NH #194: Fukushima 4th Anniversary – Voices from Japan

VOICES FROM JAPAN INTERVIEWS:

  • TV and Film star Midori Kiuchi
Midori Kiuchi (r, in red vest) with friends in front of the No-Nukes Occupy tents and her English banner, which was shipped to Germany for a rally and ended up featured on an NHK news report.
Midori Kiuchi (r, in red vest) with friends Tatsuya Majima (l) and Yasuko Tamanaka (c) in front of the No-Nukes Occupy tents.  Note her English-language banner, which was shipped to Germany for a rally and ended up featured on an NHK news report. (Photo © 2015, U.G. Kaneko)
  • No-Nukes Occupy tent veteran Taro Fuchigama
  • Professor Hiroake Koide, Associate Professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
  • Kaori Suzuki, Director of the Tarachine Citizens Radiation Monitoring Center
  • Seiichi Mizuno, businessman and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House
  • Taro Yamamoto, actor and member of the Japanese Diet Upper House.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK

If Fukushima’s Prefectural government thinks social media will turn around its international image, they’re even crazier than I thought!

PLUS:

  • Fukushima disaster at four – a radiation rundown;
  • Breaking scandal at Diablo Canyon NPP on California coast over 30 years of seismic lies;
  • Navajo Nation slams door on deal that would have allowed uranium mining on trust lands.
  • Easy actions to commemorate Fukushima.
  • …and more!
Weekly candlelight vigil by the Beautiful Energy group in front of the Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo. The group asks that you Light a Candle for Fukushima, wherever you are.
Weekly candlelight vigil by the Beautiful Energy group in front of the Prime Minister’s residence in Tokyo. The group asks that you Light a Candle for Fukushima, wherever you are. (Photo ©Copyright 2015, U.G. Kaneko)