The effective nationalization of Fukushima Dai-ichi operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), this week, with a government injection of 1 trillion yen, has met with mixed responses.
A dialogue between noted translator Motoyuki Shibata and Hideo Furukawa, one of Japan’s hottest young novelists. Novelist Hiromi Kawakami and haiku master Minoru Ozawa provide further comments.
May 6th will be the first day for over 40 years that Japan has a nuclear-free electricity supply.
Almost from the start, and now reaching a loud chorus, are the claims both here in Japan and also abroad that the unrealistic fears and anxieties of these victims are the real cause of their physical and mental health problems. Dr. Robert Jacobs reveals the multiple layers of victimization in Fukushima.
The battle for adequate compensation for the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl is likely to be protracted, bitter and, in the end, hugely unsatisfactory for its victims.
James M. Acton, Mark Hibbs CARNEGIE PAPER, MARCH 2012 Public sentiment in many states has turned against nuclear energy following the March 2011 accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The large quantity of radioactive material released has caused significant human suffering and rendered large stretches of land uninhabitable. [...]
IPPNW’s analysis shows that the earthquake was the “trigger factor”, in combination with deficient safety-related equipment, for the nuclear disaster.
(Translation Courtesy: Caitlin Stronnel) Excerpts from interview with: Suzuki Kinue 鈴木絹江さん Head of “Fukushi no machizukuri no kai” 福祉のまちづくりの会 Community based welfare organization in Tamura City, Fukushima, supporting independent living of people with disabilities ※ The entire interview, along with other interviews of leaders and users of community-based organizations supporting [...]
It’s been a year since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. My values have changed so much over this year.
As one day worker admitted, we are all amateurs. Nobody really knows how to clean up radiation.
There are many in Japan who now believe that TEPCO, the Government officers who ignored safety standards, and all those responsible for the disaster and for withholding information should be tried for crimes against humanity, in fact, for crimes against all living things.
Adopted on January 15, 2012 The 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and related melt down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has led to great suffering for the people of Japan and has increased radioactive contamination across the globe. It has also sounded a warning bell throughout the world [...]
Courtesy: THE ECONOMIST IT WAS billed as an historic occasion: the first independent panel of Japan’s Diet (parliament), and a rare moment of bipartisanship. On January 16th, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) held its first public hearing. Some 50 members of the public, and around 100 journalists, [...]
Says Abe: “The government’s whole strategy for bringing the plant under control will have to be revised. The evacuees will never be able to return. They can’t clean up the radiation. Will the media report this? I’m waiting for that.”
by CHRIS WILLIAMS It’s the first thing you notice. Electric orange, ripe and luscious hoshigaki hang from every bough. As we drive through the country and over the glittering, snow-specked mountain range from Fukushima city to Soma on the northeast coast of Japan, we pass many persimmon trees dotting the [...]
So said 64 year old Chieko Shiina, a member of the group Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation and a traditional farmer from Miyagi Prefecture, as I sat inside the tent on the floor across from her on Day 102 of the sit-in. In years gone by she would [...]
An email, from a Japanese lady in her 40s, to Kinoshita Kouta, a Japanese journalist. Original text can be found here. We have just managed to evacuate from Tokyo to Fukuoka, despite having pains and numbness on my body, thanks to your help. My husband is in his 50s, myself [...]
A letter from a highschool student in Ibaraki, who has evacuated to Okinawa, to her teacher How are you? We have moved to Okinawa. My father and sister are still in Ibaraki. It’s certain that I am getting health effects of radiation, I am so sure, as I’m having various [...]
Tepco, the operator of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Station, has been insisting that the culprit that caused the nuclear crisis was the huge tsunami that hit the plant after the March 11 earthquake. But evidence is mounting that the meltdown at the nuclear power plant was actually caused by the earthquake itself.
Dr. Helen Mary Caldicott The nuclear power industry has been resurrected over the past decade by a lobbying campaign that has left many people believing it to be a clean, green, emission-free alternative to fossil fuels. These beliefs pose an extraordinary threat to global public health and encourage a major [...]
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