Published: January 25th, 2012 at 10:00 pm ET
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Title: City Assemblyman in Tokyo to School Children: Don’t Be an Egoist, Eat Your School Lunch to Share the Pain of Tohoku
Source: EX-SKF
Date: Jan 25, 2012
Jan. 23 Writing by Yoshiyuki Motoyama, assemblyman from Itabashi-ku, one of the 23 Special Wards in Tokyo, on 1/23/2012
[...] a handful of egoists [...] mix the problem of radiation contamination after the nuclear accident and demand that they be given the freedom to drop out of the school lunch system because there are problems with the radiation in food items. ([They want their children to] bring bento and water to schools.)They fight the local government without any scientific proof.
Indeed, this is the epitome of baseless rumor.
For us, the citizens of this country who escaped the damage, it is important to share the pain of people in the Tohoku disaster areas.
Removing inconvenience around them, is that all they care about?
When did such egoism take root in the Japanese people? [...]
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Published: January 25th, 2012 at 10:00 pm ET
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“Sharing the pain” in a reasonable sense would mean that people from across Japan would welcome evacuees into their own communities–helping them get settled and find work in new cities and perhaps providing for immediate needs like food, clothing, blankets during the transition. “Sharing pain” by eating contaminated food or burning contaminated material and thereby sickening more of the country is only making things worse for everybody–and its NOT helping the actual people of Fukushima in any way. The worst hit places should be evacuated–at the very least, young people from the worst contaminated places should be allowed to live/attend school in other areas–those host communities could really make a meaningful difference by accommodating these young people.
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good points
perhaps suffering is the word he was after, not pain
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Excellent observation and I agree with every bit, except…
…you are dealing within the current established dictates of those who control the situation. (thus everyone here cries out against such)
In short, being that there is absolutely no (0) indication that any of your “remedies” have been, or are now existing upon the table of resolve, the hope for resolution is nonexistent. The chess board is tipping over. There will be NO Exodus of Japan.
Hope you don’t loose any sleep while you ponder any further “good-will” considerations that have not, nor will not, appear upon the horizon.
Truth is hard and requires strong teeth.
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Japan to the world. The world needs to share the pain with us as well.
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I apologize and will try to maintain consideration of subject “continuity” for those of lessor knowledge.
Peace
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Mutant rats and hot particles!
Round up this goof and
apply some sharp articles!
Justice applied –
Drumhead and Summary!
Don’t waste time and yen
on litigious flummery!
F..k this piece of s..t up the a.. with a fissioning fuel rod!
What pain is he suffering? His deliberate outright lies, distortions and self-serving politicking are not only beyond ignorant, insensitive and cruel in their disregard for the millions in the contaminated areas, they’re psychopathic with disregard for the dangers the future holds for everyone under past, present and future plumes of radiation or hostage to any degree and for any reason to living in the contaminated region!
Screw him and all his kind!
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Or-well, that was a bit too lightly said, however i get your point and support it.
These people walk among us, and yet would kill us with their lies and ego, ignorance, and power trips.
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AHHH @#$%^ I love u&miss u OR-WELL *sniff*/*tear*
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The Yokohama school system was feeding the children Fukushima beef, while the city politicians were eating imported beef in their cafeteria. Hypocrites.
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Nuts&Bolts… OK
1) “It is important to share the pain”… This is a common theme during a war when the “controllers” want, and “require,” your participation.
2) If #1 fails then all alternatives are out of reach, and you “can” be force fed.
3) …
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Good point john lh,…you can barely tell them apart now, huh?
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StillJill, I know you’re not talking to air – I saw him too! Then…poof!
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Must be “Magic”
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If you are referring to the racist comment about people from Japan, that was removed and the person is not commenting anymore.
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As a resident of japan I would have love to read that, I usually have a blast of laught with that, go figure…
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kx, hi !
How are the people there responding, do things look normal where you are and is you town seem to have fewer people now !
