Best Attractions and Places to See in Fukushima, Japan
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List of Best Things to do in Fukushima, Japan
Hanamiyama Park
Azuma Kofuji
Bandai-Azuma Skyline
Old Horikiri House
Fudosawa Bridge / Tsubakurodani
Fukushima Prefecture Tourist Product Center
Azuma Sports Park
Jododaira Visitor Center
Fukushima Race Course
Fukushima Prefectural Art Museuum
Fukushima
Many of the homes in Minamisoma, a town in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, were damaged beyond repair in the March 2011 tsunami, and their former occupants are still living in temporary housing.
Visit and live in Fukushima
Imai Takako had decided to move to Mishima town after 26 years of living abroad. The major deciding factor of her move was the human relationship which has been built in Aizu.
▼Imai Takako
Born in Fukushima city.
Recently she served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at a Japanese company in Los Angeles. After living in the United States for 26 years, she moved to Mishima town in 2017.
Currently she is in charge of inbound relations at Oku-Aizu revitalization community group.
She also manages the Instagram section of the information site about Oku-Aizu, Saijiki no Gou Oku-Aizu, sending out daily information.
▼Saijiki no Gou Oku-Aizu (Information site about Oku-Aizu area)
▼Saijiki no Gou Oku-Aizu Officual Instagram site
▼On moving to Fukushima prefecture
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■Tourist Information Center Karan Koron (Mishima town)
The facility is a refurbished old house near Aizu Miyashita Station. Tourism Association of Mishima town conducts guide of sightseeing spots. You can also taste the local products at the cafe area.
■Sokokashiko (Mishima town)
The guest house is situated on the remains of Jomon period called Arayashiki Remains, where rare lacquerware and knitting work were excavated.
It is a refurbished old house and creating warm atmosphere.
■Mishima Living Craft Gallery (Mishima town)
Exhibiting national traditional crafts, Oku-Aizu braiding crafts made of wild vines, silver vines, and sedges. It is a facility where you can understand handicrafts of snow country by viewing, buying, and experiencing.
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▶ Lots of fun movies promoting the seasonal charms and a variety of other up-to-date information on Fukushima are being uploaded to the Official Fukushima Prefectural YouTube Channel. Be sure to subscribe to the channel!
Fukushima Restoration Plan: Abe Sees Fukushima Progress!!!
Radiation risks are being swept under the rug. That restoration plan voluntarily chooses to ignore the risks for people to be living in a contaminated environment, not differentiating between the external and internal exposures and their sure harmful consequences to people health. Not to mention the ongoing incineration of contaminated waste in the Fukushima Prefecture 19 municipal incinerators, continuously redistributing radioactive nanoparticles into the environment. All done in the name of economic reconstruction!
Cabinet to approve Fukushima restoration plan
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited Fukushima Prefecture to inspect the progress of restoration following the 2011 nuclear accident.
Abe visited a machinery parts manufacturer in Minamisoma City on Saturday.
The government and Fukushima Prefecture have been working to create a cluster of robotics' companies in the city.
The president of the manufacturer told the prime minister that he hopes the robotics industry will help revitalize the local economy.
Abe responded that the state-of-the-art robot testing facilities that had been built in the city should attract companies from around the world, and that he wants the region to develop around them.
Abe later visited the town of Kawamata, where an evacuation order is expected to be lifted next March.
He ate fermented natto soybeans manufactured in the town using local products.
Abe told reporters after the inspection that his government intends to help people from areas where the evacuation order will be lifted with housing and rebuilding their lives.
He also said his cabinet will approve a plan before the end of the month to accelerate Fukushima's restoration. He said it includes partial governmental funding for decontamination in non-entry zones.
Japan - New radioactive water leak found at Fukushima plant / IAEA DG discusses Fukushima nuclear po
New radioactive water leak found at Fukushima plant
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Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant - 19 September 2013
1. Various of the storage tanks for the contaminated water and the water on the ground (likely to be just rain water, not contaminated water)
2. Storage tanks for the contaminated water
3. Pan of barrier
IAEA DG discusses Fukushima nuclear power plant problems with Japanese government
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4. Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano walking in and meeting with Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)Chairman, Shunichi Tanaka
Japan switches on wind turbine to supply electricity to grid of crippled nuclear plant
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Onahama port, Fukushima - 11 November 2013
5. Wide of Yuhei Sato, governor of Fukushima Prefecture (left), and Kazuyoshi Akaba, State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, at inauguration of wind turbine
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6. Various of wind turbine 20 kilometres offshore from Fukushima
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FILE: Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant - 19 September 2013
7. damaged facility at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant
STORYLINE:
Japan's crippled nuclear plant has a new leak of highly radioactive water entering the Pacific Ocean after a storage tank overflowed, a plant operator said on October 3rd 2013.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company official said that workers detected the water dripping from the top of a tank when they were patrolling the site the night before.
TEPCO estimates 430 litres (110 gallons) of water leaked outside a concrete barrier surrounding the tank and four others.
TEPCO believes the water reached the sea via a ditch next to the barrier.
(The contaminated water) went into the drain and we cannot deny the possibility of it having reached the ocean, said TEPCO official Masayuki Ono.
Massive amounts of water have been used to cool the reactors and fuel rods since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant's cooling system.
Leaks of the contaminated water are causing concerns over the plant's stability.
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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was in Tokyo on October 10th for talks with the Japanese government on the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
Amano met with Shunichi Tanaka, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) over updates on countermeasures against contaminated water leakage at the facility.
The Japanese NRA had promised the IAEA in an earlier meeting to cooperate with the UN nuclear agency to monitor the ocean in order to find out the amount of contamination that has spread into the sea near Fukushima.
Amano promised that the IAEA will cooperate with Japan on measuring the levels of radioactivity in the ocean and that it is extremely important to thoroughly discuss the methods that need to be taken.
Ocean monitoring is extremely important so the IAEA would very much like to cooperate with you as much as possible, said Amano.
Japan's striken nuclear power plant has raised concerns not only domestically but also internationally.
The NRA have faulted plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for sloppiness in its handling not only of the water management but also in other daily operations with repeated mishaps on radioactive water leakage in less than a month.
While Japan has been monitoring the seawater for levels of radioactivity, it is yet to decide what methods should be best in order to regain confidence in safety of the ocean around Fukushima.
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Japan switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometres (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima on November 11th.
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Visit to Fukushima with a Geiger Counter
Went to Fukushima with some friends and really enjoyed it.
友達と福島県に行った、めっちゃ楽しかった！
I'll post photos on my website soon.
ホームページ写真載せる。
Someone pointed out that the Geiger counter readings are not clear:
0.06 in Chiba
0.06 at Koriyama - Sakura tree
0.07 at Iwaki - Aquamarine Fukushima.
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Fishermen face uncertain future after new leaks from Fukushima nuclear plant
Japanese fishermen in the Iwaki fishing ports had hoped to resume test catches next month following favourable sampling results after two years - those plans have now been scrapped after news of another tank leak at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
All fisheries operations in Fukushima have been suspended indefinitely after a 300-ton leak on Monday - the fifth and most serious from a tank since the March 2011 disaster.
It remains unclear what the environmental impact from the contamination will be on sea life.
At Yotsukura Port, the fishing boat Ebisu-maru has been part of the sampling trips since the 2011 disaster.
Local fisherman Fumio Suzuki, 47, said TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Compnay - who run the plant) had repeatedly failed to acknowledge problems that it could have foreseen.
The operators (of the plant) are reacting too late every time in whatever they do, he said.
People in the fishing business have no choice but to give up. There are many (fishermen) who have mostly given up already, he added.
Many local fisheries have lost confidence in reassurances from the operators of the nuclear plant, and fisherman and researchers continued to survey the sea life on their own.
Sampling results from over 170 types of fish showed 40 percent of fish testing positive to signs of contamination.
Forty-two types of fish are still off limits, including fat greenling, flounder, and sole.
However, Nobuyuki Hatta, the Director of the Fukushima Prefecture Fisheries Research Centre, said test results had been positive in the lead up to the leaks.
The monitoring data taken from the sample fish shows there are less and less fish that show signs of radiation levels over the limits, he said.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Visits Fukushima Prefecture March 8, 2014
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Fukushima Prefecture to gauge the progress of the reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Upon arriving in Taira-Numanouchi in Iwaki City, the Prime Minister first visited the construction site of the Taira-Numanouchi public housing for disaster-stricken households.
