[Ohi] On a rainy day

[Ohi] On a rainy day

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Young generation are always sent to the front line whether it’s police or army.

But this is the fight against nuclear. so we must protect them from black rain.

 

 

 

 

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We found police crying. I asked one of the riot police officers if he’s actually against the restart of nuclear plant, he turned to me and slightly nodded to bear up in tragedy. There were numbers of times when I couldn’t stop my tears.

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My daughter suddenly and quietly told me, “Though we don’t even have  right to vote, my generation is going to have to settle the nuclear accudent, isn’t it ?” “I want to ask how the pro-nuke old generation can restart the nuclear plant.”

I really feel sorry for them. To stop it in our parental generation, we keep on fighting.

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Occupy Ohi nuclear plant. Photo taken by FMK. The moment of pre-emption. Shouting “Stop the nuclear plant.”

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Though they were still chanting “No restart”, protests collected garbages which were given by the supporters. Power companies scatter around the nuclear waste in case of an accident and it lasts for tens of thousand years, take no responsibility and can not even decontaminate, but we clean where we made occupied. This is common sense.

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↓ She was eliminated by police but came back and tied herself with a chain.

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  1. I have almost no words. The picture of the young protestor holding the umbrella up to protect policeman is at the same time so painful and so beautiful in its compassion.As I practice SGI Buddihism I understand well this compassion and I have learned much from watching the demonstration yesterday about how big the heart can be in spite of tremendous obstacles. I am not surprised the young policeman nodded his head yes as I witnessed the utter anquish in their faces yesterday as did the protetors I am sure. If anthing this protest has shown how this nuclear accident has not only devastated the people and the land – and potentially the earth – but how to protest with honor and dignity. A good lesson. I can not say I have the same respect for TEPCO.

  2. so powerful, iori! i passed 12 hours online with the protesters last night, but your article made me cry. bless you and bless these heroes. xoxoxo

  3. They are heroes, I thank them all for they are fighting for me too. I will pray for your fight to be successful, I will support you with all my thoughts. Don’t give up.

    1. Iori: This may sound trite compared to all that is going on. But I can’t get the picture of the women holding up umbrella’s out of my head. I think it should go viral and be considered for Time Magazine’s Man of The Year Picture. Do you know the photographer? It reminds me of the very famous pictre from when child was hurt and screaming in Saigon. It became THEB SYMBOL FOR THE ANTI VIETNAM WAR movement and everything went from there. I see this picture the same way and can be just as powerful for turning around the pro-nuclear into the anti-nuclear movement.

  4. Dear Mochizuki-san,

    Hello again. I’m still serious about working in Japan as an English-language specialist despite the radioactivity, if some school or company there will agree to hire me from abroad.

    Can you refer me, please, to anyone who might be interested? To any work there, I can bring 35 years’ experience in journalism, including 11 years in South Korean ESL publishing and an appearance on a Yahoo bestseller list in 2002.

    For any referrals, I would be grateful. Please let me know how things are going.

    Thanks again,
    David Ritchie
    (kwriter [at] asia.com)

  5. THANK GOD YOU ARE HERE IORI OTHERWISE WE WOULDN’T HEAR A THING ABOUT JAPAN. OUR NEWS COVERAGE SAID “DOZENS” OF PROTESTORS – NOTHING ABOUT THE THOUSANDS IN TOKYO. I PREDICT THAT IN YEARS TO COME THE MEDIA WILL BE FOUND CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE – ACTUALLY IRRESPONSIBLE. DISGUSTING IN THE EXTREME. THE PICTURE AT THE TOP OF THE LADIES HOLDING UMBRELLAS FOR THE POLICE IS PARTICULARLY TOUCHING AND DEMONSTRATES EVERYONE’S FEELINGS ON THE RESTART.

  6. Hello, Mister Iori Mochizuki

    Thank you for these nice photos of the famous demonstration of japanese people (against Ohi’s reactors revival)…please excuse, my english is “from school when I was pupil”…

    I am particularly touched by the woman protecting the young policeman with her umbrella against black rain (and thank you for the french translation). don’t that symbolise hope of a next good issue…

    I like to know whether I may share it on my fb?

    And you, are do you do, fine I hope so.

    Yesterday, a new member on Fukushima Information let a message : he has created a site “fukushima 2012”, a good man surely, but a little bit uncredible, he thinks of the end of the world, etc, do you see what I mean.
    So I took a glance at his site and I couldn’t avoid to laugh nervously, as I opened on his site a link to your page (this one ) as he commented in french about you : “a japanese blogger who escaped”…Then I posted a humoristic comment on our group, for I didn’t agree with this comment ; maybe the people in F.I. Group didn’t notice my message, in fact there was no comment.
    I would like to become facebook friend with you.
    Javale Gola

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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