BY SHINJI INADA PARIS BUREAU CORRESPONDENT
PROFILE/ Shinji Inada, correspondent in the Paris Bureau of The Asahi Shimbun: He joined The Asahi Shimbun Co. in 1992. After stints at the Gifu bureau, the City News Section in Nagoya and elsewhere, he served as a correspondent in the Tehran Bureau and the European General Bureau in London. He also worked as a writer in the Political News Section, and as a deputy editor in the Culture and Lifestyle News Section. He has been in his current post since February 2010. He is 44 years old.
The Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear power plant faces the Seine in France. (Photo by Hitoki Nakagawa)
Anne Lauvergeon, former chief executive officer at Areva SA, a French nuclear equipment manufacturer (Photo by Marie Guitton)
Members of an anti-nuclear advocacy group release balloons into the air in June outside the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, the oldest in France, to raise awareness about the risk of a nuclear disaster. (Photo by Selin Yasar)
Members of an anti-nuclear advocacy group stage a protest rally in June to call for a shutdown of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in France. (Photo by Selin Yasar)
A beam of light shines through the darkness, revealing the silhouette of a man wearing a hat low over his eyes and smoking a cigarette.