Greetings, people of the textboard! I hope some of you speak english, but the way I know japanese people, I have no doubt you do.
I am here today to ask you, 2ch dwellers, to help me find informations about the crumbling power plant that is Fukushima Daiichi and the unrest caused by some officials and their unrealistic announcements. I seek truth. And I know for sure this place is where I can find unhindered people.
Here is what I research : I'd like english-speaking japanese people who can provide me information on the real situation. If you live in the area, if you know english-speaking people who do or if you have some fresh information that can not be seen on medias, or simply update about "What's happening", I would be immensely grateful to have those informations. Even better if you're working there.
I'll leave a mail address here. (below) Anything you'll send will be redirected to my mailbox. I'll answer to anything sent to me (except stupid things of course).
Who can ignore japanese officials made young people make a marathon in the contaminated area, and that one of the competitors died there of "heat stroke" while the temperature was at 20° (68F)? Who can deny radiactive particles reached the time change line, 4000km (2485 miles) away from coasts? This story is too much. I am not japanese, and I know how much you people trust and rely on your government, and I have read that some guy suicided, because he felt deceived.
I don't know how much media coverage there is in Japan, but in a lot others countries, very few people talk about it. It was "trendy" some time ago, but now medias decided it was old story and got back to american singers or the last sexual parties of some important politician. And I want to get the story back on the scene. The "people need help" is a part of this, but the fact that it's probably one of the worst nuclear disasters that happened, and it's going worse, and very few care about, except those who are eating contamined food daily, or working to limit the danger while taking excessive doses of radiations, that must not be tolerated.
I am not a journalist, or reporter for any media (or mass media...). I don't work for anyone except me. This doesn't means I'll keep the info for myself, only that I do that along with my own research on the subject, to inform about that in places it's just a "foreign story". I'm not alone in this research. Please help me in this.
Here is the mail I mentioned, at wich you can contact me :
[email protected] (temporary mail address, will work 2 weeks, I'll use my regular address to speak to those who send me something)
Please include 2ch, 2chan, Japan, Fukushima in the "object" field so I can sort mails faster. It will go worse, or not. But it WILL be worse if people don't know or don't care. The informations must get outside japanese borders.
(The pic might not be accurate but it's not out of topic)
tl;dr : No time to read? Short version : You have infos on the Fukushima disaster or you live there (or know people who do)? Then send me a mail on the adress above with "2ch" in subject field. I seek to inform people outside of Japan. I don't work for any medias/mass medias.
Answering in this thread is welcomed, asking questions, discuss or anything, but in english. I know I'm in the right place but I can't read japanese (I know, that's a shame)
I deeply hope I can count on you, thanks in advance.
7> I am! Nice to meet you. But well, I would be stupid to post this in french here^^ I speak spanish too. And I know latin (kinda useless). I understand a little when japanese tongue, but can't read at all.
Ah, maybe this is the wrong board to post such an informations request. If that's the reason of the sages, please indicate me a more appropriate place...
Je suis japonais qui parle votre langue un petit peu. Pour moi, le francais est plus familier... Mais tu as raison, most of people here ne comprendraient pas.
Now,in japan, who afraid of Fukushima atomic crisis and radioactivity are regarded as "chicken" or "neurosis" or "bad person".
Japanese government and TV media don't inform people truth and danger, and they recommend people to eat heavily contaminated foods by radioactivity. TV media usually says "Let's support Fukushima by eating fukushima's farm products".
Unbelievable! Really crazy thing. We have only despair.
We'd like to know what is actually happening in Fukushima, by foreign media.
Could you tell us, what is reported about Fukushima atomic crisis by French press. We wanna really know how dangerous thing is happening around us.
Merci. A mon avis, this board n'est pas the wrong board, parce qu'ici on parle du sujet sur Fukusima serieusement. Mais peu de gens peuvent comprendre l'anglais. pour toi c'est tres difficile de trouver des informations, je pense.
Pardon my wrong English. You are on right place, and this board may suit for your request, I guess. People who write on this board much concern about earthquake and radioactive disaster and they are minority in Japan. Not a few person has good information, I hope they give you good information.
>>18 Any word other than sage, a thread appears at the top of the board. Doing that is totally one's preference and doesn't mean anything else. There is no problem to ask for radiation-related information here.
French press? Well, they mostly relate about European problems. The recent news speak about how the happenings may lead to fire employees in european nuclear companies. Also, seems the director of the power plant has cancer now. There are updates about new contamined water leaking from the central in Fukushima, and about another japanese nuclear power plant having problems (leaks, higher rates registered...). Seems only 9 on 54 power plants in Japan are still in activity since all of this started.
Also, all the news I wrote in the long text above, but you surely know that already. There are big doubts about the tsunami. More and more people think it was a crumbling facility and the earthquake only aggravated the already existing damages. Some time before the first explosions, a part of the systems in the power plant was hacked, (or in a really bad condition) but the origin of that is unknown.
And yes, the "Let's support Fukushima by eating fukushima's farm products", and the way people are seen as chicken is what interests me. If you want, send a mail, we can keep talking after, I'm looking for inside view of all this story.
>>26 About Fukushima 4, it has been announced that there was a new contamined water leak. Seems people are trying to fix that but because government is like "A leak? Ah well, put some glue, should be okay", nothing will get fixed.
The worst is to know that people out there are doing everything they can with the resources they have, but officials don't take this seriously (or are blinded) and send reinforcements or material like if it was a minor incident...
Ah, and the emperor, Akihito, stayed few days in the hospital, after officially visiting the Fukushima area. An official drank water from the area to prove it was harmless, in front of journalists. Well, in the video the man was shaking while taking the glass to his lips...
I think contamined water leak is also serious problem. It is sure to pollute the Pacific Ocean.
And it means that it becoming more difficult to cool melted fuel continuously. Us and EU have to protest to Japanese government strongly about this problem, i think.
>>30>>34 Could you say this in english please? I understood >>34 spoke about france but after that... (Or someone kind enough to translate this to english..)
>>35 The problem is that politicians are brothers. Here in France for instance, they would never say the japanese government is not acting properly, because they fear it would make international relationship hard. You know, there was a despot in a country south of Europe, killed his people, took all the riches for him and let everyone else in misery. Well, our president never said anything against that, he even recieved him in france and had friendly exchange with him. And now, there's been a revolution, the despot has been killed, and the president says it's good that it happened. Seriously politics, wtf?
Hi Seeker, Thank you for your concern on us. You must have been read through - this site covers many issues discussed about Fukushima nuke plant in 2ch. http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
I myself don't have a great secret - Personally, I feel wary of Japanese government and mass media keep trying to make people believe that accident had only happened in Fukushima so surrounded area (north and east Japan including Tokyo) are not affected by accident.
I'm living in West Tokyo with my 2 yr old kid and wife. On 3/15 Morning I have had many 2ch posts reported that extremely high radiation is marked in geiger counters in Ibaragi. We shut all windows and stayed inside, praying that my son don't get too much radioactive Iodine.
I'm trying to persuade my wife that we must move to overseas or west Japan - which doesn't work well. Leaving where we live is not very easy - for many people.
>>38 Humh...don't...understand..everything. If that's what you want to know, it's everywhere the same problems. Few people at ease, lots of people struggling. I have a hunger for truth and justice, and a lot of other people too. French or not. But...our voices are weak against all those who don't care.
>>44 Didn't understand the last sentence, but yea, japanese government is acting nonsense with that. That's sad, before that I had a high opinion about japanese administration and all, but...now, they're doing all wrong.
Be careful of the following thing: Politicians, bureaucrats, major companies, mass media, scholars, and administration of justice construct, and they are deluding Japanese people. Japanese people is the degree of people below developing countries. Please think such thing and see Japan after the nuclear power plant disaster.
Hold on, staying or leaving is a hard decision, but if things continue like that, there will be no other choice than getting away...and that must not happen.
Why you are interested in this issue so much? I am really glad that foreign people concern about this.
Not a few Japanese worry about this crazy situation and they want to change the situation. But We really do not know appropriate action, ideas, solutions.
In fact, some people did demonstrations, some write serious situation around them on internet, and others know them and are influenced and do another action. But government, tepco, bureaucracy, mass-media hide the truth and throw away their responsibility. Not a few people are deceived or have no good choice. (for example, food contamination)
I hope people around the world know this crazy situation and give some pressure to all Japanese. We Japanese really have to be awakened!
>>51 That's a redirection mail, when you send it to the address written, it launches the mail to another box. And this other mailbox is created only for here, no informations in it, no other mails, nothing personnal. Wasn't going to use my name mail for that anyways.
We have many good sites about nuke plant, however I can hardly found good English resource which written by Japanese who living in Japan. though 2ch doesn't have good quality of information (too much scribbles and hate posts) there should be some value in unedited raw voice, especially Japanese government and mass media (which heavily sponsored by TEPCO) running big campaign of media control.
I would like to ask you one thing as a Japanese. How could the French Revolution be started when doing? I think that a people's revolution is the required for present Japan.
>>53 "Why" is a hard question. I am not japanese, I don't live there and don't know anyone living there, but I am who I am, and I can't let such things happen. I can't let people think "It's just some country far away". We do what we can to inform people about this, and we're not going to stop until the situation is good. And there's still a lot of work to do for that.
(I say "we" because I'm not alone trying to support, I share my informations with other people interested by this, but I'm not part of an organization as I said, I do this alone.)
>>57 Revolution? Well, a revolution happens when people don't want their governement anymore. The problem is, for you japanese people, that your structure is old, very very old, getting the government out would mean an aggression against the Emperor's place, and I think a lot of japanese people wouldn't follow that. But if there's any chance the corrupted and blind in the government go away, the first need is to have the maximum of people angry about what's happening. So, inform, share, people must know. I don't think there will be a revolution, but a mass awakening would be great.
Please try to speak english or translate what you say, because I really can't read what you say, and the online translators are really bad when it come to japanese, I can only grasp few words but no overall meaning.
>>62 I appreciate your advice. However, you are doing big misunderstanding about the Japanese Emperor. The Emperor is not responsible for this nuclear power plant disaster. Most Japanese do not have an antipathy about the Emperor. The Emperor is unrelated to substance top politics. The Emperor, not to mention it, is also a victim. His Majesty the Emperor is also forcibly taken to Fukushima, and was contaminated.
>>67 The problem is that when there's a revolution, it's the whole system that is to be changed, even the "innocent" people. I know the emperor is not responsible, and he's been sick but a massive opposition against governement means an opposition against Akihito's rightful place.
>>63 They can not trust you, I guess. In fact, sometime people who have malice appear on 2ch, and they may come from "big brother" side. Such a thing really happen on this. Me and other people trust you.
>>58 You may be globalist and ecologist. I hope you inform "truth" to your friends and people around you. Thank you for your kindness.
>>73 Globalist, in the way that interests of people of the world are more important than interests of nations, yes. But individuality of each country is precious too. Ecologist...I couldn't say. Ecologists in france are mocked, and with good reason : most of them have unrealistic programs based on nothing. But outside of that, I guess I can be seen as an ecologist, yes.
>72 Our emperor is, so to speak, "Priest King". He is the highest priest Shintoism. What he have is not power but authority. He is our of our government, and he is symbol of Japan.
>>76 I think you meant "out of our government". Well, I don't really know how things work in Japan, but if it's really separated, it's a good thing, that means a revolution is possible. (The only reference I have to an emperor is kings of old times and stuff like that then...)
>>77 Japanese law strickly prohibits and denys the right of resistance as well as right of rebellion by Capital punishment. Natural law is being denied and positive law is thought as almighty.
>>75 To tell the truth, I'm afraid that you are a Japanese government employee in France. I love French people, and I hate and fear our government. Now, in our country, people who fear radioactivity are actually enemy of government. So I'm becoming nervous these days.
I think real revolution occur not a few people's death and I think this is the point Japanese do not want to do revolution, even demonstration. People are afraid of even "social death" such as being ignored from others because of being arrested or so. And we are not accustomed to appeal our write. We may be too much adjusted to being tolerant, I guess.
if society collapse or society revolution will occur, I guess, it occur silently. Just like personal death or personal runaway.
it's 3 midnight and good night! I'll be back! (^^;
Well, I gotta go now! Please consider sending mails to the adress I gave, [email protected] this is a secured mail, and even if I'll use some of the informations, I won't reveal any mail, name, sources or anything like that (obviously) Nothing tells you that I can be trusted, but I know who I am and what I fight for. Trust me.
Prf. Hayakawa of Gunma Univ. was served a written warning from the chancellor a few days ago by his reprehensible behavior on twitter. Hayakawa has been saying like "Don't cultivate crops in the Fukushima contaminated area. If you do, you will poison consumers. You are like people who tried to kill citizens with sarin."
Hayakawa has been committed to make a very famous map called "Hayakawa map." He released its first version early time when every Local Government hesitated to monitor and announce radiation level of areas. Hayakawa has been bombarded with complaints by many local governments after the release. I think Gunma Univ warned him by the pressure of local governments of contaminated areas.
Greetings! I am back. Just announcing I'll stick around here, since yesterday sharing was quite interesting. I'll post some external news and updates in like an hour, must translate and make a layout.
>>95 Nothing spoke about this story here! Then I take it and will check and confirm it. After verification : yup, that's the story. Tepco or the stakeholders complained to the university, and the president of Gunma wrote him the letter. Here is the content of the letter for those who didn't read it :
English version : Our university is a national university run by government’s tax. However, Prof Hayakawa’s comments on the internet have been hurting Fukushima people or farmers. It violates the employment regulation not to damage the name recognition of Gunma university. We expect you to refrain yourself on the internet. If you repeat this kind of inappropriate speech ,we will take any disciplinary action against you.
Japanese version : 訓告(抜粋)「貴殿のインターネット上のツイッターにおける福島県の被災者や農家の人々に対する配慮を著しく欠く発言は、運営に要する経費の大部分 を国費によって賄われている国立大学の教員として不適切な発言と言わざるを得ず、 「本学の名誉若しくは信用を失墜する行為」を禁止する就業規則の規定に抵 触している。」略「よって、今後はインターネット上のツイッターにおける不適切な発言をすることのないようにされたい。以上訓告する。なお、今後、不適切 な発言が繰り返される場合は、 懲戒処分を含む厳正な対応をとらざるを得ないこととなるので申し添えておく。」
Then I have what the prof said, and the answer. That is great, thanks!
>>96 I know that! But what is fun is that like most of japanese creations are about France, it's really not accurate! I knew France and Paris are places japanese people like, but it's really idealized! There's even the Paris Syndrome => パリ症候群, Pari shokogun that is when japanese people (most of the time) go to paris and there's a great difference between what they thought and the real city, so they feel really bad. Some of them must be send back to Japan. But mostly, I think french people are to be blamed, because most of them are ungrateful of the love Japan has for French culture. And damn, I can understand it, french food is great! My friend went to eat with Watanabe Shinishiro 渡辺 信一郎 maybe you know the guy, he's made quite a few great animes. My friend made an interview with him, about nuclear awareness, but she's not a journalist so you won't get it on any news site. It's in french but if you're interested I can translate all of it. http://tinyurl.com/shishiroW
I'll have soon other stuff and news, so I stay around to see if people are interested to share some infos and/or discuss about mine.
>>100 It seems that you are a big fan for Japanese MANGA and animation. I heard that there are a lot MANGA mania in France. maybe already worldwide trend, but in my opinion French are early adapter for MANGA. There is great BD culture in France and do you think this culture leads the acceptance of MANGA in your country?
There are photos of tsunami disaster stricken area. just after 3.11 and 6 months later. it is shock for me because the situation so tragic and the speed and power for recovering is great. maybe the photographer had same feeling, I guess.
if photos are not new for you, forget them. Today is 9 month memorial of 3.11. please pray for victims with us Japanese.
>>100 "Big fan", no, but I appreciate that. I mean, I won't buy the books or dvds of animes, but I've rarely been displeased in what I got. Animes are on french TVs, but french versions are horrible, and even censored. My cousin was watching Naruto on french tv. All actions scene and such are suppressed, so the episode is basically Naruto and characters speaking for half an hour. Censored because it has "bad influence". That's stupid!
In France, manga is hated by lots of people. But only because they don't know what it is. It is seen by elder like some sub-comic with only porn and mindless violence. The persons who think that only remember the stuff we had in the 90s, when manga in france was "underground" and as expected, hentai industry came faster (lol) than real stories, so the first look was not good. The others persons hating it are BD purists, some of them think it's funny they are in bookshelves "like real books" while for them "it's only toys for children". Because here, animated and drawn is for children, and movies or realistic is for adults. That is stupid, they don't understand manga is for everyone.
Well, all's not bad. Lots of people love manga, there is a lot of meetings in lots of cities. Maybe you've heard of Japan Expo. Big thing, really great community and all.
So, to answer your question, I don't think BD culture leads to manga approval. Most of BD readers don't read manga, and reciprocally.
So, I'm no otaku or big fan, but I've watched and read quite a few of those. Long time ago, Pokemon hit the scene, people were crazy about it, after that Naruto, I personally loved Full Metal Alchemist. In anime, the Hellsing are great! I've had lots of fun with friends watching Girls Bravo (I think that's the correct name, not sure...) Loved Death Note too, anime and manga. Old but good, Ken the survivor. I think it's called... Hokuto no Ken in japanese. Berserk is cool too. I like myself some One Piece when I want to relax.
And for the greatness, the movies. Oh man, the movies you japanese make. Paprika, Mononoke Hime, Hotaru no Haka (Firefly's tomb in French), Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Chihiro's Travel in French) Ghibli studios, that's great.
>>105 Thank you. I feel lots of your love to Japan and Japanese culture. But talking about them so much is not match for this board....
It is my imagination ..... You want to make Japanese friends on this board? Have you ever been to Japan? Do you have Japanese friends? It is wonder for me that you know how to use 2ch well. I wonder if your friends know that well. sorry my impolite questions. but if you do not say your purpose to correct e-mail, you can not take them much and communication on board does not work well,I guess.
Anyway, Many Japanese's interest for Fukushima nuclear accident does not disaapear but it is so weak to change things happen.
Because how the crisis is going on is not easy to confirm for us. Government and mass media give us information, not correct,out of date...
People are busy for living, you know economic situation is no good in Japan, of course depression is worldwide issue...
You want good information and ask us, but ironically we japanese also need good information.
People on this board are so conscious about many problem around this Fukushima issue, but maybe a bit tired and want good solution.
I think not a few people on 2ch know well about Fukushima issue and how to tell you in English. if you give us good information, communication will proceed smoothly, maybe. so-called give and take relationship. it is just my opinion.
In EU, after Fukushima, it looks like ex-nuclear power politics accelerates more, even in France. Why is it going well? Maybe citizenship, culture, politics system....are good and different from Japan.
We need hints to change the situation. If you have some useful information about this on internet, please give us link and so on. regards.
>>108 As I said, I got a little carried away and that's not the topic, sorry about that.
I am not specifically here to make friends. If people like me, that's good but this is not the most interesting part. I've never been to Japan, but I'd really like to do it. Some years late, I had the occasion but important tests in my school kept me here. I have japanese friends. Not a lot, most of them are born in Japan, but live in my country now. They don't know about 2ch. I'm trying to use it properly but that's hard. Well, it's like futaba channel but with text, right? Or the 4chan's textboards in USA, looks like. Don't worry, I'll answer any questions asked. Can you reformulate the sentence with the e-mail?
I understand you need information, but I'm on something right now, and will be able to provide much more soon.
In Europe, well...we rely a lot on nuclear energy. Germany said they would stop their nuclear power plants, but that only means they're going to buy energy from countries wich don't stop their nuclear plants.
I'll make another thread soon, because an association contacted me to help them with articles and research to help people of Japan. This will be also useful because I see some people here don't trust me. Having an approved organization with me would convince them I think.
I'll give below the new thread link soon (unless creating a new thread is not good on this board)
I tell you an interesting fact. All the nuclear reactors in Japan stop soon. It is for a periodic inspection. The nuclear reactor in Japan stops for an inspection, after working for 13 months. And it cannot re-work easily because of this nuclear power plant disaster. In present Japan,only 8 of 54 nuclear reactors are working. All nuclear reactors are due to stop in April, next year. And there is still enough electric power. If it goes as it is, Japan is likely to resign atomic power ahead of Germany. Since safety of the nuclear reactors cannot be fully guaranteed, they cannot re-work. The nuclear industry (electric power industry) of Japan must be stupid.
>>109 >Can you reformulate the sentence with the e-mail? Sorry, it was spelling mistake. ↓ but if you do not say your purpose to collect e-mail, I mean that why you want e-mail communication seems not to be clear here.
I don't know about futaba channel and 4ch, so you are a master of Japanese subculture!
An association in France or in Japan? Anyway, I would like to thank your action.
For I live in far from Fukushima and only get news on media (2ch), I can not give you something special, but if I can do something I will do.
You say in EU people rely on nuclear energy, but right now I want say loud this tragedy leads to change the world safe and better.
>>111 I don't want to collect e-mails. I just think e-mails are better because I can speak directly to the person and ask stuff. If I post here, I don't know at what hours of the day people are here and such, you see? It's just that. But even if I have lots of mails, I won't stop posting here.
It would be arrogant to say I'm a master of japanese subculture. However I'm quite interested in underground and subcultures in general, so I know where to go when I need specific informations, or places like here. If I went on "official" forums where people use their names and such, I wouldn't get anything useful.
A french and japanese association, but mostly french. I can't say a lot about that for now because I'm not officially working with them right now. Tomorrow or the day after, I should be officially with them. If you're interested, it is called Kibo, they act for awareness about fukushima, take donations and such. That's a non-benefit association, so no one gets paid, and all donations go to the victims. About nuclear energy...yea, you're right. I don't like when people suffer, but I also hope that it will make things change about dangerous energies. People should not live in fear.
Also, I'm preparing an interview with someone, (can't say more for now, you'll understand) I think I'll translate it, at least in english, I'm sure this will be of interest for you. Hey, if I find someone for translation there will even be a version in japanese. But don't count on that too much.
>>117 Sorry, I don't know japanese well, as I said above. Read the thread, you could be interested! Si tu parles seulement français et japonais, lire tout ça ne t'avancera pas trop, je peux résumer tout ça si tu veux.
Hi, Seeker! I advice you to keep your posts short cuz people here have short attention span (lol). Also not too many people want to exchange emails cuz there are too many "fishermen" on an anonymous board.
Hey Seeker, what exactly do you want to know? About the science&technology of how to patch a hole in the nuclear reactor?Whether there are mutants running around in the Fukushima Zone? Or how the Japanese figure out how much caesium there are in the hamburgers we're having for lunch? Fukushima has become so much part of our lives, at least in Tokyo, and there're so much. So what d'ya wanna know?
I checked KIBOU JAPAN org web site written that Italy - Japan org. Do you mean that? I could not find named kibo on internet... Anyway that's good activity.
>>123 Oh great! Infos in english! I'll take that, it's just the kind of things I need!
>>122 Well, an inside view of the situation is what I'm searching. The central point for me is "What's happening". Knowing how to fix the problem wouldn't be of much use to me, I'm sure there is a lot of people who know that and just can't act because of government. If there are mutants running around, yes, that would be of much interest to me. About hamburgers, good too, as the daily life of the people of Japan within Fukushima Crisis are an important part of my research.
>>124 The site is partly in french so it won't be easy for you to understand it. It's been already recognized by our governmenent as an official non-profit organization. They applied for it, and it should be soon officaly "of public interest." (That would be of great help for Kibo.) I'll make an explanation of this website. Here's the link to it : http://kibo-promesse.org
I think the EX-SKF guy is a Japanese who lives in the USA, but his blog is the most comprehensive summary of the nuke news from Japanese perspective in English language.
I think the Fukushima Diary guy is somewhat overly paranoid about the whole situation, but he gives good idea of the fears some people have for radiation.
>>126 Yup, I already follow those ones. Most of the times I stick to the facts, I verify them, the opinion of the writer is not the principal part for me. Except when I specifically search for people's thought about the situation, like here. Victims' stories about Fukushima are strong material, and by victims I can include most of Japan's citizens now. Sad.
>>126 >>127 By "opinion of the writer", I was refering to what you said about Fukushima Diary. I meant the possibility of paranoia from some people, or the orientation of others. I personnally don't know if the Diary's author is excessive or such, and it is not to me to judge that. He posts accurate informations or reports he finds, and that's what counts. If I use the facts, it's information gathering. If I copy the personnal opinions, it becomes plagiarism.
>>125 Thank you. I checked it. Google Chrome's translation function helped me to understand somewhat the contents. Handmaid goods shop for donation? That's nice and the illustrations are beautiful. The linked web site is also full of love to Japan, I feel.
Actually, sometimes I feel like want to go out of Japan if possible. Tired of politician, bureaucracy, tepco, big companies..... But I love Japanese culture, foods, kindness of people and so on. As long as many foreigners take care of Japan, I'll try to make Japan better. I don't want our country being like "nausicaa of the valley of the wind".
Ministry of Environment decided the disposure of Fukushima wreck and debris. And some cities have already incinerated them. A person called to the person in charge of illegal dumping-control measures of Ministry of Environment Though Ministry of Environment knows that the Nuclear Safety Commission doesn’t permit to move the radioactive debris to outside the prefecture, MOE have decided that incinerate of radioactive wreck and debris outside of a radius of 40 kilometers of Fukushima Power Plant. http://www.env.go.jp/jishin/saigaihaikibutsu.pdf ・They didn’t contact to Korea and Russia, and they doesn’t need to. ・MOE decided that to move the Aizu debris outside of Fukushima without measure Plutonium. ・Moe doesn’t know that Yanai company(竃内総研) recruit men who carry Fukushima Power Plant debris to another. Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency may know about the details. ・If MOE doesn’t know about that problem, there must be a possibility of that someone move the radioactive debris from Iwaki City to another. MOE said that Fukushima city has the responsibility about that though MOE control them. Who has the responsibility about that is under-consideration. ・Though Japanese people are opposed to diffusion of radioactive material, like Kawasaki and Aichi people, MOE knows Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has different opinion about disposure of radioactive debris outside of a radius of 40 kilometer, MOE never confirm NISA. And MOE answered that they don't have the individual-responsibility about that problem as a national public servant. ・To begin with, to move the radioactive material is illegal. MOE said that they are going to examine the low in the future. ・Kawasaki City promised Kawasaki people on HP, he never carry radioactive debris to the city in spite of a lower level radioactive. Then, the tremendous radioactive debris is not carried from Aizu to Kawasaki? MOE said Kawasaki City has responsibility about that.
>>129 I told your feedback to Kibo's founder. She said she has the same references, that when she was young she hoped to be someone like Nausicaa. And she says that with donations and sellings, there's also a blog with news about the current situations. If I make articles, they'll be here.
This may be interesting. Press conference by journalist Tomohiko Suzuki who worked as a unskilled worker at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. This is held at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Japan, so you’ll have English interpreter. Starting 12:30 (Japan time). Suzuki wrote a book called “Nuke Plant and Yakuza,” describing the nuke workers who are often social outcasts. He also talks about the identity of “Fukushima 50” who are considered to be heroes. He has sympathy for these people who do the work that normal people do not want to do, and our society must rely on these people.
>>132 Oops! You may need an account to see nicovideo, and I'm not sure you can do that from France. But I have a feeling someone's going to put this up on YouTube.
>>132>>133 Well, I happen to have a nicovideo account I made long ago. But not knowing the japanese, it was soo hard to do all the steps! Anyway, thanks, I'll maybe put it on youtube myself in fact. Thanks a lot! It looks like some timer prevents me from looking the video. I'll keep the link and try later.
>>132>>133 Oh, it's a live event opening in 2 hours? Damn, I won't be able to be there. Therefore can't get it on youtube. If anyone here could record that and get it as you said on youtube, please post the link, it would be really great.
>>137 says "Attention! Tomorrow, Japanese government will make a historical reckless attempt. Someone translate the article for Seeker."
I will try.
↓ TEPCO and the government will announce in Dec 16th that the roadmap for accident-focusing has achived, because it advances in cooling of reactor of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that is in accident, and it is in the steady state that is called "cold shutdown state" .
Noda Prime Minister will hold a press conference and announce that it has achieved. Hereafter, he will present a work schedule of the decommissioning process that takes more than 30 years. The work begins from the new year.
Roadmap for convergence was shown in April, about a month after the accident, in order to show the way to residents who were forced to evacuate in an accident. Initially it were trying to achieve during the period since mid-October this year to mid-January next year.
It had been aiming to achieve the state that reactor becomes stable, that is called "cold shutdown state". TEPCO has continued to work to cool nuclear reactor and to reduce newly scattering of radioactive material outside the premises of the power plant. ↑
Why reckless? You know technical term "cold shutdown"(reion teishi) is different from the trick term "cold shutdown state"(reion teishi joutai).
Nuclear fuel must have been stored in a vessel and radioactive material must not be released
TEPCO always invent this kind of trick word to make smaller the situation.
In fact, nothing has changed, I guess. They will have to continue to work to cool the reactor.
To Aizen I agree you said. Not a few people feel sorrow for the situation, even if they are or not the 2ch (this board) dweller. In People who are pretending to be normal, someone may have doubts. People who are not interested, may not be as the same as is now in the future. Does this queer situation keep on going? Or does an unignorable thing may happen? And people will be able to be as normal as now? Anyway, I would like to do something as possible to make things better. I am glad that foreigner takes care of Japan. I wish the conscience and goodwill of everyone become one.
>>145 It looks like indeed good system, but some questions. To what these signatures results are send? Who wrote or decided these 4 requests?
I guess these requests match world stadards...is that right? and I hope them. In fact, to realize them will cost so much and that is why now government forces people live in dangerous area, permits to distribute foods and everything in radiation higher level. I think we need realistic cost plan to enforce requests.
To the OP: You’ll probably get more response if you ask specific questions. You see, you walked in here and asked, “Tell me about Fukushima,” but that’s a very wide topic. What aspect of Fukushima are you interested? This is interesting for me too because it indicates how people overseas perceive this situation.
This board itself has variety of stuff, from how to use a Geiger counter to hexing TEPCO. Majority of the threads are just unconstructive complaints about the political situation, but we all need a place to vent frustration for this out-of-control situation. We know the Government isn’t going to help us, and we have to help ourselves.
For the Japanese, we have to LIVE WITH this Fukushima mess for generations to come (if there is a next generation), and how we deal with it depends on where we live, how old we are, whether one’s a man or woman, whether one’s got small children, how much income/property/social status one looses by immigrating, etc. So, tell us what you want to know.
>>148 I didn't want to ask precise questions, because if I did, I could miss important points. What I'm having so far is good, and unless I'm on something (like now, preparing an article and interview). Overseas, it looks like the same. Most people don't care or don't want to, some people know what's happening but can't "feel" this foreign country and don't really think it's of their concerns. And there are us, those who search. Also, the italians are quite interested by the Fukushima Crisis, if some of you speak italian, you could check it. There are some bigger journalists
on that too, but they take what makes money, and this story is not "fashionable" anymore. Don't take this as my point of view, that's a sad but true statement that the last sexual trip of some politic guy is more important than actual people having contaminated food supported by the government. I don't really like this kind of media, they just go on the easyest topic so that people still watch their shows.
I'm good with what people provided until now. I have others sources, but here one of my goals is to say "Hey, we're still here and not letting you down"
Talking with the textboard dwellers and having some links, speaking about organisations, how the situation is seen overseas (see above) that is great for now. I'll also get some news and updates on the organisation status, and mine. It's been harder to gather infos recently, the crisis is each day more obvious and hidden to people. But I won't stop there. Changing the world is incredibly hard, but trying will always take you further than if you didn't. So I try.
>>147 No, that's a random petition. Some guy made it, and some guys signed it. I am pretty sure it won't be the thing that'll change everything, but it's also to show stuff like this circulate. A lot on facebook for instance. That makes people know it is happening.
Also, the cost is not the problem for now. It's realistic to say it'll cost more and more to everyone, and the government, while they're doing nothing. So if they'd want to avoid cost, they should have done it earlier. So a realistic cost plan would be good, but not with the hands tied as they are now.
