[Column] We can change our future

When I left Japan, I was told I was just going to be starve and die on the street.

2 years have passed. Now I’m guiding the Japanese family in Romania.

 

Ironically, their accommodation was the same place where I stayed when I came to Romania for the first time last year.

I picked them up at the apartment every morning for the security matter and showed them the daily stuff such as bank, restaurant etc.. to prove it’s almost the same as in Japan and not so dangerous as it’s rumored.

 

Now I’m taking them to the second town, where I researched last month.

 

6 months ago, this was never imaginable. I feel like I’m printing out what is in my mind to this real world.

 

I just hope I’m cheering up other Japanese people. By doing all these things, I’m trying to prove we can change our future.

 

I don’t know why, but last year I was thought to be depressed, desperate, and wandering the world with no destination by some people. No matter how much I explained, I could never be understood.

 

Probably nobody thinks that way anymore.

 

So far, the Japanese family really loves Romania. They were kind of afraid of coming here because of the “harmful rumor”. but they are even getting more healthy regardless of the possible after effect of Chernobyl.

 

I’m wishing to do the same in the Arctic Circle maybe next year.

 

 

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Français :

[Édito] On peut changer notre avenir

 

On me disait que j’allais simplement crever de faim dans la rue quand j’ai quitté le Japon.

2 ans sont passés. Aujourd’hui je guide une famille japonaise en Roumanie.

De façon ironique, leur logement est celui que j’avais lorsque je suis arrivé pour la première fois en Roumanie l’an dernier.

Je suis allé les chercher tous les matins à leur appartement par sécurité et je leur ai montré les trucs quotidiens comme la banque, les restaurants, etc. pour leur prouver que c’est presque comme au Japon et pas aussi dangereux que ce que des rumeurs tentent de le faire croire.

Maintenant je les emmène à la deuxième ville, là où j’avais fait des recherches le mois dernier.

C’était inimaginable il y a 6 mois. J’ai le sentiment d’imprimer ce que j’ai dans la tête sur ce monde réel.

J’espère seulement réconforter d’autres japonais. En faisant tout ça, j’essaye de prouver qu’on peur changer d’avenir.

Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais l’an dernier certains m’imaginaient déprimé, désespéré et errant sans but à travers le monde. Je ne pouvais pas me faire comprendre quoi que je dise.

Personne ne pense plus ça.

Pour l’instant, la famille japonaise aime vraiment la Roumanie. Ils avaient peur de venir ici à cause des “rumeurs malveillantes” mais ils se sentent même physiquement mieux en dépit des potentiels effets secondaires de Tchernobyl.

J’espère arriver à la même chose dans le cercle polaire arctique l’an prochain.

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  1. We cannot change our past,
    yet we CAN change our future
    for good or bad.

    I tire of hearing people say
    “It cannot be done”.

    They can live their lives in fear,
    if they call that living.

    A coward dies a thousand deaths,
    where a person with an even temperment
    in the face of adversity
    can only die once.

  2. FYI:

    Laurence Lippsett
    Managing Editor, Oceanus magazine
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Woods Hole, MA 02543

    Reference: Fukushima and the Ocean, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2013

    Dear Sir,

    There appears to be a significant additional radionuclide transport pathway from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to the open Pacific Ocean. Reportedly, the primary (ultimate heat sink) seawater intake source for FDU-5 and FDU-6 is inside the highly contaminated Fukushima Daiichi port. This seawater is apparently returned to the outside of the harbor (Open Ocean) after cooling the plant circulating water. Thus 7,000 m3 of radionuclide contaminated seawater is pumped up from the inside of the port to the outside of the port every single hour.

    This information was first published by Fukushima radiation refugee Iori Mochizuki on his ‘fukushima-diary’ blog on September 30th, 2013. Mr. Mochizuki is a civil-engineer, and should therefore be considered a credible technical source on such subject matter.

    Sincerely,

    Bill Duff

  3. Mochizuki, congratulations for bringing other Japanese to Romania. I brought many and all liked it and want to return (for visit only, for the time being). Regarding harmful rummors— murder and shootings are extremly rare events in Romania. Pickpocketing is more spread. In terms of safety, you need to be as careful as you are when you go to the US, Australia, France, etc. People should read more in order to understand this!!!!! Japanese barely know how to travel by themselves. Majority goes with organized tours. There is a need to teach Japanese to be more independent and aware that travel rules are the same in almost all countries! Majority of Romanians are nice, welcoming, and polite. Try to make more contact with the locals and do homestays, etc to learn more about the real Romania. I recommend this, even for you. Country side is better, even old people who do not know English welcome you and invite your to dine and stay with them!

  4. Why did you move to Romania? It seems counter-intuitive for someone who is trying to escape radioactive contamination to move to another country contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

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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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