Former Japanese PM who rode out Fukushima crisis campaigns against Australian uranium

By Deborah Snow
Updated August 30 2014 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am
May Nango and Mark Djandjomerr at Magela Creek, downstream from the Ranger uranium mine. Photo: Dominic O'Brien
May Nango and Mark Djandjomerr at Magela Creek, downstream from the Ranger uranium mine. Photo: Dominic O'Brien
Annie Ngalmirama greets former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in Jabiru, Kakadu National Park. Photo: Dominic O'Brien
Annie Ngalmirama greets former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in Jabiru, Kakadu National Park. Photo: Dominic O'Brien

In the skies over Kakadu, a 67-year-old man peers from the window of a tiny plane as it wheels over the mining town of Jabiru and the nearby open-cut uranium mine.