Lawyer Yoshiro Yabe’s tweets persistently slandering others including me after ETHOS leader’s criminal accusation. He is a supporter of ETHOS leader Ms. Ryoko Ando and implies further accusation against me including imposing me to pay considerable amount of compensation fees.
“The Lawyer Yuichi Kaido, the former Secretary General of Japan Federation of Bar Associations, who made Monju Nishimura Case as a civil case though Nishimura’s medical record shows that he was killed instead of committing suicide as the police report said.”
＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊ On March 26, I got a swift reply from Japan Federation of Bar Association, only one day after I gave them my open questions.
As I suspected, JFBA didn’t answer my question in their e-mail which is strangely unreliable situation. The e-mail is below.
Dear Ms. Takenouchi
I read your e-mail.
JFBA cannot express our views on individual issues or individual lawyers’ activities. We would appreciate your understanding.
Japan Federation of Bar Associations
＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊ Takenouchi’s mail to JFBA
Please excuse me for writing this so suddenly.
My name is Mari Takenouchi, I am a freelance journalist/translator who has a 4 year old boy, I am a single mother who investigates anti-nuke/anti-radiation exposure issues.
At the end of January 2014, I was notified by Fukushima Prefectural police that I was being accused for “criminal contempt” by the leader of the Fukushima ETHOS group, Ms. Ryoko Ando. In February, 3 policemen flew to Okinawa from Fukushima, and made some investigations at my house and questioned me at the police station.
Concerning this news, Reporters Without Boarders covered the article as an international news item on March 11, 2014, some three years after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Also, I have been harassed and intimidated on the internet by many people before and after the criminal accusation.
I have the following 3 questions for both the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Kyoto Lawyers’ Society. I would be very appreciative if you could reply back to me at mariscontact@gmail.com by Friday, April 4th, 2014.
Best regards,
Mari Takenouchi, freelance journalist, translator 1: Persistant harrassement by Lawyer Yoshiro Yabe
I have been harassed by lawyer Yoshiro Yabe @motoken_tw in various ways in a quite persist way on the internet. When I collected the petition not to indict me and presented it to the Fukushima Local Prosecutors’ Office, Mr. Yabe insisted the petition was not valid and disseminated his statement a number of times. Recently, when I put my mother’s letter on my blog http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2014/03/further-legal-case-against-takenouchi.html, he said,
Takenouchi’s mother who said, “Can you take responsibility if something happened to my only daugthter and my only grandson? could be regarded as a threat”
As a matter of fact, Mr. Yabe’s remark seems to a threat against my mother.
When I said so on my twitter, surprisingly, Mr. Yabe said, “That is a defamation against me. Why don’t we accuse each other one time?” He is disseminating such a threatening tweet against me!!
Furthermore, though I have repeatedly asked him not to obstruct me since his deeds have been inflicting tremendous hurt for me, he never stopped and continued his harassment.
On the other hand, Mr. Yabe is an obvious supporter of Ms. Ryoko Ando, who raised the controversy by saying, “Why don’t we drop the argument saying, “Life is important”? Mr. Yabe protected her controversial statement in the following.
As Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and Kyoto Lawyers’ Society, what do you think of the attitudes of Lawyer Yoshiro Yabe?
As a single mother who is under criminal accusation, his remarks themselves sound like threats to me. He has been imposing tremendous mental hurt if he was to actually file a lawsuit against me, my life and my 4 year old boy’s life could be devastated.
I would be very appreciative if Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Kyoto Lawyers’ Society could give Mr. Yoshiro Yabe some recommendation.
Please let me know if that is possible or not.
PS. After I put up this blog page, Mr. Yoshiro Yabe tweeted the following, implying that he will make tremendous amount of compensation money from me.
The title speaks for itself! and the screenshots speak volumes. Also Peace News is being blocked – please like Peace News on Facebook to overcome the censorship – here is there link for a beleagured Peace news ; https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace-News/278904385459229?fref=ts , also, Google in Ireland is filtered to stop bad news for the nuclear industry, so use meta crawler or Start Page
Vote with your feet – And let google know you are not happy!
Torbrowser is worth the effort as well (I will post instructions as i get more familiar with it)
Fukushima accident mentioned in only 1 elementary school science textbook
Only one of the six science textbooks approved for use at elementary schools from the next academic year covers the issue of the Fukushima nuclear accident triggered by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
The textbooks are the first to be screened and approved by the education ministry since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The results of the screening were announced April 4.
