https://savekidsjapan.blogspot.com/ by Mari Takenouchi, a Japanese anti-nuclear & anti-war citizen journalist covered by Reporters without Borders in 2014, https://rsf.org/en/japanese-prosecutor-suspends-contempt-proceedings-against-journalist Twitter: @mariscontact, E-mail: mariscontact@gmail.com (My English/Chinese/Japanese book can be ordered by mail)
The article on Japanese journalist Jyumpei Yasuda who has been allegedly held hostage in Syria was withdrawn by Reporters Without Borders 6 days later.
However, the original article was covered only by a limited media in Japan such as Mainichi (Mr. Yasuda was formerly a newspaper journalist at Shinano Mainichi Newspaper) and strangely, the withdrawal of the original article was covered widely including NHK, Nikkei, etc...
In addition, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary, Suga commented, "Japanese government has been dealing with this issue at its best," but looking back the incident of Kenji Goto, it is quite a worrysome situation. In this regard, I believe that the mere fact that Reporters without Borders covered the issue of Jyumpei Yasuda was meaningful. I truly hope for the safe return of Jyumpei Yasuda.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued a press release on 22 December about Jumpei Yasuda, a Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria since July. The release was not drafted according to normal procedure and was not sufficiently verified. It has therefore been withdrawn pending fuller information. We ask Yasuda’s family and friends, and the families of other hostages in Syria, to accept our apologies.
Japanese journalist in danger, RSF calls for his immediate release
日本人記者が人質にー国境なき記者団、即時釈放を要求
Published on Tuesday 22 December 2015.
12月22日火曜日、パリ発
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Japanese government to do everything possible to obtain the release of Jumpei Yasuda, a Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Syria in July and who is still being held hostage by an armed group.
According to the information obtained yesterday by RSF, those holding Yasuda have started a countdown for the payment of a ransom, failing which they are threatening to execute him or sell him to another terrorist group.
Yasuda was kidnapped by an armed group in an area controlled by the Al-Nusra Front a few hours after crossing the border into Syria in early July. The stories he had wanted to cover included Islamic State’s execution of his friend and fellow Japanese journalist Kenji Goto in January.
RSF urges the Japanese government to act quickly. According to their obligations under international law – the Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols, UN Security Council Resolution 1738 on the safety of journalists (adopted in 2006) and a UN General Assembly resolution in 2013 – governments are responsible for the safety of journalists and must take active measures to protect and free them.
“We are very concerned about Jumpei Yasuda’s fate and we call on the Japanese government to do what is needed to save this journalist,” said Benjamin Ismaïl, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk. “We also urge all parties to this conflict to respect the media’s work and to stop taking journalists hostage for political or financial purposes.”
A total of 54 journalists are currently held hostage worldwide, 26 of them in Syria. The world’s most dangerous country for media personnel, Syria is ranked 177th out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.
Mari Takenouchi explainig the danger at Sendai Nuclear Power Plant and other nuclear plants in Japan こちらは英語、日本語動画は下にあります。
歴史的ともいえる、国家による無謀で人命にかかわる最悪の決断、川内原発再稼働が正式決定いたしました。 Sendai Nuclear Power Plant is to be restarted by the decision of Japanese government, which could be called as a historical decision that ignores the future lives of the people. 2015年から稼働する予定です。しかし川内原発は、以下の質問３以降に書きましたように、敷地の周囲に活断層があり、また地盤もボーリングコアの差し替えの内部告発もあった通り、劣悪な場所です。 Sendai is to be restarted in 2015, but as I wrote in Question 3, it has numerous faults and there was even a whistle blower who confesssed that many changed the sample of boring cores of the site. (The ground of Sendai NPP is not solid enough so many people exchanged the samples to go ahead with the construction.) 建設前に現地入りした生越忠元和光大学教授は、この事実を拡散されたところ、ある自民党員から刑事告訴されたと言う経緯まであります。 Former professor of Wako University, Mr. Sunao Ogose, a geologist who pointed out this issue, was later criminally accused by a member of Liberal Democratic Party. 90歳を過ぎた生越氏から竹野内は11月17日、手紙を受け取りました。 I received a letter from Mr. Ogose who is over 90 years old now on November 17, 2014. 地盤問題や不当な刑事告訴事件がまるで知られないまま、川内原発が稼働されることを嘆いていらっしゃいました。また反原発団体の不勉強についても嘆いています。 Mr. Ogose is deploring the fact that Sendai NPP is to be restarted without these important facts known widely...He also deplores the insufficient effort by anti-nuclear groups! どうかこのことを皆さん、広めて下さい。 Dear all, please disseminate the article below!
******************* 7月12日追記：川内原発問題については私の「おかしな人々」や「竹野内真理ファイル」ブログにも掲載しています。 http://fukushimaworkerslist.blogspot.jp/2014/06/blog-post.html
Sendai Nuclear Power Plant issue is covered in the following of my blog.
Former professor of Wako University, Mr. Sunao Ogose was also criminally accused for revealing the facts of Sendai Nuclear Power Plant scandal (intentious exchange of boring core samples) !
Mr. Sunao Ogose, anti-nuke geologist
He predicted Great Hanshin Earthquake (1995) and supported a lawsuit against the construction of Rokko Liner in Kobe before the earthquake. He also predicted Niigata-Oki Earthquake which brought more than 3000 damages to Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. In 1970s, he gave a warning to Sendai Nuclear Power Plant, which is now decided to be restarted by the government.
「開発公害研究資料・第四集」（1982年）より要約、抜粋 Extract and Summary of Mr. Ogose's work, "Document on Development and Pollution Studies, Vol IV" (1982)
＊＊＊川内原発建設前にボーリングコアの差し替え！＊＊＊ Exchange of Boring Core Samples of Sendai Nuclear Power Plant Before the Construction! 「おかしいですねえ。ふしぎですねえ。これ、こんなにボロボロでしょ。断層や節理（ひび割れ）が縦横に入っていて、まるで寄木細工みたい。この地層は、原子炉設置場所の基礎岩盤と一連のものなんですけどね。九電は、地質上の問題はまったくないようにいっている。。。」 1975年、12月13日川内原発の反対派地元住民に招かれて地盤調査に入った生越忠氏。 "Wierd...so strange...See? This easily breaks off like this. The ground here has countless faults and cracks vertically and horizontally like a wooden mosaic work. The layer here is the same layer as the ground rock foundation of the Sendai nuclear power plant. However, Kyushu Electric Company talks as if there is no problem..." This was the word of a geologist, Mr. Sunao Ogose who was invited to investigate the foundation of Sendai Nuclear Power Plant on December 13, 1975. すると同日、川内市寄田町の農業・中野近夫さんが、なんと、九電の下請けの会社でボーリングコアを差し替えたと内部告発をした！ Then on the very same day, Mr. Kimio Nakano (farmer in Sendai City, Yoseda Town) exposed that HE HAD EXCHANGED THE BORING CORE SAMPLE OF SENDAI NPP for the subcontractor of Kyushu Electric Company! 翌14日、住民側は記者会見を開き、地元各紙はこの件を大きく報道。九電は否定しようとしたが、中野さんは「自分もやったし、他人もやった。やった証拠に、余ったコアを磨いて私の家の茶の間に飾ってあります」と明言。 On the following day, the residents held a press conference and this became a major news in local papers. Kyushu Electric Company tried to deny the fact, but Mr. Nakano refuted as, "I did it and others did it. As a proof, I polished a left-over borig core and put it as a decorative ornament in my living room." この問題は1977年11月21日の参議院科学技術振興対策特別委員会にもちこまれたが、九電や山崎達夫九州大学教授らが「たとえボーリングコアの差し替えがあったとしても結論に影響を与えるようなものではない」と誤魔化した。（影響を与えないものなら初めから差し替えするはずがないのだが） This issue was discussed in the Committee of Scientific Promotion Measures in the Upper House on November 21, 1977, but Kyushu Electric Company and Tatsuo Yamazaki, a professor of Kyushu University, deluded this serious fact saying, "Even though there was some exchange, there would have been no impact on the decision of NPP construction." (IF THERE WAS NO IMPACT, NOBODY WOULD HAVE EXCHANGED THE BORING CORES FROM THE BEGINNING!) ＊＊＊地元の右翼から告発される＊＊＊＊＊ Mr. Ogose Criminally Accused by a Local Right Winger さて私は右のような差し替えの事実は地質学的にも証明できる旨を内外に説明したことを理由に川内市在住の井上正三なる右翼の人物（福田派の自民党員と言われる）から、九電に対する信用棄損・営業妨害の容疑で最高検察庁に告発された。 1976年1月29日付（偶然私がエートスから刑事告訴を受けたのも今年の1月29日！）の告発状は、その後、東京地方検察庁に回されたため、私は3回にわたって同検察庁の検事から取り調べを受けた。 Regarding the above fact of the whistle blower, I explained I could geologically give proof of the boring core exchange. Then a local right winger called Mr. Shozo Inoue (so called Fukuda Faction of LDP member) criminally accused me for infringement of trust and obstruction of business against Kyushu Electric Company through the Supreme Prosecutors' Office. Letter of accusation dated on January 29th, 1976 was filed in Supreme Prosecutors' Office and was forwarded to Tokyo Local Prosecutors' Office, and I was investigated by the prosecutors for 3 times. (Note: Takenouchi was also criminally accused by ETHOS on the same day of 2014!) しかし私は、ありもしないことをいいふらして故意に九電の信用を棄損したわけでも、九電の営業を妨害したわけでもないばかりか、コアの差し替えは正真正銘の事実であることが参議院で明らかにされたと言う事もあって、私に対する井上正三の告発は不発に終わった。 