The Prime Minister then sampled marine products at Lalamew in Onahama, Iwaki City, and observed the premises of the facility.
In the afternoon, the Prime Minister visited a site in the Ogawara area that will be developed into a reconstruction hub for Okuma Town. The Prime Minister then moved to Tamura City and conversed with residents of areas where evacuation orders will be lifted.
What we saw and heard in Fukushima, The Ranch of Hope, Namie Town, Vol 2福島でみたことと聞いたこと～浪江町「希望の牧場」編２
In Name Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Mr. Masami Yoshizawa the CEO of The Ranch of Hope, Fukushima is against the Governmental order to kill the cattle cows in the evacuation zone and take care of 350 cows still now.
In front of the Hachiko Statue in Shibuya, he expresses with his soul.
Please listen his word one by one and feel it with all the imagination.
What is happening and done in Fukushima
Please feel and try to think.
Supports/Goods to send
Thank you for your supports and donation, the Ranch of Hope, Fukushima. If you would like to send any goods to this Ranch, please send to Yamato Distribution Center, since the ranch, M Ranch, Namie farm is located in the evacuation zone.
Address for sending goods:
258-3, SHIZUKUMINAMI-OOESHITA, Hara Machi, Minami Souma Shi, Fukushima Prefecture, 975-0042
To Mr. Tsutomu Hariya, The Ranch of Hope, Fukushima, M Ranch, Namie Farm
In case of sending any goods, please send any mail to the Ranch of Hope, Fukushima, in advance.
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福島県浪江町 警戒区域で牛の殺処分に反対し 今なお350頭の牛を飼育する
「希望の牧場・ふくしま」代表 吉沢正巳さん
渋谷ハチ公前での魂の訴え
一言一言 想像力を持って感じてください
福島で何が起こったのか 何が行われているか
感じてください そして 考えてください
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A Day in Kagoshima Prefecture at the Ibusuki Sand Onsen [Ft. Sharmander & OkanoTV]
The Tokyo Creative team heads to Ibusuki Onsen alongside Chris Broad's (Abroad in Japan) Journey Across Japan campaign. Come check out why Ibusuki Onsen is one of the famous onsen (hot spring) locations here in Japan.
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FDA finds no radiation traces in illegally imported items from Japan
The Food and Drug Administration continues to test illegally imported items from Japan. Nearly 300 items from five Japanese prefectures contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster were found to have entered Taiwan using false labels. None has yet tested positive for traces of radiation. Staff from Taoyuan’s Department of Public Health rushed to this hypermarket to seal food products thought to have originated in contaminated zones in Japan.Officials also went to check an import warehouse in Kaohsiung’s Zuoying.Chen Yueh-PaoKaohsiung Department of Health The Chinese language labels say that Osaka or Tokyo is the point of origin, but when you remove this label it says Chiba.Last month customs inspectors found that Chinese labels did not match the products place of origin. This led the FDA to inspect 10 major importers. It found that nearly 300 items came from five prohibited prefectures affected by radiation. Authorities said that none of the products have tested positive for radiation.Chiang Yu-meiFDA Director GeneralAt the moment, 193 items have been tested and none have tested positive.From 2011, after the nuclear disaster, all agricultural products and food products were banned from Fukushima, Chiba and other nearby prefectures.Toxicologist Yen Tzung-hai warned of the risk of radiation from products produced in these areas.Yen Tzung-haiChang Gung Hospital ToxicologistI am concerned about cesium-137. This can increase the risk of thyroid tumors, leukemia and lymph cancer. Yen said that cesium-137 has a half life of 30 years. The body is unable to metabolize it.
Saiki City in Oita Prefecture – Home to delicious seafood and cat island Fukashima
Saiki City, in Oita Prefecture, is located on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, about 780 km south-west of Tokyo, and 150km east of Fukuoka City. It is the fifth largest city by population and the largest city by area in Kyushu located in the eastern prefecture of Oita, and the centre of the south-east region of Oita. Saiki is pleasantly located on Saiki bay, part of the Bungo Channel that feeds the Inland Sea of Japan (Setonaikai). Situated on the coastline, Saiki experiences mild weather all year round, due to the influence of the warm currents along the Bungo Channel. Rainfall is most prevalent from June to early July, and the chance of snow is limited. Due to is close proximity to the sea, Saiki City is famous for delicious seafood and beautiful coast lines. Chien Chien from Taiwan will take you on a tour through Saiki city and show you famous places like Nishi Sushi Restaurant and Oita’s cat island Fukushima.