Five of the six publishers considered taking up the topic, but four eventually gave up. This was mainly because the word “atom” is not included in the education ministry’s curriculum guidelines for science in elementary school, making teaching how a nuclear plant works even harder than it is.
An editor at one publisher also said, “We could not deal with the issue negatively when our textbook is used in some municipalities hosting a nuclear plant.”
Even the science textbook from Dainippon Tosho Publishing Co., the only one that covers the accident, simply wrote: “The earthquake off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region triggered an accident at a nuclear power plant.” The textbook mentioned effective use of resources as a lesson from the accident.
One publisher, though, tried hard to include an analysis of radiation in its science textbook for sixth graders.
“(Radiation) is an issue we will face for years,” said Takahiro Yano, editor in chief of the elementary school science textbooks division at Gakko Tosho Co. “We thought that if it is a science textbook, the issue should be included.”
But as the word “radiation” is also not included in the guidelines, publishers cannot take up the issue directly.
Under the circumstances, Gakko Tosho tried to include an explanation of radiation at the bottom of a one-page column on the life of Marie Curie, a Polish-born physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radiation.
The publisher tried to relate the column with the guidelines and included two lines on a water solution–which is taught under the guidelines for sixth-graders–because Curie used a water solution in her study.
However, the textbook failed to pass the ministry’s screening.
“There is no appropriate relation with the curriculum guidelines,” the education ministry’s comment said.
The publisher finally gave up on including the column after repeated discussions did not change the ministry’s view.
Our doctors are worried about your health―in fact, about your very survival.
No, they’re not necessarily your own personal physicians, but, rather, medical doctors around the world, represented by groups like International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). As you might recall, that organization, composed of many thousands of medical professionals from all across the globe, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for exposing the catastrophic effects of nuclear weapons.
The problem, as a new IPPNW report indicates, is that the world is showing growing symptoms of a terminal illness. In a nuclear war involving as few as 100 weapons anywhere in the world, the report noted, the global climate and agricultural production would be affected so severely that the lives of more than 2 billion people would be in jeopardy. Even the use of the relatively small nuclear arsenals of India and Pakistan could cause terrible, long lasting damage to the Earth’s ecosystems. The ensuing economic collapse and massive starvation would throw the world into chaos.
And this is just a small portion of the looming nuclear catastrophe.
Today, some 17,300 nuclear weapons remain in the arsenals of nine nations, and their use would not only dramatically exacerbate climate disruption, but would create almost unbelievable horrors caused by their enormous blast, immense firestorms, and radioactive contamination.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), founded by IPPNW in 2007, reports that a single nuclear weapon, detonated over a large city, “could kill millions of people in an instant.” Subsequently, many additional people would die of burns and other injuries, disease, and cancer.
Residents of the United States and Russia, two nations currently engaged in an international brawl, might be particularly interested in the fact that their countries possess over 16,000 nuclear weapons. About 2,000 of them on hair-trigger alert, ready for use within minutes. According to the ICAN report, if only 500 of these weapons were to hit major U.S. and Russian cities, “100 million people would die in the first half an hour, and tens of millions would be fatally injured. Huge swaths of both countries would be blanketed by radioactive fallout.” Furthermore, “most Americans and Russians would die in the following months from radiation sickness and disease epidemics.”
Letter from Sir Tony Cunningham MP for Workington following over 100 letters from constituents.
“Thank you for your letter dated 26th march together with letters from constituents and visitors to Workington regarding the non prosecution of landfill operators FCC following the prosecution of Sellafield for “illegally dumping three bags of low level and one bag of intermediate level waste into Lillyhall landfill”.
I have written to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on this issue and will be back in touch once a reply is received.
Jon Doe Our man in Japan breaks down the abuses of the homeless, disabled, drug addicts and the financially desperate working at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster site.
Published on 16 Apr 2014
TEPCO`s shady firing practices and lack of willingness to do anything in a proper manner strikes again.
OPG, Westinghouse forge nuclear alliance OPG and Westinghouse will join forces to bid for nuclear projects around the globe Toronto Star, By:John SpearsBusiness reporter, Apr 16 2014
Ontario Power Generation will join forces with Westinghouse to bid for nuclear projects around the globe, the companies announced Wednesday.
