Published: June 20th, 2012 at 3:52 pm ET
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Fukushima suicide: ‘Unspeakable rage’
CNN
Kyung Lah
June 20, 2012
Transcript Excerpts
- “This is Tepco’s fault”
- CNN: “No one is officially keeping track of how many evacuees are killing themselves”
Updated here http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/20/world/asia/japan-fukushima-suicides/index.html
Mikio Watanabe’s Fukushima home is contaminated with radiation and filled with the nightmares of his wife’s horrific suicide.
“I can still see it,” says the 62-year old, the tears welling in his eyes.
What he sees is Hamako, his wife of 39 years, on fire and scorched.
The 58-year-old doused herself in kerosene and set herself on fire last July after slipping into an overwhelming depression.
As evacuees from last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, Mikio and Hamako lost everything: their home, their jobs, and any hope for the future.
“If there was no nuclear accident, we wouldn’t have gone through this terrible thing,” he says. “This is TEPCO’s fault.”
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Watanabe’s lawsuit seeks to elevate his wife’s suicide beyond the horror tale whispered among evacuees. “Watanabe’s case is very symbolic,” says his attorney Tsugio Hirota.
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“I feel an unspeakable rage,” says Watanabe. “If I don’t do something, my wife is just another suicide case.”
h/t Anonymous tip
Published: June 20th, 2012 at 3:52 pm ET
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there's not much in the way of official track-keeping of any kind of the Fukushima evacuees.
hopefully the silence is breaking. but any unspeeches or uncomments from unspeakable TEPCO on this particular consequence of their unactions … i'll probably wish i could unhear those.
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I just finished watching a movie about a national park below a volcano in Japan..
The subject was how this park is a place where people come to commit suicide, and everyone knows about it, so no one goes there to camp or RV.
The woods are full of bodies, bones and tape, rope, wire, etc.
The authorities regularly haul out bodies or bones found by one park ranger, who also doubles as a counselor. When he finds someone in a tent in these woods, he knows they are not camping, but preparing to die. He tries to talk them out of it.
The woods are so beautiful, but the horror of all of the suicides provides a start contrast.
The number of suicides will probably be going up, as Japan starts feeling the financial impact and cost of the 10 TRILLION FUKU cleanup.
http://atlasobscura.com/place/aokigahara-suicide-forest-skb
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German Report on Fukushima, Interview with ex PM Kan
Excellent video, German reporters in Japan, investigating Fukushima.
For anyone doubting how the Nuke Cartel operates, this is the smoking gun.
The whole lies, report fabrications, regulatory capture, are laid bare in this sub-titled report. At minutes 11 and 16 ex Prime Minister Kan details in no uncertain terms how the Nuclear Village operates through lies, extortion, personnel insertions into government and then back into TEPCO.
This is coming right from the top. This has been reviewed by a Japanese national who is also fluent in English and they agree that the translation is absolutely correct.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/german-report-on-fukushima-interview.html
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This would be an evident statistic…
CNN ..I think is using sensationalism to boost ratings…or perhaps the people are being into another CNN web of lies.
I feel great sympathy for those driven to take their lives rather than face an horrific future.
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OMG I'm at a loss for words. Sad and so angry! What can we do? How can we help these people? How can we stand by and do nothing!? I direct this towards OUR Gov. We're supposed to be a "shining light" and here NOBODY IS DOING OR SAYING ANYTHING! I'm ashamed to be an American.
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Go Whoopie!!!
I've missed you commentary …
How's it going on FB??
BTW my son landed a summer job there, …, maybe we got someone on the inside …
Thing is … he's a wicked Japanophile … so sad, … so very sad,
But we're not takin' this lyin' down … we gonna fight 'dem crazy nuke-heads out of town!!
Later, all …
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Hey nedlifromvermont!! Your son has a job in Japan NOW? Good luck to him. No we will NOT take this shit laying down anymore!
Getting a slow start back on FB but getting there. Energy is returning. Amazing what watching this shit for over a year can do to you, eh? PEACE NED!!
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So tragic. Yet sadly may well be just the beginning of a trend.
Maybe, if it wakes up a few western zombies, it could have a silver lining.
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But of course no one should be held responsible for the negligence and deception following the Fukushima disaster. Those responsible should continue living in the lap of luxury far from the contamination. Right?
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I have been reading Secret Fallout by Earnest Sternglass, MD, 1981. He documents the US exposure to fallout and nuclear plant emissions since the 1940s. He documents the roadblocks he experienced due to the government wanting to block people from understanding the hazards of radioactivity exposure. It turns out that I lived in upper state NY and was at the conception stage when it was documented that upper state NY got heavily dusted with fallout from a very large atomic bomb test in Nevada in early 1953. It redefines my entire life.
