DC rally on 9/20

I joined the DC rally from 9/20 ~ 9/22/2012.

These are the pictures taken in congressional briefing. (September 20, 2012 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

The location was Cannon House Office Building – Room 121 Independence Ave SW & 1st St SE Washington,DC 20024 USA

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I also had a speech in Capitol Reflecting Pool (3rd St & Jefferson Drive SW Washington DC 20004).

I thought that would not be so meaningful for me to talk about hypocrisy of nuclear industry or murderous policy of Japanese government to the audience because our audience already know such things and they can read more details on the internet. (but that’s necessary.)

This is also a discrepancy unique for  this kind of the protest.

This speech therefore was for passersby on the street, beside the pool, and tourists walking around.

I emphasized the fault of media and America to appeal for larger range of people.

Nuclear, war, dysfunction of the governing system, they all share the same root. War has an aspect as a public public investment for inventory readjustment of surplus in industrial products and people. Nuclear is also a part of them. You can’t resolve only a part of this entire system. The system needs a whole renovation.

My major was economics. I was a believer of free economy.

However, I’m starting to learn capitalism and democracy are merely impractical propositions like nuclear power.

You can change politician, but can not change bureaucracy. They are the one to absorb our tax and decide where to drop it. This is where all the power / information is concentrated. and they have no feedback from their bad operating. but you can’t attack them like you can’t punch air. I find it the crucial system error of our modern society.

I don’t know what can be alternative, but I’m starting to think again, we can’t design our society.

We live in the society, but don’t even know how it is working. so I’m doing what I can do. I focused on what I can accuse in this speech.

This is the draft of my speech. I might have said something different on the stage but must be details.

 

Hello, Mr. Obama
I am the writer of Fukushima Diary.
This is the only Japanese source specialized in Fukushima accident written in English.
The slogan is we are against media blackout.
On 15th and 16th of March, when the biggest plume hit Tokyo, I was there working outside all day.
I can never forget my despair when I knew reactor3 possibly had a nuclear explosion.
If media and Japanese government announced meltdown was on-going, I would have evacuated sooner.

I was exposed. I was too late to evacuate. This is the concrete fact.

I might die of leukemia or cancer in the future.
but I have to say this.

I will never forgive media and the decision to save economy for the sacrifice of people’s lives in eastern Japan.

They chose slow death for the longer life of economy.

I came here to ask your help for Japan.

Immediately after 311, I understood we can never trust the government. Never.
We have to ask for your help.

America pushed nuclear energy to Japan.
I demand you America to open the country and help people.

Japanese government is planning to send disaster debris to Saipan.
Japan is still exporting fishery products to America.
Coolant system keeps being disordered.
If another earthquake hits Fukushima, it’s also the end of America.

44% of Fukushima children have thyroid nodules or cysts.
and 98% of the medicine is made in Fukushima.
Japan is a small country.
We can’t save ourselves.

For the children, please move your country.
Please move your government.
Please have them reveal all the truth and save the world.

My parents are still in Japan, and they’re sick.
I came here as a messenger.

Thank you.

 

 

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Français :

Rassemblement du 20 septembre 2012 à Washington DC

J’ai rejoint le rassemblement de Washington DC qui se tenait du 20 au 22 septembre 2012.

Voici les photos prises pendant la conférence de presse du congrès. (20 septembre 2012 de 14:00 à 16:00)

C’était situté dans le bâtiment des bureaux de Cannon – salle 121 – SW Avenue de l’Independance  & 1ère rue  SE – Washington,DC 20024 USA.

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J’ai aussi assisté à une présentation à la piscine de réflexion du Capitole (3e rue & SW Jefferson Drive – Washington DC 20004).

Je pensais que ça n’aurait pas beaucoup d’importance pour moi de parler de l’hypocrisie de l’industrie nucléaire ou de la politique criminelle du gouvernement japonais à cet auditoire parce que nous savons tous déjà tout ça et on peut en savoir encore plus sur internet. (mais c’était nécessaire.)

C’est aussi une contradiction spécifique à ce genre de contestation.

Ce discours s’adressait donc aux passants de la rue, à côté de la piscine, et aux touristes passant autour.

J’ai mis en avant l’échec des médias et de l’Amérique à prévenir une plus grande masse de gens.

Le nucléaire, la guerre, les failles du système de gouvernance, tout ça tient sur la même chose. La guerre a un côté investissement public pour le redéploiement des surplus industriels et de personnels. Le nucléaire en fait partie. On ne peut corriger partiellement tout ce système. Tout le système a besoin d’être rénové.

