2012/06/12

Citizen Lane Vol.6 ( 日本語, English, Français )


1: 福島原発事故は、あなたの生活や考え方にどのような影響を与えましたか?

国は自分を守ってくれないということを改めて認識しました。国籍とか、憲法とか、国民を守ってくれるはずのものは、なにひとつないんだということを実感しました。なので、自分の身は自分で守らなければならない、と当たり前のことを改めて認識しました。しかしそれ以上にショックだったのは、無関心、という人間が一番多いこと。自分自身の命や未来に対しても、無関心な人が以外と多かったことに対して驚きました。

2: 原発事故から一年以上経ちましたが、今現在、どのような対策をしていますか?
食べ物のルートを可能な限り調べるようにしています。これから自分が身体に入ってくるものに対して、当たり前のことですが、把握するということ。自分の身体とこころを守るということが、自分自身のまわりを守ることとも同じだと思います。神経質になりすぎると、自分を崩壊させてしまいそうなので、続けられることをきちんと続けることが大事だと思います。

3: 原発、放射能問題について、家族や友人と話しますか?
家族は話しません。関西圏に住んでいることもあって、危機感がおそらく無いのでしょう。友人とはたまに。アンテナはっているひとと、はっていないひととの温度差にいつも驚く。

4: 今、一番不安に思う事は何ですか?また、その事に対し、何か解決法を見つけましたか?
これから産まれてくる子どもたちのこと、いまの子どもたちが大きくなった時の日本がどうなっているかが心配です。そして、長い歴史のなかで、続いて来たものがぶつりと途切れてしまうことがいちばん心配です。
復興という名のポジティブ精神が「見たくないものにフタをする」かのような方向にいくのは一番いけないことだと思います。解決法というのははっきりとは分かりませんが、直接的に目に見えるように、身体に障害が現れた時にやっとひとは危機感を感じて動き始めるのではないのかと思っています。
そのときはもう手遅れなのかもしれませんが…

5: 東電と政府の事故後一年間の対応について、どう思いますか?
これだけ余震が多発している中で、未だに原発を再稼働と言っている姿を見るとあきれるばかりです。
そして、被災してしまったひとたちのことを、同情やドラマなどといった意味ではなく、ちゃんとした現実としてもっと報道して行かなければならないと思います。ネット上では東電、政府のことでも様々な情報が流出しているので、どれが真実か見極めるのは大変難しいですが、自分の意志をきちんと主張すること、整理して行くことがこれからの課題かなと。国の対応もいけないと思いますが、私たちも、消費社会に慣れすぎてしまった生活態度をもう一度見直すことは必要かと思っています。自分たちの態度を改めて行けば、もっと国のことを知ることができるだろうし、対策や運動の方法等も見えてくるのではないでしょうか。

6: 放射能問題、再稼働に関する運動、デモや署名などに関わっていますか?
街頭での署名活動の参加、パブリックコメントを送ったりなど。

7: その他、この事故に関しての意見、見解など
生物として産まれて来て、当たり前に生活して行くということを歪まされた、自然の摂理ではありえなかった事故だったと思っています。この事故を通して、いちばん感じたのは結局みんな「ただの人間」だったんだな、というのを強く感じました。政治家だろうがサラリーマンであろうが農家だろうが芸能人だろうがアーティストだろうが、「ただの人間」だなあって。たとえ命をかけて全力でやっても、報われない時は報われないし、対抗できないほどの大きな力があるんだっていうこと。人間ってあまりにもあっけなく死んでしまうこともあるんだって。希望、というか信じていたものがすべて一度がらがらと音をたてて崩れたような気がしています。そういった意味で、自分の無力さに落ち込んだひとはとても多かったのだろうと思います。無力であることが自分の可能性や力量をもう一度考えさえてくれた、という意味では、良い意味の絶望だったのではないかと思っています。
そこから這い上がってきたひとが、いま積極的に行動しているような気がしています。
専門的な分野の見解ではかなり絶望的な状況だという結果がでていますが、まだ希望を捨てずにいます。もしかしたら、元に戻れるんじゃないかという、ちっぽけな希望にすがっている馬鹿な自分もいたり…。
ここから日本がどういう方向にいくのか、まだまだ分からないけれど、信じています。

30歳・女性・フリーランス・京都


1: Did Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident had an effect on your way of thinking and your life?
I realized again that the government don't protect me. I realized there's not even a national and constitutional law which protects the people. So i understood that i have to protect my life by myself. But what shocked me more was that a majority of people are just indifferent. I did not expect to see so many people that came out to be indifferent, for their own future and for their life.

2: It's been a year since the accident happened, what do you do to protect yourself? 
I try to be aware as much as i can be of the origins of the food. It's quite normal to try to know what will come inside my body. I think about protecting my body, and my thoughts are to protect people around me. When i become too nervous, i feel that it can destroy myself, i want to do something that i can continue rightly.

3: Do you talk about it with your family and friends ?
I don't talk with my family about it. Because i guess my family don't feel the danger because we live in Kansai region. I talk about it sometimes with my friends. I'm always surprised about the difference of temperature of people between who cares and who doesn't.  

