見て驚いた。こんなショッキングなYoutubeが、英訳されて全世界を駆け巡っているというのに、日本のメディアは全くこのニュースを伝えない。真偽の程はわからないが、月曜日にこの動画がアップされてから、わずか２日の間に、世界中で１０万件以上もヒットしているという。
資エネ庁も、税金を投入して、毒にも薬にもならない国民のブログやツイッターばかり監視していないで、海外で、日本の官僚が、行政が、どのように紹介されているのかをしっかり把握して、早急にこのYoutubeに映しだされた住民と役人のやりとりについて、国民にしっかり報道し、政府として反省をするなり、責任をとるなり、しかるべき対応をする必要があるのではないか。
この世知辛い世の中、３億円宝くじを引き当てるような強運の持ち主でない限り、悪いことをせず、普通にしていて美味しい思いができるような甘いことなど何一つない。
そこに住んでいるというだけで、子どもの医療費が無料になったり、電気料金が安くなったり、素晴らしい体育館やホールや温泉施設が利用できたり、ほんの僅かな時間ちょっと単純作業をしただけで高い給料がもらえるなどのうまい話があるとすれば、それはかなりのリスクに対する代償に違いないと考えてしかるべきである。
日本国民は都会であろうが、地方都市であろうが識字率は高く、その程度の単純な世の中の仕組みさえ理解できないような烏合の衆ではないはずである。
それゆえ、電力会社から何年、何十年にもわたって大なり小なり恩恵を被っていた人たちは、地元住民であれ、株主であれ、社員であれ、気の毒ではあるけれども、そこで未曽有の事故が起きたからといって、やれ賠償だのなんだのと多くを主張する権利は持たないと思う。
賠償金はこれまで国民の税金から、十分に予め支払われてきたし、彼らはそれを享受してきたのだから。
しかしこのYoutubeの参加者たちは、福島市の住民たちのようである。何％の参加者が電力会社と全く無縁なのかはわからない。もちろん原発を抱えた地元自治体が原発マネーで潤っていたことは否定できない事実であり、それが県の産業の振興やインフラ整備などに少なからず寄与し、住民の多くが少なからずその恩恵に浴していたことは打ち消し難い。
しかし、それがどんな人間であれ、生きる権利は等しくある。原発災害の被害を最小限に抑え込むために、風評被害の名のもと、危険を危険と認め、早い段階で遠くに集団疎開させることも、第一次産業従事者の生産活動を停止させることもせず、５ヶ月になろうとしている。
何をおいても、危険なものを危険とできるだけ早い段階で伝えること、今後起こりうるリスクについてはっきりと説明することだけは最低限やるべきだったのではないか。
正しい情報はなかなか伝えられず、放射性物質を帯びた物質はほとんどまともな形で除染されなかったために、飛散地域の住民の内部被曝量は増え続け、食糧（農作物、水産物、畜産物）、肥料、土壌、水の汚染が凄まじい勢いで今日本中に広がりつつあるーー。
汚染物質をどこにどういう形で処理するのか、この問題に関して政府は５ヶ月たった今も、全く無策のままである。未だ汚染拡大を食い止める努力すら十分になされず、政府は声をあげた被害者（生産者）に賠償金を支払うと（国民の税金で補填すると）繰り返すばかりーー
これが先進国の対応と言えるのだろうか。
「政府は国民の大量虐殺を試みている」などと言ったそしりを受けても、致し方ない。
先進国の官僚・ジャーナリストとしての矜持が多少なりともあるのならば、「このようなお粗末な行政の対応を世界中の人々に見られて、恥ずかしい」、「素人がYoutube上にアップしているようなニュースさえ自分たちで報道する力を持たずに情けない」「明けても暮れても、馬鹿笑いで済ませるような低級なお笑いバラエティ、クイズ、料理、スポーツ番組ばかり垂れ流して、無駄な電力を使わず、しっかりと襟を正して、フクシマの問題から目をそらさず報道しなければ」という気持ちを持ってもらいたいものである。
Department of Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkely
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5124
Japanese goverment killing its own people in Fukushima (the ultimate trial).
That´s the ulitmate trial of japanes genocide...
This must be a must view in the mass media around the world...
Please if somebody has contact with mass media this video must be sowed to the public opinion around the world.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/28/japan-told-of-more-radiation-exposure/?page=all#pagebreak
Many Japanese also are growing increasingly wary of the government’s handling of the crisis and concerned about the spread of radioactive particles.
A video titled “Japanese government killing its own people in Fukushima” has attracted more than 100,000 hits since it was posted on YouTube on Monday.
