The unions are even among the strongest supporters of the nuclear policy of the Japanese government.
They want a continuation of this nuclear policy.
And as she mentioned before:
The Japanese government is not interested in decommisioning nuclear power plants.
They even want to put into operation those plants that have already been shut down.
And they have a strategy:
They want to export these enterprises to other countries,
for example to Vietnam, to the USA, and so on.
Previously there had been two movements in Japan:
One against nuclear weapons.
For example against the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This movements was very strong.
The other movement, the one against nuclear energy,
was never as strong as it is in your country.
It is only now that these two movements come together.
An, as she mentioned before, on August 5th in Hiroshima,
one day before the memorial day, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,
We have had a new start -
of the movement against nuclear weapons,
and of the movement against nuclear power plants:
a joint movement against the Japanese nuclear policy.
Together with a great number of people.
That is where we stand today.
One more thing:
The people in Fukushima and in the other affected areas
were not so humble. (?)
During this horrible catastrophy they stood up for themselves.
Yes, we will fight and live.
And the farmers there:
Thier harvest was devastated, contaminated.
And they say: What do we have left? (?)
We are not responsible for this.
The government, and TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company,
they do not take responsibility.
What will become of my life and my harvest?
What are the Japanese people going to eat?
These people are not only victims,
they have become very combative people.
This is a new beginning, and with this we will establish
a very close connection between unions and the student movement.
It will become stronger, for example with this year's November reunion.
It is very difficult for us,
but we have a paractice:
As a union, we invite every individual, (...?) to join this association.
An this way we try to ... every power plant worker ...
You try to reach individual persons? - Yes.
We already invited affected people in Fukushima and ...
In Iwaki, which is close to the power plant.
We have organized two functions in the affected areas.
Those two reunions have given to the affected people a lot of...
enthusiasm, how do you say that, given a lot of support to them.
I am sure of that.
But to this day, there has not been any official participation of nuclear power plant workers.
It is very difficult.
If a single worker has a unionist idea,
then the operator of the nuclear power plant will tell him:
"You - you don't need to work here any more!"
So we have to be extremely cautious.
But surely our movement has been a great support for those workers.
I'm sure of that. But in the power plants it might continue like that. (?)