Category: Social-Nuclear

* Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – June 22, 2012

It is completely too late to give banner headlines. (Takashi Uesugi) 

English translation of a Japanese web article : News-log June 22, 2012

It is completely too late to give banner headlines.
Front-page report of Asahi Shimbun: “Information from U.S. Not Used”

“Asahi Shimbun is still shameless as it was.”

I don’t mention the contents of the article.  The article is right.  The problem is that the front-page news was a known fact one year ago and it is completely too late to give banner headlines to it.

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U.S. Map Made by Actual Radiation Measurement Ignored by Japanese government  And Not Used for Evacuation Plan of Nuclear Accident (Asahi Shimbun)

Between March 17 and 19 last year immediately after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) conducted aerial radiation monitoring and provided a detailed “contamination map” to the Japanese government.  However, it has been found that the government neither publicized this data nor used it for evacuation of the residents.  (The rest is omitted.) <Morning edition of Asahi Shimbun June 18, 2012>
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This much was the known one year ago.  And yet some Asahi Shimbun reporters must have known about it because the actual reporters asked questions in a press conference of the TEPCO.

Things are going on as I predicted one year ago.  In case they give a decisively false report, the Japan National Press Club media is supposed to play for time to skillfully modify the report around the time when the excitement is over, and evade responsibility by giving a report of “the known.”  This is always pointed out.  They have followed the book this time, too.

As I expected, each newspaper followed the lead of Asahi Shimbun and finally carried an article this morning.



Though the Japanese government received the results of aerial radiation monitoring offered by the DOE in March last year immediately after the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident, the NISA, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Ministry and the Education, Science and Technology Ministry hadn’t shared the data within the government or hadn’t used it to evacuate the residents.  It was found on June 18, 2012.  A poor initial response by the government due to the vertically-segmented administrative system (the red tape) was highlighted anew as also seen in the case of the System for Prediction of Environment Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI).

The NISA transferred the data on e-mail to the Radiation Team, Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters within the Cabinet Office but the data was not shared by the whole headquarters.  Furthermore they did not send it to the prime minister’s office in charge of evacuation of the residents.

<Morning edition of the Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper, Tokyo June 19, 2012>


I’m sick and tired of it.  I wonder when the correspondent club media will stop such deceit.  This is not the first time.  They have been deceiving us for many years.

As soon as I read the article of Asahi Shimbun, I conjured up an image of a happily-married couple of Mako-san and Ken-san.

On Monday when I read the article in Asahi Shimbun, I thought they must have been angry and then made a call to them to comfort them.

“What?  It is too late to give a report of the known.  I saw some Asahi Shimbun reporters I know in the press conference last year.”

Before March 11, 2011, I had admitted the existence of the club’s system.  However, I have contemplated destroying it since I found that the club was also a “perpetrator.”  Now you can understand why I have made a face-about on my stance.

As long as this corrupt system exists, Japan will have no space for free speech.

* Posted by Mr. Takeshita on his blog - June 14, 2012 -


English translation of an excerpt of a Japanese article: BLOGOS – June 13, 2012


It has been disclosed by witness of the incumbent governor that Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO) had enterprises obey the company’s demand by using “blackout” as tactics and spurred them to threaten chiefs of local governments.

Today at a press conference of the FCC, Shiga Prefectural Governor Yukiko Kada has disclosed it.  She had completely changed her stance from “not acceptance of resuming operations” to “acceptance of resumption in summer.”

Being asked about “Why did you completely change your stance though you had strongly voiced against resumption before? “, she answered as follows:

“I was threatened by KEPCO, the government and enterprises, saying ‘What are you going to do in case of a blackout in summer?  Can you take responsibility for it?’  After talking with Mr. Toru Hashimoto, Osaka City Mayor, we reached a conclusion that there is nothing we can do in case of a blackout.”

After the press conference, I, the present writer Tanaka, had had a private interview with the governor until she took an elevator.

Tanaka: Experts consider we have sufficient electricity even in summer.  I think this is more convincing than the government’s false announcement of “shortage in electricity.”

Governor: I talked with Mr. Tetsuya Iida and Mr. Shigeaki Koga, and we reached a conclusion that 3 million KW of power compression is possible.  But KEPCO did individual enterprises like this, using gestures to explain that the company put pressure on them.  Then the enterprises started saying “We will not pay taxes” or “We will leave (from Shiga Prefecture.”

Tanaka:  If they (electric power companies) want to cut off electricity, they can do that.

Governor: Yes, it’s true.

Electricity is not cut off because of its shortage.
Power companies cut off electricity as they please.
This fact was pointed out in a planned blackout announced by Tokyo Electric Power Company immediately after 3.11.

Some media reported as uncertain information that KEPCO had pressured Union of Kansai Governments to “accept the resumption.”
And here, at last, politicians have started unveiling the reality of such pressure.

Yesterday on 12th, at a meeting within the House of Representatives (HR), some members of the Democratic Party disclosed that they had been intimidated by the KEPCO’s labor union “to cancel their signatures against resumption, otherwise they would not be recommended in the next election.”

There is an expression:  “Knife for something (i.e. madman).”  In this case “Blackout for electric power company.”  I hope that more and more public figures will come out to expose to the light of the day vicious tricks of electric power companies, undaunted by their threats.


