[Column] Disaster doesn’t dream a dream

Most of the people think Fukushima has been settled down for some reason.

I have no idea when, and where they got the idea. Probably they don’t even know that themselves.

but anyway, I’m swimming upstream. A lot of people bash me for thousands of the reasons.

Though I’m against “Support by eating”, I’m actually feeling so bad for them.

 

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Yesterday, my husband looked like he was crying to come home. He said, “Farmers were selling Fukushima pears and peaches in Omotesando (* The street considered to be the highest-end in Tokyo), one for 13 cents.”

Deep sorrow, more shocking than protests or angry yelling. What should we do ?

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I didn’t post this as an article because I wasn’t sure if they still sell Fukushima peach. but it did make me feel bad. Yes, I’m killing their business.

What I’m trying to do is very destructive. I’m trying to destruct nuclear industry, local agriculture, Japanese culture, and traditional journalism. I must be a disaster for some people. At least I destructed my own family and human relationships. When I close my eyes in the bed, I can hear them cursing me.

Morning is something. Sometimes I forget which country I am in. Opening my eyes, standing up my head vertically, checking my body still moves, they are all heavy duty.

Open the computer and check if Japan still exists. Bad news, and worse news are waiting for me.

but I believe I have to do this. In a way, I’m a cleaner. Bad and old things must be swept away.

My grandmother went through WWW2. She was always criticizing the fascism and and group mind of Japanese people. Thanks to her repetitive old story, I managed to get out of there.

One of the amazing discoveries is that nothing happens even if you ignore your psychological torment.

Before 311, I was very serious about “feeling” the torment. I thought I had to feel it. but even if you just ignore it, nothing happens. I got to feel really better since I noticed it.

I think I’m doing 100% right. If not, I’ll be simply weeded out, but that’s not my business.

My grandparents like to hunt tangerine and edible wild plants, and they love to give it to people. They give green tea too. so I won’t meet them. They won’t understand me at all. They’ll think I betrayed them.

This makes me more and more existentialist. I have two ways to go. Fall off in the death valley of sense of guilty, or Keep my iron heart and go on. 1,2,3..ok, nothing happened. Let’s go.

I don’t believe in heaven or hell. Now is all. There’s nothing more. Hate me if you want, if it makes you feel better. but you can’t just stop me.

 

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لا تحلم الكارثة بحلم!
نُشرت بواسطة أيوري موتشيزوكي 22 اكتوبر 2012
يظن الناس أن ما حل في فوكوشيما قد حدث لسببٍ ما.
أنا لا أعلم متى و من أين جاءت هذه الفكرة. إحتمال، هؤلاء الناس أنفسهم لا يعلمون كذلك.
لكن، بكل الاحوال، ها أنذا أسبح عكس التيار. هناك الكثير من الناس ساخطون علي لالافٍ من الاسباب. على الرغم بأني ضد حملة (ساند بالاكل)، لكنني في الحقيقة أشعر بالحزن الشديد بهم.

昨日、夫が、泣きそうな顔をして帰ってきた。聞くと「表参道で、農家の人が梨と桃を売ってたんだよ。1つ10円で、福島産で・・」どんなデモより、怒りの声より、心に迫る悲しみ。私たちはどうすればいい? — 未希さん (@sskmkk0421) 10月 16, 2012

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البارحة، بدا لي زوجي باكياً عند عودته للمنزل. قال لي”كان المزارعون يبيعون الكمثرى و الخوخ المنتج في فوكوشيما في شارع اوموتساندروا (يعد هذا الشارع من أفخم شوارع طوكيو)، كل حبة ب 13 سنتاً”.
حزنٌ عميق، أكثر صدمة من الاحتجاجات الغاضبة أو من الصراخ، ماذا يتوجب علينا فعله؟