The news comes the same week that the Ontario government set up a panel headed by TD Bank chairman Ed Clark to consider privatization – or other strategies – for provincial assets.
OPG is 100 per cent owned by the province.
“Under the agreement, the companies will consider a diversity of nuclear projects including refurbishment, maintenance and outage services, decommissioning and remediation of existing nuclear power plants, and new nuclear power plants,” OPG said a release.
The study, covering the city of Tamura and the villages of Kawauchi and Iitate, showed that the radiation level in many areas is still beyond 1 millisievert per year — a level the government is seeking to achieve at contaminated lands in the long term.
The government lifted an evacuation order imposed on the Miyakoji district in Tamura on April 1, but the content of the interim report, compiled in October, was not conveyed to the citizens or the local governments before the action was taken.
The government explained the content to local governments later, while the report was posted on the website of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Monday. It also plans to release a final report on Friday. A government team tasked with supporting people affected by the crisis said it did not initially plan to release the interim report but decided to make it public because of the “high attention among residents.”
The team decided to conduct the radiation level study at 43 points in Tamura, Kawauchi and Iitate last July, hoping to address concerns among evacuees seeking to return to their homes.
The study showed that radiation levels measured by individual dosimeters tend to be about 70 percent of those estimated from air dose. Twenty-seven points were also found to be above 1 millisievert per year.
The outcome has raised concerns among the residents that have already returned to their homes.
A 65-year-old man living at his home in the Miyakoji district said, “It was premature to lift the evacuation order. We’ve been deceived.”
The 20-kilometer radius of the Fukushima plant and some areas beyond have been subject to evacuation orders in the wake of the nuclear crisis that began in March 2011.
The Miyakoji district became the first area excluded from the 20-km zone following decontamination and infrastructure restoration efforts.
It’s OK to Support Nuclear Power and Still Enjoy a Movie Now and Then Bloomberg, By Eric Roston Apr 15, 2014The nuclear power industry received a springtime Christmas present this week.
The world’s authoritative climate science group Sunday threw its arms around nuclear energy, among others, as a future source for powering economies. The industry’s share of global electricity generation has been falling since 1993.
The report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, emboldens proponents of nuclear energy, who tend to talk it up no matter what the issue is at hand.
Take the op-ed in last week’s New York Times, “Global Warming Scare Tactics,” by the founders of the energy and environment research group, the Breakthrough Institute. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger dress up a pro-nuclear argument as criticism of a new, nine-part documentary series about climate change.
The piece reads as if, say, when someone sneezes, the authors say gesundheit and then make the case for nuclear power…..
Czechs pull plug on nuclear expansion, The Economist Apr 16th 2014 by B.C. | PRAGUE More than five years of international intrigue went out with a whimper on April 10th as Czech utility company ČEZ officially cancelled the planned expansion of the Temelín nuclear power plant (120 km south of Prague in the South Bohemia region)—the project undone by a collapse in market electricity prices and hard-learned lessons from a botched state energy scheme in years past.
The plan had called for adding two reactors to the existing two at Temelín (a second Czech nuclear plant, Dukovany, operates four reactors). The price tag was an estimated $15 billion, and the project made less and less sense as the wholesale price of electricity fell. Prices are now less than half what they were when bidding on the contract began in 2009. For much of that time the tender process was viewed through a cold war lens with the two final bidders being the American firm Westinghouse (now a division of the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba) and a consortium leadby Russia’s state-owned Atomstroyexport. The American and Russian ambassadors openly lobbied on behalf of their favoured firms and the companies themselves tried to outdo one another by signing highly contingent contracts with local suppliers to sweeten their offers…….
“There is absolutely no appetite from the state to get involved in something new like this now,” said David Marek, chief economist with Patria Finance, a Prague-based investment bank…….. the widespread perception that the Temelín project was doomed to be a financial failure, saw ČEZ stock surge on the announcement that the nuclear project was cancelled. Such are power politics. http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2014/04/power-plant-failures
French nuclear watchdog singles out 3 plants for safety shortfall By Michel Rose PARIS, April 16 (Reuters)– France’s nuclear watchdog singled out three of EDF’s 19 nuclear power stations for having a below-average safety performance in its annual safety report, which also asked for more enforcement powers such as the ability to impose fines….. There were 127 level-1 incidents on the 7-level International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) in France in 2013, ASN said, and two level-2 incidents.
