June 26th No Nukes Protest in Fukushima-City

Fukushima citizens held a protest called 6.26 Fukushimhttps://japannukecrisis.wordpress.com/?p=681&preview=truea 10,000 People Handkerchief Parade on June 26th in Fukushima-City.

Also, there was another protest on the 25th. Here’s pictures taken by Takashi Morizumi:
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Top picture: “Back (our) safe farmland!” “Get rid of nuclear power plants for the future”

2nd: A man holding a sign says, “We don’t need nuclear power plants”

3rd: An old lady’s apron reads, “Withdraw from nuclear power plants”

bottom: A boy with a fan reads, “Let’s abolish nuclear power plants”

Report from Iitate – June 26th

A photojournalist Takashi Morizumi posted photos from Iitate, Fukushima on his blog:

Swings in a Kindergarten
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The photographer said that it reminded him of a amusement park in Prypiat near Chernobyl.

A Patrol Team
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The Village of Iitate has organized a “patrol team” to prevent thefts and other crimes. The village has created 290 jobs with this program until March 31st next year. However, a village councilor Hachiro Sato said, “There were some participants who joined the patrol team because they wanted to protect their village, but not all of them. There were a lot of people told me that they don’t want to do the job like this. They have already evacuated, and there is no other place to work. They have to work because they don’t have money. It created jobs for 290 people, but the residents would get exposed to radiation instead.”

Swallows
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As if there were nothing happened, a swallow feeds its kids in their nest.
June 22nd, 2011

A Frog Eggs
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The photographer said that there were many tadpoles swimming in the pond. The radiation level around the pond was about 8 microsievert per hour. He also mentioned that it was one of the areas in Iitate that measured high radiation.

ACRO Radioactivity Report – June 20th

ACRO, French Non Governmental Organization for Radioactivity Control, released their latest report on radioactivity in the Kanto area and Miyagi Prefecture. You can download the report in English in PDF from the link below:
http://www.acro.eu.org/RAP110620-OCJ(01)-v1.pdf

You can see the report in Japanese HERE.

The organization has analyzed the data collected by Greenpeace, and the report is here:
http://www.acro.eu.org/RAP110522-GPJ-01.pdf

Also, you can download their previous report here:
http://www.acro.eu.org/RAP110411-OCJ-EN.pdf

IPS: Workers Bear Brunt of Nuke Clean-up

Workers Bear Brunt of Nuke Clean-up

By Suvendrini Kakuchi

TOKYO, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – Twenty-eight-year-old Yushi Sato washes cars for a living, but they are no ordinary cars. Every day, Sato hoses down vehicles contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant that was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit north-east Japan Mar 11.

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Sunflowers in Fukushima-City

The residents in Horai District in Fukushima-City planted sunflowers, reported a photojournalist Takashi Morizumi. Because the radiation level in the area was comparatively higher than the others, they decided to clean up their yards as much as possible by themselves.

Click the link below to see the picture:
http://mphoto.sblo.jp/article/46290565.html

The original article was posted on June 25th, 2011.