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لم أنشر هذا على شكل مقال، لانني لم أكن متأكداً إن كانوا إلى الاّن يبيعون خوخاً من فوكوشيما هناك. لكنه أمرٌ أشعرني حقاً بالحزن. نعم، أنا أغتال عمل هؤلاء الفلاحين.
ما أحاولُ عمله هو أمرٌ بغاية التدمير. أنا احاول تدمير الصناعة النووية، الزراعة المحلية، الثقافة اليابانية، و الصحافة التقليدية. أنا قد اُعتبرُ كارثة لبعض الناس. على الاقل، لقد دمرتُ عائلتي و علاقاتي الانسانية. عندما اُغمض عيني في الليل، أستطيع سماعهم (عائلتي و معارفي) يشتمونني.
الصباح هو شيءٌ اّخر. أحيناً أنسى في أي بلدٍ أنا الاّن. أفتح عيناي، أقف و رأسي عمودياً، أتحقق إذا كان جسمي لا يزال بأستطاعته التحرك. هذا أمرٌ شاق.
أفتح الكومبيوتر و أتحقق إذا كانت اليابان لا تزالُ موجودة. أخبار تعيسة وأخبار أتعس بأنتظاري. لكني أؤمن بأن علي القيام بعملي. بطريقةٍ ما، أنا اعتبر نفسي “منظّفاً”، لان يجب علي “كنس” الاشياء القديمة و التعيسة.
لقد عاصرت جدتي الحرب العالمية الثانية. لقد كانت دائماً تنتقد الفاشيين و بعض جماعة المفكين اليابانيين. شكراً إلى قصصها القديمة و المتكررة، تمكنت من التخلص و الهروب من هناك.
واحدة من أعظم الاكتشافات المذهلة هو أن لا يحدث أي شيء حتى لو كنت تتجاهل العذاب النفسي.
قبل 311، كنتُ حقاً جدياً بموضوع وجوب الشعور بالعذاب، ظننتُ حقاً إن علي الشعور به. لكن، عندما أدركتُ بأن لاشيء سيحدث على الاطلاق، حتى لو تجاهلت هذا الشعور، بدأت الشعور بتحسن كبير.
أعتقد أنني على صواب 100%. حتى إن لم بكن كذلك، سيتوجب عليهم إقتلاعي إذن، و هذا حقاً ليس من شأني.
يحب أجدادي البحث عن اليوسفي و الاعشاب البرية الصالحة للاكل، و يحبون أيضاً تقديمها للاخرين. هم يحبّون أيضاً تقديم الشاي الاخضر. لهذا، لن أذهب للقاءهم. هم لن يفهموني على الاطلاق. سيظننون بأنني خُنتهم.
و هذا ما يجعلني “وجودي” أكثر و أكثر. أمامي طريقان للذهاب، أما السقوط في وادي الموت من الشعور بالذنب، أ أحافظ على قلبي الحديدي و أستمر في مسعاي. 1، 2،3.. لا شيء حدث! إلى الامام.
أنا لا أؤمن بالجنة و النار. الاّن، و الاّن فقط. لا شيء أكثر. إكرهوني إن شأتم، هذا يشعرني بألإضل حال. لكن، ليس بأمكانكم اإيقافي.

ابوري موتشيزوكي

 

[Editoriale] Il disastro non sogna sogni

La maggior parte delle persone pensa che a Fukushima la situazione si sia sistemata in qualche modo.
Io non so quando e dove si siano fatti quest’idea. Probabilmente non lo sanno nemmeno loro.
In ogni caso io sto nuotando controcorrente. Molte persone mi attaccano per migliaia di motivi.
Comunque anche se io sono contrario al “Sostegno attraverso il cibo”, mi sento davvero male per loro.

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Ieri mio marito sembrava aver pianto sulla via di ritorno a casa. Ha detto: “Gli agricoltori stavano vendendo pere e pesche di Fukushima a Omotesando (*la strada di Tokyo considerata di più alto livello), una per 13 centesimi.”
Dolore profondo, più scioccante delle proteste o delle urla arrabbiate. Cosa dovremmo fare?
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Non ho postato questo in un articolo perché non ero sicuro che ancora vendessero le pesche di Fukushima, ma mi ha fatto sentire davvero male. Sì, sto uccidendo il loro business.
Quello che cerco di fare è molto distruttivo. Sto cercando di distruggere l’industria nucleare, l’agricoltura locale, la cultura giapponese e il giornalismo tradizionale. Io sarò considerato un disastro per alcune persone. Perlomeno ho distrutto la mia stessa famiglia e le mie relazioni umane. Quando, nel mio letto, chiudo gli occhi, posso sentire che mi stanno maledendo.
La mattina è un’altra cosa. A volte dimentico in che paese mi trovo. Apro gli occhi, alzo la testa, controllo se il mio corpo si muove ancora, sento tutto pesante.
Accendo il computer e controllo se il Giappone esiste ancora. Brutte notizie e notizie ancora peggiori mi stanno aspettando, ma credo di doverlo fare. In un certo senso sto facendo pulizia. Le cose brutte e passate devono essere spazzate via.
Mia nonna ha vissuto durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Criticava sempre il fascismo e la mentalità collettiva giapponese. Grazie alla sua vecchia e ripetitiva storia, io sono riuscito ad uscirne.
Una delle meravigliose scoperte che ho fatto è che non succede niente anche se ignori i tuoi tormenti psicologici.
Prima dell’11.03 vedevo molto seriamente il “sentire” i tormenti. Pensavo semplicemente che sentire fosse un mio dovere. Invece, se anche gli ignori, non succede niente. Mi sento molto meglio da quando me ne sono accorto.
Penso di stare facendo la cosa giusta al 100%. Se così non è verrò semplicemente eliminato, ma non è un problema mio.
I miei nonni amano andare a caccia di mandarini e piante selvatiche commestibili e donarli alle persone. Danno anche il tè verde, quindi non ho intenzione di incontrarli. Non mi capiranno mai, penseranno che li abbia traditi.
Questo mi rende sempre più esistenzialista. Ci sono solo due strade possibili: cadere nella valle della morte del senso di colpa oppure tenere il mio cuore d’acciaio e proseguire. 1,2,3 … ok, non è successo niente. Andiamo avanti.
Io non credo nel paradiso o nell’inferno. Il presente è tutto, non c’è niente di più. Odiatemi se volete, se vi fa sentire meglio. Ma non potete semplicemente fermarmi.

 

 

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Français :

[Édito] La catastrophe ne porte pas au rêve

La plupart des gens pensent que Fukushima est maintenant stabilisée.
Je ne sais pas de quand ni d’où sort cette idée. Peut-être n’en savent-ils rien eux-mêmes.
mais, quoi qu’il en soit, je nage à contre courant. Beaucoup de gens me rentrent dedans pour des centaines de raisons.
Bien que je sois contre le “Soutien en mangeant”, je suis réellement navré pour eux.

Je n’ai pas posté ceci en tant qu’article parce que je n’étais pas certain qu’ils continuent de vendre les pêches de Fukushima mais ça m’a fait mal. Oui, je tue leur travail.

Ce que j’essaye de faire est très destructeur. J’essaye de détruire l’industrie nucléaire, l’agriculture locale, la culture japonaise et le journalisme traditionnel. Je dois être une catastrophe pour certains. J’ai au moins détruit ma propre famille et les relations humaines. Quand je ferme les yeux au lit, je peux les entendre me maudire.

Le matin c’est autre chose. Parfois j’oublie dans quel pays je suis. Ouvrant les yeux, relevant ma tête verticalement, vérifiant que mon corps fonctionne toujours, tous sont très chargés de travail.

Allumer l’ordinateur et vérifier que le Japon existe toujours. De mauvaises nouvelles m’attendent, et d’autres pires encore.
mais je crois que je dois le faire. D’une certaine façon, je suis un nettoyeur. Les mauvaises et vieilles choses doivent être balayées.

Ma grand-mère a traversé la 2e guerre mondiale. Elle critiquait toujours le fascisme et l’esprit corporatiste nippon. Grâce à sa vieille histoire répétitive, j’ai réussi à sortir de là.