He declares that the Fukushima reactors have reached “a condition equivalent of cold shutdown,” whatever that means. (That part is not included in this ustream footage.) Since this was a week after the exposé by the journalist about the plight of the workers at the Fukushima Plant, he takes time to praise the hard work of the workers. He also tries to convince people that there won’t be noticeable cancer increase. No one in Japan believes him.
Two interesting videos, I guess most of you already saw these.
I'll stay again as my article is finished and only needs to be released.
I would like to thank all of you for the informations you've provided me, especially one person who spoke about what was going to be my subject. You'll see that soon.
But, it's not over yet, and I'm not done yet.
Also, new mail adress where you can send me stuff! Still safe mail, I will still answer to anything. Click on my name to get the mail but...you already know that.
Do you know about http://www.gepr.org/en/ ? Bill Gates partners with Nobuo Ikeda who claims that Japanese should not care about radiation even in Fukushima prefecture. Bill wants to promote nuclear energy, I think. Very creepy partnership.
"This massage is a very good news for the Japanese people."
They're not even ablo to make sentences properly? And they say everything is gonna be alright because children didn't drink milk on the first months? That is a shame. I'll keep the site as a reference.
Things don't go well, TEPCO sent part of the Fukushima radioactive waste to be destroyed in Tokyo, so now there are some people in the capital reporting high level of radiactivity close to their home, because the gravel resulting from this destruction is stocked in warehouses. Not lead, not water, just in simple sand boxes in warehouses...
Also, could you say how is seen professor Y. Hayakawa now he's opposed to government and TEPCO?
Does anyone have an idea of what is that? From the fukushima webcam. White flame with smoke, and no more of the white line that was there recently. Weird... http://tinyurl.com/flamesmok1
>>157 About Dr. Yukio Hayakawa of Gunma University. Although his specialty is volcanology, he applied his model of how the volcanic gas spreads to how the radioactive plume from Fukushima spread across Northeast Japan. While his map is highly regarded by many people, Dr. Hayakawa managed to make a lot of enemies because of his harsh way of speaking. He accused the Fukushima farmers of being criminals because they were shipping out contaminated agricultural produce to the market. To be very honest, many of us, while being sympathetic to the farmers, wish that they stop growing food on the contaminated land, but we also know that the farmers will loose income if they stop. This is a very, very sensitive topic. Dr. Hayakawa said it outright, and some criticize him of being insensitive to the suffering farmers. Personally, I agree with Dr. Hayakawa, because I don’t think contaminated food should be marketed. So, it’s not Hayakawa vs. TEPCO/Gov, but it’s Hayakawa vs. desperate Fukushima farmers.
>>158 That flash of light is most likely floodlights so workers can do stuff at night. There is always smoke on the site, so that’s nothing new. The biggest concern right now on this board is whether Unit 4’s spent fuel pool will collapse. There was news that on New Years day, the water of Unit 4 SFP boiled away and the fuel rods may have been exposed. There’s been an increase in caesium levels over the holidays (that’s the data on >>154), and we suspect something happening at Unit 4.
Great thanks! So I got it right while doing an article on Hayakawa wich is out now, so thanks to the person who spoke about him earlier. And it looks like he admits being harsh, that it was only to wake people up. That's a surprising method but looks like it works. Here is the link http://kibo-promesse.org/2012/01/yukio-hayakawa It's in French, so some of you won't understand, I think I'll make a translated version.
About the light and the caesium levels, I'll keep that info, that's interesting. The fuel pool collapsing, it's absolutely not good, no one needs the situation to be worse now.
I read your article on Hayakawa. I did a Google translation from French to English and it comes out fairly well. The article was interesting and informative. Good work. The Kibo site is interesting also.
By the way, I’ve known Dr. Hayakawa’s blogs way before the 3.11 Earthquake. I was interested in his information about volcanic gas (which is highly lethal hydrogen sulfide) from a volcano in a famous resort area, because my parents own a summer cottage there. I used Hayakawa’s information to avoid areas where the gas could accumulate when I went hiking in the mountains. The local government was not pleased with his blog, because this kind of information may scare the tourists away, but Dr. Hayakawa felt it was his mission to make this information available to the public. He feels that way about the radiation from Fukushima. He is firm in his conviction, and I have great respect for him.
>>162 Thanks a lot for reading that! He deserves such respect. I did not know he was already not the government's best friend even before that, but it's interesting. That means he's a person that acts for truth, and this is the kind of person that is needed in these dark times.
Conspiracy theories, from what I understand? I am not that interested in this. I know people who think that, people who don't, but because it can't be proved except by coincidences, and would make too much of a position, you understand? I accept your point of view, but don't agree with it, because that is not the point here to find supposed responsible persons. In this story, it is sure the government hides things. It is sure the danger is real, and that people need help. And that's what I'll use. If I begin with earthquake weapons, HAARP and stuff like this, I'll lose credibility. I am aware of everything around that, it's just not my goal.
Greetings! I come to you as I'm preparing another article, and I'd like you to tell what you think about the situation. Japanese government has a project to build a remote Japan in India. We know the bound between these two countries is strong, it is not a great surprise to see one helping another.
However, about the nature of that help, this is a madness. You remember when another Tokyo in Osaka was in project? That is even bigger : a city of 50 000 people in India. No need to say the richest of Japanese people will be able to get there. What does this means? Do they think Japan is in such a bad situation they need to flee?
In any case, I'd like you to say what you think about this situation, with liks to informations if you have them. I heard a person talking about that, and made my research. Looks like known sites talked about that before.