However, I was not disseminating something untrue or infringed the trust of Kyushu Electric intentionally or obstructed its business. Moreover, the exchange of boring core is an irrefutable fact which was also revealed in the Upper House, so the accusation by Mr. Shozo Inoue was not successful. ところが井上は、生越氏が検事に「コアの差し替えの事実はなかったと釈明し、私の言動が行き過ぎであったことを私自身がみとめると共に、この件については、これ以上、井上と争う事はしないと言明した」とまるで正反対のことを宣伝していた。 さらに井上は、みずからが発行している『法律と鹿児島』紙で、生越氏のことを「私立も私立、それも名もない私大のインチキ学者」と誹謗中傷していた。 However, Mr. Inoue was disseminating the following as contrary to the fact, "Mr. Ogose explained to the prosecutor that the core exchange was not a fact and admitted that his action was excessive and he had no intention to fight legally with Mr. Inoue." Furthermore, Mr. Inoue was slandering Mr. Ogose saying, "He is a demagogue scholar who is working for a nameless private university."
ところでこの井上氏は自民党の候補者の選挙運動にも積極的に取り組んでいたが、選挙違反で逮捕・起訴されたこともある経歴の持ち主。自民党にとって邪魔な人間を、いろんな難癖をつけてやたら刑事告発したので「告発魔」と言われており、反原発の大阪大学講師だった久米三四郎さんも刑事告発されたと言う。 Mr. Inoue was also actively involved in election campaign supporting for LDP candidate, but he has the records of arrest and accusation for violating the Election Law. He is also dubbed as "The Accuser" since he was known for accusing inconvenient people for LDP with various reasons. A famous anti-nuclear lecturer, Mr. Sanshiro Kume was also criminally accused by Mr. Inoue.
＊＊＊御用学者の罪と無実の人間を殺人罪にまでしようとした東大名誉教授＊＊＊ Crime of Government Sided Scholar: A Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Univeristy Who Tried to Put Crime of Homicide on an Innocent Citizen 「真理の探究」という美名に隠れて、ある専門分野の学問の研究に、その道一筋にうちこんできたようなふりをしながら、大学教授などの地位を得た「学者」のなかには、実は学問を食い物にした権力のひもとしか言いようのないような人間が極めて多いこと、しかもこれらの「学者」が、反開発、反公害、反薬害などの闘争に関わる住民・市民を権力に売り渡すと言う卑劣な行為を進んで行っていたという例が少なからずあることが明らかにされた以上、反原発・反公害・反薬害などの闘争は、御用学者糾弾闘争へと必然的に発展していかざるを得なかったのである。 Behind the cause of "Seeking for the truth,"pretending that they had been studying for their expertise, there are many scholars who can be just regarded as puppet of the state power sacrificing the truth of the very expertise. It has been revealed that there are MANY examples where these scholars sacrifice honest residents and citizens who are struggling for anti-development/pullution/harmful drugs. In this regard, there is no other way than pursuing the untruth of government-puppet scholars in the struggle of anti-nuclear/pullution/harmful drugs. さらにここで指摘しておかなくてはならないことは、警察や司法権力に手を貸し、無実の人間を罪に陥れた極悪非道の御用学者が、とくに国家権力との癒着の強い一流有名国立大学の中に少なからずいると言う事である。 I need to emphasize here that especially in 1st grade state-owned universities, there are many government-puppet evil scholars who would even give helping hands to the police and judicial power, driving innocent citizens into false crimes.
この種の御用学者のうち、もっとも悪質と言われている人は東大名誉教授で科学警察研究所長をも歴任したことのある古畑種基（故人）であるが、かれは弘前事件、島田事件、財田川事件などの冤罪事件で警察側あるいは検察側の鑑定に関わり、白を黒と言いくるめ、無実の人間が殺人罪の汚名を着せられると言う結果を招いた。 The late Mr. Tanemoto Furuhata, a Tokyo Univeristy Professor Emeritus who used to be the dicrector of Science Police Institute is known to be the most evil one until today. Having involved in the investigation and scientific judgement on the side of police and the prosecutor in the case of Hirosaki, Shimada, Zaidagawa (they were revealed as false accusation after all), Mr. Furuhata lied that there were evidence of crimes so that innocent citizens were accused as murderers. ******************************** なお、この問題を含め、竹野内は法務省に３つの質問をしましたが、8月1日、法務省から回答できないという回答が来ました。
Including the Sendai NPP issue, I gave 3 questions to Ministry of Justice. On August1, there was an answer from Ministry of Justice saying that they cannot answer the questions.
国への質問を出した際に、法務省にもメールを送ったのですが、URLのリンクを含めない1000文字以内の質問にしてくださいと回答があり、以下に書き直して7月5日に送りました。 非常に大事な内容だと思いますので、ご覧ください。 Please take a look at the 3 very important questions. １． 福島原発事故を起こした東電幹部や国の責任者などへは、住民が刑事告訴を起こしたにもかかわらず、警察も検察も捜査さえされませんでした。ところが事故前から地震と原発の問題を憂慮してIAEAに単独直訴まで行い、事故後は「福島の子供たちに多数の甲状腺がんや白血病など健康被害が出ているので疎開させよ、エートスは人体実験である」とツイッターで訴えたシングルマザーの私の所には、沖縄まで福島から警察と検察が沖縄まで来て捜査を行い、起訴猶予となりました。海外のメディアもこれを驚くべきニュースとして取り上げています。不公平な司法措置ではないですか？ 1. There was no investigation by police/prosecutor on TEPCO executives in spite of criminal accusation by residents. However, as for me, a single mother who had visited IAEA regarding nuclear and earthquake issue before the Fukushima accident, and called for evacuation of kids saying through twitter, "health hazards such as many thyroid cancer or even leukemia are observed. ETHOS is a human experiment" was actually investigated by Fukushima police and prosecutor who came all the way to Okinawa. I eventually got deferred indictment and foreign media took up this case as a shoking news. Isn't this an unfair judicial treatment?
２． 1996年に起きたもんじゅ西村事件（動燃のナトリウム漏れ事故調査社内担当の西村成生氏が自殺、それを境にマスコミが事故の報道から離れた事件）では、X線写真や医療カルテ、深部体温の記録などより、飛び降り自殺ではなく、他殺であると検死をしたした医師その他の法医学者がご遺族に見解を話しています。ところが担当弁護士の海渡雄一氏は最も大事な自殺・他殺の争点を無視し、刑事事件としてではなく民事事件として扱い、また警察に問い合わせても「弁護士がそのような対応であれば、警察は絶対に動かない」と言います。このような扱いはあり得ないのではないですか？再捜査すべきではないですか 2. In 1996, Monju Nishimura Case took place, in which Mr. Shigeo Nishimura, in-house investigator of Monju Fast Breeder Reactor accident comitted a suicide. However, X-ray photoes and medical records showed that he did not jump off from the building and instead was killed, which was testified by the doctor in charge along with other forensic doctors. Surprizingly, the lawyer who was in charge of this incident took the case as civil case in stead of a criminal case, ignoring the high possibility of homicide. The police says that they would not make any move if the lawyer acted that way. I am quite shocked at the treatment of this case. Isn't it necessary to reinvestigate this case?
３． 40年来の反原発の反骨の地質学者であり、1975年12月川内原発建設前に調査に入った元和光大学教授、生越忠氏は、予定地と連なる地層の中に多くの断層や節理を見つけ、原発建設の地盤として不適切であることを指摘したところ、地元の農家の人がボーリングコアをより強度な地層の土とすり替えていたことを内部告発。この件を発表した後、1976年右翼の人物から九州電力への名誉棄損と営業妨害の容疑で刑事告訴され、最高検察庁が受理、その後東京地検に回され、結局は不起訴となったが、生越氏は3度にわたり取り調べを受けたと言います。本来であれば、九州電力が告発されるべき事件であり、反原発の憂慮する住民や学者に対する嫌がらせとしてか思えず、非常に不当な司法措置と考えますが、どうですか？また川内原発が最も再稼働に近いと言われている現在、この事件を再検証する必要があるのではないですか？ 3. In December 1975, former Wako University professor Sunao Ogose made a research on the soil of Sendai Nuclear Power Plant premise, and found out countless number of faults and cracks in the same layer of soil, which showed inappropriateness of building a nuclear power plant in that site. Then a local farmer who worked at the boring core site confessed that he switched the core with firmer soil. After Mr. Ogose announced this whistle blower's statement, he was criminally accused by a LDP related right winger and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office took up the case. Then the case was taken by Tokyo prosecutors' office and Mr. Ogose was investigated for 3 times and eventully non-indicted. To begin with, Kyushu Electric Company who ordered switching the cores should be the one to be criminlly accused and what had happened seems to be harassement against anti-nuclear residents and scholars. Sendai Nuclear power plant is said to be the one which is closest to the restart. Isn't it necessary to reinvestigate this case?
Dr. Bandazhevsky's latest studies are here!
チェルノブイリの第一人者、バンダジェフスキー教授の最新論文がこちらで読めます！
for English, French and Ukrainian
https://chernobyl-health.org/
and for English and Japanese
https://bandazhevskypaper.blogspot.com/
The latest paper refers to the elevated level of mortality rate among people living in contaminated areas. (ETHOS which let people to stay in contaminated areas is truly nonsense!)
Dr. Bandazhevsky mentioned that particular attention should be paid to the lealth of boys aged 12-17 years. Yes, they are experiencing the 2nd generation in Chernobyl...though in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even health impacts among 2nd and 3rd generations have been denied till today....
Dr. Bandazhevsky continued, "Pathologies found in the adolescent period are the basis for the occurence of serious diseases leading to death in adults." (from the Conclusions of "Chernobyl: Prospects for the Second Generation")
バンダジェフスキー教授はさらに続けています。「思春期に発見される病変は、成人になった後、死にもつながる深刻な疾病発症の基礎をなすものである。」 ("Chernobyl: Prospects for the Second Generation"のConclusionより)
85 year old legendry Henoko Gramdmother, Ms. Shimabukuro was carried by an ambulance after each of her finger on the dump truck mirror was taken away by a riot police and fell off to the ground in front of the Camp Shwab where a new US Base is being constructed. She was at one time unconscious and no police man was trying to protect her when she was falling with her head against the concrete ground, which made her unconscious. An ambulance was called only by the citizens and police were only taking pictures of her on the ground...this became only a local news and never covered by any national news.
The series of photos were taken by an Okinawan photographer/Haiku poet, Mr. Tomoyuki Toyosato. http://toyotanneru4.ti-da.net/e7018430.html
*** 2014年9月撮影の島袋文子おばあの動画 Video of Ms. Fumiko Shimabukuro (Sep 2014)
留置所に入っても辺野古新基地をつくらせないと語った85歳の沖縄戦体験者、島袋文子さん。（真ん中）
左側の上間芳子さんは、「65歳以上は子育ても終わっているし、最前列で闘うべき。」
The following is the famous Okinawan 85 year old grandmother, Ms. Fumiko Shimabukuro. (middle)
Ms. Yoshiko Uema on the right said, "Women above 65 years old should fight in the frontline at Henoko, since they finished child rearing..."
To my surprise, both of them had concussion facing against the mobile police and were carried by the ambulance late 2014 in front of Camp Shwab where new Henoko US base is to be constructed.
Luckily, their injuries were not serious, but both of them at one time lost their consciouness by hitting their heads! Amazingly, this news did not become national news and was covered only locally... the article in Okinawa Times is at the end of this page.
On March 9th, I visited the sit-in tents in front of Camp Shwab near the new Henoko US base and listened to the story by Ms. Fumiko Shimabukuro, 85 year old Okinawan famous grandmother. Please read the following message to Mr. Abe. ****** 戦前、「朝鮮、台湾、うちなー（沖縄県民の事）」と言われていた。
Before the war was ended, Japanese people used to say, "Korean, Taiwanese, Uchina (local Okinawan people)"
私たちは同じ人間なのに、差別されてきた。 We have been discriminated though we are the same human beings with Japanese.
しかし沖縄の女性たちは強く闘ってきた。 However, Okinawan women were fighting quite strongly.
女性は強い。子供たちを産み育てねばならないのだから。 Women are strong. Because they have to give birth to children and to rear the children.
大人は2，3日我慢できるが、子供は違う。 Adults can stand hunger for 2 or 3 days, but children are different.
戦中は山の草木も食べれるものを捜し歩いた。 During war time, we used to look for food in mountains.
腹をすかし、水さえ十分ないなか、お芋、米、砂糖などはすべて日本軍にとられた。 We were all hungry without enough food and even water. But Japanese army took away all the food such as potatoes, rice and sugar.
わたしたちに残ったのは、ちんくわーと呼ばれる水っぽいかぼちゃを水で煮たものだけ。それでもごちそうだった。 What was left for us was only waterly pumpkin. We boiled the pumpkin with water, and still it was a feast for us.
ところが日本軍は沖縄県民を殺しこそすれ、守ってはくれなかった。 But Japanese soldiers never protected us though they killed us.
軍は権力を持ち、やりたい邦題。警察も一言もものが言えない。 壕の中では、軍人は一番奥に陣取った。 The army had the power and did all they wanted. The local police could not say a ward to the army.
Soldiers stayed in deep in the shelter and told mothers with infant children in the shelter.
そして幼子をもつ母親には、「出るか、(泣いている)子供を殺すか、どちらかにせよ」と言われた。 "Mothers and crying children should get out of the shelter, or mothers should kill the children."
子どもを殺せるはずがない。（砲弾が飛び交う中）母子たちは泣く泣く壕を出て行った。 For mothers, it was impossible to kill their own child. They had no choice but to go out to the outside where shells were attacking like rain.
日本軍は悪いことをしても、悪いことをしたと認めない。 「叩き殺したいくらい」だ。 Japanese army never admitted though they had done horrible things. I sometimes feel like smashing them until they die.
沖縄に来たカシマという偉い軍人が今も生きているらしい。 彼はこう言ったそうだ。
I heard a man named Kashima (army officer who stationed in Okinawa) is still alive. I heard that he said,
「日本軍は文明を守り、悪い事はしていない。」 "Japanese army protected our civilization and did not do anything wrong."
彼は久米島で沖縄県民の虐殺を命じた人物である。 He is the very person who order the massive killing of Okinawan local people in Kume Island.
いったい沖縄の人間を何だと思っているのだろう。 What on earth are these people thinking of Okinawan people?
「命の予備」というものはない。 There is no reserve for life.
あろうことか、日本軍は「子供たちを命の盾」にしたのである。 Unbelievably, Japanese soldiers used Okinawa children as shields for protecting their own lives.
子供たちを盾にして、自分たちは逃げたのだ。 They themselves ran away leaving children as human shields.
(At the year of 15, Ms. Shimabukuro had burns half of her body due to the attack by the US. Still she carried her heavily wounded mother who was about to be killed with injection in the US hospital on her injured back and fleed from the hospital to save her. She managed to survive and her mother also lived until the age of 95 years old.)
沖縄戦でも自分の親兄弟の命も助けられない人々がたくさんいた。 There were many people who could not help their own families.
自分たちの命も危うかった。(注：沖縄戦では全人口40万人の内、4分の1以上に当たる市民が戦死した)
Even their own lives were at risk. (Note: In the battle of Okinawa, more than the quarter of the Okinawan population were killed.)
命を守るなどと、軽々しくいってほしくない。 I do not want to hear Mr. Abe say, "I will protect the people's lives" irresponsibly.
言葉が軽々しいのだ。現代の人々はお金で生活をしているから。 Politicians' words are too light and almost meaningless. Maybe because the people living in this age are living with money.
私は鳩山内閣の時も、「話ができないのであれば、私を殺せ！」と機動隊とトラックの前に立ちはだかったことがある。 In the time of Prime Minister Hatoyama's regime, I once stood in front of the riot police and a truck saying, "If you cannot talk with me, just kill me!"
なぜ沖縄が2度も殺されなければならないのか。 I really do not understand why Okinawa should be killed twice.
（以上） End of Ms. Shimabukuro's talk ************ 島袋さんは、昨年11月に辺野古基地前の座り込みで、なんと救急搬送されています。 On November 20, 2014, Ms. Shimabukuro was carried by an ambulance during the sit-in and struggle with the riot police in front of the new Henoko US Base.
In the morning of November 20th, Ms. Fumiko Shimabukuro (85) was fell down when she was forced to move by the the Okinawan prefectural police and was carried to a hospital in Nago city. She was unconscious at one time and diagnosed as having a blow at the temporal region on her head.
According to the witness cameraman Mr. Tomoyuki Toyosato (38), Ms. Shimabukuro was trying to stop the dump truck which was going into the new Henoko US base by grabbing the front mirror, but the riot police took her hands off the mirror and she fell down to the ground.
A female part-time worker who was also injured at the spot said with tears, "The police should have protected the old lady but instead, they were taking pictures of her lying on the ground. How inhumane..."
現場に駆け付けた三宅俊司弁護士は「被害者本人から話を聞き特別公務員暴行陵虐罪で告訴したい。この責任は取らせる」と話した。 Lawyer Toshiji Miyake who dashed to the spot said, "I would like to make an criminal accusation on this case after listening to Ms. Shimabukuro. I would like to make the person pay some responsibility."
The prefectural police denied the allegation of falling her down and said, "A riot police found a woman falling down and they took her to a tent. The police is acting so that there will be no trouble or injuries. We will continue to keep safety."
Q: On October 2014, Southern California Federal Court dismissed the plea by TEPCO in regard to the lawsuit filed by 239 US navy sailors who served for Operation Tomodachi, and a full fledged deliberation is to be started.
Would you please give explanation as a lawyer who has supported the Yokosuka Port issue?
Against this, TEPCO refuted that their plea should be dismissed due to the alleged involvement of govenment of Japan, which needs some political decision beyond the judgement of a court.
In November 2013, the first order was handed down through oral proceedings. The court admitted the dismissal proposal by TEPCO, but suggested the plaintiffs that they can file the suit again with renewed complaint. So, it was a conditional dismissal.
訴状を書きなおすことでよみがえった。
Since the plaintiff came up with the renewed complaint, the lawsuit was revived.
２０１４年２月５日に原告８０人に増えて、第二次の訴状が出されている。
The second complaint was filed by 80 plaintiffs on February 5, 2014.
まず、東電だけの過失に。
They focused on the negligence of TEPCO.
クラスアクションという代表訴訟で原告８０人だが、これからも被曝者が増えていくだろうと。
It was in the form of Class Action with 80 plaintiffs representing the lawsuit with the prediction of increasing number of plaintiffs in the future.
これらすべての人達のために、東電はまず１０億ドルの損害賠償の基金をつくるべきだと。
They insisted that TEPCO should prepare a fund of 1 billion dollars first.
そして具体的に損害が認められた人から、基金の中から払っていきなさいと。２段階になっている。
Then the plaintiffs whoes damages were admitted shall be paid for the appropriate amount from the fund. Therefore, there are 2 steps for the plaintiffs.
白石：薬害の基金と同じイメージ。
Q: That system seems like drug-induced damages lawsuit.
A: That is correct. They asked for the fund of 1 billion dollars first and then the victims can get the damage fee. Japan does not have this kind of lawsuit.
白石：日本なら通常政治決着が初めだが、裁判で進んでいる。
Q: In Japan, usually, political decision comes first, but in this case, the lawsuit is underway.
A: 1 billion dollars seem to be a lot, but it is not the case. Since this fund is demanded in order to all the radiation victims in the future.
白石：さらに原告が増えているが。
Q: I heard that the number of plaintiffs is increasing..
２０１４年の８月２５日に第二回の口頭弁論。その時に第３時の訴状。原告は２２３人に増えている。
The second oral proceeding took place on August 25th, 2014 with the third complaint. At that time, the number of plaintiffs boosted to 223.
The accused this time is including TEPCO, GE, EBASCO (a GE's subsidiary company), Hitachi, and Toshiba. They included these nuclear manufacturers since negligence on the design is included not only the negligence of the operation.
１０月２８日に口頭弁論があった。その中では、東電の却下の申し立ては認められなかった。
On October 28, there was another oral proceeding where the plea by TEPCO for dismissal of the lawsuit was not accepted by the court this time.
二つの理由がある。
There are 2 reasons for this.
日本政府が入っていないので、裁判所が判断できる。
Since there is no involvement of the Japanese government, the court can come up with their own decision.
もうひとつは東電は日本の裁判所でやるべきだとしたが、原告らが日本の裁判所に行けないこと、米国の国益がかかっていると主張し、裁判所は認めた。 Another reason is that TEPCO insisted that the lawsuit should be carried out in Japanese courts, but the plaintiffs insisted that they cannot go to Japan and the issue is related to the state benefit. The claim by the plaintiffs was accepted by the court.
これから本格な審議がアメリカで始まる。
The full fledged deliberation is to be started in the US.
先日１１月１８日に、最終的な第三次の訂正訴状が出され、２３９人が原告。２名の方が亡くなり、この人たちも含まれている。
On November 18, the final version of the third complaint was filed with 239 plaintiffs. Of those, 2 soldiers already died.
白石：どういう状況で被曝をしたのか？どういう健康被害？皆若いようだが？
Q: How were they exposed to radiation and what kind of health hazards did they get? They all seem to be young.
A: The earthquake took place on March 11. The unit 1 exploded on 12th. At that time, Air Craft Career Regan was on the way to Korea, but it was ordered to go for the rescue operation off the coast of Sanriku.
１３日に三陸沖。その時、放射能プルームの真下に入った。空母の放射能の警報器もなった。 So they went to off the coast of Sanriku on the 13th, when they were directly hit by the radiation plume. Alarm went off in the ship.
その状態の中、しかも吹雪の中で放射能でちょっとおかしいと感じながら、５時間雨風にさらされ、甲板作業させられた。 However, under such situation, sailors were forced to work on the deck for 5 hours in rain, wind and snow. The soldiers also felt something was wrong.
それのみならず、原子力空母は海の水を脱塩して使っている。３月１５日に脱塩水を飲むのをやっとやめた。それまでに飲んで体内被曝した可能性もある。
Not only that, a nuclear aircraft career use sea water by desalination. Only on March 15, they stopped drinking the desalinated water. So the sailors may have drunk the contaminated water which caused the internal exposure.
白石：初期の高い線量をまともに浴びていたのですね。 ヨウ素剤や防護は？
Q: So they were exposed to the high initial dose. How about the protection suit and iodine tablet? Were they provided?
