TOKYO, Japan - Undated combination photo shows former Japanese prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Morihiro Hosokawa. They will establish an antinuclear power forum in May to promote research into renewable power sources and support antinuclear candidates in elections, sources familiar with the matter said April 15, 2014.

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Antinuclear protesters in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Reporters surround protesters rallying in front of the Consulate General of Japan in New York to oppose the Japanese government's embrace of nuclear power on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of a massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear power rally in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - An antinuclear power rally is held in Seoul, South Korea, on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protests in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Antinuclear protesters march in Taipei on March 8, 2014, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan following a monster earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Antinuclear protests in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Antinuclear protesters march in Taipei on March 8, 2014, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan following a monster earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 19, 2014 shows Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, and his daughter, Yoshiko Tanaka, standing in front of the trawler preserved and displayed at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall run by the Tokyo metropolitan government in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows officials measuring radiation levels of a tuna landed at the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 on March 16, 1954. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1 that year, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Upper house bars Yamamoto from imperial events

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Yamamoto (C), an independent upper house member, is surrounded by reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2013. Yamamoto, an antinuclear activist at the center of a controversy for handing a letter to Emperor Akihito the previous week, was banned by the chamber the same day from attending ceremonies and other events related to the imperial family.

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Upper house bars Yamamoto from imperial events

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Yamamoto (C), an independent upper house member, heads for a meeting with upper house President Masaaki Yamazaki at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2013. Yamamoto, an antinuclear activist at the center of a controversy for handing a letter to Emperor Akihito the previous week, was banned by the chamber the same day from attending ceremonies and other events related to the imperial family.

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Upper house bars Yamamoto from imperial events

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Yamamoto, an independent upper house member, attends a plenary session of the House of Councillors at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2013. Yamamoto, an antinuclear activist at the center of a controversy for handing a letter to Emperor Akihito the previous week, was banned by the chamber the same day from attending ceremonies and other events related to the imperial family.

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Lawmaker who handed letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Independent lawmaker and antinuclear activist Taro Yamamoto speaks with reporters after being interviewed by members of the House of Councillors steering committee at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013. Yamamoto, who in a rare breach of protocol handed a letter directly to Emperor Akihito the previous day, told reporters he was not aware that his action had violated any rules.

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Lawmaker who handed letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Independent lawmaker and antinuclear activist Taro Yamamoto heads for an interview with members of the House of Councillors steering committee at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013. Yamamoto, who in a rare breach of protocol handed a letter directly to Emperor Akihito the previous day, told reporters afterward he was not aware that his action had violated any rules.

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Lawmaker who handed letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the House of Councillors steering committee hold a meeting at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013. The committee decided to interview independent lawmaker and antinuclear activist Taro Yamamoto, who in a rare breach of protocol handed a letter directly to Emperor Akihito the previous day. After a meeting with committee members later that day, Yamamoto told reporters he was not aware that his action had violated any rules.

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Antinuclear Japanese lawmaker hands letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors lawmaker Taro Yamamoto speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013, after handing a letter to Emperor Akihito during an autumn garden party. The handing of the letter directly to the emperor broke protocol. Yamamoto told reporters he simply wanted the emperor to know about the current health effects of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power complex.

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Antinuclear Japanese lawmaker hands letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) receives a letter from House of Councillors lawmaker Taro Yamamoto (facing emperor) during an autumn garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013. The handing of the letter directly to the emperor broke protocol. Yamamoto told reporters afterward he simply wanted the emperor to know about the current health effects of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power complex.

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Antinuclear Japanese lawmaker hands letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors lawmaker Taro Yamamoto speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013, after handing a letter to Emperor Akihito during an autumn garden party. The handing of the letter directly to the emperor broke protocol. Yamamoto told reporters he simply wanted the emperor to know about the current health effects of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power complex.

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Antinuclear Japanese lawmaker hands letter to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors lawmaker Taro Yamamoto hands a letter to Emperor Akihito during an autumn garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013. The handing of the letter directly to the emperor broke protocol. Yamamoto told reporters afterward he simply wanted the emperor to know about the current health effects of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power complex.

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Antinuclear demonstration in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Demonstrators in Taipei on Aug. 24, 2013 sing a song calling for the abolition of nuclear power plants. The demonstrators want construction of a nuclear power plant near Taipei halted.

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Stone, Kuznick in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone (2nd from L) and historian Peter Kuznick (2nd from R) pose for photos during a session of an antinuclear conference in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2013, a day before the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Oliver Stone in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone speaks at a session of an antinuclear conference in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2013, a day before the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Oliver Stone in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone delivers a speech at an antinuclear conference in Nagasaki on Aug. 7, 2013.

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Antinuclear weapons event in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Participants hold flags of various countries as they sing during an event calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons in New York on Aug. 5, 2013.

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Japan upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Actor and antinuclear activist Taro Yamamoto celebrates his projected win in the House of Councillors election in Tokyo on July 21, 2013. He ran in the Tokyo constituency as an independent.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Sayaka Takahashi from Ishinomaki, one of the cities most severely damaged by the 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan, speaks before departing aboard a ship from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 disaster, including Takahashi, departed on an 85-day around-the-world voyage organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shigeko Sasamori, who survived the 1945 U.S atomic bombing of Hiroshima at age 13, speaks before departing aboard a ship from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including Sasamori, and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, departed on an 85-day around-the-world voyage organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Participants of an 85-day voyage around the world, organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, pose for photos before departing from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan are among the participants of the voyage to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A ship departs on an 85-day voyage around the world from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan are among the participants of the voyage, organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Ex-PM Kan shares Fukushima lessons in California

SAN DIEGO, United States - Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) and former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko attend a symposium organized by Friends of the Earth, an environmental lobbying group, in San Diego, California, on June 4, 2013. Kan, who was prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, said how the Fukushima disaster changed his view of nuclear power and stressed the importance of a global network for antinuclear activists and renewable energy advocates to share their ideas and experiences.

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Peace march for Hiroshima

TOKYO, Japan - Malaya Fabros, an antinuclear advocate from the Philippines, speaks at a gathering in Tokyo's Yumenoshima district on May 6, 2013, before the start of a three-month peace march to Hiroshima in western Japan, which calls for the abolishment of nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation.