Errymath: Fukushima

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) used an industrial crane to lift the 
last of its 18 protective panels Thursday. Each of the panels weighs 
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Fukushima’s Nuclear Plant reactor No. 1 has been fully exposed 
for the first time since the March 2011 tragedy, after the utility 
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) used an industrial crane to 
lift the last of its 18 protective panels Thursday. Each of the panels 
weighs around 20 tons and measure 23 by 17 meters.<br />
The protective 
cover was erected in October 2011 as a temporary measure to halt a 
radiation leak following a meltdown caused by a powerful earthquake and 
tsunami in March 2011.<br />
The dismantling of the panels started in July 
2015 and was concluded on Thursday.<br />
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At Unit 1, rubble from the 
damaged building caused by the hydrogen explosion remains scattered and 
needs to be removed. The entire site is highly contaminated and will now
 be covered with tarpaulins to avoid the spread of radioactive waste. 
TEPCO is using anti-scattering agents to keep the dust down. Small 
pieces of rubble that can create dust are being vacuumed up while mist 
sprinklers are being used inside the building to keep radiation under 
control.<br />
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TEPCO next plans to remove 392 fuel assemblies from the 
spent pool and clean out the melted nuclear fuel from inside the 
building, NHK news <a href="http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20161110/k10010763181000.html" target="_blank">reported</a>. The utility company is assessing the level of radiation before continuing the cleanup process.<br />
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Scientists
 are also installing the necessary equipment to complete fuel extraction
 which will only start in four years. Fuel removal from Unit 1's 
depleted fuel pool is scheduled to begin around March 2021, according to
 TEPCO’s Mid- and Long-Term Roadmap that was revised in June 2015.<br />
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In
 March 2011, a tsunami destroyed emergency generators at the plant. They
 had been cooling the reactors. The tsunami led to three nuclear 
meltdowns and the release of radioactive material.<br />
In Reactor 1, 
overheating caused the creation of hydrogen gas.<br />
On March 12, an 
explosion in Unit 1 destroyed the upper part of the building.<br />
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TEPCO’s
 decommission plan for the Fukushima nuclear power plant implies at 
least a 30-40 year period before the consequences of the meltdown are 
fully eliminated.<br />
So far the clean-up efforts have already cost Japan in
 excess of $21 billion.<br />
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According to the latest estimates from the 
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the decommissioning costs will 
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<a href="http://peakoil.com/enviroment/fukushima-radiation-has-contaminated-the-entire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-to-get-worse" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse)</span></a></h1>
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Credit – NOAA<br />
The nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only 
five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every 
day.<br />
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What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most 
people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they’d 
be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 
2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami that <a class="externalLink" href="http://fukushimaontheglobe.com/the-earthquake-and-the-nuclear-accident/whats-happened" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">caused a meltdown</a>
 at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Three nuclear 
reactors melted down and what happened next was the largest release of 
radiation into the water in the history of the world. Over the next 
three months, radioactive chemicals, some in <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fukushima-nuclear-planet-released-more-radiation-government-said/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">even greater quantities than Chernobyl</a>,
 leaked into the Pacific Ocean. However, the numbers may actually be 
much higher as Japanese official estimates have been proven by several 
scientists <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8854592/Japan-Fukushima-disaster-released-twice-as-much-radiation-as-initially-estimated.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">to be flawed</a> in recent years.<br />
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Radioactive Debris from Fukushima approaching North<br />
America’s western coast.       <i>Credit – RT</i><br />
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If that weren’t bad enough, Fukushima continues to leak an astounding <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-pm-idUSBRE97601K20130807" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">300 tons of radioactive waste</a> into the Pacific Ocean <b>every day</b>. It will continue do so indefinitely as the source of the leak cannot be sealed as <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.sciencealert.com/the-robots-sent-into-fukushima-have-died" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">it is inaccessible</a> to both humans and robots due to extremely high temperatures.<br />
It should come as no surprise, then, that Fukushima <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.neonnettle.com/features/448-officials-fukushima-has-now-contaminated-1-3-of-the-worlds-oceans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has contaminated</a>
 the entire Pacific Ocean in just five years. This could easily be the 
worst environmental disaster in human history and it is almost never 
talked about by politicians, establishment scientists, or the news. It 
is interesting to note that TEPCO is a subsidiary of General Electric 
(also known as GE), one of the largest companies in the world, which <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.businesspundit.com/5-corporations-that-own-almost-everything/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has considerable control</a>
 over numerous news corporations and politicians alike. Could this 
possibly explain the lack of news coverage Fukushima has received in the
 last five years? There is also evidence that GE knew about the poor 
condition of the Fukushima reactors for decades and did nothing. This 
led <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-31/1400-sue-general-electric-toshiba-and-hitachi-fukushima-disaster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1,400 Japanese citizens to sue</a> GE for their role in the Fukushima nuclear disaster.<br />
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Even if we can’t see the radiation itself, some parts of North America’s
