Published: October 5th, 2011 at 10:27 am ET
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SOURCE: iwakamiyasumi
SOURCE: Breaking News: The camera guy showed up at the press conference of Tepco, Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki, October 5, 2011:
THE camera guy showed himself up in the press conference of Tepco on 9/29/2011 and 9/30/2011.
It was shocking enough to make the Tepco spokes man blush.
His name is “Takeuchi”. He called himself “a freelance journalist”. [...]
Takeuchi (Camera guy)
[...] I was working for a sub-contract company at Fukushima in August. [...]
Media is banned to go into the plant site. Is it because media might see and report Yakuza people are working there ?
I actually saw people with Yakuza tatoo [sic] in the backroom. Is it not to let the media report the truth in the plant ?
Matsumoto (Spokesman of Tepco)
Well, um, ah regarding of the Fukushima nuclear plant, eh [...]
The reason why we don’t disclose the actual situation inside is [...]
One of them is, um, because it’s in the caution zone and [...] From our point of view, now, um, [...] we are trying our best, so, ah [...] um, well, there is also the problem of exposure of the reporters. [...]
In that meaning, for now, discussing with the government and um.. [...] we can not disclose the actual situation inside of the plant.
Published: October 5th, 2011 at 10:27 am ET
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Signed up, hope to see everyone else there, be nice to have a better format for us to communicate, i.e. Forum
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btw. Feel free to upload any content that you want to in the forums. And in the video section… I am doing it as much as I can but every post counts…
Cheers and thanks
Emmy.
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“Takeuchi”, that’s him alright !
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well,um,ah regarding of the err Fukushima nuclear plant ,eh
says it all really lol!
The reason why mmmmm we don’t disclose the actual situation inside is
One of them is,um,because it’s in the errrr caution zone and
From our point of view,now,um,
we are ahhh trying our best,so,ah
um,well,there is also the problem of ummm exposure of the errr reporters.
In that meaning,for now,discussing with the urrr government and um..ahh…eee.iiii.ooo…uuu
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too bad Google translator doesn’t have an option of bullshit to English.
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LOL, you got that right. Of course then most political stories would need re-translation too and that could lead to all sorts of mayhem!
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LOL! That sums up their approach, sadly!…..
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cool crime company running the place with mysterious tattoed gentlemen (in the back room ooeer) no bloody wonder the “spokesman is nervous….wonder what the iaea have to say about that then? retoricle question…i know the answer already…what a world huh?
peace
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Could there be an organized crime element influencing TEPCO decisions?
“They also engage in simple blackmail, obtaining incriminating or embarrassing information about a company’s practices or leaders. Once the yakuza gain a foothold in these companies, they will work for them to protect the company from having such internal scandals exposed to the public. Some companies still include payoffs as part of their annual budget.”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza
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Organized crime has a strong role in the Japanese nuclear industry. This has been exposed in the past. The Yakuza are not working in the more dangerous areas, they are used to strong-arm day laborers to do the dirty and dangerous jobs at lower wages and without proper safety protocols.
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In the U.S. nuclear industry it is only superficially better (ask the Native Americans who were used to mine Uranium how they are doing). In the plants I campaigned against in the U.S. they would recruit “sponges” to do jobs that exposed them to high radiation (thereby absorbing the doses of radiation instead of the permanent workers… like a sponge. Funny joke, huh?) The “sponge” workers hit the maximum YEARLY dose allowed for U.S. nuclear workers in as little as a few minutes (or much more than the maximum dose unless you trust the plant managers to take true readings). Then they often send those same “sponges” to get another maximum yearly dose a week later at another plant (nobody was checking to see if these poor dupes were doing this at more than one plant). And these are the guys who say “trust us… we have it under control” BULL___T
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this is a bold statement. this needs to be backed up with something. got a link or resource?
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google that : “genpatsu jipushi”
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and in france they call them “chaire à Rems” (flesh dedicated to receive high rems doses)
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/les-bagnards-du-nucleaire_974084.html
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lest we forget
from april
Workers Treated Worse Than Slaves At Japan’s Exploded Nuclear Power Plant
starts at 3.25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrsxdhuh-8Y
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Nuclear Ginza Japan’s secret at-risk labor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fravQ528jSIforce 1/2
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oops
Nuclear Ginza Japan’s secret at-risk labor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fravQ528jSIforce
1/2
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Reminds me of Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search For Meaning”. There were CRUEL “Capos’”-Prisoners who acted as trustees, having special privileges-or well known prisoners.”
They were sadistic to the other prisoners!
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Andrew Spagnoli,
Many may say The Nuke Industry is Organized crime !
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I have written of this before, but bears repeating… about the history of the Chisso company, owners of the depleted uranium plant adjacent to Tokyo Bay that burned to the ground with nearly 1700 pounds of depleted uranium in early March after the earthquake:
“Chisso used yakuza in order to threaten and silence patients and their supporters. Patients and their supporters started the “single shareholder” movement by buying one share of Chisso each, which was aimed at accusing the executives of Chisso in its general meeting. A thousand of the single shareholders participating in the movement gathered in front of a hall in Osaka to attend the general meeting called on November 28, 1970, but the company prevented them from entering the hall by asking yakuza to become shareholders and occupy the hall. The meeting ended in five minutes with all the bills submitted by the board approved.
In addition, Chisso had American photographer and photo-journalist W. Eugene Smith beaten by yakuza goons after Smith published a highly regarded photo-essay showing the caustic injuries and birth defects Chisso had caused the Minamata population. The centerpiece of the work, titled “Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath”, depicted the severe deformation of a child in her mother’s arms after the child was exposed to the effects of Chisso’s contamination of the water supply. In response to Chisso’s beating of W. Eugene Smith for dissemination of the photographs, Smith was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1974 for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise”.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisso
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paid promotions.
Gotta love em.
http://www.fukushimadaily.webs.com
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The Yakuza excuse is just a distraction from the real problem here which is a risk of further radiation releases and explosions. The situation is extremely dangerous right now because of high concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen which are preventing any cutting of pipes or for the most part work at all. One spark and its 3/11 again. Tepco wants people away from the plant if risks have not been prevented.
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good point, it’s too late to fix daiichi 1/2/3 and it is way past too late to get the organised criminals out of honourable japanese social structure
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa …..
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Begging to disagree, Grampybone,
The Yakuza involved in Tepco is not an excuse or distraction. Its part of the problem. Takeuchi, the camera guy has put himself at risk for a beating or worse by mentioning Yakuza. He is a brave man. Why don’t they let reporters into the plant? Judging by the way Tepco has lied to everyone I seriously doubt its to protect any reporter.
Yes the situation is serious. Made more so when a bunch of thugs are threatening people behind the scenes so Tepco can fart around with peoples lives. I agree with XDrFox, the whole nuclear industry is one big crime syndicate.
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Goodbye to the Yakuza
Jake Adelstein Oct 01, 2011 40,498 Views Comments (22)
Jake Adelstein has previously written about the yakuza’s involvement in supplying workers at Fukushima, how a top entertainer’s involvement with organized crime forced him from the industry, and their presence in the broader Japanese entertainment industry. Today, he writes about the new laws that Japan has adopted to press the yakuza out of society.
TOKYO — Today on October 1st, both here in Tokyo and in Okinawa, the boryokudan haijojorei (暴力団排除条例) or organized crime exclusionary laws, go into effect, thus making all of Japan a lot less yakuza friendly; it’s the start of the Big Chill. The laws vary in the details, but they all criminalize sharing profits with the yakuza (aka the Japanese mafia) or paying them off…..
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/10/goodbye-yakuza/43206/
Seems like this law doesn’t cover fuku prefecture…
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I’ve had my own experience with organized crime having had a legitimate job for a legitimate company only to find out later it was a front for the Hells Angels to sell cocaine from. Welcome to Vancouver. Well known scam here in Vancouver. They will set you up with a grow op and just before you harvest, thugs come in and steal the crop. Now your on the hook to the H.A’s for the price of the crop. You become a slave. Nowhere to run. Nasty people.
Nobody will rat out those people unless they are really stupid. The law rarely touches them as “wannabees” do all the dirty work. I’m sure the organized crime scene in Japan is similar to anywhere else. You don’t piss those people off and its best to have no involvement. Damn scary if they are involved in the company that we are all relying on to fix three melt throughs. But definitely explains some of the silence and compliance we all have watched.
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Why cant they disclose the operations taking place?
I thought that was their duty.
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Stop TEPCO! Occupy Tokyo! https://www.facebook.com/OccupyTokyo?ref=ts
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The world needs to step in….send the peace keeping troops in to take over fukushima, then send in the nuclear engineers from chernobyl and lets try to make some progress before this all ends in kaboom.
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Then all the valuable peace keeping troops may become ill !
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Exactly my previous point from a while back.
The north americans and chinese, for a start, have a deep interest in dealing with fuxu, and many ways have been suggested by people here, that is to say people with working brains but who are unfamiliar with the details of the engineering involved or the timescales.
- which is to say, there are plenty of think tanks of experts around who may well have had some serious plans from day one: plans for mitigation, evacuation, etc., which could realistically have benefited a large proportion of the populations which are now at serious risk to health, life, and generation.
Blue sky or green field, or ball park thinking, choose your metaphor.
Military occupation would have been an option and still is.
However, as xdrfox points out, and as I follow the above post, at the very least the senior military commanders would probably have choked on their [insert favourite military commanders's breakfast, tipple, etc.] at the thought of a clear and persistent link to the health risks to their troops of “crisis management” in honourable land of sinking sun.
What you can get away with in Libya would not work in Japan. Well, I think it would but that’s just me.
Japan’s honourable social structure (include jacuzi if you like) has set in concrete from its decades of profitable electronic inventiveness over decades and has left its population completely unable to deal with – not just the triple meltdown but – the underlying issues including severe faults in plant maintenance as prime contribution to the meltdowns.
If I as an uninformed amateur can reach this conclusion in a few paragraphs you can bet your last jacusi tattoo that the think tanks and military in big countries got there first.
so – no military occupation for now. Because nobody is willing to commit their armies to the statistical risk of wholesale radiation sickness, neither the mericans [sic] nor the chines [sic].
For Now.
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We learned from chernobyl…that’s what it takes! If any region has nukes but no legion of people who are willing to risk their lives WHEN something goes wrong then the reactors should be CLOSED…that is a strong argument for closing the plants.
We saw the russians give their lives…40,000. people, that is apparently what it takes….Nuclear energy is very expensive…no one can afford it!
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- japan as the ultimate poison pill, anyone ?
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