4: What does worry you the most? And did you find a solution for the problem?
I'm afraid for the children who will be born in the future and about what will Japan be when the children of today will be grown ups. And what frightens me the most is that what has been created in History might disappear completely.I think this thing is worst than the positive spirit of re-establishment which is like shutting the door in front of a disgraceful scene. I don't have the solution but people will understand the day their body will be touched, finally they will get the sense of this danger and they'll start to move. Although it might be too late… 

5: What do you think about the policy of Tepco and Japanese Government since the accident?
I'm really fed up to see that the government is still talking about to restart the nuclear plant while there's so many earthquakes in Japan. The medias have to report the reality of the disaster victims, not just to send sympathy and treating their life as a drama but more as a reality. 
On the internet, there are many different informations about Tepco and the government so it's difficult to know which informations are true but i think to protect one's own will and to keep informations ordered must be the exercise for the future. The response of the government is wrong but it's necessary for us to rethink our attitude in life. We got too much accustomed to the consuming society.I think that if we change our habits, it will help us to understand better the government and we will find the way of provisions and the way of movement.

6: Do you have some activities against this or did you join in the movement against nukes like protests, petitions?
I participate to collect petitions in the street and i send public comments to the government. 

7: If you have more opinions about this accident, please tell me.
This accident could not be happened in natural providence with deform our life to be born as a natural life forms and to live the life on a routine basis. Through this accident, i felt strongly that everybody is only human beings. At last.Governors, worker employees, farmers, entertainers, artists, all people are only "human beings".Even when we do all our best by risking our lives, sometimes it can't work and a strong force does exist in this world against which it's even difficult to protest.Humans Sometimes die so easily.Hope and everything I have believed in completely collapsed at once.
In that sense, there must be so many people who have become depressed to realize their own ineffectuality.I think my ineffectuality made me rethink about my possibilities and capacities and in that way, i find it was some positive desperation.I think people who climbed out from the depression move actively today.From the experts specializing in this field, it is said that it's a desperate situation but i don't lose hope.Although i know it's stupid i still lean on the tiny hope that it can become normal again…
I have trust without knowing which direction Japan will take in the future.

Woman・30years old・freelance・ Kyoto


1: Est-ce que la catastrophe de Fukushima a eu des effets sur votre manière de penser, sur votre vie ? 
Je réalise à nouveau que le gouvernement ne me protège pas. Je réalise encore qu'il n'y a même pas une loi constitutionnelle nationale qui protège le peuple. Je dois dons en conclure que je dois me protéger toute seule. Mais ce qui me choque le plus, c'est que la majorité des gens sont totalement indifférents. Je ne m'attendais pas à ce qu'autant de gens se révèlent indifférents, à leur propre futur, à leur propre vie.

2: Ça fait plus d'un an que l'accident a eu lieu, que faites vous pour vous protéger?
J'essaie d'être au maximum au courant de l'origine de la nourriture que je consomme. C'est normal d'essayer de savoir ce qui va dans mon corps. Je pense à protéger ce corps et mes soutiens sont pour aider les gens autour de moi. Quand je deviens nerveuse, je sens que cela me fait du mal, je veux faire quelque chose que je peux continuer correctement.

3: Parlez-vous de cet accident avec vos proches ? 
Je n'en parle pas du tout avec ma famille.
Je pense que ma famille ne ressens pas le danger car bous habitons la région du Kansaï. J'en parle parfois avec des amis. Je suis toujours surpris de la différence de température entre ceux que ça intéresse et ceux qui y sont indifférents. 

4: Qu'est-ce qui vous inquiète le plus ? Avez-vous trouver une solution à de problème ?
J'ai peur pour les enfants qui vont naître dans le futur et pour ceux, qui, enfants aujourd'hui, sont appelés à devenir adultes dans ce futur.
Ce qui me terrorise le plus c'est que tout ce qui a été crée dans l'Histoire peut être amené à disparaître. Je crois que ça est pire que le soi-disant esprit de la reconstruction qui revient à fermer la porte devant une scène qu'on ne veut pas voir. Je n'ai pas de solution mais les gens comprendront malheureusement quand ils verront leur corps touché, il ressentiront finalement le sens du danger et commenceront à ce moment-là à bouger. Même s'il sera peut-être trop tard...

5: Que pensez-vous de la politique de Tepco et du gouvernement japonais? 
J'en ai vraiment assez d'entendre le gouvernement parler de remettre en marche la centrale nucléaire (Oi) alors qu'il y a tant de tremblements de terre au Japon.Les médias doivent rapporter la vie des victimes du désastre, pas juste susciter de la sympathie en traitant leurs vies comme un drama mais comme une réalité.
Sur internet, il y a beaucoup d'informations sur Tepco et le gouvernement, il est donc difficile de savoir quelles informations sont les bonnes. Je pense que le fait de protéger la volonté des gens et de garder les informations à disposition de tous sera quelque chose à travailler à l'avenir.
La réponse du gouvernement est mauvaise mais il est nécessaire pour nous tous de repenser notre attitude face à la vie. Nous nous sommes trop accoutumés à la société de consommation. Je pense que si nous changeons nos habitudes, cela nous aidera à mieux comprendre notre gouvernement et à trouver un moyen de subvenir à nos besoins d'une manière différente.

