[Column] Why Fukushima Diary reports Japanese political situation that has drifted to the right

Among Japanese people who have been worried about radiation, the biggest concern is conscription at the time.
This may sound difficult to understand for non-Japanese nationality holders, but this is the most important issue for Japanese people.

For 12,000 workers Tepco planned to collect, only 4,000 workers came to work in 2012. The shortage of nuclear worker is serious. When the government restarts other nuclear plants, it will be even more serious. (cf, [Column] What is going to happen for the next stage of Fukushima accident ? [Link])

Since 311, Japanese government has been trying to spread radioactive material by various ways, raising the safety limit of food, spreading debris to incinerate, spreading the propaganda of “Support by eating”.
In order to protect themselves and their own children, citizens analyzed food or protested against municipal government. Some of them evacuated out of Japan. Fukushima Diary has been supporting all of those actions.
However, conscription will ruin all of these efforts.

Conscription is the potential system to make Japanese citizen go to Fukushima mandatorily.

Whatever the task is, it will significantly damage our health no matter how much we have been taking care about food, water, place to live, etc..
Moreover, it will affect people who evacuated out of Japan.

Legally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can order a passport holder to return it to Japanese embassy. Therefore, even if you have a visa, such as working visa, long stay visa, the right of permanent residence, the authority can take away your right to stay out of Japan.

In short, conscription can make all of us forcibly exposed.

LDP, the right-wing party made the overwhelming victory in this election and they are preparing to amend the constitution to enable them to build military and conscription. (cf, [Column] 3 reasons why we must stop loving Japan [Link])

Among Japanese people who are concerned about radiation, there is almost no one who doesn’t anticipate their starting conscription. However, none of the foreign media has covered it.

Fukushima Diary has been covering the plant situation, contamination of soil, ocean, food, protest etc.. Now conscription is becoming the biggest risk for people because it may even shut down the way of people evacuating. This is why Fukushima Diary is reporting the political situation including the dispute with neighboring countries that could be an excuse of the government to amend the constitution.

 

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Français :

[Édito] Pourquoi le Fukushima Diary rapporte que la situation politique du Japon a viré à droite

Parmi les gens qui se sont inquiétés de la radioactivité, la plus grande inquiétude est la conscription pour l’instant.
Ceci peut sembler difficile à comprendre pour les non-japonais mais c’est le plus gros problème pour les japonais.

Sur les 12 000 travailleurs que Tepco prévoyait de rassembler, seulement 4 000 sont venus travailler en 2012. La pénurie est grave. Lorsque le gouvernement relancera d’autres centrales, ce deviendra encore plus grave. (cf. [Édito] Quelle est l’étape suivante pour l’accident de Fukushima ? [Lien])

Depuis le 11-3, le gouvernement japonais a essayé de disperser les matières radioactives de différentes façons, augmentant la limite de sécurité alimentaire, dispersant les débris à incinérer, diffusant la propagande du “soutien en mangeant”.
Pour se protéger eux-mêmes et leurs enfants, les gens analysent leur nourriture et manifestent contre les autorités municipales. Certains ont fui le Japon. Le Fukushima Diary a soutenu tous ces types d’actions.
La conscription va ruiner tous ces efforts.

La conscription est le probable système qui va forcer les japonais à aller à Fukushima.

Quelle que soit la tâche, ça affectera significativement votre santé quelles qu’aient été les précautions prises antérieurement sur la nourriture, l’eau, le lieu de vie,  etc..
En plus, ça va affecter les gens ayant évacué hors du Japon.

Légalement, le ministère des Affaires Étrangères peut ordonner à tout possesseur de passeport de le rendre à l’ambassade japonaise. Donc, même si vous avez un visa, genre visa de travail, visa prolongé, droit de résidence permanente, l’autorité peut vous retirer tous vos droits d’être en dehors du Japon.

En bref, la conscription peut nous exposer tous par la force.

Le LDP, le parti de la droite, a connu une victoire écrasante à ces élections et ils se préparent à amender la constitution pour leur permettre de monter une armées et des conscriptions. (cf. [Édito] 3 raisons d’arrêter d’aimer le Japon [Lien])

Parmi les gens inquiets de la radioactivité, pratiquement aucun n’anticipe pas l’arrivée des conscriptions. Toutefois, aucun des médias étrangers n’en parle.

Le Fukushima Diary a couvert la situation de la centrale, la contamination du sol, de l’océan, de la nourriture, des manifestations, etc. A présent, la conscription devient la menace la plus sérieuse pour les gens parce qu’elle peut leur fermer même toute possibilité d’évacuation. C’est pourquoi le Fukushima Diary rapporte la situation politique, y compris les querelles avec les pays voisins qui peuvent servir d’excuse au gouvernement pour amender la constitution.

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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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