Iwaki Mayor: Fukushima refugees would rather gamble than work — “For the refugees, medical costs are completely free… The number of patients currently is overwhelming”

Published: April 11th, 2012 at 11:16 pm ET
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Via Kahoku Online Network (Google Translation): Mayor Iwaki remark “Pachinko primary refugees, does not work”

Title: Fukushima Refugees Rather Gamble than Work, Claims Iwaki City Mayor
Source: RocketNews24
Date: April 12, 2012

Fukushima Refugees Rather Gamble than Work, Claims Iwaki City Mayor

The city of Iwaki lies 30km south of the Fukushima Daiichi just outside of the evacuation zone created after the nuclear disaster struck. As such it has become home to approximately 25,000 displaced people from Futaba District, where the Daiichi reactor is located.

On 9 April, Iwaki Mayor Takao Watanabe had this to say about the evacuees: “With the compensation money they received from TEPCO, most people are choosing not to work. The pachinko parlors, however, are packed every day.” [...]

“For the refugees, medical costs are completely free which is creating a huge burden on our city’s hospitals and clinics. The number of patients currently is overwhelming and I’m worried how well we will be coping a year from now.” [...]

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Published: April 11th, 2012 at 11:16 pm ET
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11 comments to Iwaki Mayor: Fukushima refugees would rather gamble than work — “For the refugees, medical costs are completely free… The number of patients currently is overwhelming”

  • Sickputer

    Yeah and your own townfolks will be sick soon enough if not already. You better start planning for contingencies. Like what are you going to do if Daiichi gets really bad!


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  • jec

    "The number of patients currently is overwhelming and I’m worried how well we will be coping a year from now.” [...]"

    And what are they sick from? Stress diagnosis? How many are children with heart issues/attacks, birth defects, bleeding, skin rashes, bowel issues/nausea, cough, "flu", high white blood cells/lymphoma/leukemia, thyroid issues/growths, strokes, enlarged lymph nodes, weakness, bruising, immune issues and more?
    How many are pregnant women with fetus malformations? With miscarriage?

    How many adults are having heart attacks, strokes, bruising, brain/thyroid growths, enlarged lymph nodes, "flu", bleeding, acute leukemia, immune issues, bowel issues/nausea..and other possible radiation caused illnesses.

    Just simply add the number of persons, the various symptoms, and let us know. Oh and for miscarriage, medical abortion–or stillbirths or birth defects -those are "people" as well-add them up as well.

    Good luck.


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  • bigfatscaryman sdyogini

    Well said…best thing to do now is villianize along with the ridicule and add on some "lack of patriotism", that'll shut them up


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  • mikael

    To the Japanes people,remeber their Names and store it in your memory because this is not over.
    If it turns out that they/him new MORE that they disclose in public, they ar criminals and as the radiation continues, they become murderes. Because then its not a "neglect" that can be "understud", but if they Knew, then they sould be locked away for the rest of their life.

    Dont forgett who they are, I know this wil be worse, and the future looks more and more grim. Despite the fact that its more videly known, stil noting of substance is actualy happening.
    And I do agree with others, we all are just in Wait and See modus. And its slowly, slowly confirming our initial vuries, that this may escalate to a fullblown ELE. The North Pasific basin is Gone, and right now we all vounder how Fu.. wil USA/Canada/Mexico/Pasific Islands a.s.o. be.

    Wait and see.
    Wel, I see this as the ultimate treason of Humanity and preaty mutch all the rest of living entetys in our planet.
    The DNA damage is already beyound repair,and stil we drown and read downplaying and word games.

    I have early on, warned about the seamingly paradocs, between the "aperant normality" and the fact that everything is radioactive, you cant see it, taste it, or hear it.
    Its the ultimate killing machine.

    Whats realy sceary is the silence about real news, remeber the IR images, overlapping the reac.3. Thats what I am talking about.
    Its glowing down there and its alive.

    Wake up, Japan

    peace


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  • stopnp stopnp

    Cause and effect.

    Ruin livelyhoods with a radioactive catastrophe. Lie to everyone. Displace them all.
    Hold out on their copensation. Tell them to send their children back to radioactive schools and eat radioactive food. Children are reprimanded and made fun of if they don't eat the radioactive food.

    Work? F@#$ that! I bet their getting smashed and trying to not think about how effed they are. Just an opinion ot course.


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  • glowfus

    30km= bad, dangerous, unsafe will robinson,,,30km plus one milimeter= perfectly safe, serene, peaceful,,full of flower joy,,,,


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad

    Maybe they could put all of these nuclear radiation refugees to work measuring radiation in all of the contaminated food being raised or caught right now…

    Radiation dangers in food and water; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/radiation-contamination-standards-for.html

    Radioactive Bananas? Peeling The Mystery; via A Green Road Blogm http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/radioactive-bananas-peeling-mystery.html

    Radiation Safety Standards for Food: Comparing Chernobyl vs Fukushima; via A Green Road Blog
    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/radiation-safety-standards-for-food.html


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