6: Avez-vous une quelconque activité anti nucléaire ? Participez vous à des manifestations, signez vous des pétitions, etc...?
Je participe à faire signer des pétitions dans la rue et j'envoie des messages publics au gouvernement.

7: Si vous avez d'autres opinions sur cet accident, donne-les moi
Cet accident n'aurait pas eu lieu si nous nous en étions remis à la "providence naturelle".A travers cet accident j'ai ressenti profondément que nous ne sommes tous que des humains. Enfin.
Gouverneurs, employés salariés, fermiers, artistes, nous sommes tous que des humains.Même si nous faisons de notre mieux, risquant nos vies, parfois cela ne fonctionne pas et il existe une force dans ce monde contre laquelle il est difficile de lutter.Les hommes meurent parfois si facilement.L'espoir et tout ce en quoi je croyais se sont envolés d'un coup.
De la même manière il doit y avoir tant de gens qui ont été déprimés de découvrir leur propre inefficacité.Je pense que mon inefficacité m'a fait reconsidérer mes possibiltées et mes capacités et, dans ce sens, j'ai trouvé que c"était du désespoir positif. Je crois que ceux qui sont sortis de la dépression sont désormais très actifs.D'après les experts de ce secteur, il est dit que la situation est désespérée mais je ne perds pas espoir.Bien que je sache que c'est stupide je me repose toujours sur le mince espoir que tout peut redevenir normal...
J'ai confiance, mais sans savoir dans quelle direction le Japon va s'engager à l'avenir.

Femme・30 ans・free lance・ Kyoto



2012/06/11

What Disaster Countermeasures Office of Prefecture Fukushima has been doing?

Original text from Blog of Koichi Oyama in Minamisoma City 10.06.2012 http://mak55.exblog.jp/16025672/

Related articles (Japanese Only for the moment : We'll add the following links one by one below this article): 
In front of Disaster Countermeasures Office of Prefecture Fukushima 
In front of Fukushima Prefectural Office: Over 3 million Bq. Pity.. Expectation proved right 
For the citizens of Fukushima city 1 
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Cesium 134+137. Unit = Bq/Kg 

Minamisoma odaka-ku  Kanaya Shimokugino  2,970,000 
Minamisoma odaka-ku  Kanaya Shimokugino    522,000 
Minamisoma odakaku           5,570,000 
Minamisoma odakaku Kamimachi         793,000 
Minamisoma odakaku Honmachi        430,000 
Minamisoma odakaku Honmachi         580,000 
Hirono-cho                 43,917 
Hirono-cho (In front of the government office)    247,136 
Hirono-cho (In front of the station)         142,794 
Hirono-cho, Simokitasako            255,161 
Miharu-cho Nishikata Nakanouchi (Miharu Dam)   239,325 
Nihonmatsu-city Kamegai          2,061,446 
Nihonmatsu-city Kodakouchi          565,767 
Nihonmatsu-city Nakae           227,315 
Fukushima-city Sugitsuma-cho (Prefectural Office)  3,148,238 
Motomiya-city Motomiyayarai          398,995 
Bandaimachi Sarashina aza takamatsudaira (Mt.Bandaisan Service Area) 34,600 
Ryo-zenmachi              757,000 
Date-city Fushiguro Miyamoto         431,917 
O-tama mura Tamai               565,767 
Ko-riyama-city Hayama (Near a library)  563,824 
Ko-riyama-city Hayama (Near Fukushima local court)  253,292 

I wonder how much Bq it is going to be if Plutonium and Strontium are included. 
So terrifying. I don't need them to fly over on me. 

I feel deeply regret that the radioactive materials that have been released from Fukushima-Daiichi won't be recovered, and they are just going to be taken into our bodies. 
If they need a temporal storage, I don't mind offering my place, though my neighbors who live some hundred meters away will be against it. 

Minamisoma City is promoting a public understanding (of building a temporal storage), however, on the other day,  I asked our business news desk to send a contaminated material to Hiroshima University. Later on, they brought it to the Board Bureau saying that they got no budget for sending it. (Shipping cost is only a few hundred yen, so they don't need a budget. They just don't want to do that) 

The Board Bureau called me again on the next day to tell me to come to fetch it as soon as possible. Having a contaminated material in the office does not contribute to the air dose rate, as Professor. Kodama or Mr. Sakurai said. However, the chief of bureau was worried about it. He is the one who insists the need to promote a public understanding for the temporal storage, and to have a right fear of the radiation. 

This is the reality. 

By the way, the volunteers group who recover the radioactive materials accepted my participation, but I wonder where I should store them. I have to find a place where I can gain agreement with my neighbors. 