Also, he states that the research nuclear reactors are no safer than larger nuclear reactors. The Atomic Energy Commission has practiced pseudoscience to keep the public from an uproar—all to keep our defense industry happy.
So the subversive way nuclear accidents and radiation exposure are underplayed leaves us without important understanding of how one optimally survives radioactive contamination. The entire pro-nuclear community should carry the blame of those victims who are so violated they would consider suicide.
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[REMOVED. Final Warning]
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Japan is HORRIBLE with the way they hide suicides. I can give you several personal stories from my work as I live and work in Japan.
Whenever there is a train accident, a small tone and text notice flash across the TV just like when there is an earthquake. Last year I saw an alert that there had been a "train accident involving a person." This is code for "suicide by train" The next day at work a kind teacher (and father), who I am close to pulled me aside and was in tears. He said that a student had committed suicide by jumping in front of a train. He was the only teacher showing any reaction. The school went on like normal, with no counselors for the remaining students who had class like normal that day, and no one acted like anything bad happened. It was sick!
Also last year an overworked man at a local government office jumped to his death from the 8th floor. It was reported as "an accident where a man fell from the 8th floor." I know the person's neighbor. It was a suicide of person who had been working morning to evening without any breaks for weeks on end.
In both cases things were super hushed up and the only official reporting was short one-line blurbs referring to "accidents"
This country already has a horribly high suicide rate.I'm certain that there are MANY but they aren't being called "suicide" or families don't want stigmas so they don't let what happened be known. That is exactly what happened at my school and the local gov…
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Thanks for sharing wmilberry….I just heard a couple of months ago that for the first time in Japan a woman whose husband committed suicide due to extreme overworking was granted a pension. So for the first time a court acknowledged overworking as a reason for suicide. It was quite a groundbreaking decision, I think.
This is a terribly sad chapter.
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WHOOPIE I know this is O/T but it wouldn't let me reply to your angry post above.
You say that whilst you have been away you have been popping in an out so I don't know whether you have been following the story that EXSKF posted about American children going to Fukushima and other areas in Japan to clean-up. This is a horrible PR stunt under the guize of an American/Japanese exchange program. I don't do FB, so I was hoping that you too would be as disgusted as I was and help get this message out.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/1000-us-high-school-students-to-do.html
http://www.laurasian.org/kizuna/index.htm
http://www.jpf.go.jp/cgp/e/exchange/project/kizuna.html
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This is very sad news, but although it is not the case in this instance, I tend to be cautious about MSM's handling of such news, because it is sometimes published with the purpose of demonstrating that "it is not nuclear power itself that is causing this hardship, but rather the effect of stress from being forced into refugee status by people who are overstating the danger of radioactivity and spreading unnecessary panic". Last year, BBC put out a shameful video along this line with one "Dr Al-Hariri" trying to convince us that stress is more harmful than nuclear contamination.
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One always has to face the fact, that LYING (as in: "inventing a hoax story out of the blue in no time in case of any confrontation with a certain set of displeasing facts") is always very easy and anyone can learn it in an instance. It needs just a little creativity plus a heavy damaged conscience about the difference between RIGHT and WRONG. Chronic lying is even seen as a kind of "artfrom" in some social circles (at least since Machiavelli unleashed his completely immoral "insights" onto the elite's world of his time.
To fight lies with TRUTH on the other hand – although it's nearly as easy (or even easier) to learn and to continually do seen from the "technical side" – is nevertheless the hardest thing – because of the abovementioned reasons. Has anyone here any idea, how to deal best with chronic liars, the more if they endanger the future and prosperity of a whole ECOSPHERE while continuing to lie on and on at the same time? :/ I'm lost on that one for as long as i decidedly turned my back on any conscious lying for myself just as ~99+% of you here did.
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The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science; via A Green Road
IAEA, WHO, NRC And Others; A Web Of Deception? via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/iaea-who-and-others-web-of-deception.html
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The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html
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Sorry, the name was Al-Khalili, not Al-Hariri.
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"Jim Al-Khalili" is a commentator who went to JP last year to make a stupid apologia for the nuclear industry. He bears a famous name:
"Al-Khalili's full name is Shams al-din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Khalili. As can be seen from the list of references, much of the study of the work of al-Khalili has been done by David A King, who also wrote the article in [1]. Note that the articles [3], [4] and [5] are reprinted in [2]. King writes:-
Al-Khalili was an astronomer associated with the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in the latter half of the fourteenth century, who compiled an extensive corpus of tables for timekeeping by the sun and regulating the astronomically defined time of Muslim prayer … "
[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khalili.html]
It is a good idea not to confuse an ancient scientist mathematician and thinker with a cheapskate apologist for an overstuffed and out of control community with nothing in mind beyond polluting the planet for the next half million years.
M
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Is there no one here but ourselves to suffer? Who really represents our voice?
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