Une des découvertes stupéfiantes est que rien ne se passe même si vous ignorez votre tourment psychologique.
Avant le 11-3, je prenais très au sérieux sur le “ressenti” du tourment. Je pensais que je devais le ressentir. mais même si vous l’ignorez, rien ne change. J’ai commencé à me sentir vraiment mieux quand je l’ai remarqué.

Je pense que je fais 100% ce qu’il faut. Sinon, je serai simplement éliminé mais ça n’est pas mon problème.

Mes grand-parents aiment chasser les mandarines et les plantes comestibles et ils aiment en donner aux gens. Ils donnent du thé vert aussi. alors je n’irai pas les voir. Ils ne me comprendront pas. Ils vont penser que je les ai trahis.

Ça me rend de plus en plus existentialiste. J’ai deux chemins possibles. Tomber dans la vallée de la mort du sentiment de culpabilité, ou garder mon cœur d’acier et avancer.
1,2,3… Ok, il ne s’est rien passé. On y va.

Je ne crois ni au paradis, ni à l’enfer. Maintenant, c’est tout. Il n’y a rien de plus. Vous pouvez me haïr si vous voulez, si ça vous aide à vous sentir mieux. mais vous ne pouvez pas m’arrêter.

  1. Keep an iron heart, Mochizuki. I know a dozen people who read your blog — and they know people who read it. We all feel despair that the Japanese are alone; we don’t understand why they don’t send their children to relatives in other countries, to strangers who worry and want to help. We don’t understand why they aren’t screaming for the world to listen to them, to give them a safe place to build a new life; we don’t understand how silent they are.

    We don’t understand why the Japanese government is spreading lies and death, rather than doing everything it can to preserve life by moving the people most in danger out of Japan, and by demanding that other governments help stop the radiation from continuing to contaminate the world.

    I understand why so many don’t leave — everything they have, everything they understand, everyone they love is in Japan. It’s so expensive and difficult to uproot your life, and there is no welcoming face to look towards. The changes come gradually, and when a frog is in a pot, it doesn’t think that the warming water will truly harm it.

    I’m sorry you feel your family will not understand. But there are *millions* of people who do understand why you left, and why you look back and tell us what you see. I’m glad you left, and as your life continues, hundreds who you are yet to meet will be glad that you are alive, and safe.

    If you are spending a lot of time alone? It is important to be with people. Try to find a good story to report, of someone like yourself who was smart, and believed in life, so they left and are building a new life. Reporting just on the worst happenings will hurt your spirit.

    Your spirit is too important to always be sad.

  2. Is this true? ,,,

    “WARNING! This is the worst-case scenario unfolding at Fukushima. According to Michael Eckstein, a researcher who lives only 50 miles from Fukushima, explosions and fires have occurred at spent fuel pools two and four over the past four days and now radiation levels are spiking enormously.

    THIS IS THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO BECAUSE OF THE THOUSANDS OF TONS OF PLUTONIUM CONTAINED IN THESE SPENT FUEL POOLS.

    This is now vapourizing into the atmosphere and being disseminated with the winds. Major cloud and radiation spike estimated to hit west coast of USA in two weeks or less.

    I will post more information as it comes in and I have a chance to put together something. NO MATTER WHAT DO NOT BELIEVE THE MASS-MEDIA. THIS IS FIRST-HAND EYE-WITNESS INFORMATION.

    “The Govt is willing to pay $5000 for 15min work,,,but no one has come forward. i can see the steam coming over the mountain here as im writing. I’m going to do a Live interview with CNN at 3pm my time, its 11:38am right now Monday morning. You should see it when you wake up. I am going to tell the truth like before. I want to give you the chance we and our children never got.

    Jeff, It was spent fuel from plants 2 and 4. In plant #2 over 30,000 Spent fuel rods are now exposed, and in the #4 plant, the workers have evacuated. There is now mass panic at all airports, shopping centers to stock up on food,We are being told to stay indoors,,schools are being instructed to keep the students inside. I’ll keep you up-dated through-out the day. This is an historical event underway as we speak.