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Since you asked kx, the removed comment was from ‘john lh’ and read as follows:
“OMG, the same Japanese evil demons come back alive ! Now I realized why they want to kill their children ,women, old after the defeat at End of WW2. to share the same pain of Japanese warriors, they are the same failure,weak ,little man of Japan. Sad and terrible.”
Comments like this will not be tolerated and will result in a ban.
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Well, this is addressed to that Tokyo official: how many of your 35 million Tokyo area citizens will be dead from radiation, 10 years from now? And will you still be alive?
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I’m OK now after taking my “Pet-Meds.”
With the story now at hand stating that [...] Tokyo official blasts parents who want kids to avoid… [...] and I regurgitate…
Does this mean that if “you refuse” to eat your putting, you will suffer harsh government consequences?
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I meant “Pudding,” a common desert, after supper.
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Well, you won’t get any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!!
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Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
– Pink Floyd, The Wall
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Righto, Pink Floyd…if you refuse to eat yer pudding, ya can eat your cesium and strontium filled MEAT!
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If you are sitting next to me and choose to eat rat poison, eating it with you is being self-destructive, not “sharing pain”. Dear Japan: throw the radioactive cesium away and don’t let anyone eat it!
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What kind of sadistic force-feeding-faeces nonsense is that. Just sick!
I hope everyone shares their pain by sending him something contaminated.
Resign you a__hole!
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Hey one-eye…
“What kind of sadistic force” is… luciferian controlled human slave dung.
Does this mean that if “you refuse” to eat your pudding, you will suffer harsh government consequences?
Yes
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Forced to consume radiation with a gun in your back. Saves the gov’t money from not having to buy Zyklon-B.
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I have Japanese friends and to some extent, I can understand a bit of their culture. I might be wrong but it seems to me that there is a deep-rooted sense of what is deemed ‘proper’ and ‘for the greater good’ that might be behind the assemblyman’s frustration.
The fact that parents want to be allowed to send their kids to school with bento boxes could be seen as going against the grain. Separatist, ergo ego-driven.
This is not to excuse Assemblyman Motoyama’s bluster but rather to give another perspective.
If only I owned an island. Any Japanese caught between a rock and a hard place could relocate there.
This saddens me.
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Our island is Earth. Survival’s the game. Voting off bad players hasn’t worked. Now…let’s dance with the real stars and show the Gong Show losers the door.
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heres what amnesty internatonal thought about the treatment in children..
“…As of December an estimated 1,000 individuals had filed asylum claims and approximately 30 individuals were granted refugee status. Under the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including children, were detained for indefinite periods without recourse to independent review of the necessity of their detention….”
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/annual-report-japan-2011?page=2
and no mention of japan in “human rights watch” latest report, that i could find..??
http://www.crin.org/docs/wr2012.pdf
some well researched links and reports relevant to japan on the CRIN website
http://www.crin.org/reg/country.asp?ctryID=106&subregID=10
“Despite international and domestic human rights agreements, many countries fail to protect the rights of their workers, and often have a hand in their exploitation. For instance, the trafficking of Thai women to Japan as means of cheap labor often includes debt bondage, forced labor and many other abuses. The Japanese and Thai governments fail to address these issues despite international obligations to protect the human rights of these migrant women (Human Rights Watch, 2000). These women undergo slavery-like conditions, and are literally “bought” and “sold” to employers. Many are forced to work without wages until they have repaid inflated “debts” and “fees”, which may take years. The women are also subject to physical abuse, excessively long working hours, and sexual harassment (Human Rights Watch, 2000). These are abuses that are prohibited under Japanese and Thai domestic legislation and international law. Unfortunately, corruption and lack of concern among government officials exacerbates the women’s situation.”
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/sweatshops.html
and a human rights report by the us state department has been take off the site.. no cache…
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Well then I am sure he would have no problem with his entire family eating Fukushima produce. In fact, why doesn’t he move his family there to share the pain. He can better share the pain by going to Daiichi and cleaning up manually.
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This is not about culture!