There is a thread on this board too and people think it's an arc to save the elite. The Mainichi article suggests its a sort of urban planning development project. It's not clear whether the residents will be Japanese only or also rich Indians. So I don't know.
What I can tell you is that a lot of American elite business people are back in Tokyo, and the international schools where their kids attend are in operation, so most likely the imminent danger is gone.
French media are telling a story about a report telling much interesting informations on the nuclear situation in Japan. We do not forget. http://tinyurl.com/6o72az9 : link (in french) to the article, with a japanese video. I have been quite absent recently, with all the fuss on the Internet about Anonymous, and the cyber-war waging. I wonder if it's also the case in Japan.
I had a important thing to ask, thought. Do any of you have any recent news about minami soma?
A japanese friend of mine, living in France and actively helping Japan about stopping nuclear use and helping Fukushima refugees, asked me that and I know this is the best place to ask.
>>172 Thanx for the link. The Netoyen site is quite interesting. Also it’s good to know Yasumi Iwakami’s videos are seen around the world. Iwakami is a great journalist. I totally support him.
Not too much cyber-war and hacktivism in Japan. I think the Japanese hackers are careful not to do things that’ll give the authorities the reason to shutdown 2channel.
About Minami Soma. Katsunobu Sakurai, the Mayor of Minami Soma who’s become a celebrity because he made an SOS appeal on YouTube last year, repeatedly states that his city needs money to rebuild the area devastated by Tsunami so the evacuees can return. Young people want to emigrate out of the area because it is highly contaminated by radiation, but older people want to stay and want other people (particularly young family with children) to stay. The net community, being dominated by younger generation, condemns Mayor Sakurai for being evil money-lover who doesn’t care about people’s life, but there is a deeper Japanese social problem of extreme generation gap where young and old are totally divided in values and perception of the world. I still think young people, at least children and young women, should be given choice to move out. It’s very frustrating being unable to do anything.
Thank you for the informations. I can return with news, that's great. Where are you from, in Japan? Also, does anyone have links to websites (even in japanese) with updated infos on minami soma?
And I really appreciate that people here don't let me down. I may not be in Japan, but we are together on this. (Also, why is there a text just after my name in my precedent post?)
>>178 【緊急地震:宮城県沖M3.5最大震度1】 tells you [Earthquake: Epicenter, Magnitude, Max intensity] It appears when you post in a couple of minutues after the quake occurs.
Blog of Koichi Ohyama, a young councilman of Minamisoma City. He represents the feelings of younger generation residents who are concerned about radiation. He also makes appeal on YouTube; search “SOS again from Minamisoma”. http://mak55.exblog.jp/
A photo blog by "Tetsu" who visited Minamisoma in August 2011. Lots of photo. It's half a year ago, but gives you the idea of the devastation by tsunami. You see, people associate Minamisoma with the nuke accident but it was quite badly damaged by tsunami, and that’s the reason Mayor Sakurai asks for money to rebuild. http://tetunakaya.o.oo7.jp/indexnatsu20110804.html
One of the threads on this board "I take refuge in my gave, 93 year old commits suicide in Minamisoma." Sociologically, this thread is interesting because the comments reveal the deep generation gap in the Japanese society. http://uni.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/lifeline/1310590444/
That's great, thank you! The photo blog is interesting, if I could I'd totally this kind of photo reports of situations. I guess you meant "Take refuge in my grave". That's a sad and poetic way to say it.
You live in Tokyo? Okay, nice. So I guess you've heard about the radioactive wastes being displaced in your city. It seems there's now a high sievert rate in some areas around Tokyo. Do you know anything about this?
This is an article about criticism of a commercial broadcasted in East Japan. (Some sentences are written in English.) Foreiners put negative comments on the commercial and Japanese Government.
Yes, there’s radioactive waste and areas of high sieverts in Tokyo, but I worry more about food. Radioactive waste is another sensitive problem. There’s never simple answer to anything. The Tohoku area must get rid of their rubble left by tsunami damage before they can start rebuilding, and that’s why they want to send the rubble including radioactive waste to other parts of Japan. The alternative is to put all the rubble in the Fukushima evacuation zone, but there is strong opposition from the people of Fukushima who will lose their land forever. Giving up land is not just about getting paid compensation money by TEPCO, but it’s about losing home, farmland, livelihood, community, tradition, and history. Not an easy problem to solve. It pains me to see fellow Japanese experience this.
You mentioned that you can watch Niconico Douga. There’s a series called “Fukushima Report (福島報告)” by medical journalist Hiroko Aihara on videonews.com site. The recent one talks about Minamisoma: the lawsuit against TEPCO and the decision by the village elders to return to high-contamination area. The content is solid dry journalism without any sensationalism (i.e. rather boring), but it shows the reality of how people must slowly rebuild their lives in this catastrophe. http://ch.nicovideo.jp/channel/ch444 (note: there’s free and charged contents, but Fukushima Report is free)
I guess you have checked information and real situation about the topic.
By the way, I have read & heard that "There is a tendency that Japanese want to know how foreigners see Japanese".
Now I dare to want to know how do you see Japanese(people, organisations, etc). (^-^;) Do not hesitate to say open, please, if you do not feel bad. your friends opinion, news opinion, social opinion, ..... anything is welcome.
I wonder if Seeker were so much bored of this crazy situation, the depth of the darkness of atomic industries, blindness and senseless of common people of Japan, or helplessness of the situation...
Et nous, nous avons connu l'amour que Dieu a pour nous, et nous y avons cru. Dieu est amour; et celui qui demeure dans l'amour demeure en Dieu, et Dieu demeure en lui.