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Wife claims that politician fled from Tokyo in fear of radiation

Ozawa fled radiation, wife claims, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 24 June 12, The wife of former Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa has accused him of fleeing from Tokyo in fear of radiation shortly after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The 67-year-old wife of Ozawa, 70, questioned his qualifications as a
politician in a letter addressed to supporters in Ozawa’s constituency
in Iwate Prefecture.

“I decided to divorce him because seeing him flee, abandoning the
people who supported him so much in their hour of greatest hardship, I
knew he would not be beneficial to Iwate Prefecture or Japan,” she
wrote……
According to the letter, one of Ozawa’s secretaries visited his house
in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, on the morning of March 16 last year, after
the outbreak of the crisis at the nuclear power plant.

He told her to evacuate, saying: “We’ve received internal information
about a radiation leak. We’ve instructed his secretaries to get away
on Ozawa’s order. As Ozawa will also evacuate, you and your sons need
to find some place to escape.”……The wife inferred that Ozawa had
acted based on unreleased information from relevant administrative
authorities. The letter also says Ozawa fled somewhere carrying a
travel bag from Tokyo on March 25….. The wife believed Ozawa avoided
visiting his home prefecture because “he was afraid of
radiation.”….http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120623002757.htm

June 25, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general