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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2014.Fukushima film shows reality sinking in for 'nuclear refugees'
By Chris Gallagher TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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harvey pekar
This film needs more media attention and I wish it'd be available in theatres across Japan and not just select art houses, or even on NHK, so people could see it.
Such an ugly truth that everyone, not just J-media, but normal citizens also choose to ignore.
Help these people!
Yubaru
And to watch it on NHK would mean one would have to "pay" to view it. No thank you, put it on Fuji and let them sell some advertising, and give the profits to the people who are abandoned.
nath
Hopefully a torrent out soon.
taiga_123
i wish they would translate more japanese movies. ive seen some really nice movies from japan their trailers but wont be able to find them translated anywhere. they should make things for west more often
kurisupisu
But the irony is that there are towns and villages all over Japan that would gleefully accept these 'refugees' had they been properly compensated to allow them to buy a house and land....
Greenleaf
Nuclear power SUCKS !! It leaves a legacy of deadly highly radioactive waste for our children and generations yet to come to deal with. Go renewables , clean, green and sustainable ;-)
Star-viking
This is a doubly ironic article. Irony 1, the evacuees are being very handsomely compensated for their losses, unlike the victims of the tsunami. Irony 2:
So they had the good life for 40 years, but if the plant had not been built most would probably had to leave their 'furusato' and sought better employment and life elsewhere.
Still, I hope most can return - though it will entail losing the compensation payments for evacuation.
GW
kurisupisu
Correct, taking one bad situation & helping with another bad situation, this relocation idea to me has seemed bloody obvious, but I don't think many have done it, or do they even want to...........I don't know, stubbornness all round has a lot to do with this all dragging out at a snails pace will little or no progress
shiboritate
Greenleaf - nuclear power is awesome, TEPCO sucks. You need to distinguish the two. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear (and even sells nuclear power to the hypocritical Germans) and it is clean and safe there because it is properly regulated and controlled.
It sounds as though you espouse "green" energy, are you aware that now that nuclear power has paused in Japan TEPCO is restarting and even building new coal fired plants? How green is that?
It sounds as though you would prefer green only (I would too, FWIW), but let me ask you this - do you own a refrigerator, a washing machine, a computer? Do you ride a train to work? What powers these things at nighttime? Or on non-windy or cloudy days? Solar? Wind? Coal? Nuclear? Among those, I would gladly choose nuclear. Unless you are willing to cut your dependence on the grid it seems to me hypocritical to criticize others by asking them to fix something you (and 99% of the population) aren't willing to do yourself.
Star-viking
ZIchi
Well, that depends on your viewpoint on the earthquake and tsunami. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you believe that there was warning of it in advance - so both TEPCO and disaster preparedness agencies were at fault, for the nuclear accident and mass deaths respectively.
I think that there was not a solid warning in advance, so both should be acts of god.
Communities, yes - but homes no. With many nuclear refugees they cannot return to their communities, but their homes are intact.
And who has received this money? There were reports of massive misspending of the donations.
Unfortunately the reconstruction is being driven in the direction of trying to recreate idealistic 'furusatos', despite the fact that these places have been haemorrhaging people for years.
Really? I thought it was the availability of large tracts of land for low prices.
Until an unique seismic event occurred.
And that has changed.
Koizumi's just looking for the limelight. He's hardly an expert on nuclear power.