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Saiki Tourism Encyclopedia (English version)
Maruni Marine Products
Fukashima Island
Nishiki Sushi Restaurant
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TEPCO to provide more support for renewable energy
Nuclear & Energy Jan. 9, 2015 - Updated 04:19 UTC-5
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it will support Fukushima Prefecture's plan to promote renewable energy as a pillar of reconstruction from the 2011 disaster and nuclear accident.
TEPCO President Naomi Hirose met economy minister Yoichi Miyazawa on Friday. Hirose said his utility will make efforts to fulfill its responsibility as the company that caused the accident.
Hirose said the utility will renovate a seldom-used transformer substation near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant so it can buy electricity generated from renewable energy sources in the prefecture.
The president of Tohoku Electric Power Company, Makoto Kaiwa, was also at the meeting.
Kaiwa said his company will preferentially buy electricity generated in former evacuation zones in the prefecture.
The utility's service area covers mainly northeastern Japan, including Fukushima and two other prefectures worst-hit by the disaster.
Economy minister Miyazawa said the government will allocate funds to buy battery cells and transmission lines in the draft extra budget for this fiscal year to help introduce green energy sources.
Evacuation drill held near Mount Sakurajima
Japan Jan. 9, 2015 - Updated 00:03 UTC-5
About 4,500 people living at the foot of Mount Sakurajima in southwestern Japan have taken part in an evacuation drill.
Kagoshima Prefecture and Kagoshima City hold the annual drill to learn the lessons from the massive 1914 eruption, which left 58 people dead.
Friday's drill was based on the scenario of a massive eruption after a series of volcanic quakes.
Kagoshima local meteorological observatory announced Sakurajima has inflation of the volcanic edifice
Japan, S.Korea discuss embargo, wartime labor
Biz / TechJan. 8, 2015 - Updated 17:41 UTC-5
Deputy foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea have agreed to deepen ties. But they differed on various issues including South Korea's embargo on fisheries products from Fukushima and other areas.
Japan's Yasumasa Nagamine met South Korea's Ahn Chong-ghee in Seoul on Thursday.
They confirmed plans to launch joint projects in other countries. These would include energy businesses. They also agreed to collaborate on tourism to mark the 50th anniversary of normalization of bilateral ties.
Nagamine asked South Korea to lift the embargo on fisheries products from 8 Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, as early as possible.
South Korea introduced the embargo out of concerns over contamination from radioactive substances after the nuclear accident in 2011.
Japanese cities vying to host 2016 summit meeting
Japan Jan. 8, 2015 - Updated 15:52 UTC-5
Seven Japanese municipalities are competing to host the summit meeting of major industrialized countries to be held in the country in 2016.
Shuichi Abe, governor of Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, visited the Foreign Ministry on Thursday. The governor presented the virtues of the resort town of Karuizawa to Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida.
The six other candidate cities are Sendai, Niigata, Hamamatsu, Nagoya, Kobe and Hiroshima.
The government will look at facilities like convention centers and hotels, as well as transportation and security. It will also consider the cities' ability to garner attention abroad.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to choose the venue before this year's summit is held in June in Germany.
NPA orders tighter security after Paris shootings
Japan Jan. 9, 2015 - Updated 16:05 UTC-5
Japan's National Police Agency has ordered police stations across the nation to tighten security following the Paris shootings.
Anti-terrorism measures proposed by the agency include data gathering, tighter immigration control at airports and enhanced patrol of airports, nuclear and other critical facilities.
The agency urged coordination between the Immigration Bureau and airport operators to keep terrorists from entering Japan.
Earlier, the agency instructed relevant police stations to increase their patrols around a dozen French-related facilities in Tokyo, including the French Embassy.