Courtesy : Koichi Oyama




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In front of Disaster Countermeasures Office of Prefecture Fukushima 29.03.2012

Black Cyanophyceae / In front of the Disaster Countermeasures Office of Fukushima Prefecture 



Thank you for your comment.

As you said, all the other municipal governments are same as Minamisoma: Not giving priority to the citizen's lives 
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Is the intention of Government of Minamisoma to stay here, or to die in a mass suicide? Living beings are accumulating radioactive materials in their bodies. Why don't they collect them instead of spreading them. Cyanophyceae (blue-green algae) has more intelligence than our local government. 




The nuclear accident has not ended, but is still going on. 
Decontamination works go nowhere because they can't find where to store them. Only "PLAN" is exhibited repeatedly, and they don't notice that biological concentration is increasing air dose around us. Or even they do, they pretend not to see.
Our lungs are not bug filters. 
When they decontaminate by blowing, they should aspire to recover radioactive materials. Otherwise, people might inhale them. 




For calling for attention, I use mSV which is the most familiar unit. 
However, we need to start using Bq instead of SV, as Bq indicates internal exposure while SV is for external exposure.
Highly contaminated materials coming from Cyanophyceae are observed everywhere.
The Government should collect them as soon as possible and measure the level of contamination concentration. 
In general, the contamination level of algae seems to increase directly with air dose. 

Courtesy : Koichi Oyama






In front of Fukushima Prefectural Office: Over 3 million Bq. Pity.. Expectation proved right 


Black Cyanophyceae @ Fukushima Prefectural Government ① measures 19μSv
       

The administration leave radioactive materials that have been blown in topsoil removal. They have no idea what they are doing. 
Assume that the contamination level is 3,000.000Bq/Kg, contamination per a teaspoon (1g) is 3,000Bq.
Mr. Yuhei Sato, governor of Fukushima should collect the algae while they are wet. When they get dry, they will start spreading radioactive spores. 


Black Cyanophyceae @ Fukushima Prefectural Government ③ By the front gate measures 8,2μSv

We can't leave it like this, Mr. Sato!
Contamination level per 1g is 1,000Bq. 
It seems that the contamination level at this place is no less than 1.500.000Bq/Kg
They can't say that they conducted decontamination properly by just blowing. 
They recognize that biological concentration is going on, and monitor air dose, while pretending not to see that the algae is releasing high-dose radiation everywhere. 
They should start indicating in Bq instead of SV, because the more severe problem now is internal exposure. 

Mr. Sato has wasted a big amount of tax for setting monitoring posts and topsoil removal. 
Stop wasting tax and please don't make children inhale radioactive spores. 

Courtesy : Koichi Oyama

2012/06/10

A photo of a strange rainbow taken by my father


Original text from blog of Emiko Numauchi (Numayu) in Minamisoma City 08.06.2012 

The rainbow makes an inverse circle. 
It have been sunny everyday and it didn't rain.
Was it because of there were a lot of moisture vapor above in the sky? 
It was a half rainbow surrounding the sun.
From the theory of the rainbow, the one my father saw was because of there's a lot of moistures above in the sky and it was drew as if it surrounded the sun and my father's viewing location was just below it.

Courtesy : Emiko Numauchi 


When i contacted my father…


Original text from blog of Emiko Numauchi (Numayu) in Minamisoma City 08.06.2012 

I suddenly wanted to talk with my father and i called him. There was no special reasons though. I talked to him about the examination i did before noon.
Then he gave me an unexpected response. 
My mother also cough with sputum. It's not all the time but once she coughs, it doesn't stop easily.
I also asked about my father's health.
He retired at the age-limit from his work and he spends days with his grandchildren. He is 67 years old.
When i see him, he looks fine. He wants to make everything of his own hands. 
But in the end of the afternoon, he feels so tired that he can't even move.
And he was looking at the sky while searching informations in a computer.
Lately there's a lot of clouds who looks like "Earthquake clouds".
I also heard about strange figured rainbows which show up although it didn't rain...
We haven't thought the nature was worth much although human beings are also let to live in the nature as an  animal.

Courtesy : Emiko Numauchi

I did some examinations today


Original text from blog of Emiko Numauchi (Numayu) in Minamisoma City 08.06.2012 

Components of the examinations were :
X-ray of lungs, Electrocardiogram, Urianalysis, Blood test.
Since three days I started to cough with a lot of sputum.
The detail of the result will be issued tomorrow.
What i found out today were "I have too much protein" and "I have occult blood (blood in urine)".
I took off my uterus two years ago so it doesn't come from menstruation.
The detail will be shown by the result of the examination.

