Because I’m not in Japan anymore, I can’t interview people on the streets, but I can introduce some tweets of Japanese people.
Japanese people are shy. They don’t like to show up on Youtube or express themselves in English. Contrarily, foreign people want to know what they are thinking, why they don’t evacuate.
so I’m trying to keep the voices up here.
About the settlement reports, I couldn’t keep the record because I was moving from South Europe to Central Europe. I thought writing articles should come before making the settlement reports. Anyway, I really appreciate your support as always. I had a lot from a lot of the people.
Everyday I receive messages from my friends in Tokyo or in Okinawa. I can sense they become sick day after day. People are having nosebleed even in Okinawa. People are more nervous and tired in Tokyo. I hope to share the feeling with readers. This is what is actually going on.
「幼稚園のママ友グループ(放射能汚染気にしない)10人のうち、1月に2歳児2人が就寝中に心不全死。ほか2人(年齢不明)が心臓不整脈、うち1人は、毎月入院しての治療が必要@千葉市」10人中4人が心臓疾患!偶然にしては多すぎ。ママ友から聞いた実話です。
— Chromame (@chromame1) March 23, 2012
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Among 10 mothers of friends in kindergarten, who don’t care about radiation, 2 of the children died of cardiac arrest in January, 2 of other children have abnormal cardiac rhythm. One of them is hospitalized every month. It’s in Chiba.
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@chromame1あと、千葉市の話しは避難ママの集まりで直接そのママに聞きました。うちも周りで男性30代、40代、突然死があったので 余計怖くなりました。色々調べて、東北、関東にいる子供達が心配です。身近な友達に訴えていこうと思います。
— ナツ (@thocoandbiscuit) March 24, 2012
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I heard that (↑) story from the mother directly too. Around me, a man in 30s and another man in 40s had sudden death, I was scared too. I searched by myself too, am worried about children remaining in North Japan and Kanto. will try to talk to close friends.
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福島市の実家の父母が仙台に来た。町内会で放射能の話をすると引かれるそうだ。除染は進まず、公園の木が全て切られ、表土は中央部に埋められ立入禁止。屋根の洗浄など私的な除染は、隣家に水が飛ぶなどして、いらぬ軋轢を生んだりしている。高齢化の進む実家付近ではもう怒る元気もない、とのことだ。
— 菊地淳 (@kikutijun) March 31, 2012
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My parents came from Fukushima city to Sendai. They say they become awkward if they talk about radiation at neighborhood association. Decontamination is not progressing. All the tree were cut from the park and the surface soil is buried in the center. The place is off limits. Decontamination on the roof is causing unnecessary conflicts with neighbors because of the water jumping to the neighbor’s house. The neighbor is aging. They don’t even have energy to be angry.
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@onodekita 昨日、郡山市で1歳のお子さんが亡くなりました。お昼寝をしてて起きてこないから見に行ったら… 県立医大に死亡解剖に行ったそうですが”突然死”ということだったらしいです。
— あはは星人 (@ahaha38i) March 25, 2012
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Yesterday, a 1 year old infant died in Koriyama. The parens went to see him because he didn’t wake up from nap. had an autopsy at Fukushima medical university, but the reason of death was just “sudden death”.
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Iori Mochizuki