“It’s Shocking”: We found Japan’s response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster is much worse than after Chernobyl (VIDEO)

Published: August 9th, 2012 at 7:04 pm ET
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Title: Situation of Rural Women affected by the Great Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Filmed on: March 7, 2012
Uploaded on: May 26, 2012
Uploaded by: ERF2012
For more information, visit: http://cinemaforumfukushima.org
Sponsored by Human Rights Now & Japan Federation of Bar Associations

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Ms Kazuko ITO, Secretary General, Human Rights Now: What we saw of protection of people after the [Fukushima] nuclear plant accident, it’s shocking but we found Japan is much worse than Chernobyl accident response of the government of the former Soviet Union and Russia.

See also from today: *Asahi* Japan Physicist: Several millions will need to be evacuated from around Fukushima plant if gov't used same scale as after Chernobyl -- Japan’s handling of disaster "far worse" than Soviet Union

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36 comments to “It’s Shocking”: We found Japan’s response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster is much worse than after Chernobyl (VIDEO)

  • TheBigPicture TheBigPicture

    Only solution is to replace the horrid plants with safe non-nuclear ones. This will create jobs, and hope. And needs to start now, worldwide.


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  • arclight arclight

    errrmmmm?

    Fukushima's Largest Festival is Back!

    Published on Aug 8, 2012 by retohoku
    The Waraji (straw sandal) Festival is a symbol of summer in Fukushima.

    Last year, with the tsunami and nuclear accident the scale of the celebration was limited, but this year it's back in full!

    Tōhoku Revival Calendar article: http://en.re-tohoku.jp/?p=7635

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs7iHKk-fpo


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  • arclight arclight

    Sendai Tanabata

    Published on Aug 9, 2012 by retohoku
    The annual Sendai Tanabata Festival, the largest such festival in Japan, takes place in the three days from August 6th to the 8th.
    See Sendai's vitality!
    Take a look at the extravagant and gorgeous decorations,
    and join Sendai in wishes for good fortune.

    Sendai Tanabata homepage: http://www.sendaitanabata.com/en/index.html

    Tōhoku Revival Calendar article: http://en.re-tohoku.jp/?p=7668

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANMhW4PquM&feature=plcp

    looks like ogilvy and maher are preparing a "limit the compensation" propaganda campaign for the summer


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  • arclight arclight

    last one from this but :o
    Jan 16, 2012
    Fullsail Coffee Shop Opens in Sendai.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DM5WC-MLbA&feature=plcp

    slick videos.. adk or dentsu connected imo
    videos start at the same time as operation mindshare..
    just saying!

    from a PR perspective, the japanese government response has been perfect…


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    • arclight arclight

      WPP-owned Mindshare restructures top management
      Samidha Sharma, TNN Jun 6, 2012,

      http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-06/india-business/32077717_1_mindshare-india-mindshare-worldwide-nick-emery

      and this

      "..Jim Lecinski, VP for U.S. sales and service at Google, presented a thought-provoking idea that he calls the "Zero Moment of Truth."

      It's a modification of the P&G marketing mantra conceived in the golden A.G. Lafley era, when the packaged-goods marketer evangelized on "winning at the two moments of truth" — the first at the point of purchase and the second when consumers use the product.

      Now "The Zero Moment of Truth" — or ZMOT — is potentially disruptive thinking for marketers…"

      :)
      can be applied to nuke marketting and coverup too!


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        • arclight arclight

          im glad mindshare didnt have an office in moscow in 1986.. things were bad enough then i thought on matters censorship..

          word to the wise though.. their singapore office is looking to get work in russia.. pity the semey and chernobyl victims !! :(


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          • arclight arclight

            this seems appropriate here

            Japan Ignores nuclear fallout & health effects news update 8/9/12

            "..Published on Aug 9, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown1
            Japan is STILL COMPLETELY IN DENIAL about radiation and radioactive fallout! Even After Nagasaki and Hiroshima! UnFukushima Believable.