    “They say the SPIKE increase, is blowing due west, thats directly towards America, This time its power is 1000x greater than before, due to the fact the rods are now exposed, and no one will go within 20 miles, people here are starting to panic by again Jeff”

    MICHAEL…so tell me all that you know about recent developments at Fukushima. I have known all along that spent fuel pools had been destroyed since beginning. Numbers one and three likely destroyed first week.

    Spent pool four…is it now burning? Is this where the explosion of two days ago was?

    “Yes, Jeff, its from the new explosion. If you can get your hands on ANY idione pills, stock up, specially for the children, its coming your way, but no one is going to tell you the truth. I AM, its my mission now to save as many as i can. the readings on our meter spiked up again this morning since yesterdays reading, now its over 840 and climbing, EXAMPLE, a person should only be exposed to 50 mill in a lifetime. do the math. Jeff, one more point, since the season winds have changed, the direction is now directly towards the west coast. Im sorry to have to report this, but we must act and demand from the Govt, truths, and how to prepare. Everyone is concerned about the election at the moment, but within 72 hours the experts are saying, it should start spiking around the LA area around wed, and within 2 weeks, the entire country will be up to 300 mill. I will keep you posted. God BLess, and Thank you for your awareness to get the word out ASAP. PREPARE, we didnt have the chance, you do. Learn from our experience. Michael”

    1. Can anyone confirm or deny this story yet…? You know we won’t see anything on Main Stream Media….

    2. Paul, I traced this story to thecontrail.com, but NONE of the mainstream media sites so far, not even as a back page story. I’m not surprised that they have been covering up Tepkill’s disaster all along, but something this big cannot be ignored even by the controlled media shills!

      Does anyone have any more information? Does the truth lie somewhere between “Everything is under control” and “Japan is in a mass panic evacuation”?

  3. >>Yes, I’m killing their business.

    no, tepco and the governments of japan and the united states killed their business.

    you didn’t build 7 reactors right next to each other, based on a faulty design. you didn’t load up 8 spent fuel pools with a mix of uranium and plutonium while assuring the public that atomic energy is clean and safe.

    thank you for your efforts.

  4. “I have no idea when, and where they got the idea”.

    Probably by “magic” of media silence and, very specially, official proclamations like the one in the March 2012 anniversary that declared everything under control.

    But mostly if the media does not hammer you with an issue like Iran nuclear program or the US electoral campaign… that issue falls off the radar and you imagine it “solved” somehow.

    Wrong indeed but that’s how our attention span for non-essentials goes.

  5. Iori –

    Hang in there. In three or four years we will be proven right. In the meantime, get a mailing address and put it on your website so we can send you cash without going through paypal.

  6. You are a spiritual warrior. Living in the now, leaning into the pain of your open heart and following your inner guidance, inner truth and serving millions of people. You are a voice for the Japanese people to be heard in the world. There are millions listening.

    “Warriorship is a basic sense of unshakeability. It’s a sense of immovability and self-existing dignity” Choyam Trungpa Rinpoche

    you are that and i thank you

  7. Dear Mochizuki,

    First of all, yes, keep being convinced you’ve done the right choice. Information about Fukushima disaster and consequences would be a nightmare if you weren’t there. Thank you, sincerely, for all the job you do to inform. Because this disaster is a whole planet disaster, the one who think that only Japan is concerned is a fool.

    We can feel how high is the price you pay for having this courage. Please be sure you job is worth having done all these sacrifices. Earth bless you, you and the ones you love in Japan, for the consciousness you’ve succeeded to keep and to spread. You allow to thousands of people to know the truth, you allow people to protect themselves against misinformation of mass medias.
    You allow people to realize in which world they’re living in : profits before life. Only the consciousness of this can lead us all to change : if no consciousness of this truth, no need to change is feeled !! The job you do is vital not only for Japan, but for the whole human beings. There is no little job, when we’re speaking about Truth.

    I know the price for Japan is a heavy one, and I know too that the Mt Fuji seems to have some willing to wake-up, that is also a catastrophic new for Japan. But I’ve read that zeolites (contained in volcanoes ashes) absorb radio-active materials, such as Cesium. Nature is healing herself, and behind all the pessimistic views of these news, I hope there will finally have hope for japanese people. Earth bless you all !