Courtesy : Emiko Numauchi 


My husband was asked to charge into his office inside the 3.5km zone around the Nuclear Power Plant

Original text from blog of Emiko Numauchi (Numayu) in Minamisoma City 08.06.2012 
http://numayu.blogspot.be/2012/06/blog-post_08.html



It happened yesterday. This is the third time (June and September last year and this time)…

In such a situation just a "document" has got no importance…

This time his exposure dose was 5 micro sievert for three hours and half of stay.
The zone closer to the plant was about 120000 becquerels at the beginning of the accident and became lower than 3000 becquerels today.
But it is said that the value will probably not decent anymore. 
In Futaba City: 3-4 micro sievert.
Ôkuma City: 20-30 micro sievert.
It depends on the places but those amounts of radiation still exist.
This is not circumstances in which humans can live. I heard a lot about malformations of animals. But animals have the ability to adapt to the nature under any condition they were born. But what if it happens to humans? They will be looked at with a great deal of curiosity because of their differences. 
The other day a man living in Kantô region called me.
He's a man who sincerely thinks that "this country is insane."
The Japanese Government of today looks like an airplane which lost control and is close to crash on the surface of the ocean.
Although people in Japan got serious thoughts, the national politics stay in the air castle. 
They don't have grounded policy. 
At the Nuclear plant, the reactor 4 exploded, we can even see fuel rods immersed in water.
Moreover, what does the Japanese Government mean by "Let's burn the radioactive debris all over Japan"?!
80% of people in Iwate Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture are telling in the news "we want to dispose it in our own land".
It's not just "debris" but there are also their "houses". There are also "mementos" inside it.
Why can't the Japanese Government understand that those people want to have them return their own land at the very least?
Why doesn't the Japanese Government establish the incineration plants in those two prefectures? 
Even about the cost, it would be lower enough if they do so.
How will they transport the debris without spreading the radiation everywhere?… 
Debris which measures 100 becquerels become 4000 becquerels after the incineration.
Does the Japanese Government want to spread the radiation all over Japan?

Courtesy : Emiko Numauchi

2012/06/09

Declaration to restart nuclear power plant : Prime Minister, making the Myth of security to the public, is the manager of public relations of Japan's Nuclear Village

Original text from Ryusaku Tanaka Journal 08.06.2012 http://tanakaryusaku.jp/2012/06/0004457「再稼働反対」を叫ぶ参加者たち。『怒り』の一文字に参加者たちの気持ちが込められていた。=8日午後6時、首相官邸前。写真:田中撮影=

Protesters who are shouting "Against to restart the nuclear power plant". The feelings of participants shown in the word "Anger", 8 May, 6pm in front of The Prime Minister's Office. Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka
The speech of Prime Minister Noda on May 8 at 6pm echoed on the street in front of Prime minister's office through the radio. "My decision is to restart the reactor 3 and 4 to protect people's life in Japan." When PM Noda made the declaration, the protesters who gathered in front of the PM office shouted at the same time. Protesters stained their voice and repeated one sentence: "Oppose to restart the nuclear power plant". It was like a rumbling of the earth. The slogan continued to be yelled in chorus for 35 minutes. The protest meeting is on every friday (Promoted by Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes) but today even before to start the meeting people trained with uncommon tension because of the declaration of Prime Minister Noda had been scheduled. "I'm shaking with anger. It's wrong to restart the plant on all accounts. Everyone in mass communication, please report it! Report that every nuclear power plants have to be decommissioned!" A man (an employee age 30 living in Tokyo )who approached on the microphone at first made an appeal out of breath. A woman in her sixties (Living in Fujisawa City in Kanazawa Prefecture) said: "I'm from the generation of The Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in the 70's. Our regret is we've let establish so many nuclear power plants in Japan. Mothers who give birth to children never want to restart the nuclear power plant. I think it must be the same for mother of Prime Minister Noda."
「再稼働反対」のプラカードを持った市民たちが、官邸に向けて押し寄せそうな雰囲気だった。=写真:田中撮影=
Citizens who uphold the placard of "Oppose to restart nuclear power plant" looked like they will surge ahead to the office of Prime Minister. Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka
There were many citizens who rushed over by leaning about PM's declaration to restart nuclear plant on TV. The line of the protesters which fill the street was longer than in any previous meeting.The tail end was close to The Roppongi Street. I asked the distance from the beginning and the tail end to the police who was directing the traffic, he answered "About 200m i guess".
The number of protesters was the largest ever, 4000 people. (Publication by Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes) "I can't forgive, i can't pronounce a word because of the anger, Don't pass people's tongue over." A woman in her thirties living in Tokyo spitted out when she recognized that i was a journalist. A woman of nine months pregnant participated to the protest but she felt ill and left the line. Her last word was "Never let the nuclear power plant restart". Old people, young people and pregnant women are opposed to restart the nuclear power plant. PM Noda boasted that "If a tsunami and an earthquake like the ones who attacked Fukushima happens, we have got the provision, the system and we are equipped to prevent an accident. Even in the case of the electric power supply is lost, it's confirmed that it will never reach to the core damage." Prime Minister is making The New Myth of security of Nuclear Power Plant to the public. I wonder if The Prime Minister works as a manager of public relations of Japan's Nuclear Village in this country, in Japan?