 western coast have been feeling the effects for years. Not long after 
Fukushima, fish in Canada <a class="externalLink" href="http://enenews.com/biologist-pacific-herring-in-canada-bleeding-from-eyeballs-faces-fins-tails-ive-never-seen-fish-looking-this-bad-all-100-caught-were-bleeding-hemorrhaging-first-noticed-in-summer-of-201" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">began bleeding</a>
 from their gills, mouths, and eyeballs. This “disease” has been ignored
 by the government and has decimated native fish populations, including 
the North Pacific herring. Elsewhere in Western Canada, independent 
scientists have measured a <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.straight.com/news/japans-fukushima-catastrophe-brings-big-radiation-spikes-bc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">300% increase</a>
 in the level of radiation. According to them, the amount of radiation 
in the Pacific Ocean is increasing every year. Why is this being ignored
 by the mainstream media? It might have something to do with the fact 
that the US and Canadian governments have <a class="externalLink" href="http://enenews.com/nytimes-govt-scientist-allowed-publish-findings-fukushima-cesium-137-could-be-10000-times-higher-pacific-surface-waters-after-chernobyl-japan-researchers-pressure-downplay-disasters-impact-profe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">banned their citizens</a> from <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-16861468" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">talking about Fukushima</a> so “people don’t panic.”<br />
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Credit – AP<br />
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Further south in Oregon, USA, starfish <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.storyleak.com/melting-starfish-along-west-coast-prompts-fukushima-fears/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">began losing legs</a> and then <a class="externalLink" href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/jun/sea-star-disease-epidemic-surges-oregon-local-extinctions-expected" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">disintegrating entirely</a>
 when Fukushima radiation arrived there in 2013. Now, they are dying in 
record amounts, putting the entire oceanic ecosystem in that area at 
risk. However, government officials say Fukushima is not to blame even 
though radiation in Oregon tuna <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.rt.com/usa/155692-oregon-tuna-radiation-tripled-fukushima/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tripled after Fukushima</a>.
 In 2014, radiation on California beaches increased by 500 percent. In 
response, government officials said that the radiation was coming from a
 <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.rt.com/usa/fukushima-geiger-california-radiation-238/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mysterious “unknown” source</a> and was nothing to worry about.<br />
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However, Fukushima is having a bigger impact than just the West coast of
 North America. Scientists are now saying that the Pacific Ocean is 
already radioactive and is currently<a class="externalLink" href="http://enenews.com/radio-fukushima-daiichi-has-contaminated-the-biggest-body-of-water-on-the-planet-whole-pacific-ocean-likely-to-have-cesium-levels-5-10-times-higher-than-at-peak-of-nuclear-bomb-tests-audio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> at least 5-10 times more radioactive</a>
 than when the US government dropped numerous nuclear bombs in the 
Pacific during and after World War II. If we don’t start talking about 
Fukushima soon, we could all be in for a very unpleasant surprise.<br />
<br /><b>Read-more:</b><br />
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<i><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.trueactivist.com/fukushima-radiation-has-contaminated-the-entire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-to-get-worse/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AM&utm_content=fukushimaradiationhascontaminatedtheentirepacificoceananditsgoingtogetworse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TrueActivist.com</a></i></li>
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://peakoil.com/enviroment/fukushima-radiation-has-contaminated-the-entire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-to-get-worse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://peakoil.com/enviroment/fukus...tire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-to-get-worse</a> </li>
<li><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/us-sailors-sick-from-fuku_b_4759831.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/us-sailors-sick-from-fuku_b_4759831.html</a></li>
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/us-sailors-sue-radiation-poisoning-21307774" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/us-sailors-sue-radiation-poisoning-21307774</a></li>
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/050902_Fukushima_US_Navy_sailors_radiation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/050902_Fukushima_US_Navy_sailors_radiation.html</a> </li>
<li><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp</a></li>
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=680&MediaTypeID=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=680&MediaTypeID=1</a></li>
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<a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents</a></li>
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<br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why I Left Tokyo</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Doctor Shigeru Mita, who recently moved to Okayama-city, Okayama prefecture, to open a <a class="externalLink" href="http://mitaiin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new clinic</a> there, wrote a short essay in the newsletter published by Association of Doctors in Kodaira, metropolitan Tokyo.</i><br />
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<i>Although the target readers for this essay were not the general 
public, it has been cited in a weekly e-mail magazine published by 
journalist <a class="externalLink" href="http://blog.goo.ne.jp/nagaikenji20070927" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kota Kinoshita</a>, who has been organizing actions to urge people to leave radiation affected areas (including Tokyo) since 3.11, 2011.</i><br />
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<i>On many occasions, public talks and gatherings, both Dr. Mita and 
Mr. Kinoshita have acknowledged the danger of radiation and they have 
called out for immediate action for radiation protection.</i><br />
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In November 2013, WNSCR translated an essay that Dr. Mita wrote for parents concerned about radiation: (Please read the article <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2013/11/11/title-dr-shigeru-mita-addresses-the-need-of-blood-examination-among-children-in-the-kanto-area/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>).
 Despite the interests of many parents in Japan, there are very few 
doctors who show serious concern on the issues of radiation, and 
commenting on the issue publicly is even rarer.<br />
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It is the opinion of WNSCR that Dr. Mita’s views have significant 
meaning for the general public, especially for those who are interested 
in the health impact of radiation on the general population. We have 
permission to translate a new essay of Dr. Mita, through Mr. Kinoshita<br />
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Why did I leave Tokyo?<br />
Shigeru Mita ( Mita clinic)<br />
To my fellow doctors,<br />
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Map Left by Toshiaki Mizuno & Hideya Kubo, April 29, 2013<br />
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I closed the clinic in March 2014, which had served the community of 
Kodaira for more than 50 years, since my father’s generation, and I have
 started a new Mita clinic in Okayama-city on April 21.<br />
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I had been a member of the board of directors in the Kodaira medical 
association since the 1990’s, the time I started practicing medicine at 
my father’s clinic. For the last 10 years, I had worked to establish a 
disaster emergency response in the city.<br />
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In Tokyo, the first mission of the disaster response concerns how to deal with earthquakes.<br />
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In the event of a South Eastern Earthquake, which is highly expected,
 it is reasonable to assume a scenario of meltdown in the Hamaoka 
nuclear power plant in Shizuoka prefecture, followed by radiation 
contamination in Tokyo.<br />
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I have been worried about the possibility of radiation contamination 
in Tokyo, so I had repeatedly requested the medical association, the 
municipal government and the local public health department to stock 
medical iodine. However, every time my request was turned down; the 
reason given was that Tokyo did not expect such an event. Hence there 
was no plan for preparing for the event.<br />
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In the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Tokyo experienced slow but great 
motions in the earthquake. I thought, “now this is what’s called 
long-period seismic motions. The South Eastern Sea earthquake, with the 
following Hamaoka NPP accident, are finally coming”. Instead, the source
 of the earthquake was in Tohoku. The temperature of the reactors in 
Fukushima Daiichi NPP rose and it caused massive explosions, followed by
 meltdowns and melt-through.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">It is clear that Eastern Japan and Metropolitan Tokyo have been contaminated with radiation.</span><br />
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Contamination of the soil can be shown by measuring Bq/kg. Within the
 23 districts of Metropolitan Tokyo, contamination in the east part is 
1000-4000 Bq/kg and the west part is 300-1000 Bq/kg. The contamination 
of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, is 500 Bq/kg (Ce137 only). West 
Germany after the Chernobyl accident has 90 Bq/kg, Italy has 100 and 
France has 30 Bq/kg on average. Many cases of health problems have been 
reported in Germany and Italy. Shinjuku, the location of the Tokyo 
municipal government, was measured at 0.5-1.5 Bq/kg before 2011. Kodaira
 currently has 200-300 Bq/kg contamination.<br />
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I recommend all of you to watch the NHK program, “<a class="externalLink" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy9rfx_%E6%B1%9A%E6%9F%93%E5%9C%B0%E5%B8%AF%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%AE%E5%A0%B1%E5%91%8A-%E7%AC%AC%EF%BC%91%E5%9B%9E-%E3%83%99%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%81%AE%E8%8B%A6%E6%82%A9_tech" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ETV special: Chernobyl nuclear accident: Report from a contaminated land</a>”,
 which is available on the Internet. I think it is important to 
acknowledge what people who visited Belarus and Ukraine, and heard the 
stories of the locals, have seen and felt there, and listen to those who
 served in rescue operations in Chernobyl in the past more than 20 
years.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Their experience tells them that Tokyo 
should no longer be inhabited, and that those who insist on living in 
Tokyo must take regular breaks in safer areas.</span><br />
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Issues such as depopulation and state decline continue to burden the 
lives of second and third generation Ukrainians and Belarusians today, 
and I fear that this may be the future of Eastern Japan.<br />
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Since December 2011, I have conducted thyroid ultrasound 
examinations, thyroid function tests, general blood tests and 
biochemical tests on about 2000 people, mostly families in the Tokyo 
metropolitan area expressing concerns on the effects of radiation. I 
have observed that white blood cells, especially neutrophils, are 
decreasing among children under the age of 10. There are cases of 
significant decline in the number of neutrophils in 0-1 year-olds born 
