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Radioactive Japan: Over 200 Evacuees from Futaba-machi Still Lives in Classrooms, Partitioned with Cardboards!

Source http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/radioactive-japan-over-200-evacuees.html

“….An organization called “Enechen” (“energy change”, in Japanese English) is asking for help so that they can at least provide hot meals to the 200 evacuees from Futaba-machi who continue to live in the classrooms in a closed high school building in Saitama Prefecture where the town’s government has temporarily relocated. They are mostly elderly residents, and they have nowhere else to go. 

After nearly 17 months since the accident, the country is quite happy having them live in classrooms with card board partitions…..”

 

From the organization’s website (8/12/2012): (Translated by exskf)

“..As of August 2012, about 200 elderly residents at Futaba-machi Shelter continue to live in the rooms partitioned with corrugated cardboards in a closed school building, with all their meals in bento (boxed lunch/dinner), 1 year and 4 months since they evacuated there….”

“..Hardly any hot meals are served any more, except for hot miso soups once a week, we’ve learned….”

(Picture, Dalai Lama visits fukushima last year)

“..We want to provide these people with hot meals, so we have launched this project….”

“..It’s been about one year and 4 months since then. Initially there were more than 1,000 evacuees staying at the high school building, but most have moved out to temporary housing. However, as of August 2012, there are still 210 people living in the school building….”

 

“..Most of them are elderly people, and it seems they have various reasons or problems that prevent them from living independently….”

“..Nothing has been decided what will happen to these more than 200 people at this shelter….”

“..Time passes, with no prospect for the future…”

 

(picture japanese Emporer and wife with refugees last year)

“…What have the national government, and the municipal government, been doing?…”

“..There are many people who still suffer from the nuclear accident. Most haven’t even received the compensation money…”

 

More here.. (with Japanese version)

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/radioactive-japan-over-200-evacuees.html

 More on victims here…

Human Rights Violations of Persons with Disabilities in Fukushima after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Power Plant Accident

“…..This workshop will outline the human rights violations of persons with disabilities in Fukushima after the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident. We will discuss the incident (s) and link them to human rights violations as well as engage participants in a discussion of the articles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The violations have been downplayed and not widely known. The discussants want the international community to know the facts so as to start an ethical discussion on local, national and international levels….”

 

“…From the newsletter Fukushima Disaster Support Center for People with Disabilities

More than 27,000 lives have been lost or disappeared due to massive tsunami derived from the earthquake washed out all coast areas of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. Besides, the tsumani accompanied with accidents at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Here in Fukushima, not only people but also crops, farm animals and nature are contaminated by the radio active. It will take more time to start toward recovery as no one can predict when the accidents of nuclear plant are concluded.

 

We, Support Center Fukushima, have visited most of the shelters to confirm safety, offer counsel and explore needs for persons with disabilities with the help of a lot of volunteers. Then, entire pictures of hard lives of persons with disabilities at shelters have stood out. Some kept sitting in wheelchairs for two weeks because floors of shelters were too hard to lie down; some did not take a bath for one month; some slept in their cars at parking areas; some moved a shelter to a shelter because of difficulty of group living with autism disorder; even some persons with psychiatric disabilities were frightened as if the world ends soon. All of them lived their hard lives at the shelters. We have looked around nearly two hundred shelters, however, the number of persons with disabilities were about one hundred, which was smaller than thought. Especially, we rarely saw severely disabled persons there. This might be because, we suppose, they were either going to houses of their acquaintances or relatives or bearing with inconvenience at their homes….”

“…May I emphasize again that both government and private organizations run about in confusion due to nuclear accidents in Fukushima. We are also worrying ourself if we are better off staying here. Some advise that youth and children had better leave though radiation have less impact on me because of my age. We might say that youth are better off leaving Koriyama further away if it takes quite long time until nuclear plants stop releasing radiation. This is a situation surrounding Fukushima, however, we will do our best to continue our activities with full of smiles until we accomplish our recovery.

Most sincerely,
Kiyoharu Shiraishi..”

http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/pacriminfo/pacrim2012/events/workshops/workshop11.php

 

 A rally and demonstration to demand Koriyama City to evacuate children was held on October 15, 2011 in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture. Roughly 500 people participated in it. 

@4.50 The fourth speaker is Ms. Sadami Watabe, from Independent Living Center in Tamura City.  

“…On the 20th next week (2011 October) we are going to make a spoken statement. Of course I know you are all having a really hard time. You! mothers who have children But i would like them to allow the disabled people like us to evacuate as well…”

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqxd6z_evacuate-children-rally-demo-in-koriyama-city-fukushima-pref-oct-15-2011-yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy_news

The first speaker at the rally in this video is Mr. Toshio Yanagihara, attorney of the plaintiff. 

The second speaker is Mr. Taro Yamada, an actor, but recently more well-known as an anti-nuke activist. 

The third speaker is Ms. Chie Ito, an evacuee from Koriyama City to Tokyo. 

The fourth speaker is Ms. Sadami Watabe, from Independent Living Center in Tamura City. 

The original video by OurPlanet-TV (http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=node/287). 

Translation and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.

Also, see

Our Planet TV needs your help !

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/14/our-planet-tv-needs-your-help/

 

August 17, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized