Only 30% of Fukushima residents happy with disaster recovery progress

Imagine if the money squandered on the five ringed circus was spent on these people.

 ...they are still not allowed to return to their hometowns... 

So how come the government locks down for a radiation scare but not for a virus scare, (with the excuse that the constitution bars it from doing so)?

Sometimes, Japan is totally, totally incomprehensible.

I'll bet the 30% work for TEPCO!

Sometimes, Japan is totally, totally incomprehensible

just sometime? To me rather often incomprehensible, and looks like bushido is still very much alive and thriving in corporate and political clans.

When I worked in HK for a Japanese corporate, my manager often gave us bushido style speeches, and espouse the virtue of a warrior in completing projects on time. It was surreal, there was us, and then there was nobody (everyone else who didn't matter), it just rolled off his tongue like it was the Heian era.

I'm guessing, despite the power of their vote, the people of Fukushima are mostly people who don't matter.

When I read these kind of articles it makes me shake my head. What do these people think, that the radiation will just magically disappear. This was a major nuclear event, and there is nothing the government can do about the radiation.

Also, many of these small communities were on there way to extinction before the earthquake and tsunami, but foolishly the government promised to spend billions if not trillions of yen to rebuild them, only to see people not moving back, jobs not returning, and people complaining about how things are not getting better.

Government takes money but rarely gives.

What do the people in Fukushima expect?

Better to forget Fukushima and move out...

And 100% of the world has been unsatisfied.

I'm with Factchecker. The fact that the misery of the people of Fukushima was used as emotional blackmail to get the ink signed on this concrete-and-Dentsu griftfest (Which was financially ruinous even then for all but the insiders) is a disgraceful shame on the LDP hucksters.

Why has it taken so long to reconstruct the disaster zone? Because all the money's been squandered on this bread-and-circuses shambles.

Shame on those with their snouts in the trough.

Unrealistic and impossible proposal to move 2million people, all the business and farming to Hokkaido when the greater area is not contaminated. Odd to think that all of Fukushima would be contaminated but not else where.

Parts of Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Niigata, Iwate, Yamagata are contaminated. How I know? Apart from Yamagata, I have been there on many occasions to test with my Geiger Counter. I have almost 100,000 views on my Fukushima Radiation related blog. How about you? You think raising children in Tokyo, 2.5-3x norm, or Fukushima 4.5-6.5x norm is great for loving parents?

i suggest yo purchase a reputable Geiger Counter online and check for yourself. I think I only paid ¥120000, but I sleep well at night.

Nearly 10 years after the 2011 earthquake-tsunami and nuclear disasters in northeastern Japan, only 30 percent of Fukushima Prefecture residents say reconstruction has been sufficient, according to a Kyodo News survey.

This should be a major target of the public funds instead of the money pit of the Olympics.

Fukushima residents should be relocated in Hokkaido. Their rural experience would be extremely beneficial to underpopulated Hokkaido.

Plutonium/Uranium has a half life of 1000 years, Strontium/Cesium about 37 years. Another earthquake could happen any minute

It is not only the Olympics that are to blame. The government collected a new reconstruction tax after the disaster, but the money was used for all kinds of other things—from roads in Okinawa to refitting the factory ship for the whalers.

Forget about them. Their plight is regrettable.

Let's focus on the important task of diverting more public money to Dentsu via Olympic schemes.

Many of these places were already on a fast decline to depopulation. The disaster just speeded up the inevitable.

Don’t waste money just rebuilding facilities that will not be used. Spend the money wisely on places with a viable population where the sea isn’t an ever present danger.

The corium is still in the ground and being impacted by groundwater that increases every time there is precipitation.

There is no technical way to effectively remove the spent fuel as the radioactive bombardment ‘kills’ anything and anyone in its way within a short time.

The funds directed at containing this particular disaster are without limit...

Both arguments mostly discussed here make sense. Help the sensible people from Fukushima to relocate and start over. Hokkaido and Kyushu are comparable economic environments for them.

Zishi, sorry, you are way off here, the contaminated area is far bigger than even Fukushima prefecture.

And if everyone is so confident why do I still witness grossery stores changing Fukushima labels ( I have a picture of it) and is Fukushima rice called “ recovery rice “ ?

the accident, not incident, is regrettable but nobody is helped by denying simple truths. The only real and realistic solution is for everyone under 70 to move away. I can see the arguments for the elder to stay and they should get all comfort.

All other ages, if they are of medium intelligence and care about their families and lives must move out.

with full support from government and citizens like me, like us, in full solidarity. But eating contaminated product or telling fairy tales is not solidarity it is stupidity

Radiation moves around and becomes concentrated in living organisms

Failure to control the escaped material means more radioactivity in the environment, not less...

Zichi:

Why has it taken so long to reconstruct the disaster zone? Because all the money's been squandered on this bread-and-circuses shambles.

To date the central government has spent more than ¥25 trillion on the Tohoku Reconstruction and another ¥25 trillion on the nuclear disaster.

Correction: The central government has disbursed that huge sum, but where did it go? What proportion of it went to the people who needed the help, and what proportion went to Onion-like, yak-controlled shell companies, paying daily rates to of 10,000 yen to the people actually doing the clean-up and pocketing the rest? How much went to actually rebuilding homes and infrastructure, and how much went to inflated Dentsu contracts and concrete producers charging premium rates on no-bid contracts?

The grift involved in this tragedy is a national scandal.