Mon point essentiel était sur l’économie. Je croyais en une économie libre.

Toutefois, je commence à apprendre que le capitalisme et la démocratie sont  des concepts quasiment irréalistes tout comme l’électricité nucléaire.

Vous pouvez changer de politicien mais vous ne pouvez pas changer la bureaucratie. C’est ce qui absorbe vos impôts et décide comment les utiliser. C’est là où se concentre tout le pouvoir / l’information et il n’y a aucun retour sur leurs mauvaises opérations mais vous ne pouvez les attaquer pas plus que vous pouvez frapper l’air. J’ai trouvé que c’est l’erreur fondamentale du système de notre société moderne.

Je ne vois pas comment faire autrement mais je recommence à réfléchir, nous pouvons concevoir notre société.

Nous vivons en société mais nous ne savons même plus comment elle marche, alors je fais ce que je peux. Dans cette intervention, je me suis concentré sur ce que je pouvait dénoncer.

C’est le brouillon de mon discours. J’ai pu dire des choses différentes sur scène mais c’est forcément dans les details.

 

Bonjour, M. Obama
Je suis le rédacteur du Fukushima Diary.
C’est l’unique source japonaise spécialisée sur l’accident de Fukushima qui soit écrite en anglais.
Son slogan est que nous sommes contre le black-out médiatique.
Les 15 et 16 mars, lorsque le plus important nuage a frappé Tokyo, j’y étais et je travaillais dehors toute la journée.
Je ne pourrais jamais oublier mon désespoir quand j’ai appris que le réacteur 3 avait probablement provoqué une explosion nucléaire.
Si la presse et le gouvernement japonais avaient annoncé que la fusion nucléaire était en cours, j’aurais évacué plus tôt.

J’étais exposé. J’étais en retard pour évacuer. C’est un fait.

Je peux mourir de leucémie ou de cancer plus tard.
mais je dois le dire.

Je ne pardonnerai jamais à la presse, ni la décision de sauvegarder l’économie en sacrifiant la vie des gens de l’Est japonais.

Ils ont choisi la mort lente pour prolonger la vie de l’économie.

Je viens ici vous demander d’aider le Japon.

Immédiatement après le 11 mars, j’ai compris qu’on ne pourrait jamais croire le gouvernement. Jamais.
Nous devons vous demander votre aide.

L’Amérique a promu l’énergie nucléaire au Japon.
Je vous demande, à l’Amérique, d’ouvrir le pays et d’aider les gens.

Le gouvernement japonais planifie l’envoi des débris de la catastrophe à Saipan.
Le Japon exporte toujours des produits de la mer en Amérique.
Le système de refroidissement continue de révéler ses pannes aléatoires.
Si un autre séisme frappe Fukushima ce sera la fin de l’Amérique aussi.

44% des enfants de Fukushima ont des nodules thyroïdiens ou des kystes.
et 98% de la médecine est fabriquée à Fukushima.
Le Japon est un petit pays.
Nous ne pouvons nous sauver nous-mêmes.

Au nom des enfants, je vous prie de faire bouger votre pays.
Je vous prie de faire bouger votre gouvernement.
Je vous supplie de leur dire toute la vérité et de sauver le monde.

Mes parents sont toujours au Japon et ils sont malades.
Je viens à vous en messager.

Merci.

 

 

  1. Hi, could you elaborate on what you mean by how 98% of medicines are produced in Fukushima? Does this mean that even the common cold tablets, any over the counter medications as well as prescription drugs are made in Fukushima? If so, why is it only made there? Thank you.

    1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fukushima-nuclear-planet-released-more-radiation-government-said

      http://flemingpharma.com/tag/fukushima/

      http://www.toaeiyo.co.jp/english/outline.html. (manufactures transdermal patches in Sendai)

      http://www.ajinomoto-seiyaku.co.jp/en/business/index.html (factory in Fukishima)

      There are many more. Just use your search engine, and you will discover a global world where nothing is soley made in the USA.

  2. Great work Iori! Thank you for taking this message to the world. Sometimes I think Noda and his goons listen more to US opinion than local people. What you’re doing is very important to changing Japan.