Level-1 incidents are minor procedural infringements and level-2 incidents can refer to cases of minor exposure to radiation…….
The watchdog also mentioned shortfalls in terms of radiation protection at Cattenom near the German border and in terms of impact on the environment at Belleville in the Loire valley, Chooz near Belgium, and Chinon.
Chevet said the ASN needed a more graduated array of sanction powers on operators such as EDF.
The watchdog can at anytime stop operations at a nuclear plant if it considers it presents a danger for the public and can also issue public warnings, but Chevet said an ability to impose fines for each day of safety breaches would be useful.
“We clearly lack intermediary sanction tools, for when shortfalls last for one, two, three years, but don’t require a shutdown of the plant,” he said.
US Plans New $4 Billion Renewables Support Program http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=426617 April 14 The USA’s Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a draft loan guarantee solicitation for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects that could make as much as USD $4 billion in loan guarantees available.
“Through our existing renewable energy loan guarantees, the Department’s Loan Programs Office helped launch the U.S. utility-scale solar industry and other clean energy technologies that are now contributing to our clean energy portfolio,” said Secretary Ernest Moniz. “We want to replicate that success by focusing on technologies that are on the edge of commercial-scale deployment today.” The five key technology areas of interest to the DoE are : advanced grid integration and storage; drop-in biofuels; waste-to-energy; enhancement of existing facilities and efficiency improvements. The Department’s Loan Programs Office has been no slouch in supporting renewables and energy efficiency; with more than $30 billion in loans, loan guarantees, and commitments supporting dozens of projects throughout the nation. Among the beneficiary projects was the Caithness Shepherds Flat wind project, an 845 MW wind farm located in eastern Oregon. The Department of Energy provided a $1.3 billion partial loan guarantee that was crucial to the project’s success. Another project to benefit was the Agua Caliente Solar project, a 290-megawatt solar panel based power station Yuma County, Arizona. The Department of Energy provided a USD $967 million loan guarantee for this project. Before the latest program is rolled out, the Department is inviting public comment; which will be considered in defining the scope of the final solicitation. The draft solicitation can be viewed here. The DoE’s Loan Programs enables the body to work with private companies and financiers to mitigate the financing risks associated with clean energy projects, “and thereby encourage their development on a broader and much-needed scale.”
Yesterday the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave Azarga Uranium Corporation (PWE.TO–it still carries its symbol and trades as if it’s Powertech, the company that will soon be absorbed by Azarga) its approval to go ahead and start its in situ mining venture in the southern Black Hills. That brought the requisite cheers from the company and some brassy projections about its outlook.I don’t normally follow penny stocks, which I think are the most laughable component of the stock market, but the brouhaha over Azarga/Powertch’s plans to extract uranium here in the Hills has caught everybody’s attention, and with good reason. The company plans to inject water into the ground, dissolve the uranium that’s down there, pump it to the surface where the uranium will be harvested, then release the water and all its contaminants back into the ground. The company says it’s safe, the NRC says its safe, and a lot of people living in the immediate area seem excited about the prospect of a little economic development. But just as its pending merger with Azarga didn’t particularly excite Powertech investors when announced earlier this year, yesterday’s NRC news fell on a generally apathetic trading community…….
Dawn Chapman and her group, Just Moms STL, plan to deploy radiation detectors in St. Louis County by the end of the week.
They hope to monitor the air for any possible high levels of radiation that they believe could be coming from the nearby West Lake Landfill, where old nuclear waste is buried.
Politicians purchased Geiger counters for these birdhouse-like stationary sensors.
Tuesday, an attorney, who is suing the landfill, gifted the group a $16,000 portable radiation detection lab called Gamma Pal. Chapman says they’ll hire a certified contractor to operate it – paid for with community dollars.
Chapman says she’d rather not use the device at all. She’s told the EPA she has it, and hope that will encourage the agency to start its own testing sooner than it plans.
“I would love nothing more than at the end of this week, somebody to say ‘my god, this community is desperate, someone help them right now,'” she said. The EPA said it does plan to start testing for radiation for the first time, outside West Lake’s boundaries.
They say the timeline could be less than six months. The agency still insists that the site is safe.
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