  8. Better to stand out by championing the truth alone than disappear into the lies of stream of consciousness.

    “Disillusioning people is a thankless task and quite plainly does not come under the category of making friends and thinking positively. Nevertheless it must be done if we are to rescue lost men from the consequences of their delusions. So let me say boldly that it is not the difficulty of discovering truth but the unwillingness to obey it that makes it so rare among men.” ~ A.W. Tozer

  9. You’re the only one keeping an eye on and translating the fukushima-related events for so many people to read. Without you we wouldn’t hear about all the radiation readings and articles that don’t get published in the major media. You’re the only one putting it out there in English. Hang in there because you are playing an important part in hisotory right now. You are doing something very positive.

  10. Hello,

    We want to say you that the job you did and do yet is absolutely fantastic.
    For me Japan was a far unknown country, with you I’ve discover a part of. Since Fukushima Diiari accident I had links to follow what’s happen, how to help, etc… but propaganda did its dark job and most of them turn back. You are for me now one of the last keep his soul open, try to inform in neutrality, whatever the different way you take.
    If you decide to take the official way to find calm and “normal” life that’s absolutely your right, you have to know that we will miss you.
    But please stay to us: the entire world need you.

    Thank you for all you did, do, and will do yet.

    Jules from France

  11. Calmness in the face of difficulties helps.
    Every effort you have made and make is sending huge ripples around the world. Every day your work inspires people to pay attention to their surroundings, their health and the future of the planet they live on.
    Paul Stamets has some great things to say about bioremediation with fungi, specially for your grandparents. Of course they would love to hear from you, love from parents and grandparents is unconditional. All we ever have in our lives is the present moment. Peace and happiness in the face of adversity, sit under a tree sometime and let the worries go to the earth and sky.

  12. Stay strong and look to the future for yourself.
    You are so important for so many people. we are your family. we are thousands, spread out across the world. So many of us rely on you daily to bring us the truth. You are our link into a seemingly unusual and different thinking culture that we do not understand. Stay strong.

    You need a mailbox not too close to where you live so we can send cash to help you on your way and take care of your daily needs.
    Not too many of us trust PayPal.
    Publish a postbox address and we will take care of you.
    Your new family of the world.

  13. Not long after 3/11 I began thinking that I’d soon be hearing about great numbers refugees from Japan being taken in by families here in the US and in other countries. This hasn’t happened but I keep watching, hoping for the best but still dreading the worst, especially when I hear about the children. I can certainly understand people not wanting to leave and not being able to leave, but I fear for their safety. Heaven and Hell are real places, but I hope you can find peace in the love of Jesus Christ while you are still here in the now. You and Japan will be in my prayers and support.

  14. Iori: Without you who would let us know what is going on. We who read your column avidly every day reap the same rewards as you – everyone thinks we’re nuts too. The numbers don’t lie and every day the radiation numbers creep up. I don’t think it will be too long before we are vindicated.
    People fight what you and we are saying. Ignorance is bliss although in this instance, it’s lethal. They would rather bury their heads in the sand than come to the realization that their children; thier grandchildren and themselves have been and are being poisioned.
    Be very careful my friend as I’d be very surprised if there aren’t those that would wish you harm. If they silence you who will take up the cause?
    You are a courageous young man and we are all proud of you and in awe of you. Don’t let those that want to call you down take a minute of your time. They aren’t worth listening to.
    I still shake my head every day as I find it incredulous that Tepco and the Japanese government along with the US and Canadian governments have been able to hide three China Syndrome meltdowns. They will very soon not be able to hide this. Pray all of us that the spent fuel ponds survive intact as if #4 goes, we are all doomed.
    Stay healthy my friend and stay strong – we need you.
    From the bottom of my heart – thank you and I don’t want to hear you doubtful and depressed again you hear! We love you and you have our admiration. If in Canada you have a place to stay in BC.

  15. Dear Mochizuki,

    At the Tibetan Buddhist monastery where I live, we pray for the swift, safe decommissioning of Fukushima everyday in our practices.

    We also pray for the key to rendering nuclear radiation harmless to beings.

    We pray too for basic sanity to be restored so that world leaders and scientists wake up and take positive actions to restore balance to our environment.

    And finally, we pray for many new discoveries in the area of renewable energy and the auspicious circumstances to implement them.

    And now, will add your name to our prayer list to remove all obstacles to your work and bring good circumstances to heal and strengthen your heart.

    Yours in Dharma,

    Linda

    Lerab Ling, Roqueredonde, France

  16. Mochizuki-san, you are a man of high morals and integrity. Those whom follow your blog have high respect for your work. You are our lifeline to the ongoing nuclear situation at Fukushima & neighboring areas of Japan. Remember that your opinion is very much welcome here in the US and Canada. I was born in Sasebo. Lived most of my childhood & early teen years in Okinawa, Yokohama (Negishi), and Yokosuka. My mom is Japanese. Her family lives in or around Sasebo/Nagasaki, and even though they are far South from Fukushima, I always worry. Although I left Japan in the spring of 1984, I still feel spiritually connected. Japan is in my blood, in my genes. I worry for my friends, whom live in California, Oregon, and Washington states. I completely and utterly understand you. We are ALL in this together, as a family… as a team.

  17. Lori,
    I read your blog everyday. I am in the San Francisco Bay Area where people here still run in the rain oblivious to what is in the air they are breathing. I look at the Dandelions and pine needles for signs of damage. We are not hearing anything about Fukushima but since the disaster, huge groups of us are meeting on YouTube and becoming friends over the web. Your blog is often the subject of videos and your work has profound respect here.
    In Louisiana, a similar disaster is underway with a salt dome collapse in the Bayou Corne Assumption Parish neighborhood with a nuclear power plant about 15 miles away. We are seeing the same media blackout so we know that the pending disaster there might be an exceedingly serious one.
    Thank you for what you are doing and do not despair.

  18. You’re wrong that people think the ‘Fukushima is under control.’

    The truth is that they never were told that Fuku was a serious problem at all, it was reported with the urgency of a firefighter rescuing a cat from a tree – especially in the Western media.

  19. Iori everyone is paying attention. America absolutely understands what has happened. Because we are in an election year neither Obama nor Romney want to discuss the GE Corporation(the Fukushima reactor designer) because it donates a lot of money to both the Democratic and Republican parties. After November 6th they will begin to pay attention.I hope it isn’t too late by then.

    Americans in the Midwest and East Coast may still be in denial but California, Oregon, and Washington people are already getting sick. There is a huge increase in flu, fatigue, nausea, and headaches. Those in the areas susceptible to meningitis are seeing never-before seen rates. Infant deaths,SIDS, and miscarriage have increased as well in abnormal fashion.
    They’ll blame it on the change of weather-for now.

    Most people do not understand that radiation affects the immune system by way of the thyroid initially. Then the muscles, including the heart, will be affected. This causes erratic heartbeats and later, heart attacks. After that point any health effects will be clearly visible.

  20. you have helped enough people.

    You can’t save them all, but you tried.

    BTW, Cassandras are never liked.

  21. Hi Lori,

    I’m with you. Hang in there.

    I appreciate your effort on updating this blog frequently. It must be hard and time consuming to find interesting and reliable news source, especially to translate it into English.

    I’m Japanese living in the States for more than 10 years. My family lives in Kanto area. I try to alert my parents about contaminated food when I find something on the Net, but I don’t do that too much or as often as I should because they think that I”m insane. I sent links of good blogs like yours to my sister who also lives in Kanto with her husband and their newborn baby. Even if she may think that I’m a bothersome, I don’t care. I email her whenever I find something. It is for them and their baby.

    It is sad that many people in Japan think that people who try to protect themselves from radiation are crazy. To me, those who show no interest in what is going on and keep eating whatever available seem insane. I understand how the tendency of many Japanese people are, but being obedient wouldn’t protect you or your family. It is just convenient to Japanese government and large companies like Tepco.

    I admire your courage. Remember you are not alone.