Courtesy : Ryusaku Tanaka

In front of the Prime Minister's Office women's die-in protestation was made to oppose the restart of Ôi Nuclear Power Plant

Original text from Ryusaku Tanaka Journal 07.06.2012 http://tanakaryusaku.jp/2012/06/0004448
郡山市から参加した女性は、ゼッケンからも悲壮な決意が伺えた。=7日、首相官邸前。写真:田中撮影=

A woman who participated to the protest from Kôriyama City. Also rom her saddlecloth ("Women in Fukushima become demons") we could see her tragic determination. June 7 in front of Prime Minister's Office. Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka
Once again, it was women who put their life on the line to protest. To oppose to the restart of Ôi Nuclear Power Plant today they did die-in protestation. The promotor of this protest was "Women in Fukushima don't need Nuclear Power Plant".
More than 50 women came from Fukushima Prefecture and from the capital region. The women from Fukushima were wearing white shrouds. It showed they are fiercely determined to shut down the restart of the nuclear power plant. In front of PM's Office, if we lay down on the side walk in a large group, there's a risk for several people to be over taken by the police in a short time. Peace Keepers also arrived and batten down the hatches.
"If Ôi Nuclear Power Plant restarts, the other nuclear plants in Japan will be also restarted one after another. We shut it down by putting our lives on the line". Chieko Shiina is the co-leader of "Women in Fukushima don't need Nuclear Power Plant: "If another nuclear plant accident happens, there will be no future for our children and grandchildren. Only women in Fukushima have a sense of danger. A woman living in Mitaka-City in Tokyo couldn't hide her strong anger. "We have to let actions speak rather than demonstrations or meetings to shut down a nuclear power plant. I'm not afraid if police comes. My daughter will give birth to her baby in September. If the nuclear power plant restarts and an accident happens, i will not be able to apologize to my grandchild". It's the same for a woman living in Edogawa District: "I can't forgive the restart because I have grandchildren. I don't mind to be caught by the police". In front of PM's Office, Tokiko Kato, a singer, came to give her help. There were a lot of people, men who followed the die-in, media filled on the side walk and police officers in their uniform were busy to direct the traffic.
ズラリと並んだ“死体”。野田首相が見たらどう思うだろうか。=写真:田中撮影=
"Dead Bodies" in a row. What PM Noda will think if he watchs them. Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka
Passed 3pm, the die-in protest started. The air was filled with silence. The noise of cars engines resounded awfully. I have to say that a situation in which women who will give birth to a child have to pretend to be dead bodies is completely abnormal. The protest die-in continued for 10 minutes. Fortunately there were no police intervention. A woman who participated from Kôriyama City has a daughter in her third year of high school: "Hibakusha in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have died like this… This think has been running around in my head again and again. We can't make the same mistake again. We will never give up, we'll do our best."
PM Noda's government who made women his ennemies will reach the dead end sooner or later. There's a possibility of "The Disbandment in desperation" but there's no possibility of "Restarting nuclear power plant in desperation."

Courtesy : Ryusaku Tanaka

On June 7, 2012, about 70 women including 10 women from Fukushima did a "die-in" in front of the Prime Minister's Official Residence to protest against the restart of Ooi Nuclear Power Plant. Before the die-in, 10 Fukushima women visited the Cabinet Office and met with officials to submit a letter of requests addressed to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

This video clip shows the words from the Fukushima women and part of the die-in.

On the very next day, June 8, 2012, Prime Minister Noda held a press conference and declared he would restart Ooi Nuclear Power Plant.

The original video (http://youtu.be/ODNhDhw_-VY) created by OurPlanet-TV (http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=node/287). OurPlanet-TV is an independent net-based media and welcomes donations.

Translation and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.
Video editing by sievert311 (http://www.youtube.com/user/sievert311).

2012/06/08

Mr. Tatsuhiko Kodama, The Chairman of The Committee of Decontamination

Original text from Blog of Koichi Oyama in Minamisoma City 29.05.2012 http://mak55.exblog.jp/15941400/


Mister Tatsuhiko Kodama, The Chairman of The Committee of Decontamination Promotion in Minamisoma City affirms that usual decontamination plan will do for the black radioactive isotope.
That is to say anew they won't remove it.
But before, at the National Diet, he said: "I couldn't stand leaving the soil under a playground slide in children's baby farms and kindergartens so i took it in my car and i brought it back with me. I made an illegal act!"
But inside the city there's everywhere on the ground radioactive isotopes which are ten times more radioactive than the soil of kindergarden.
"We won't collect them because it doesn't contribute at all to the air dose rate." Aren't his words opposed to his act of bringing back some of the soil in his car? 
I will collect them as the professor Kodama does. Can i bring them to Tokyo University?
Every organization refused, saying that they "don't have the place to stock them." They don't want to collect them.
Dear Professor Kodama, as i don't often see you in Minamisoma City, i can't meet you, i will address you a questionnaire in the future but, if by chance you hear about my blog from some officials who forbid to read my blog, will you please give me a drum?

Japan must be the only place in the whole world where there are hundreds of thousands, several millions becquerels of radioactive isotopes in urban areas, isn't it?
Especially in Minamisoma City there's incomparable highly radioactive blue algae on the school routes.
I hope The Chairman of The Committee of Decontamination Promotion in Minamisoma City and The Mayor will break the promises at the assembly and collect the black radioactive isotope.