*Tanaka Ryusaku Journal

* Posted in Unity Design blog - June 14, 2012 -

English translation of a Japanese article, reprint from Fukushima Minpou (newspaper)

In Ookuma Town, the whole area of which is designated as the evacuation zone, on June 12th, experimental planting of rice and vegetables within the town was conducted to check out how much radioactive material is taken in farm products.  According to the town office, this is the first experimental planting within the evacuation zone in Futaba County.  From now on the town office staffs will manage farm products and harvest them on an as needed basis to examine them.

The experimental planting was conducted in the fields 4 meters square at Kamiaza Shimizu, Shimono, Ookuma Town.  Rice and vegetables will be grown to examine their concentration of radioactive contamination.  Another arable land with approximately 5 cm-high surface soil removed will be prepared next to the fields.  Similar way of planting will be conducted in this arable land to confirm decontamination effect.

Town office staffs worked with radiation protection suits on.  They planted rice by hand in the paddy fields, and seeded carrot, spinach, Japanese radish and others in the fields.  The town office plans to “collect data so that they will be able to grow crops though they don’t know how many years it will take.”  According to the town office, radiation dose near the town hall is approximately 7 to 8 μSv/h.

This is quite interesting.  I wonder if a revolution will start from Yamaguchi as was expected.

* Posted by Mr. Takeshita on his blog - June 13, 2012 -

Mr. Tetsuya Iida’s Decision to Run for the Yamaguchi Gubernatorial Election Makes Prime Minister’s Office Hurry-Scurry (Nikkan Gendai: June 11, 2012)

Reprint from “Hibi Tantan” Document Blog

*That Mrs. Akie Abe, the wife of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also ardent admirer.

We guess that Prime Minister Noda, who has forced through the resumption of operations in the Ooi nuclear power plants against the public opposition, might turn white at the unexpected development.

This is because Mr. Tetsuya Iida, 53, who claims “denuclearization” and “expansion of natural energy”, has decided to run for the Yamaguchi gubernatorial election slated for July 29.

Mr. Iida comes from Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduated from Kyoto University.  He, as a special advisor to Osaka Prefecture and City, advises Toro Hashimoto to implement “denuclearization policy.”  He is a “denuclearization” icon.  It is certain that the gubernatorial election will be like a national referendum asking the residents to vote for “denuclearization” or “promotion of nuclear energy use.”  And yet, he is said to be highly likely to win the election.

Shigetaro Yamamoto, 63, the former government official of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, supported by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Tsutomu Takamura, a member of the Democratic Party, have already announced to run for the election.

“At first, it was anticipated that Shigetaro Yamamoto supported by the LDP would win an overwhelming victory.  Though he is not popular, which is proved by his having lost two consecutive Lower House elections, it was anticipated that he, though unattractive, would be a winner.  Yamaguchi Prefecture is the conservative kingdom.  On top of that, Takamura of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will lose ground because he announced to run for the election in the teeth of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Worker’s Union.  However, with Mr. Iida’s candidacy for the election, things will turn around.  Yamamoto and Iida will inevitably run a dead heat.”  (Local person involved)

The pros and cons of nuclear power plants will become the issue because there has been a big campaign against the construction of “Kaminoseki nuclear power plants” in Kumage County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which has been promoted by Chugoku Electric Power Company.

And yet, once an election campaign starts, it is expected that celebrities claiming “denuclearization” across the country will get together.  Surprisingly, Mrs. Akie Abe, the wife of Shinzo Abe elected in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is likely to support Mr. Iida.

“There is no doubt that Mrs. Akie Abe is fascinated with him.  She has frequently written about him in her blog.  She has been to Iwaijima, his constituency, together with him, where he aims to realize the use of natural energy alone.  Ronbu Ju’n, a comedian who comes from Yamaguchi, also gets along with Mr. Iida and gives a lecture together with him.  He clarifies his stance of “denuclearization” by saying “My close friend Taro Yamamoto has been active in the antinuclear power movement.”  Furthermore, it is highly likely that 117 Democratic Party members, who oppose to the resumption of operations in Ooi nuclear power plants, will support Mr. Iida as they please.  If more and more celebrities get to support Mr. Iida, no wonder he will win a landslide victory.”  (Political player)

If Mr. Iida, a “denuclearization” icon, wins a victory, it is inevitable that the pros and cons of the resumption of operations in the Ooi nuclear power plants will be discussed again and Prime Minister DOJO who has forced through the resumption of the operations will run into additional difficulties.  

* Posted by Mrs.Yasuko Takeshita  on Mr.Takeshita's blog – June 11, 2012 -


PC Virus Infection Leaks Information On Nuclear Power Plant Accident – Yomiuri Shimbun June 11, 2012

Reprint from Biglobe News

Concerning the problem that the PCs of the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (NES), which is an independent administrative corporation under jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and in charge of inspection services of nuclear facilities, it has been found on June 11th that the information after the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 accident had been leaked.

According to the NES, the leaked information was on the data possessed by the “Emergency Response Center (ERC)”, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, which cope with nuclear power plant accidents.  The data included the temperature and water level of the nuclear reactors, and the condition of diffusion in radioactive materials two months after the accident.  The information on Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 and Onaga Nuclear Power Plant of Tohoku Electric Power Company had also been leaked.  A total of 203 files (approximately 1000 sheets of paper in A-4 size) stored on the server of the NES through the infected PCs had been leaked to U.S. by July last year, but according to the NES, the final destination of the leaked information cannot be identified.

* Posted by Mr.Takeshita on his blog - June 8, 2012 *

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: The Voice of Russia (JP) - Radiation Block Paper Developed in Japan (June 8, 2012)