after the earthquake (<1000). In both cases, conditions tend to 
improve by moving to Western Japan (Neutrophils 0–>4500). Patients 
report nosebleed, hair loss, lack of energy, subcutaneous bleeding, 
visible urinary hemorrhage, skin inflammations, coughs and various other
 non-specific symptoms.<br />
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Kodaira, in western Tokyo, is one of the least-contaminated areas in 
Kanto; however, we began to notice changes in children’s blood test 
results around mid-2013 even in this area. Contamination in Tokyo is 
progressing, and further worsened by urban radiation concentration, or 
the effect by which urban sanitation systems such as the sewage system, 
garbage collection and incineration condense radiation, because 
contaminated waste is gathered and compressed. Data measured by 
citizens’ groups showed that radiation levels on the riverbeds of 
Kawabori River in Higashiyamato and Higashimurayama in Tokyo have 
increased drastically in the last 1-2 years.<br />
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Other concerns I have include symptoms reported by general patients, 
such as persistent asthma and sinusitis. The patients show notable 
improvement once they move away.<br />
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I also observe high occurrences of rheumatic polymyalgia 
characterized by complaints such as “difficulty turning over,” 
“inability to dress and undress,” and “inability to stand up” among my 
middle-aged and older patients. Could these be the same symptoms of 
muscle rheumatism that were recorded in Chernobyl?<br />
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Changes are also noticeable in the manifestation of contagious 
diseases such as influenza, hand-foot-and-mouth disease and shingles.<br />
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Many patients report experiencing unfamiliar symptoms or sensing 
unusual changes in their bodies. Perhaps they feel comfortable speaking 
to me, knowing that my clinic posted signs informing of possible 
radiation-related symptoms immediately after the nuclear accident. Many 
young couples with small children and women worried about their 
grandchildren visit my clinic and earnestly engage in the discussion, 
and there is not a single patient who resists my critical views on the 
impacts of radiation.<br />
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Ever since 3.11, everybody living in Eastern Japan including Tokyo is a victim, and everybody is involved.<br />
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We discovered that our knowledge from the discipline of radiology was completely useless in the face of a nuclear disaster. <span style="color: red;">The keyword here is “long-term low-level internal irradiation.” </span>This
 differs greatly from medical irradiation or simple external exposure to
 radiation. I do not want to get involved in political issues; 
nonetheless, I must state that the policies of the WHO, the IAEA or the <span style="color: red;">Japanese government cannot be trusted.</span> They are simply far too distanced from the harsh realities that people in Chernobyl still face today.<br />
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The patients from Eastern Japan that I see here in Okayama have 
confirmed the feelings that I have had for a long time, since I was 
based in Tokyo. <span style="color: red;">People are truly suffering from this utter lack of support. </span>Since
 3.11, mothers have researched frantically on radiation to protect their
 children. They studied in the midst of their hostile surroundings in 
Tokyo, where they could no longer trust either government offices or 
their children’s schools. Family doctors were willing to listen about 
other symptoms, but their faces turned red at the slightest mention of 
radiation and ignored the mothers’ questions. Mothers could not even 
talk openly to friends anymore as the atmosphere in Tokyo became more 
and more stifled.<br />
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I believe that it is our duty as medical doctors to instruct and 
increase awareness among the Japanese public. This is our role as 
experts, having knowledge of health that the general public does not 
possess. Three years have quickly passed since the disaster. No medical 
schools or books elaborate on radiation sickness. Nevertheless, if the 
power to save our citizens and future generations exists somewhere, it 
does not lie within the government or any academic association, but in 
the hands of individual clinical doctors ourselves.<br />
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Residents of Tokyo are unfortunately not in the position to pity the 
affected regions of Tohoku because they are victims themselves. Time is 
running short. I took an earlier step forward and evacuated to the west.
 My fellow doctors of medicine, I am waiting for you here. And to the 
people in Eastern Japan still hesitating, all my support goes to 
facilitating and enabling your evacuation, relocation, or a temporary 
relief in Western Japan.</span></span><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
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Japanese Godzilla. </div>
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Radiation affected mutant monster<b><br />
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