Permanent radioactive waste disposal facing significant hurdles
Nuclear Regulatory Commmission investigating alleged Palisades safety violations
Local Nuclear Plants Could Be On Chopping Block
How do you prefer your boar—rare, medium-rare or radioactive?
Fukushima -Radioactive rice in Japan is ON PROMOTION
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Thanks for keeping informed and watching. This video show clearly how corporate main concern is profit and sale, and to continue business like nothing happen.
Madness of catastrophic consequences, firstly to poor countries, look at teas and their other products,..be aware
They all look to me very much inhuman!!?
Bay food from yours local farmers, check where all food is coming from. Protect children's!
Original upload by MsMilkytheclown
Don't worry, they sold some, but stopped it later.
Who thinks radioactivity Prefers Rice, tea, and beef over other food products?
Oh, by the way North Korea needs extra grain, so I'll betcha that's where it ends up!
More Fukushima rice tainted with cesium
Fukushima Prefecture says it has found rice tainted with radioactive cesium above the tentative government limit from five more farms.
The prefecture said on Friday that the five farms are in the Oonami district of Fukushima City, about 56 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The highest level of cesium detected was 1,270 becquerels per kilogram. The government's maximum allowable level is 500 becquerels per kilogram.
Earlier this month, the prefectural government found rice samples from a field in the district also containing radioactive cesium above the limit.
Shipments of rice harvested from the area have been suspended by central government since last Thursday.
Fukushima Prefecture subsequently ordered tests on rice samples from all 154 farms in the Oonami district.
Friday, November 25, 2011 21:04 +0900 (JST)
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Half-life of some radioactive elements
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Blessings
Soil from Fukushima
This is at maker faire 2013 (NYC). This Japanese inventor was demonstrating his portable geiger counter (connected to an IPAD). Go to 0:40 to see the Geiger counter blown up (this is a traditional geiger counter)
Fukushima 3/5/16: Next Experiment-Frozen Soil Wall; Active Fault Beneath NPP; Death Toll Post 311
New Gov’t Report: Fukushima radiation found in US marine life — Investigators detect radioactive contamination “in a variety of marine products” harvested off West Coast — Effects of exposure need to be studied and understood in coming years
Volcanologists on nuclear regulatory panel accepted utility donations
TOKYO, March 3, Kyodo
Two volcanologists involved in judging whether restarted nuclear reactors should be halted due to nearby volcanic activity received 8.1 million yen ($71,000) in donations from utility-linked companies in the past, documents showed Thursday.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority appointed the two, both from Kagoshima University, as part of a six-member panel to check for signs of a major volcanic eruption near Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant, which is located in a volcanically active region in southwestern Japan.
The revelation that the two -- professor emeritus Tetsuo Kobayashi and professor Hiroki Miyamachi -- received funds from affiliates of nuclear power plant operators, including Kyushu Electric, may raise suspicions about the panel's decisions, critics said.
TEPCO to create frozen wall soon
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected to soon get approval to start underground freezing around its reactors. The measure is aimed at creating a frozen soil wall to cut the amount of groundwater flowing into reactor buildings.
Panel: Fault below Shika reactor may be active
A panel of scientists at Japan's nuclear regulator says a fault under a reactor at the Shika power plant in central Japan could slip in the future.
3,400 survivors of 2011 disaster have since died
The Japanese government says more than 3,400 survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami have subsequently died due to health problems caused by prolonged upheaval.
The Reconstruction Agency compiles data every 6 months on deaths related to the disaster and the ensuing nuclear accident in northeastern Japan.
Agency officials say that by the end of last September, 4-and-a-half years after the disaster, they had documented 3,407 deaths.
The largest number was in Fukushima Prefecture, where the damaged nuclear plant is based -- 1,979 residents, representing 58 percent of the total.
The officials say 1,876 people or 55 percent died within 3 months of the disaster.
Since March 2014, 156 people have died, most of them in Fukushima Prefecture.
The officials say that as of February 12th, as many as 174,471 people are still in temporary housing or living in relatives' homes. The figure is down 50,706 from last March.
156,234 people are living in prefabricated housing or apartments rented by central and local governments. 18,237 people live with their relatives and acquaintances, down 316 from last year.
43,139 people originally from Fukushima Prefecture are living different prefectures.
Local governments have completed only half the planned public housing for people affected by the disaster, and just 30 percent of residential developments on land lots in higher locations.
Some communities continue to suffer from declining populations.
In Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures, 12 communities have reported population declines of more than 10 percent. More than half said their numbers are down by 20 percent or greater.
Japan’s nuclear power plans don’t add up
Groups worry about radioactive substances near Great Lakes
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4-5 microSv/h Depression of Mt. Ippai-mori, Fukushima city Feb. 2016
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Forestry agency announced 8,800 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 detected from cedar pollen with 2 other data concealed
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Fukushima Kids with Yumi Kikuchi
On today's podcast, Maggie and Nat interview our very inspiring friend Yumi Kikuchi. Fairewinds has been working with Yumi for more than a year now. She encouraged us to send material to the Tokyo Peace Film Festival, which she organized, and we sent our film You are not alone. Yumi also co-sponsored Arnie's trip to Japan in 2012, where he gave the presentation Japan at a Crossroads: Two Futures. Yumi left Japan with her family after the Fukushima Daiichi accident, and currently lives in Hawaii. She founded the Fukushima Kids Hawaii Project (FKHP), usually shortened to Fukushima Kids, and has just returned to Japan where she will be spreading awareness about the project and fundraising. Fukushima Kids aims to host children from Fukushima in Hawaii during school vacations, where they can play outdoors safe from high radiation levels. Children are more vulnerable to the effects of radiation than adults, and we are already seeing signs of thyroid cancer and cysts among children in Fukushima. There are about 300,000 kids living in the Fukushima prefecture, and Yumi is hoping to host 15 kids this first summer.
How can you help
Spread the word about the project, and about the health crisis in Japan. Those in Hawaii can contact Yumi about hosting children or volunteering. Gathering financial support is most crucial to the project right now, with airfare for the kids being the biggest expense.
To donate via paypal: genm@trust.ocn.ne.jp
To donate by mail in the USA, make check payable to Harmonics Life Center Hawaii, subject line Fukushima Kids, and mail to:
Harmonics Life Center c/o Morita
75-286 Hoene Street
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In Japan, you can make a donation by Yubin-Furikae at any post office to the Harmonics Life Center: 00110-1-144224
Fukushima Today Environmental Radiation and the Food Safety
It has been six years since the earthquake. Fukushima has made steady progress.
Environmental radiation in most regions throughout the prefecture has fallen to levels equivalent to those outside the prefecture or main cities around the world.
We will report on the Fukushima of today, by focusing on the status of monitoring, environmental radiation and initiatives to ensure food safety.
Moreover, we will take a look at Comutan Fukushima, a facility that familiarizes people to radiation and environmental problems, and promotes greater awareness for environmental restoration and creation in response to concerns and doubts about the environment in Fukushima expressed by a variety of people.
Cooperation in filming by
Anzai Kajuen
TONICHI Co., Ltd.
JA Fukushima Sakura
Sedette Kashima
■ Environmental radiation
The levels of air radiation within the prefecture have declined greatly since April 2011. We will report on the environmental changes in Fukushima by focusing on the changes in air radiation since the nuclear accident until today.
Fukushima Prefecture radioactivity measurement map
■ Food safety
The wealth of nature blesses Fukushima with delicious agricultural, forest and fishery products. Many people are working hard to ensure their safety.
We will examine the decontamination efforts for farmland, and the inspection system being implemented to regain consumer confidence.
Fukushima Revitalization Station
Fukushima Association for Securing Safety of Agricultural Products
■ Comutan Fukushima, the Information and Communication Building, Fukushima Prefectural Center for Environmental Creation
Opened in Miharu Town in the summer of 2016
A facility providing visitors with a variety of easy-to-understand information on Fukushima today, and in the future, such as the environment and progress made since the earthquake.
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The Leaf / MFP [Marron Fields Production]
Komorebi / Moppy Sound
Natsu-no Omoide / Kyaai
Good morning / Takuya Matsumoto
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Fukushima rice to be exported to France
The governor of nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture appears likely to soon reach an agreement with a French trading house to export rice to France.
Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori is starting his 4-day visit to France and Britain on Thursday to promote local produce, including rice, beef, and processed fruit.
