Naoto Kan was in Anglesey to campaign against the construction of the Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant, the North Wales Chronicle reported on 25 February.
The prime minister of Japan at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011, and now an anti-nuclear campaigner, Kan encouraged developers Hitachi, Ltd. to halt their plans on the island.
“It is clear to me that what caused [the 2011] catastrophe was our commitment to an unsafe and expensive technology that is not compatible with life on this planet”, he said. He later met Anglesey councillors and held a local meeting.