This can and does happen anywhere!
Local politician – not national, federal, provicincial,state,prefecture – LOCAL.
Ah, but Tokyo – bright lights, big city.
Still, in the political sea, city ward assemblyman isnt the big league. Anywhere.
It can be a steppingstone tho.
He’s a yapping chihuahua. He’s portraying what is nurturing, protective, rational, – trying to ensure the food safety of ones children! – simply put – GOOD! – as BAD – drawing false correspondences and outright lying, doing in fact the opposite of what he claims to espouse as good.
No science to back them? WRONG! Egoist? WRONG! Just the opposite – others before self! Enforced conformity educational? WRONG! Useful to the State – oh yes! Removing inconvenience? WRONG! False characterisation! This is a peacetime enviromental crisis, Japan is not at war and not the country it was 67 years ago and “sharing the pain” is an almost meaningless, allusive, soundbite/feelgood phrase!
What contribution does he make by this? He supports the dictates of the State and the pro-nuclear cabal! To what end? The benefit of the people in general or his
ward? NO! Only thru his blog does he have a voice in larger affairs! Apart from inhumane opinionating, all he can hope for is to attract attention and possibly identify himself as “one of the boys” willing to say anything, deny basic rights, and support any wrong for his own self-interest!
Keep smiling, motherf….r, your day is coming!
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You’re right. or-well. He might be blindsided by some ambition to be a great politician in the future.
Or he may believe in the theory of hormesis and has hopes of becoming an X-man like Wolverine.
Or he could be insane.
Maybe all three.
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Insightful comments, or-well, even if defamatory to chihuahuas.
The official’s behavior is astonishingly coercive and reveals starkly what governments do, namely “govern”, namely making sure you do what they want, if it ever differs from what you want.
It surrounds all of us all the time. Most of the time we don’t notice, or pretend not to notice.
This story will haunt me for a long time. Government pushback against evil bento lunch boxes.
They are monsters – oops, no, they are bureaucrats doing monstrous things, business as usual.
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BAU will destroy us. BAU takes people exercising and enforcing BAU. What can I say? Sorry chihuahuas.
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Check your rice folks, Hilary may want us to share !
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Not all B-crats do bad things, neither do all Pols. Many just go along for the ride and the pension.
“I’m doing what I’m supposed to.”
“I’m just doing my job.”
“I was only following orders.”
None of those excuses is a defense, nor automatically equals harmlessness.
Many play their roles in the system without any meaningful analysis or awareness of
how their role supports business as usual,
or an understanding of the wider
implications of business as usual.
But there are those who speak and act DELIBERATELY and CONSCIOUSLY with INTENT to perpetuate and extend BAU (and all that encompasses) and to advantage themselves through that!
“…no one ever seizes power with the intent of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end.”
“…power is power over human beings. Over the body – but, above all, over the mind.”
(guess who?)
It’s bad enough to be a gear in an oppressive or destructive machine. It’s worse to seek to be the fuel or a driving mechanism in that machine! And then there are those who would control the machines operation. The machine is Business As Usual.
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Leaders never make those statements or-well
Leaders act on what they think the best interests are. They don’t “just do their job”.
History is full of wrongdoing where somebody used that excuse.
I think sometimes people who rise to leadership positions don’t realize they are leaders.
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@James2
Of course leaders don’t make those statements. I didn’t say they did.
You are quite correct – history is full of excuse making and revisionist distortion too.
There is tremendous value in your statement
“…sometimes people who rise to leadership positions don’t realise they are leaders.” because it suggests ways to look at what leadership is.
Does it mean “in charge”, “the boss”, somebody able to exercise the most control
over others in the defined hierarchy?
Does leadership have to be about hierarchical structure?
Or is a leader one who is capable of inspiration, of espousing a vision beyond hierarchical control, an ethic of broad empowerment as opposed to concentrated influence?
Can a people, a constituency, lead their representatives?
Must leadership by definition be concentrated and from the top or the front or can leadership be from within and diffused, more genuinely consensual?
We may have to find out soon.
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OR-WELL FOR EL PRESIDENTE1!!!!!!111111111
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The WAR machine will chug along fine for a while …although I see Panetta today…is talking troop reduction..
…the deal is the machine is having to adjust…because with the situation in Fuku…it is no longer busimess as usual.
It’s also game changer.
I just know there is some sweating going on under those starched collars.
..they cant fix this one…and they know it…
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The lifespan of radioactivity v. the lifespan of a reactor…
that right there should tell anyone SANE..that it’s SAFE use, storage ,etc…is beyond the capabilities of human technology.
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I’m starting to smell nuclear blood,….they’ve received a death nail. They sometimes ‘stumble around’ for a while,….but they ALWAYS FALL! Here’s the fun part my friends,….the ‘gnashing of their teeth’. Fun for us this time, not them. Sorry Father God,….I’m gonna ENJOY this one! Love you!
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Focus on the victory, each one shut down that stays down, don’t revel in the revenge, it will dilute your productive energy.
Nails in the coffin, like a vampire sucking our blood, indeed they need to stop.
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People in the Western World, need to reexamine the “way” they view Japan and that includes not only how that Country is governed but what actual “say” the Japanese people have in their Governments process!
It has taken almost a year to realize that Japan is actually being “run” by its Powerful Utility Companies and this “business” relationship extends in a “Control Continuum” that extends at one end, from actual Utility direct financial support of the highest Government Leaders in the Country, to the widely known use of organized gangs to keep citizens in line at the other!
The idea that individual Japanese people actually have a say in how they are governed, much less the way their Energy is generated, is just a well publicized fantasy that the Utilities uses to put a nuclear “smily face” on the grim reality that ever facet of Japanese life is less important than what is good for these Utilities! These Powerful Utilities ARE Japan, and the Japanese people are only “forced” customers of these Utilities since they have no other choice of providers when it come to basic needs like electricity, at lest until now! Solar panels have allowed many to get the electricity they need and this is a huge threat to these Utilities, that must be “crushed” ASAP if they are to maintain their complete control over the Japanese people!
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con’t
Ever since 3/11, the rest of the World’s attention has been focused on the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster at Fukushima and Japan’s response to their triple melt down. What we have learned is that the Government has allowed TEPCO to not only remain in Control of this debacle but they have actually enabled the Utility to place huge numbers of Japanese citizens at risk rather than demand that the Utility think first of human health instead of Corp. shareholder profits. The fact that radioactive pollution has now spread Globally and is affecting the rest of the Planet is hardly mentioned in MSM which points to an even greater problem for the rest of mankind; we are helpless and as yet unable to demand any “better” treatment from Japan because our own Leaders are for the most part are in full support of the those Utility backed Leaders in Japan.
Kudos to Germany and many other Countries for pointing the finger at Nuclear Power and the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster RISK every nuclear complex now represents! People globally now are becoming informed and starting to demand answers to basic questions and once people start asking questions perhaps change will occur, even if not for the Japanese themselves… one thing is for certain, the Japanese people will be affected by their Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster for much longer than the estimated 40 to 100 years that it will take to “tidy up” after Fukushima…
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What these parents need to do is get together and purchase their own equipment to test the lunches themselves, something more advanced than just a Geiger counter. It would cost a lot, but I’m sure some of the parents in Tokyo could afford it. Then there would be no more “baseless rumors” because there really would be a basis for their actions.
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Great idea!
Someone could buy it and then loan it or rent it to others!
We are talking about everyones CHILDREN!
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hi all, I’ve been lurking here since the SHTF back in march. I just wanted to say that you’re all forces for positive change. Keep up the good work. For my part, it’s like swimming through treacle trying to get people to listen. Sooo many people still in denial.
Love, peace and happiness to you all
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yeah? I'd like to blast you! into space!!!!
What good is that mentality? I GUESS WE ARE FINDING OUT HUH????????????
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