massacre by Japanese government

It has become my daily habit to check radiation level of where I am.
In my town, Sapporo, now its around 0.030 μSv/h.
It was around 0.02 before March and it rises as it rains,
It is also my daily procedure to check German weather forecast because it shows the simulation of radiation flows in 2-3days, which Japanese weather forecast never tells us.

The Japanese government never released simulation of radiation flows in time. They released simulation data only after the cloud of radiation passed over us. (What's the use of weather forecast of the past days?)

Sv.
After 2 months from the day of tsunami earthquake and nuclear disaster, now we've got very familiar with this unit, Sv, Sievert. It is the unit of radiation absorption.

1mSv/year
Under Japanese laws, people are not supposed to exposed to radiation over 1mSv/Year.
Because radiation is harmful to the living things.

20mSv/year
The ministry of education and science announced schools were safe enough for children if expected amount of radiation was less than 20 mSv/year (=3.8μSv/hour).

Even a nuclear power plant worker is not normally exposed to this amount of radiation.

ICRP, International Commission on Radiological Protection, says 1 in 20,000 people will die with cancer with 1mSv.

Many scientists criticize this estimate is too optimistic and state that radiation is 8 times more risky; 1 in 2500 people will die with cancer with 1 mSv/year.
For the risk will increase linearly, 1 in 125 will die with 20 mSv/year.
And the children are 5 times more sensitive to radiation, 20 mSv/year means 1 in 25 will die with cancer. 

European Committee on Radiation Risk, ECRR, has estimated 400,000 people will become cancer if they are not evacuated.

Population of Fukushima prefecture is 2 millions, and whole area of Fukushima is surely exceed the contamination level of 1 mSv/year, plus internal exposure to radiation due to what you eat, drink and inhale.

Because the government think of no place for evacuation, because they mind the amount of compensation, now they are campaigning "Fukushima is safe".

Doctors hired by authorities are saying "if it is under 100mSv, it's safe."
Big media like NHK is covering only such doctors talks and ignores the voices of parents and scientists who worry.

TV coverage is mainly on possible shortage of electricity in summer, issue of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant (in Shizuoka pref.) which was stopped by government, good efforts by Tsunami victims to recover, and speculation  over who is responsible for failure of cooling of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant as if the nuclear disaster is over. Since more than a month ago, we haven't seen the up-to-date view of the Fukushima Nuclear power plants.

Why Hamaoka?
It should be Nuclear power pants in Fukushima to be shut down first.
There are 10 of them in Fukushima.
It is because if accident happens at Hamaoka, it will cause catastrophic damage to Tokyo.

They are not sopping the construction of new ones like Oma.

They are not shutting down the old ones in Wakasa bay.

They still believe the Nuclear things makes good money and perhaps useful for national defense..

Within a week from the earth quake, the government adopted temporary standards of radioactive contamination for food materials. The new standard is 100 times higher than the previous standards.

It was a very quick action of the government. 

It shows they knew exactly what would happen, though they were so reluctant to evacuate people. 

It was only a few weeks ago that they banned entering within 20km area. And evacuation from around 30km area is still not done. Housing, living, jobs, cattle....nothing settled.

The Japanese government are not protecting people and children.
They are so keen to protect Tokyo Electric Power Company and their benefit.

TEPCO does not seem to be collapsing. 

Huge budget for compensation will come from the government, which is tax money from people.

They are talking about raising electricity charges, they are charging us.

The banks supporting TEPCO are not giving up credita claims.

Radiation is not painful, it does not smell and it's invisible.

It is quite exhausting to try to stay sane in such crazy situations.
Everyday, the government and the media like NHK deliver the message, "Japan is safe, Fukushima is safe except areas 30km from the site", "The Tsunami was horrible, but now its time for reconstruction".

Because the truth is too bitter and hopeless, many people are trying to believe the government and turning their faces away from the truth.

Of course, there are many parents and citizens who are worrying and angry, and take actions to protect children. But as I was afraid of, it is now becoming unpatriotic thing to oppose the authorities and government and it divide families and communities. A mother wants to evacuate her child far enough, but the child's grandfather thinks the mother is crazy for he believes what the doctors and the authorities say on TV. Many school teachers obey what ministry of education say and treat or ignore the parents who worry about their children as troublesome persons.

The Japanese government is a big lier.
Fukushima and neighboring places are all contaminated including Tokyo.
The contamination level of radiation is higher in several parts of Tokyo than Basra, Southern Iraq, that heavily bombed with DU ammunitions..They also banned public institutions like schools to release any house radiation measurement data. So, the official data only comes from the Ministry of education.

Official radiation measurement is considered lower than actual level, for all measured at very high building, like 10 m from ground level.
The radiation level at 10m might be important for the birds, but most of us, humans are living on the ground. And after 2 months, most of the radiation comes from the fall-outs on the ground. And again, children are most vulnerable.

Soon the rainy season comes.
While the accident is unsettled, more contaminants will fall with rain.
Then typhoon season will come.
We'll never know what damages and contamination might be caused to where...
Due to the very lose standards, contaminated food will be circulated all over Japan.
Even this lose standards, agricultural products like spinach, tea, forage grass already exceeded the level in Fukushima, Iwate, Staitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Chiba, Kanagawa(more than 200 km away from the site).

We cannot avoid the radiation.
And the most vulnerable are people in Fukushima and surrounding area, especially the children.

live view measurement of radiation inside a house in Fukushima City (60－70km away from the Fukushima daiichi)


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I will write about people's protest & action, our film-making project and screening in Fukushima tomorrow.