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The lives of Fukushima nuclear refugees on film

Read The Wall Street Journal’s profile of all three Fukushima documentaries.    

‘Nuclear Nation’ Examines Lives of Fukushima Refugees WSJ,   FEBRUARY 17, 2012,  “Nuclear Nation” is one of three documentaries showing at the Berlin Film Festival tracing the fate of those affected by the Fukushima tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011. The lengthy, 145-minute documentary (soon available in a truncated version) follows several of the 1400 refugees from Futaba living in  defunct Kisai High School, with interviews as recent as December. Speakeasy sat down with director Atushi Funahashi to discuss his film…..
There’s a scene in the documentary where Futaba citizens protest their situation, and politicians merely stand there, some even awkwardly clapping. You show a lot of politicians preoccupied with keeping up an appearance of calm, often remaining totally silent…..
I hope this shows the miserable situation these people have to go through. I thought Japan was a civilized country, but it’s not…The central capital is exploiting the rural area. The power generated in Fukushima has been almost all sent to Tokyo. The people in Fukushima were the ones working [so hard]. There are many people saying the people [in Fukushima] took these subsidies to build new [academic and athletic] centers and they got rich, that they’re now in this refugee camp, but it was their own risk and it’s their fault. But I want to question that.    Read The Wall Street Journal’s profile of all three Fukushima documentaries.    http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/02/17/nuclear-nation-examines-lives-of-fukushima-refugees/

February 18, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general