He seeks to dispel concern about the safety of food products from Fukushima following the nuclear accident in 2011 and expand its sales channels.
Prefectural sources say Uchibori is likely to reach an agreement to ship to France a locally produced rice variety called Tennotsubu . Rice from Fukushima will be exported to France for the first time.
Sources say the governor is also likely to cement a plan to increase Fukushima's shipments of rice to Britain.
The prefecture exported 19 tons of rice to the country in the fiscal year ending in March 2017.
An official involved in Fukushima trade affairs says the exports will have a significant impact as Britain and France play a central role in passing on information in Europe.
What we saw and heard in Fukushima, Namie Town, the Ranch of Hope, Vol 1福島で見たことと聞いたこと~浪江町「希望の牧場」編１
2013年5月5日警戒区域が解除された福島県双葉郡浪江町に行きました
津波の被害に遭った請戸海岸は、放射能汚染のため２年間人が入れず、荒廃化が進んでいます
On May 5th, 2013, we visited to Namie Town, Futaba Country, Fukushima Prefecture, where the zone was released from the evacuation zone.
原発事故当時から現在まで 放射能に汚染された立ち入り禁止の警戒区域内で家畜の殺処分に反対し、牛を飼育し続ける牧場が10軒あります
その中の1軒「希望の牧場・ふくしま」代表 吉沢正巳さんにお話をうかがいました
福島県内では約1500頭の牛たちが殺処分されました
同意せざるを得なかった農家の皆さんの気持ちを思うと胸が痛くなります
There are 10 ranches who rejected the order of killing their cattle animals where those areas have been contaminated by the radioactivity in the evacuation zone, no one should not enter.
Among them, we talked and heard from the Mr. Masami Yoshizawa, the CEO of the The Ranch of Hope, Fukushima.
In Fukushima, more than 1500 cows have been killed already. It is a heartache to think how those farmers felt so hard when they had to agree with the order of killing their cattle animals.
吉沢さんは元々自分の牧場にいた牛以外にも ほかの牧場で飼いきれなくなった牛や人がいなくなった町でさまよう「野良牛」などを救済し飼育しています
350頭 全てが被爆した「売り物」にならない牛たち
In his ranch, he feeds not only his cows, but also other cows from other ranches where they could not continue to operate, or had to leave. Also, other cows includes the ones which become Wild in the town. In total, he takes care of 350 cows, which are all contaminated by the radioactive, no longer for sales in the market.
何故 身の危険を顧みず「売り物」にならない牛たちの面倒を見るのか
原発に対する思いは
未来に対する思いは
Why does he feeds those cows which are prohibited to sell, despites the risk for his own health?
How does he think about the Nuclear Power?
How does he think about the future coming?
うかがったお話の一言一言が胸にささりました
Each word from his talk was very meaningful and even impressive to our minds
福島で見たことと聞いたこと～浪江町「希望の牧場」編１～
What we saw and heard in Fukushima, Namie Town, the Ranch of Hope, Vol.1
応援/ご支援物資について
ご寄付をはじめとする、たくさんの温かいご協力ありがとうございます。
希望の牧場・ふくしま(エム牧場 浪江農場)は「警戒区域内」の所在となっているため
物資の送付はヤマト運輸センター止めにてお願いしております。
Supports/Goods to send
Thank you for your supports and donation, the Ranch of Hope, Fukushima. If you would like to send any goods to this Ranch, please send to Yamato Distribution Center, since the ranch, M Ranch, Namie farm is located in the evacuation zone.
【物資の送付先】
975-0042
福島県南相馬市原町区雫南大江下258-3
ヤマト運輸原町小高センター止め
Address for sending goods:
258-3, SHIZUKUMINAMI-OOESHITA, Hara Machi, Minami Souma Shi, Fukushima Prefecture, 975-0042
希望の牧場・ふくしま
(エム牧場 浪江農場)
針谷 勉 宛
To Mr. Tsutomu Hariya, The Ranch of Hope, Fukushima, M Ranch, Namie Farm
なお、
ご送付の際は、希望の牧場・ふくしま事務局宛てにメールをいただけますと助かります
In case of sending any goods, please send any mail to the Ranch of Hope, Fukushima, in advance.
kibouno.bokujyou@gmail.com