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Fukushima evacuees not eligible to vote in Tokyo elections

Election’s nuclear focus draws mixed emotions from Fukushima evacuees Kyodo News International February 6, 2014  Evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture, relocated to the nation’s capital region following the 2011 nuclear crisis, will be among those closely following Sunday’s Tokyo gubernatorial election, with some voicing mixed feelings about the focus on nuclear power as an election issue.

“For evacuees, doing away with nuclear power is something that is taken for granted,” said Megumi Okada, a 31-year-old homemaker who moved out of Fukushima City.

“I wonder if (candidates) squarely face up to the suffering and sorrow of those who were directly affected.”…..

Many other evacuees have left their resident registration unchanged in Fukushima and thus remain ineligible to vote in Tokyo.

They include Yoko Kanno, 72, one of the Fukushima evacuees who live in Shinonome Jutaku, a 36-story housing for government workers in Tokyo’s Koto Ward…..tinyurl.com/mddgmou

February 9, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized