The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare forces Hiroshima City and Prefecture to
file the ‘black rain’ lawsuit – Abe administration sacrifices the people because it doesn’t want all standards
stipulated after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident to be reviewed
No way! Oh, no, it was just we expected. However, we expected that the government would make a fair decision.
The Hiroshima District Court ruled that Hiroshima City and Prefecture should issue A-bomb survivors health
handbooks to 84 plaintiffs in the ‘black rain’ lawsuit. The defendants
Hiroshima City and Prefecture decided to appeal the court ruling. According to Hiroshima City and Hiroshima
Prefecture, they asked the government for ‘political judgment’ without appealing and strongly asked it to save
A-bomb survivors. However, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare refused their request and urged them to
appeal the ruling. I am speechless about the appeal, which squashes the feelings of the city and prefecture that
have strongly asked the government to expand the scope of subjects to be saved. Twelve of the plaintiffs have
already died and the remaining people in their 80s to 90s are forced to appeal again. I wonder how cruel the
Japanese government can be.
The statement by a plaintiff of the Ikata nuclear power plant Hiroshima trial in the third article below has
been spread. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare never accepts the district court decision because it does
not want to admit the effects of ‘low dose internal exposure’ caused by black rain. Acceptance of this ruling
will lead to review various safety standards stipulated after Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and accept
significant expansion of compensation scope. Whatever may happen, the Abe administration puts more importance on
money or nuclear power plant-related interests than the people. Shinzo Abe, do just one good thing and show it
to us before you leave the administration.
Manoji, chief-in-editor
August 12, 2020
Note:
Shanti-phula has indicated some parts of the following text in black bold-faced type or in red letters.
これはさすがに引いた。
「黒い雨」訴訟で、国が一審判決を不服として控訴する方針とのこと…
この期に及んで、国が80代・90代の被爆者84人と争って何の意味があるんだ。何と戦っているんだ。
75年間苦しんできた国民を救済せず対決する姿勢の政府。
8月15日を前に、毎日嫌なニュースばかり。 t.co/YRuUYtCMal
— 5,000mAh (@mahjp2100)
August 11,
2020
5,000mAh
@mahjp2100
I expected it might occur. But I’m at a loss for words.
Reportedly, the government intends to appeal the decision of the first trial.
The government is going to dispute with 84 A-bomb survivors in their 80s and 90s at this moment. What
does it mean? What does it fight against?
The government is not going to save the people who have suffered for 75 years but it is going to
confront them.
We have heard only bad news every day before August 15.
[Breaking news]
In the law suit over black rain that fell immediately after the atomic bombing, the government
conveyed to Hiroshima prefecture and city the policy to appeal the first court ruling.
jiji.com
English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article:
YAHOO!JAPAN News –
August 11,
[Breaking News] “Black Rain”
lawsuit Hiroshima City and Prefecture decide to appeal the ruling
On July 29, the Hiroshima
District Court ordered the city and prefecture governments of Hiroshima to
issue A-bomb survivor's health handbooks to all 84 plaintiffs in Hiroshima Prefecture who claim health problems
caused by exposure to radioactive “black rain," which fell after the atomic bombing, outside the area covered by
the government. It has been revealed
on August 11 that the defendants the city and the prefecture have decide to
appeal the ruling.
<snip>
According to several officials concerned, the Ministry of
Health, Labor and Welfare has urged the city and prefecture to appeal the
Hiroshima District Court's decision. The
city and prefectural, which have long asked the government to expand the area
covered by the aid, had strongly asked the government to make a "political
decision" instead of appealing and to provide relief for victims. The city and prefecture have accepted the
appeal policy after consulting with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the officials said.
<The rest is omitted>
English translation of an excerpt from
Facebook
– August 11, 2020 No Nukes Asia Forum Japan
“ Black Rain” lawsuit Please convey to
Hiroshima City and Prefecture your voice saying never to appeal (within August 11)
<snip>
The government (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) does want to accept the “black rain” ruling.
That’s because acknowledging
the damage by “black rain” means admitting the effect of so-called “low-dose
exposure (that is, exposure of less than 100 millisieverts), in particular “low-dose
internal exposure” .
If the effects of “low-dose exposure” or “low-dose internal exposure” are acknowledge, the damage caused by the
nuclear power plant accident and the scope of compensation have to be significantly expanded.
The “no-returnable zone,” “restricted residential area” and “ standard values for radioactive substances in food” have also to be strictly
reviewed.
Furthermore, the policy to release tritium-contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the plan
to restart Rokkasho village reprocessing plant has to be reviewed.
In other words, “radiation
safety myth” that has been requited for nuclear development in regardless of
military use or commercial use will be destroyed .
Will the government (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) deny the effects of “low-dose exposure” and “low-dose
internal exposure” in front of us in order to protect the nuclear power plant and nuclear (and international
nuclear interest community that benefits from it)?
The government is going
to abandon those who have suffered from radiation exposure for 75 years and yet
have not been able to get any relief at the last moment and also discard the
victims of any kind of radiation exposure, isn’t it?
<The rest is omitted>
いま調べたら、84人のうち12人は既に亡くなっているらしい。
政府は、GoToだのアベノマスクだの1兆円、数百億円をジャブジャブ無駄遣いする割には、「黒い雨」救済に必要な数十億円捻出の根拠にはとことん嫌がらせかのようにこだわる。
こんな国に愛国心持てと言われても無理ですよ。
— 5,000mAh (@mahjp2100)
August 11,
2020
5,000mAh
@mahjp2100
By checking now, I have found that 12 out of 84 people have already died.
The government wastes a trillion yen or tens of billions yen on Go to travel campaign and Abeno masks,
but they insists on finding the basis for the contribution of billions of yen needed to save “black
rain” survivors as if to harass them.
It is impossible to have patriotism in a country like this.
政府は広島市・広島県の意向を尊重する気はないのか？
誰のための行政をやっているんだ。
— 日本に正義はないのか (@kjm_777)
August 11, 2020
Is there no justice in Japan?
@kjm_777
Isn’t the government willing to respect the wishes of Hiroshima City and Prefecture?
For whom do they conduct administration?
Ichi
@fixedminder
Harassment administration
Violence approval administration
Anti-social administration
Exploitation and extortion administration
I still have more to say.
Japanese government has final talk with Hiroshima Prefecture and City about appealing in “black
rain” decision.