            Anti disaster conference to be held in Sendai (part of the exclusion zone from Fukushima radioactive fallout- ongoing) for world leaders………"

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eMrEwL3WQ

            all joining up nicely

            a great campaign… :(


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          • Jebus Jebus

            The precursers to mindshare were in place long before chernobyl.
            The data was there from the beginning, but the coverup, disinformation, and discrediting started after the people started getting wise to the dangers of all things nuclear.

            1970s Research Attributed Cancer Death Spike to Radiation in Ohio River from Nuclear Reactor Near Pittsburgh

            SUMMARY OF CANCER DEATHS

            One mile from nuclear plant:

            Midland, Pa. 149.6 per hundred thousand (1958, when plant opened) to 426.3 (1970), 184%

            Other Towns/Cities Near and Downwind from plant:

            Beaver County, Pa. 40% increase cancer deaths 1958-1968 (147.7 to 204.7

            Pittsburgh, Pa., up 31% (1958-1968)

            East Liverpool, Ohio (ten miles), 40% increase in cancer (1958-1968) and 67% increase (1971)

            Steubenville, Ohio (thirty miles, across from Wheeling, WV), 25% increase cancer deaths , (1958-1968)

            Cincinnati, Ohio (300 miles) , 24% increase cancer deaths

            http://www.huntingtonnews.net/40627

            A good article with facts and a Dr. Earnst Sternglass video…

            @Admin, sorry for the off topic poke at Sideshow Rod earlier, thanks for deleting him, it's what he does too…


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    • rambojim

      arclight,

      Looks like a government propaganda film to me..

      The coffee shop owner says,"frankly,I'm not worried about this"

      Little does he know that his lifespan has been cut in half at least.


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      • arclight arclight

        it is an interesting set of videos with few views.. they get more hits from incredulous enenews readers .. lol!

        download any favourites for remixing is my advice… not that i want to encourage anyone to have fun with these videos.. i mean it wouldnt be fair that all that production time being made into a comedy series or something… ;)

        make sure you work around the copyright laws and start a unique you tube/other account..

        i am a bit busy on other stuff or i would give it a go.. but my video skills and software is poor so i will leave it to the proffessionals! lol! hope someone goes for it… snicker.. :)


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  • perufox

    http://imva.info/

    Let all in Japan read this site on how to reduce and remove radioactivity from their bodies!


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  • VicFromOregon VicFromOregon

    The Japanese leadership response to the radiation fall out from Fukushima will make better sense when one understands the same response was taken after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And, the victims of that radiation often became outcasts, expected to hide their illness and infirmities so that life could go on as normal. For the greater good, they were expected to be silent and hidden. That radiation was not of their doing and unavoidable. Todays radiation victims are asked to volunteer – the sickest to hide, the newly exposed to pretend all is well.


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  • Anthony Anthony

    March 24th, 2011 – US Reactor sites detecting I-131 from Fukushima between 40 – 90 pCi per liter – EPA drinking water limit for Iodine is only 3 pCi per liter.

    http://enformable.com/2012/08/march-24th-2011-us-reactor-sites-detecting-i-131-from-fukushima-between-40-90-pci-per-liter-epa-drinking-water-limit-for-iodine-is-only-3-pci-per-liter/


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    • arclight arclight

      intersting find anthony

      that would put europe (south france) at more than 4-9 pci/l

      uk maybe more.. depends where it rained!!

      and justifies CRIIRAD warning of april 12th

      is this document verifiable?

      thanks for posting!


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  • jonjon

    This goes to show communism is actually a better proposition than capitalism when it comes to protecting people from corporate greed and the government "laisser faire" attitude.

    I've never seen a people as ignorant about their surroundings as the Japanese. They live in a devastated country but it's as if nothing had ever happened. People happily eat sushi, seaweed and mushrooms, putting them carefully in their children's Bento (pack lunch).

