Uncovering the truth and crimes of Fukushima （August 6, 2016 At the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada）

Our Flyer （August 6, 2016 At the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada）－＞ＰＤＦ（Ｆｒｏｎｔ　　Ｂａｃｋ）

Message from Noam Chomsky

It is a privilege to be able to lend personal support to the Fukushima Evacuate Children Lawsuit.

There is no better measure of the moral health of a society than how it treats the most vulnerable people within it, and none or more vulnerable, or more precious, than children who are the victims of unconscionable actions.

For Japan, and for all of us, this is a test that we must not fail.

Noam Chomsky

Message from renowned manga artist Tetsuya Chiba

Fukushima used to be a beautiful land with its abundant nature. Today, Fukushima may appear as beautiful as it used to be, but invisible radiation has created uninhabitable areas in Fukushima where no humans, animals, and insects can survive.

The nuclear power stations that caused this catastrophe continue to leak radiation to this day. Slowly but steadily, they have been contaminating the whole world through the sea of Fukushima.

We, Japanese feel guilt towards the rest of the world while we have been addressing the challenge of controlling the radiation and restoring Fukushima to its previously beautiful state.

This challenge is, however, extremely difficult to complete, and we are still agonizing about how to achieve our goal.

Even though we cannot change the past, we can prevent from making the same mistake again.

The most important thing is to save this beautiful and safe planet for children all over the world who will live in the future

Uncovering the truth and crimes of Fukushima

Explosion of Reactor No. 3 (2011.3.14)

Nuclear disasters happen any day without warning, just as they did in Chernobyl and Fukushima. They can also happen at any of the 400+ nuclear power plants worldwide, destroying peaceful lives overnight, only to be followed by the same series of state-operated crimes.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

The perils of Reactor No. 2 and the Devastation of Eastern Japan

“I can never bring myself to relive that moment…I really thought my life was over. That it was all over. That Reactor No. 2 will meltdown without its cooling water, break through the containment pressure, expose the fuels, and emit all the radiation outside, really, the worst case scenario. Something comparable to Chernobyl, the China Syndrome…it would expose and spew out all the radioactive substances…the devastation of all of Eastern Japan crossed our minds at that moment.” (Masao Yoshida, Fukushima Daiichi Plant Manager on Aug. 9, 2011)

The Japanese government chose to respond by writing up its agenda with players in the international pro-nuclear legislation: 1)Concealing information, 2)Arbitrarily increasing maximum exposure limits, and 3)Understating the magnitude of the accident.

Towards Another Relief

The Fukushima nuclear accident is the worst human-made disaster in Japanese history as well as the worst possible outcome of a capitalistic economy, leaving hundreds of thousands in Fukushima still suffering. But we are convinced. Another world is possible, and so, too is another form of relief, by taking the following four actions:

1)Enactment of a Japanese version of the Chernobyl legislation.

2)Adoption and ratification of an international human rights convention based on the Chernobyl legislation, basing our model on the Ottawa Treaty above:

3)Pursuit of criminal responsibility: Filing a joint international complaint on the“crime against humanity”against the Japanese government responsible for the nuclear accident, and

4)Reconstructing the lives of impoverished evacuees by establishing creative and mutually supportive independent citizens’ organizations to promote a social and solidarity economy (co-ops).  

Sadly, the suffering in Fukushima predicts what many future victims may experience in the face of accidents that can happen without warning anytime, anywhere in the world. Thus, we seek your help in taking this collective action together to reclaim our health, livelihoods, and lives. The four actions above shall provide relief in future nuclear disasters in addition to those in Fukushima.