[Column] The things I got to know in this journey

Whatever it is for, I sometimes think about when I die.

When everyone dies, you can’t take your money or cars.

 

Instead, the memories about the person remains in people’s mind.

 

It’s not what you have now, it’s how good you are for other people.

Your reputation would live longer than you.

Your “afterlife” is longer than your biological life.

 

Like riding a bicycle, I take a balance by moving all the time.

More than a suitcase is a waste.

I left the materialism miles before.

At the same time, I got to know I’m supported by countless numbers of people’s kindness.

 

It’s the reward for the piece of my devotion.

 

The “devotion / kindness” starts from discipline or the circumstances of childhood.

but it’s our “selection” to grow it bigger.

 

On the other hand, I think once you expect the reward, it’s not devotion / kindness anymore. It’s just the zero sum game.

 

Here we need the faith.

 

I keep the faith in humanity. This is my selection.

 

 

You can ignore the truth but the truth won’t ignore you.


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Français :

[Édito] Ce que j’ai appris de ce voyage

 

Je pense parfois à ma mort pour diverses raisons.
Lorsqu’on meurt, on n’emporte ni son argent, ni sa voiture.

A la place, le souvenir de la personne reste dans l’esprit des gens.

Ce n’est pas ce que vous avez maintenant, c’est comment vous avez été avec les gens.
Votre réputation vous survit un peu.
Votre “après votre mort” est plus long que votre vie biologique.

C’est comme à bicyclette, je suis en équilibre en me déplaçant tout le temps.
Plus qu’une valise, c’est du gaspillage.
J’ai quitté le matérialisme il y a des kilomètres.
J’ai appris en même temps que je suis aidé par la gentillesse d’innombrables gens.

C’est en récompense de mon dévouement.

Le “dévouement/ gentillesse” vient de la discipline ou des circonstances de l’enfance.
mais c’est votre “choix” de le faire grandir ou pas.

D’un autre côté, je pense que dès qu’on attend une reconnaissance ce n’est plus du dévouement/ gentillesse. Ce n’est plus qu’un jeu sans intérêt.

Là, il faut avoir la foi.

J’ai gardé ma foi en l’humanité. C’est mon choix.

 

Vous pouvez ignorer la vérité mais la vérité ne vous ignorera pas.

  1. Yes, you are right – the good we do lives on after us. I am very, very grateful for all the hard work you put into this blog, and I follow it daily. Bless you for having the courage to do this, and to also be trying so hard to help other Japanese to escape the radioactive disaster. But don’t be thinking about dying yet – you still have a good life ahead of you!

  2. Dear Iori,

    You have maintained your integrity and courage through what must seem like an endless knowledge of the dirt and corruption of the Nuclear Energy Industry, the various health organizations that bow to them, and the governments that pay people to continue the lies about radiation being safe, clean, and cheap. You are sharing factual information that can be proven through documentation and sometimes as the most outrageous words that come out of the mouths of corporate and governmental leaders.

    I am glad that in your discoveries, you have come to the realization of what is of value to your spirit that keeps you focused on your work. All material things are left behind when we breathe our last breath; many people cannot grasp that reality. In the US, November is the month of Thanksgiving for the blessings that we enjoy. It is turkey time, when families gather for a special meal together, in my country 1 in 4 children now go to bed hungry.

    I have always decorated my home for the various seasons and holidays. Yesterday, I stopped at a store that sells all kinds of crafts, fabrics, and decorations made in China. I found a ceramic item that at 50% off was still $15.00. The woman who was helping me probably works for minimum wage, I looked at the item and handed it back to her. I told her, this is a thing that serves no purpose; but, that $15.00 can be given to the local food bank, homeless shelter, or sent to our local utility company to help someone with heating costs this Winter. Even though I support our local food bank, the purchase of that ceramic item would have been on my conscious. The woman told me to look around at all the unpurchased things sitting on the shelves. We are looking at an economy that is stagnant and have been told that austerity measures are necessary. One of the necessary cuts was just made yesterday to eliminate a large percentage of the government food stamp program.

    1. Economic and political policy makers in the US have failed to realise that ANY flu or other life threatening epidemic goes through the entire population regardless of wealth or lifestyle, you are more likely to be one of the first infected if you are on and off airplanes and in and out of cities every day. So its stupid for governments to not have Universal Health Care…
      Degraded food supplies, and by that I mean degraded nutritional content in monocultured food supplies aand degraded living conditions result in the entire population being at risk. The poor are reduced to crime or begging. Zombie movies aren’t a coincidence, they are designed to encourage the wealthy to treat the poor and sick with contempt.
      It is the large percentage of cashflow that is removed efficiently from the country every day, to tax havens and non-productive investments, that increasingly impoverishes the community. Even a little put back in terms of jobs and infrastructure via government spending does a lot of good.
      Planting food forest trees in your neighbourhood, guarding the groundwater and rivers, is the only long term insurance policy.
      There used to be freshwater crayfish, oysters in every bay and estuary, fish to catch for dinner. Its all gone. It is inevitable that war and pestilence will come as global populations are desperate, bored, locked out of landownership, locked out of work, locked out of the future.

      The Fortune 500 families want the planet to be a game park for their children. Well too late, there will be no 4th generation in the Northern Hemisphere. Its poisoned, our breeding cycles are too long to avoid genetic degredation, there is no amount of money can save them…
      I’m giving away Gina Reinhardt, our local mining magnate, who seriously wants to destroy the Great Barrier Reef to export coal, to anyone who can keep feeding her more cake until she explodes.

  3. I have no idea where you are in the world, but if you ever travel to Boston, Massachusetts, you can contact me. I’ll tell you enough about myself that you can check and see I’m a trustworthy person, and I’ll do whatever I can to help you.

  4. Less than Zero,

    The so called, ‘zero sum game’ is actually a dying exponential curve. The grim Malthusians, collectivists and the worst of the business classes have twisted the world economy into an accelerating death spiral.

    ‘Self Service’ is no way to run a home, business, nation or planet. And unfortunately, ‘Self Service’ is the dominant paradigm of our time.

    Insatiable-greed, blind-stupidity, unrestrained-growth, rank-speculation, unlimited-debt, and open-fraud have unfortunately, come to summarize most of the global economy. Such activities are CERTAINLY unsustainable; and constitute a gravely flawed public policy.

    Sincerely,

    Bill Duff

    1. Unrestrained growth within an organism, is typically a cancer. Unrestrained, wild business growth is generally a malignancy as well. The most virulent strains of this economic neoplasm are the purely speculative ventures such as margin-trading and leveraged buyouts.

      The bailed out ‘too big to fail’ entities within the USA business community are, for the most part, such cancerous growths. These business organizations should have been euthanized. For now, most that remains, is simply malignancy, in essence a living death.

      Sincerely,

      Bill Fuff

  5. Iori:

    I read your post twice and cried my way through it twice. The first time I cried for you. You have maintained a dignity most of humanity is not capable of. Like many people here, I would do anything you asked, If you need anything just let me know and somehow it will be done.

    The second time I cried for all of humaity myself included. I speak to people everyday who cannot take in the brutality of what has been unleashed upon us and that saving a miracle, we are all going to die much sooner than we expected. I think of small children and animals who look to us for help and no help will be there. Then I think of your words that it is what we have done for others that really counts.

    In the Jewish religion there is a belief that you get to heaven not on your good deeds but on the prayers of others who believe you have done good in this world. By that measure your next life is surely to be a blessed one. I wish the same for all of us who know only too well life is short.

    Bless and keep you,
    Sheri

  6. Merci lori pour ton travail d’information,
    En France,les médias ne parlent plus de Fukushima ou très peu.
    Cette catastrophe est malheureusement mondial et les gens ne le savent pas.
    Du moins certaines personnes doivent savoir,on comprend mieux l’exode des stars de Californie.
    Et merci également de traduire tes articles en français.
    Tu mérites la légion d’honneur,mais rassure toi,tu ne l’auras jamais.
    Fais attention à toi,et continue ce formidable travail d’information.
    Nicolas.

  7. Dear Iori,
    You have the best attitude in the situation after 311. I’m sure, you are also a good man, good son, good friend, good husband and father (potentially).
    I’d like to add only one thing: The virtues (good, benevolence, benefaction) must to be addressed. From…To…
    If you believe in Jesus Christ as a Son of the God and in His Coming Kingdom, there is nothing what can troubles you! Even death. You’ll receive an eternal life after. Just continue your good job and try to address it clearly.
    Boyko

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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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