  22. My good man you are a true warrior. You insist on telling the Truth. Your inner strength is incredible. People do not want to know the truth if it dose not fit into their preconceived ideas. I understnd your frustration. I have felt the scorn of those who deny the Truth too. Not to the extent you have but I do understand. The Mayan Calendar is predicting a new era of human life will begin on December 21, 2012. Let us hope it will be an Era of Truth and Comapssion. The world will not survuve the current trend of greed, lies and destruction.

  23. Lori. You are a true hero. Sometimes heros are not known at the time of an event..the truth comes out slowly..You are a hero. I am reminded of being asked to assist in a MAYDAY from a sailboat trying to round Cape Horn in a gale. The boat was in 50 foot seas, strong strong gale force winds, had suffered damage to the cabin and topstructure from waves. The capain, a single handed Japanese sailor, told his family he was fine–and continued to fight the storm. Like many stories, this story did not end well..but he had the “samuri spirit” and fought against terrible odds -with honor and courage. You, Lori, are also a samuri, fighting against an almost impossible opponent–but you are strong and with spirit. We hope the story that is Japan will overcome the dangers and resolve the nuclear disasters we are all facing. But, Lori, you are a hero…..

  24. lori,

    I will continue to support you financially, spiritually, and with my deep trust in what you are doing. We all knew that this was inevitable; but, here in the mid-West (Michigan) it was difficult to find others who would take this seriously. Now on YouTube and Face Book, we are screaming about what we call “Plume Gate” the fact that the radiation has contaminated our nation and no one will tell the Americans the truth. Now a greater contamination is at hand and the Internet is working to warn people.

    We are in the midst of a catastrophic disaster on the Gulf coast. It began with one sinkhole in August which has now spread out of control with methane bubbling up from the ground even 50 miles away. Under the sinkhole is a salt cavern opened to store petroleum products and nuclear waste, just one of only God knows how many. This was a planned disaster which began with the BP oil spill and is connected to the salt domes/caverns. We are in the same situation of media blackout. The end game may be the awakening of the New Madrid Fault Line and the utter devastation of an earthquake. Like the people in Japan, the people in the Gulf are not financially able to move and where can anyone move to be safe? So even if we can find safety from the anticipated radiation plume, we are doomed because of the situation in the Gulf. God bless each of us and keep us strong. And God damn the monsters who have created this Hell.

  25. Keep going your very great job, no matter what others think of you, if you think you’re doing the right thing, keep going ! And thanks for the french translation of your articles !
    I’m French and the situation in Japan could be soon the same in France, particularly with the world economic crisis.
    We have already lies like in Japan since the beggining of nuclear energy from all french governments and french nuclear institutions and electric compagnies like EDF and Areva,
    that takes more and more temporary (and unfortunately unskilled) workers to maintain our 58 reactors (sic), that steal Uranium in Africa for almost nothing, and leave entire old african mining regions relatively polluted and contaminated with high level radiation and some nuclear wastes for populations that live here, that makes this crazy nuclear fuel called “MOX” created by Areva, used in Japan too, which recycle almost nothing of used plutonium (7%) and makes him very unstable (Pu-241) etc…
    Nothing to be proud about being French…
    Nuclear energy is so dangerous. We have principaly used that crazy energy after the WW2 to rebuild quickly our countries, but that was a huge mistake for choosing it and developing and supporting it since so many years.
    Nuclear energy is and will stay uncontrolable, the risks are too great, even with ten millions of nuclear engineers that work actively on security and billions and billions of money spent. The future is for renewables energies and energy efficiency.
    Sorry for my bad english and this long comment, I would just like to say thanks for your great job, the job of a true man.

  26. Thank you, Iori. I wish I could send more, but we are retired and have also put time and money into the California ballot initiative to label GMOs… because if the radiation don’t get ya, then the GMOs will!

  27. In the olden days a hanging could be accompanied by concerned spectators jumping on the dangling torso of the condemned so as to speed them on their way.

    I guess in Japan the advice given is always going to be support the leader by murdering yourself for them.

    In the war of the pacific they instructed to support by jumping or support by crashing.

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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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