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48 • ATOMIC INDUSTRIAL FORUM
ATOMIC INDUSTRIAL FORUM. The Atomic Industrial Forum was
established on 1 March 1956 as the only comprehensive nuclear energy
forum in the private sector. As of April 2004, the forum has 80
staff members. Some of its main activities are comprehensive research
into and development of nuclear energy, hosting information
exchanges, gathering opinions to achieve and formulate consensus
policy proposals, providing input into the governmental planning and
promotion of nuclear energy development and usage policies, and
promoting vigorous development of the national economy and social
welfare. Forum activities are based on the importance of utilization
of isotope and nuclear radiation as well as on Japan’s pledge to make
peaceful use of nuclear energy. In 1960, the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) authorized the forum to be a consultative body,
the first private organization awarded this status. The forum sends
delegates to meetings of non-governmental organizations and the
IAEA general assembly. It maintains mutual cooperative and collaborative
relationships with atomic industrial forums and nuclear energy-related
institutions in many countries, such as the United States,
Great Britain, France, Germany, South Korea, Russia, and China. In
addition, as a private-sector organization that has volunteered to promote
relationships with developing countries, especially those in
Asia, the forum established an International Cooperation Center in
1983 and an Asian Cooperation Center in 1999.
AZUMA. See STONEWALL, CSS.
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BACON, ALICE MABEL (1858–1918). Raised in an anti-slavery
family in Connecticut, Alice Mabel Bacon worked and taught at the
Hampton Institute in Virginia, one of the first educational institutions
specifically for African Americans and American Indians. She later
founded Deephaven Camp in New Hampshire, a Christian and literary
summer resort, where many of her students from Hampton Institute
worked to pay for tuition. Her interest in Japan began when her
family hosted Sutematsu Yamakawa, one of five Japanese girls
brought to the United States by the Iwakura Mission in 1872, to live