I wonder what the town assembly members who
voted non confidence against Mayor Idogawa would do when their children or
grandchildren are adversely affected by radiation in years to come.
How can human beings act as a tool of the
bad, yielding to the temptation of immediate profits?
I have thought that law should require half
of lawmakers to be women, but it might not be good. This is because most of people who desire to
be lawmakers are greedy, regardless of gender.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
December
21, 2012
Naoto Amaki – a former Japanese diplomat
English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Blog of Amaki Naoto – December 21, 2012 –
Advocators
of denuclearization, rally together for Town Mayor Idogawa!
Katsutaka Idogawa, town
mayor of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, was voted non-confidence unanimously in
the town council on December 20, 2012.
It is not unusual that a town head is voted
non-confidence in the town council.
The head must have a quarrel with the town
council again in a small town of Fukushima.
However, unanimous consent is quite unusual. The town mayor must have done something
extremely wrong.
Such a small article must be read in this
way without attracting a lot of attention from people.
However, that is not true.
This incidence has a
symbolic meaning that advocators of denuclearization in this country will be
expelled or eliminated one after another.
Mayor Idogawa is one of
the few heads who have accused the government of taking no countermeasures against
radiation contamination in Futaba and continued encouraging the residents to
evacuate the town to save their life.
He resolved to go to
Geneva, where he tried to make known to the world the relief of exposed
residents and the incompetence of the Japanese government in the UN Commission
on Human Rights.
The media that did not
report about Mayor Idogawa’s words and deeds in Geneva don’t try to report about
him correctly now.
As you know, the
government has consistently discouraged evacuation of the residents in
Fukushima Prefecture to hide the seriousness of the Fukushima accident from the
people. It has tried to cope with radiation
contamination by spending a huge amount of money and energy for
decontamination.
The government has plotted
together with the local government. They
take skillful advantage of the sentiment of residents who cannot abandon their
hometowns.
Of course, vested
interests and money are involved behind this problem.
Advocators of
denuclearization should rally together in Futaba town, Fukushima, and appeal
for reelection of Mayor Idogawa. Unless
realizing it, they are deceitful.
It is fine to voice objections against
restarting nuclear power plants in front of the Diet building. It is fine to promote development of new
energy. It is fine to sue TEPCO. It is fine to chant a slogan of
denuclearization in the election.
However, what matters most in the issue of
nuclear power is relief of exposed residents and compensation to them. To this end, we have to fight against the
oppression of state power. We have to
confront the bureaucracy, an executor of power.
Just now with a defeat in the general
election of political parties which advocated abandonment of nuclear power,
politics is about to head in the direction of maintaining it at once.
The non-confidence motion on Mayor Idogawa
has been passed right on cue, which seems to symbolize this move.
Advocators of denuclearization after the
general election should start fighting here.
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