The whole world knows this fact.

Courtesy : Koichi Oyama

2012/06/06

Papillary Thyroid cancer - A report from a woman in her 30s who evacuated from Kôriyama City (Fukushima) 


Original text from Shunichi Ono  15.05.2012 http://onodekita.sblo.jp/article/55872777.html

About papillary thyroid cancer, I only had knowledge from the national exam of medical practitioners. I reread my old textbook.

About the papillary thyroid cancer 

Papillary Thyroid cancer is most common among thyroid cancer, and it appears most commonly in women from 30 to 50 years old. 
Cancers in youth often carry a poor prognosis, but this cancer has an excellent prognosis, and ten year survival rate is more than 80%. 
Almost all thyroid cancer caused by exposure to radiation is papillary thyroid cancer, so that it was also most commonly observed after The Chernobyl Disaster in 1986. Furthermore, it is pointed out that providing a neck irradiation treatment for children under 10 year old increases the risk of this cancer. 
This cancer is often caught when firm nodular goiter is discovered, and it metastasizes mainly to lymphogenous. In some cases, it already metastasizes to cervical lymph nodes at the initial visit, or to other organs such as lung or bone, but because of its slow growth, prognosis is not so bad. It is not likely to infiltrate, however, in a case of advanced cancer, recurrent nerve paralysis or difficulty swallowing by infiltration to throat can occur. 



Diagnosis 

Papillary Thyroid cancer and Follicular cancer, a differentiated cancer of the thyroid, don't produce hormone but behave like they do, which causes thyroglobulin level in the blood to rise. However, thyroglobulin level also rises with many other diseases, so it doesn't assist in diagnoses so much. Psammoma Body can be found by soft radiograph of neck, which used to be a popular diagnoses. However, with the progress of the other diagnostic imaging technique, it is rarely used today. Most common diagnoses today is Ultrasonographic examination. A mass can be found by Ultrasonography, Internal echo of a mass is heterogeneous and low, thus comes out black with its irregular margins. Ultrasonic wave can not go through a mass, so that a backward echo becomes weak or disappears. Also, it recognizes a scattered high echo zone under the hood, which is formed when it calcifies. 
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As this cancer doesn't produce hormones, Thyroid Scintigraphy using 123l or 99mTc is not given permission to be captured so it becomes "cold". However, when it metastasizes to a lung or a bone, it is captured at these region and becomes "hot". In the case of Scintigraphy using 201Tl, retaining time in a mass is longer so that it becomes "hot".  
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Big amount of tumor cells that form a colony can be collected by Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), and cell colony has either papillary or sheet-like arrangement. A frosted glass-like nucleus lies inside of a cell, and a nucleolus that is located on its margin, which looks oculate, is clearly visible. In other cases, cytoplasm invaginates into a nucleus and forms cleaves, so that it looks like an inclusion body. (Intranuclear cytoplasm inclusion body) 
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Treatment
It is treated by surgically removing, however, this cancer has good prognosis, so there is a discussion when to remove. The thyroid removing requires some attention not to damage a nervus laryngeus recurrens or nervus laryngeus superior. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to hypocalcemia resulting from a accessory thyroid removing. 
Tumor cell of this cancer is considered to develop to THS-dependent. In some cases, synthetic T4 administration is given in dose sufficient to inhibit THS for shrinking tumor. (This treatment is controversial and not established) 
If a tumor develops metastasis into a lung or a bone, Thyroid Sintigraphy using 131l is applied after a complete removal of thyroid. If it is captured successfully, get rid of a tumor by a big amount of 131l administration. Not 123l that has a small radiation exposure but 131l that releases intense beta ray is used. Be sure to remove thyroid completely in advance, otherwise 131l is taken into thyroid, which cuts in half the effect of the treatment. 


Those are basic knowledge that medical students should know. 

I got contacted by a woman in her early 30s who evacuated from Fukushima (Kôriyama) to the west Japan. She was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and is going to have an operation. She gave me a permission to introduce her note on this blog. We can't determine that her cancer is caused by the accident, but we should certainly take it as a warning sign. 

Where she was / What she did after the accident

March 11 - 15, 2011
In Kôriyama City until 15th noon 
She wore a normal mask when going out. N95 Mask for radioprotection wasn't available at that time. Water was cut off, so she queued for a bath or fetching water. She kept windows closed. but didn't seal them up. 
Her place is on the ground floor in a condominium building. On 14th, she took 10ml of Isodine. On 15th, plume covered all over Tokyo and the neighboring area. She left Kôriyama in the afternoon, as if following the plume, and arrived at Numazu(Shizuoka Prefecture)in a rain. As the highway was closed to traffic, she took the local way and the whole trip took as much as 15 hours. 

March 16 - April 4 
In Numazu 
She lived normally. When the second radioactive plume arrived on 21st, she did not go out as it was raining. 

April 5 - 23
She stayed in Inawashiro and Nasu, because her place in Fukushima was not in an habitable state and also Ko-riyama measured radiation rate as much as 2μSV. 