  3. A messenger, like Rosa Parks, unintentional consequence of injustice will never be silenced, and history will reveal the messenger to be the most powerful catalyst of change. The nuclear industry originated in the USA, and the USA must help all who have suffered because of the lies perpetuated by an uncontrolled industry. Helen Cauldicott, Paul Gunderson, and many more have been giving this message for thirty years. Let us become the change we seek in our world. Corporations must not be allowed to build something so dangerous. A car is dangerous, yet, it cannot kill thousands, just a few. Large nuclear power plants risk millions of lives. This simply is not acceptable. We may look like a small number, but we are a large number, seeking nothing more thanpeace, security, and life. nuclear energy is not a partisan issue. Nuclear energy is a power that is beyond discrimination. Lets work together and restrict corporations from creating deadly nightmares. The US is on the verge of a disaster, today, with 23 aging Mark I Nuclear Power plants. I can refer you to http://www.beyondnuclear.org. You can search for Helen Cauldicott on the web. You can read the nuclear page of Georgia Power, and see how these corporations lie to us. There are three lies about nuclear power. 1. It is safe. 2. It is clean. 3. It is efficient. The first lie has been answered by the film, Silkwood, by Chernoble, by Fukishima, and by the numerous near accidenta we have seen in the USA, over the last year. Lie #2 is false, only when you consider the half life of Cesium 137, plutonium, uranium, and the waste that must be transported, recycled, and stored, at our nations borders, in New Mexico, and Texas. Lie #3 requires much more thought. Do not believe what you read at face value. In the sixties, they said, Question Authority. Who tells you that nuclear power is efficient? It is a relative statement. Efficient, compared to waht? Last week, an Iowa Republican Governor and Senator, blasted Congress, specifically, their own party, for not approving an extension of the wind energy tax credit, which was innitiated under a Republican administration. The reason; One company said, nuclear power plants run 24/7 and cannot be shut ddown when there is an oversupply of electricity. Wind power is so efficient that an oversupply is created. The theory of a free market dictates price based on demand and supply. Ind generated in Iowa created an oversupply, and they could not reduce supply without choosing to shut one or the other down. One company, which owns a nuclear power plant, chose to go against wind, even though they also own a wind farm. We as a nation must decide what kind of energy we want for our futures, no the corporations. God bless the messenger of hope.

  4. You have done SO MUCH! How do you feel? I have read this site almost from the very beginning, I watched you agonize over whether you should leave Japan, & then you did leave; I read about your health-how are you feeling lately, fine I hope.

    I have only 1 suggestion for changing government: ALL candidates for office MUST submit to a total psychological profile which will be made public. Simply putting out commercials to win public office doesn’t work; people must pass tests in order to have authority to drive, they must pass tests in order to teach, in order to do almost everything-except win public office. A politician can write laws, can wipe out other laws & deeply affect everyone’s lives; there MUST be a superior method of selecting Mayors, Governors, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Senators, House Representatives, Members of Parliament, etc. A psychological profile would ferret out a tendency to be an egomaniac, a tendency to ignore facts, a tendency to be cautious, etc.

  5. Well done!
    If think you won’t get too far asking help with Obama. Like Bush was backed up with oil money, Obama is backed up with nuclear industry money.
    But, never stop fighting…

  6. Awsome!!!

    I’d like to word out of this.

    ***An urgent appeal for signature to save the children of Fukushima ***
    http://fukushima-syomei-e.blogspot.ca/ (English)
    http://fukushima-syomei.blogspot.jp/2012/09/blog-post.html (Japanese 緊急署名の呼びかけ)

    Other language: http://www.blogger.com/profile/14746795864957215884

    후쿠시마 집단피난 재판
    Un procès intenté à Fukushima pour une évacuation collective
    Der Fukushima Collective Evakuierungstest
    Processo per l’evacuazione collettiva dei bambini di Fukushima
    Судебный процесс по вопросу массовой эвакуации жителей Фукусима
    ふくしま集団疎開裁判
    The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial
    El Juicio sobre la Evacuación de la Colectiva de Fukushima
    Ein dringender Appell zur Unterzeichnung, die Kinder von Fukushima zu retten
    福岛县集体撤离审判

  7. Soooo good to see you shining with this bright smile!

    It feels good to me you physically met and exchanged with these people who have good knowledge and deep thoughts.

    Each and all together, you bring light in this specific nuclear field of our world and beyond.

    I pray your lights will bring along quick effects now.

    Thank you and thanks to every person gathering information for decades. I did get very largely informed with your work and researches all of you. As well as many many people now.

    I still meet difficulties to try getting people informed as well, but surely there will be at some point an exponential interest-understanding and global true view on the nuclear subject.

    Now around me, people remember I was speaking specifically of SFP 4 since one year and begin to give me feedback. I would summerize it this way : space to talk of this is opened. Information can poor in. Go on.

    I would like to suggest you put showy links to speeches of Helen Caldicott and others. So new coming people get a quick global summery to catch up a little…

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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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