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Blacklisting of Japanese artists who oppose the nuclear industry

Report: TEPCO paid for creation of a blacklist of actors and musicians who are against nuclear industry http://enenews.com/report-tepco-paid-creation-blacklist-actors-musicians-against-nuclear-industry
Toxic truth about Japan’s ‘miracle’: Post-tsunami harmony is a myth and the reality is startlingly different, Daily Mail by Richard Jones, June 18, 2011:

According to a well-known Japanese documentary maker, TEPCO paid for the creation of a blacklist of actors and musicians who are against the nuclear industry.

When one actor, Taro Yamamoto, joined an anti-nuclear protest, he lost his part in a popular soap opera. Yamamoto’s ‘crime’ was to say that schoolchildren in Fukushima should not be subjected to the same annual radiation dose (20 microsieverts per year) as nuclear power workers in Europe.

September 20, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | civil liberties, Japan