Letter 2 from Shinji DMBQ\Boredoms

> Hi everyone,
>
> It's Shinji here. Thank you for your constant cooperation. I
> appreciate it very much.
> Cherry blossoms are full-bloomed now in Osaka. My small cherry blossom
> tree at entrance is blooming too. Now Japan is in the most beautiful
> season in a year, and the daily life in Osaka is very normal as usual.
> Although the stricken area is still cold, the circle of relief is
> extending still without the stopping. It is impossible to understand
> all situations in stricken area because the scale of the disaster is
> too wide-ranging. However, the number of those who live in the refuge
> are decreasing little by little. Some people has moved to other cities
> to start a new life or to have temporary place with the family, or
> some people went to live with relatives or families, etc. Some towns
> had moved to one place with the municipality and townspeople. I think
> all the cases of these are not completely harmonious method of
> settlements, but people begin to stand up to recover their own life
> and this country.
> However, 160,000 people are still living in the refuge. These people's
> damage is more extensive.The municipality not to be struck is
> announcing their grand acceptances, but many people cannot move from
> the refuge for various reasons. The first reason that they do not move
> is that family's safety cannot be confirmed. 15,091 people are still
> missing. These people are trying to get missing family's information
> even a little. And, old person and sick person doesn't have the
> physical strength that moves from the refuge either. Handicapped too.
> Uneasiness and loneliness of starting new life at unknown town are
> also one of the big reason for local people. They had very strong
> community there. However, most common and simple reason is, there are
> a lot of victims who cannot do anything by losing everything.
> According to the specialist's statistics, it will take about 2 years
> just to remove all rubbles. I think that a long‐sustained effort and
> relief is necessary for them. Victims proves people can have positive,
> strong willpower and energy even on such crazy situation. I am
> impressed and encouraged very much.
> On the other hand, the nuclear accident keeps updating the worst
> situation. And the distress of the stricken area in the nuclear
> accident region is not told in news at all. Relief is not enough for
> this area at all. As I mentioned, Japan Chernobyl Foundation is a very
> few group which enter to support victims in this area. Now I am
> talking with them again and I am going to keep supporting them.
>
> I do not have a lot of words for this situation. Everybody, please watch this:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ZHQ--cK40
>
> On April 4th, Tokyo Electric Power Company decided they renounce
> 11,500 tons of the radiation poisoning water to the sea directly. It
> means nothing is getting better on the plant accident. Don't forget,
> another tons of very high density radiation poisoning water
> (Iodine=7.5 million times higher than usual!!!) are leaking to the sea
> directly still from the plant's pit. The pit has cracks and TEPCO can
> not identify the cracked place still. It surely influences to oceans
> in overseas too. The flow of the tide from Fukushima heads for
> California and then up to northern west coast oceans.
> Plus, high radioactivity have been detected also in the area other
> than the sheltering area. However, the government doesn't expand the
> sheltering area. A lot of research laboratories criticize the
> government, but the government only says, "It is under investigation
> now". Also, the radiation poisoning of farm and marine products are
> still expanding. The radioactive substance is detected from various
> foods, and it gives rise to bad harmful rumors. And, because the
> response of the government is ambiguous, all the foods made in Japan
> begins to be distrusted from overseas markets too. It is a vicious
> circle. Many research laboratories and professors warns 1/4 or more of
> Japanese agriculture and the fishery are annihilated if the situation
> is not changed. Even the ordinary person like me can expect this.
> However, the government and TEPCO are still saying the same thing,
> like "It is no problem immediately to human health..." Stupid.. They
> were crying when the press conference, but nobody can believe them
> anymore, and now the information hiding by the government and TEPCO
> became clear. Now everybody knows they never announce the
> dangerousness until the worst situation had happened. The announcement
> is always same, like "We tried hard but the situation is going worse
> than we expected..." It means all crisis-managements had not been
> assumed at all. Therefore, their countermeasures are always claptrap.
> We can't accept a groundless safety dogma anymore. We want the
> guarantee of the safety based on a clear standard and the analysis.
> Unfortunately now we have to get the important information from the
> announcement of specialized agencies or the analyses from the research
> laboratories of municipality and university, or news from the foreign
> countries, not from the government or Nuclear Industrial Safety
> Agency. For example, I got information that the wind changed for the
> west and the radioactive substance will fly to Osaka too today, April
> 6th, from the news of South Korea. We cannot get those information in
> usual life in Japan at all. Recent Japanese TV news reports mostly the
> beautiful story, like, a dog miraculously rescued, fresh friendship
> story between high school volunteer group and victims, or, heroic
> story of indomitable worker who are working in nuclear plant accident,
> etc. These are also true stories I guess, but I think it is not the
> most important topics now. It is very miserable. Please don't forget,
> Japan is still in the midst of the nuclear accident. We should
> carefully watch the transition of the situation and the fact.