    The thing about the Japanese is that they hate confrontation and things that create discomfort. Be it a conversation or looking at reality. That's why Japanese TV has some of the world stupidest shows for the best part of the day and all evening, dumbing down a population that has already been robbed of its intelligence from an early age by the cram school system.

    Sorry about this rant, I do actually feel sorry for what happened and the people left behind, but I wish people would wake up "en masse" and topple this incompetent and corrupt government that has besieged Japan for far too long.


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    • yogda yogda

      We need free market capitalism and creativity back in America not communism.


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      • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK

        agreed yogda. It's disheartening how we continually come back to this discussion; whether one system is better than another. What's even more depressing is how many confuse corporate fascism with capitalism. When you factor that the Soviets ordered thousands of military personnel into to that smoldering death machine, you may understand that centralization – in any form – never served the interest of the people…


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      • VyseLegendaire VyseLegendaire

        Free market capitalism does not and will not exist, because they are a contradiction in terms.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

      Hi jonjon, I think you should inform yourself more on past and ongoing crimes against the people in communist regimes like Russia, China, North Korea before praising them for taking care of their population…especially environmental crimes….Mayak, Polygone, the river Tetscha…I'm sure things are a bit more complex than you're trying to tell.

      *peace


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      • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK

        perhaps jonjon should secure a copy of "The Black Book of Communism" [Publication Date: October 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0674076087 | ISBN-13: 978-0674076082 ]

        "…this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years."

        If you can survive the first half of this book, be prepared another set of horrors under the Chinese Communists. They even touch upon the issue as to why the West (America and western Europeans) were never apprised of these atrocities. Those who make a point of pulling back the curtain, know exactly why…


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  • @yogda
    August 10, 2012 at 2:02 am
    There should be a bottom line for any system: The earth must be healthy. Thereafter enterprises may use creativity for the good of all. Now Capitalism as well as Communism or any other ism have failed miserably. Correct yourselves so the bottom line is restored.


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  • Urban27

    In a way its good that the -isms come up on the board here.
    In chernobyl Sovjet they tried to keep quiet for some days, until the radioactivity reached other countries, and it was simple not possible to deny it. Then they made large efforts to actually make something about the catastrophe. But here in the so called free world, there are even more silence about these catastrophes. Using the influence over media making reports as if there are some small problems, when there are four nuclear reactors exploding.
    And reports from Three mile island, has been that there was just a minor problem, and there was no leakage. That was what was reported than. Now I hear that there are lots of people dying from cancer in that region. And that it had been a meltdown there too. With consequence fallout.
    No it is the same lying in both systems. Maybe the soviet system was more open when the catastrophe was a fact. In Japan they are still lying, and will continue lying as much as they can, it seems to. Even the large demonstrations that was there earlier this month, wasn't visible in Japanese media at first. And these were the largest demonstrations in Japan in a lifetime. The so called free world – that could just be free oppression as well.


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  • jedi jedi

    Hello Japan efford to clean-up the Tsunami garbage ,is 10 times

    greater than it Fukushima efford ? This is wrong and the

    army or draft? is needed now ,Start saving the world ,or

    I will never buy Japan again or I'll be too sick to buy

    anything again……


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  • First please explain where the "free enterprise capitalist system" is in North America save for the illegal drug trade and the illegal underground economy? All legitimate businesses must maneuver through a maze of taxes rules and bureaucratic red tape. Certain industries such as nuclear, get heavily subsidized by government and wouldn't even exist if they had to survive without the government teat.

    Nuclear energy produces pollution that is invisible and may not hurt or kill until years after exposure. So easy to lie. But this is human nature, nothing to do with communism, capitalism or any other ism. Call it human nature. Just like when my 3 yr old blames my 2 yr old for something she did. Really these big shot government and industrial nuclear officials are no better then my 2 year old boy. He says "I drive" I ask do you have your drivers license? He smiles and replies "Yesh"


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