April 24 - September 
In Aizuwakamatsu
As she should / wanted to continue her work, she moved to Aizu, where contamination is much less. Radiation level there was about 0.14μ then. However, she drove to Tochigi or Senday everyday for her work. Though she never entered within 80KM area from the plant, she often passed by Ko-riyama or Fukushima. 

September - January 
Moved to Numazu 

January -- 
Moved to somewhere in west Japan (west to Osaka) 

She has been trying to avoid contaminated foods and water. 
She underwent urine testing at RIKEN on 21 and 22 February 2012. Neither Iodine or Cesium was detected, which detection limit is 0.073. 

July  2011 

She went to a hospital in Aizu. 
She had a throat ache, sputum and diarrhea, she lost weight and felt sick and tired, so she went to checkup in a hospital. a 5-mm tumor was found by an ultrasonic diagnosis. She hadn't discovered a lump herself. She also had a cytologic diagnosis. The amount of cells was insufficient, so the result came out as "indeterminable", but then the doctor told her there was no problem. When she expressed her worries about radiation, the doctor just laughed it away. 
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December 2011 
She went to a clinic in Shizuoka 
She brought a referral form, and had an ultrasonic diagnosis and blood test.
The tumor has grown to 6 mm, but we can't receive a cytological diagnosis until it grows more than 7 mm. No abnormality was found by blood test. Doctor said to her that one or two examination per year is enough. 
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April 2012
A group of evacuee including her organized an event, and offered a free ultrasonic diagnosis. she knew she had a lump, but as it was free, she went to have another test. A doctor explained to her that she got an irregular shape of lump, which are usually malignant, and recommended her a periodic examination. It was the first time she heard about the shape of lump. 

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April 2012 
She had a colored ultrasonic diagnosis, blood test, cytological diagnosis, electrocardiogram and urinary examination at another clinic. 2 weeks later, she went to discuss her results with her doctor. "One doesn't die of thyroid cancer" said the doctor at first. 
She has had kind of predicted it from the result of ultrasonic diagnosis, so she was pretty prepared then. Her pulse was only 50, and she got an underactive thyroid function. She wondered what was a cause of disease, and there were many she could think of, but among them the most convincing to her was the stress of work and changes of her life. 
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May  2nd 
She went to the clinic again. She had another cytological diagnosis to verify the result from the last diagnosis. According to the doctor, the result could be affirmed by staining the sample cells. She went to the clinic 2 weeks later to get informed of the diagnosis.  

May 3rd 
Third time to the clinic again. 
She had an uneasy feeling when she received a phone call from the clinic 4 days after the diagnosis, giving her an appointment to discuss her results, which was supposed to take 2 weeks. She was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer.
The 6 mm tumor appears on the right side of thyroid. 
The doctor told her about the diagnosis while showing the image of cytological diagnosis. Doctors with less experiences could have determined the tumor as benign, but her doctor was the one who specialized in treating persons affected by radiation, and did some study in Chernobyl as well. He also understood that she was from Fukushima, and radiation could give a health damage. 
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I quoted her memo with only a few edit (for protecting privacy). This is all what i got, so please understand that I'm not able to answer any further questions. 

However, as it was written, she had 10ml of Isodine after the accident, left Ko-riyama quite quickly and also no abnormality in her thyroglobulin level is found. Considering all those facts, I should not prejudge but I can't help expecting that we are going to have a catastrophic health hazard caused by the accident. 

As for the Thyroid cancer, Dr. Shunich Yamashita, who calls himself as an leading authority, gives this lecture introduced below. According to him, thyroid cancer won't increase for the 3 years after the accident. Also, Thyroid cancer Association, an association that Dr. Yamashita chairs the director, issues a proclamation like this: 
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Don't we need to rethink this situation? 

Courtesy : Shunichi Ono

Koichi Oyama at Minamisoma City Council on June 2011

Original text from Blog of Koichi Oyama in Minamisoma City 06.06.2012 

We were let to live in the place where it was such a mess. 



Finally i found the conference proceedings of The Emergency Operations center at Minamisoma City Council.They were telling a lot of lies by circumstances.How could the mayor Sakurai tell "Until that time it was stay indoor evacuation zone"?Although he have evacuated 5000 people by bus... .On 25 March 2011 at the Chief Cabinet Security conference Yukio Edano made a request of voluntary evacuation to the residents but Mayor Sakurai didn't,it means he didn't understand.

Maybe he had been manipulated by business operators until April 22 because of the vague demand for voluntary evacuation of the government.

Even if we wanted to evacuate, as it was voluntary evacuation, local officials neither organization employees couldn't have evacuate. Employees transfered without family and holdovers couldn't act against business operators.Their children were also sacrificed.
I was often asked by people to give advices for their disaffectedness about this.





Why Mayor Sakurai was elected by reducing his salary?He wanted to reform the budget and administration, wasn't he? He was already on the side of the government at that time.



About the reduce of the salary of public officers, the mayor and the Democratic Party didn't fulfilled their campaign pledge.


Courtesy : Koichi Oyama