The video, with English subtitles, shows Fukushima city residents berating a man identified as “Akira Satoh, director of the local Nuclear Emergency Response headquarters” during a seminar, and then following him to an elevator demanding the government test the urine of children in Fukushima.
Japan told of more radiation exposure
1,600 workers, cattle feed cited
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano inspects the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear-power plant in northeastern Japan earlier this week. Mr. Amano, on a weeklong trip to Japan, said that the nation’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant is steadily making progress to recover from the March disaster triggered by an earthquake. (Associated Press)FOLLOW US ON
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TOKYO — Japanese authorities this week released information that paints a more worrisome picture of the ongoing nuclear crisis than the central government has previously admitted.
More than 1,600 workers may have been exposed to dangerous limits of radiation in the first weeks after the March 11 tsunami swamped the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station about 150 miles northeast of Tokyo, according to a government report completed in April.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture Ministry announced that at least 2,900 cattle ate rice straw contaminated with radioactive isotopes above legal limits, leaving thousands of consumers across Japan wondering whether they have ingested cancer-causing particles.
In addition, authorities posted online maps showing the fallout of radioactive cesium and iodine from a “nuclear cloud” that floated over the greater Tokyo area, home to more than 40 million people, on March 15.
The newly released information presents a more troubling scenario than originally described in March and April by government officials, who tended to downplay or withhold bad news to calm a public enduring food shortages and hundreds of aftershocks.
Many longtime foreign residents are discussing among friends and on chat sites whether it is safe to remain in Japan.
“It’s time for sensible foreigners living in Japan to consider moving elsewhere,” said a commentator identified as “Chamade” on the chat site of Japan Today in Tokyo.
“This is only going to get worse, and we can bet there will be numerous other produce - fruit and vegetables - as well as seafoods and meats, that will be dangerous to consume. And announced after the fact.”
Many Japanese also are growing increasingly wary of the government’s handling of the crisis and concerned about the spread of radioactive particles.
A video titled “Japanese government killing its own people in Fukushima” has attracted more than 100,000 hits since it was posted on YouTube on Monday.
The video, with English subtitles, shows Fukushima city residents berating a man identified as “Akira Satoh, director of the local Nuclear Emergency Response headquarters” during a seminar, and then following him to an elevator demanding the government test the urine of children in Fukushima.
The report on workers’ health hazards emerged this week after a nonprofit group, the Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center, used a freedom of information request to obtain a Tokyo Electric Power Co.(Tepco) document dated April 25, according to Kyodo News.
In the document, Tepco privately estimated that it expected 1,600 workers at the damaged nuclear plant to suffer exposure to radiation surpassing the level deemed the safe limit for workers in a year.
The report then was sent by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) officials to the Health, Welfare and Labor Ministry, but the information was not made public. At that time, Tepco and government officials repeatedly told the public that workers were operating within safe limits.
Earlier this week, NISA posted 600 online maps showing how radiation spread in the first week after explosions began at reactors March 12. The data are based on a system known as SPEEDI that measured the amount of radiation in the air every hour from 9 a.m. March 12 to midnight March 17.
Two weeks ago, state broadcaster NHK showed a simulation of a “nuclear cloud” on March 15 blowing south from Fukushima and dropping cesium on the greater Tokyo area and even beyond the Mount Fuji volcano in Shizuoka province.
Japan’s central government at that time denied the existence of such a cloud, and Tokyo’s governor asked people to go back to work as normal, despite a mass exodus of foreigners that week after warnings from the U.S., French, German and other governments.
Also this week, the Agriculture Ministry said that at least 116 farms in 16 provinces, from Shimane province in western Japan to the main cattle-ranching province of Hokkaido in the far north, used contaminated rice straw as feed. At least 2,900 cattle ate the straw before being shipped aroundJapan, the ministry said.
“Beef containing cesium has already entered into the market,” Hideo Harada, director for livestock policy planning at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told reporters in Tokyo. “We have to prevent it from reaching consumers by checking meat and recalling tainted products from the market.”
The Health Ministry banned the distribution of beef from Fukushima province July 19 and from Miyagi province July 26. The ministry also banned shiitake mushrooms from Fukushima on July 23, more than four months after people had been eating them after the release of radiation.
High levels of cesium also have been found in samples of milk, tea and seafood, as well as spinach, bamboo shoots and many other vegetables.
Agriculture Minister Michihiko Kano admitted this month that officials didn’t realize that farmers might unwittingly send contaminated straw to ranchers.
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, quoted an unnamed Agriculture Ministryofficial as saying: “This is nothing less than a colossal blunder by our ministry. It was beyond our expectations that straw would become a source of radioactive contamination.”
