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Please read this poem and consider what is really wrong with all the "Ganbare Nippon" crap that tries to hijack our anger at the nuclear industry and government, the same parties who killed 10s of thousands, drove others to suicide, deteroyed land and livelihoods, and continues to wreak havoc.見えない恐怖のなかでぼくらは見た /An Invisible Terror: We Were WitnessesOther recent stories: Japan Disaster Blog From...
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Originally a financial blog, the blogger has written about only one thing since the triple disaster one year ago. N0ot all the articles are good/reliable, but many have info you will not find in English on many other sites. Plus, the writer remains deeply sceptical of the business-as-usual mindset of the government and nuclear industry.Recent articles:More Municipalities Say Yes to Disaster...
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311の一周年の日に：前田新の農民詩「見えない恐怖のなかでぼくらは見た」日英語版紹介 For the...ゲイル・グリーン「ゆがんだ科学：チェルノブイリとフクシマの後の原子力産業」 Gayle Greene...Peace Philosophy Salon with Yuki Tanaka: 「原子力平和利用...田中利幸「私たちは原発の動力源を忘れていないか？」ウラン問題再考 Yuki Tanaka: Uran...大阪市「労使関係に関する職員のアンケート調査」原文『フォーブズ』掲載 ダグ･バンドウ「沖縄は沖縄の人々に返せ」和訳 （ガバン・マコーマック解説） Ja...近藤紘子『バンクーバー新報』インタビュー An Interview with Koko Kondo ...『月刊ふれいざー』２月号 近藤紘子講演報告Inspiring, empowering, and...
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Special Issue of The Asia-Pacific Journal edited by Yau Shuk-ting, KinniaSee the following articles:• Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia, Introduction• Matthew Penney, Nuclear Nationalism and Fukushima• Susan Napier, The Anime Director, the Fantasy Girl and the Very Real Tsunami• Yau Shuk Ting, Kinnia, Therapy for Depression: Social Meaning of Japanese Melodrama in the Heisei Era• Timothy...
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(from Japan Focus) English below前田 新（福島県農民連会津美里町在住）農民詩「見えない恐怖のなかでぼくらは見た」は２０１１年７月１８日付で農民連の「しんぶん農民」に掲載され、全国の脱原発集会で朗読された。作者の前田新は会津美里町に住む農民、詩人、作家である。２０１１年３月１１日に勃発した福島第一原発の惨事から四ヶ月目に書かれたものだが、一周年を迎えた今も、原発事故のせいで家を、土地を、家族を、生活を奪われた数十万の人々の怒りと絶望を代弁するものである。農民にとって、手塩にかけて育てた農産物が放射能汚染にさらされるほど無念なことはない。２０１１年３月２９日には、須賀川のキャベツ農家が、政府が新たに発表した摂取制限を聞き、全ての希望を失い、自殺した。前田にとって、農民から生活と命そのものを奪う国策は、隣国の征服と搾取を「国益」とし、...
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http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.com/2012/01/announcement-by-fukushima-evacuate.html1 . What has in fact happened since 3.11 as well as the condition of the children in Fukushima up to the court filing on June 24th, 2011.Running through the wind, with their cheeks red, mouthfuls of raspberries, filled with the excitement, catching insects, rolling over the snow fields… Those were the children...
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http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html※ １月４日からスタートした判決不服従アクション「ネット賛同」に参加を！「私たちは１００％」チェルノブイリ避難基準の強制避難地域で教育を受ける子どもたちです。「０％の人たち」の手によって、私たちの命が危険にさらされるという不正義を、昨年暮れ、裁判所もお墨付きを与えました（12月16日決定）。私たちはこのような理不尽な不正義を許す訳には行きません。 正義の裁きを下すため、2012年冬、「ふくしま集団疎開裁判」の世界市民法廷を開催することにしました。以下、生原稿ですが（今後、詳細を公表）、発表します。３.１１以来、６.２４の申立までのふくしまの現実と子どもたちの状況頬を真っ赤にして、風の中を走りぬけ、木イチゴをほおばり、虫取りに胸を躍らせ、雪原をころげまわる・・・。それが、...
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Click to read, with links on Fukushima, Okinawa, Homelessness, N. Korea and more...All these stories are from our links at the bottom of the main page. We will shortly resume publishing our own summaries.JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 1-Japanese Expert Says Fukushima II (not I) Nuke Plant's Containment Vessel Has Been Damaged by the Quake-Fuku-I Nuke Plant Blowout Panel Mystery: Were They Really Welded-...
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The Japan Times has always been a mixed bag: They have had decent coverage of a number of domestic issues, going back to the days of the Zai-Nichi anti fingerprinting movement and Mad Cow disease. On the the other hand, they have had several regular columnists (Brad Glosserman and Ralph Cossa) with connections to CSIS, a CIA affiliated organization that pushes American military...
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This story is from http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/09/radiation-in-japan-tsukuba-citys-idea.htmlShorts, short-sleeve T-shirts, no masks, sneakers, with small kids. (In other words, all the things you should never do.)As "decontamination" is set to become a new bubble for Fukushima Prefecture if not for entire Japan, the national government strongly encourage citizen volunteers to "...
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Jon MitchellIntroductionOn August 19th, 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement in response to recent media coverage about the US military’s use and storage of defoliants (including Agent Orange) on Okinawa during the Vietnam War. MOFA announced that, although it had requested the US Department of Defense to investigate these allegations, Washington had replied that it was...
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The author assesses the Fukushima nuclear disaster in light of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hanford, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and the nexus between nuclear weapons and nuclear power.This summer, I participated in the seventeenth “Pilgrimage for Peace,” traveling to Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a group that included seventeen American students led by Professor Peter Kuznick of American University,...
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Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition (Japan Focus link) Koide Hiroaki Introduction and translation by Sakai Yasuyuki and Norimatsu Satoko Introduction Koide Hiroaki began his career as a nuclear engineer forty years ago drawn to the promise of nuclear power. Quickly, however, he recognized the flaws in Japan’s nuclear power program and emerged as among the best informed of Japan’s...
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Radiation Effects on Health: Protect the Children of Fukushima Kodama Tatsuhiko Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo Head, Radioisotope Center, the University of Tokyo originally published at JAPAN FOCUS Translation by Kyoko Selden Talk at the July 27, 2011 meeting of the Committee on Welfare and Labor of the House of Representatives I am Kodama...
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http://www.radiationdefense.jp/en/investigationAs our first work of our Nationwide Soil Testing Project, we tested soil samples from 150 areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This project is the first unified investigation on the diffusion of radioactive particles in the metropolitan area including Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki prefectures, whereas the national and local...
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