呉：ここに写真があるが、３月終わりごろに甲板の除染作業しているが、防護服ではなく、一般の軍服。まさに放射能を低レベルで浴び続けている。
A: Here is a photo where the sailors were decontaminating the deck at the end of March. They were not wearing protective suits and wore regular uniforms. They kept being exposed to low dose radiation.
そのまま乗り続けていた。
They continued being onboard also.
陳述書の中には、かなりホットスポットである換気の出口の近くにベッドがあり、半年間ホットスポットに缶詰生活でがんになってしまった水兵さんもいる。
In the written statement, there were some beds near the outlet of the ventilation system which was quite a hotspot, and one sailor was contained in the hotspot like a canned food. Later he developed a cancer.
白石：原告の人には２０代の人が圧倒的に多いが、既に亡くなった人もいると？
Q: The vast majority of sailors were in their 20s and you said that there were some who even died...
呉：２人亡くなっている。滑膜肉腫というのはがんの一種で、３０代。４月に亡くなった。
A: 2 soldiers died. One died of synovial sarcoma, a kind of cancer. He was in his 30s and died in April 2014.
２人目は２０代で９月に白血病で亡くなった。
The second one died of leukemia in September 2014.
Other than these 2 people, many soldiers in their 20s or 30s have developed unbelievable diseases, such as thyroid cancer, breast cancer, testis cancer, brain tumor, etc.
ガンの人もたくさんいるし、胃腸の不調、全身が動かなくなったり、生殖関係。There are many who are suffering from cancer and also malfunction of gastrointestinal tracts, sudden inmobility of the body, and malfunction of reproduction system...
白石：この期間中に妊娠された方が、多発性遺伝子異変に？
Q: I also heard that there was a pregnant woman who delivered a baby with multiple gene tumultus.
若い女性の水兵さんもたくさんいて、被曝した時に妊娠中で、１０月に出産して、遺伝性異変のお子さんが生まれ、母と子が原告になっている。
A: There were many young women sailors and one woman was pregnant. She delivered her baby in October and her baby had gene tumultus.
白石：一人の症状が一つではなくて、複数あるようだ。 Q: Seems like many people do not have only one symptom but they do have multiple symptoms.
A: Not only their thyroid, but also they develop symptoms in their gastrointestinal system, musles, fever, and etc. It seems that these are typical radiation exposure symptoms.
白石：みなさん軍隊で働き続けられない？
Q: Can they keep working for the military anymore?
呉：原告の３分の１は現役の方です。しかしその後、体調を崩して除隊をした人もたくさんいる。２０代で除隊をすると手当がつかず、生活が大変。
A: One third of the plaintiffs are still working. However, after developing such symptoms, many soldiers left their services. If they leave the military in their 20s, there will be no allowance and their living is quite hard.
白石：もともと軍隊にいる人は学費を稼ぐなど、さまざまな条件で軍隊を選んだ方もいらっしゃるわけですし。 Q: Usually these soldiers join the military for earning to go to school and other reasons..
呉：そうです、軍隊の任務の後に学校に行こうと思ったが、今はいけず、病気で将来的に不安であると言う訴えもたくさんある。
A: Right. Some complain that they planned to go to school after the service, but they gave up. Also they have diseases and have worries for the future.
白石：今後の裁判の見通しは？ Q: What is the perspective of the future court proceedings?
呉：これからは中身の問題に入る。
A: The deliberation will start from now on.
ひとつは事故とトモダチ作戦と大量に発生している病気との因果関係について。
One focus is on the causal relationship between the accident/Operation Tomodachi and the massive development of diseases.
当時の放射線レベルと状態。
They have to check the radiation level in those days and the condition.
もうひとつは病状の立証。
Another focus is to proove the symptoms caused by radiation.
There were some dosimeters, but only the officers had them. There were iodine tablets but only officers took them and rank& file soldiers did not take them.
白石：酷い話。若い人たちが飲めなかった。
Q: That is awful. The young could not take the iodine tablets...
呉：立証は困難を極める。事実を積み重ねていくことだ。
A: Coming up evidence will be a hard way. They have to pile up facts one by one.
白石：レーガン号については、日米の間でやりとりができているが、日本に影響はどういうものがある？
Q: As for Regan Case, there have been communications between Japan and US, and what kind of impact do you expect?
呉：ふたつある。私も正確な被害の実態を知らなかった。
A: There are two aspects. I myself did not know the reality of the victims.
水兵たちの被曝の実態は、日本のどこよりも被害を受けた可能性がある。当時、陸から海に風は吹いていたので、彼らが最も大量の被曝を受けていた可能性がある。
The soldiers exposure may have been greater than any other part of Japan, because the wind was blowing from land to sea.
トモダチ作戦で助けようとしてくれていたのに、風向きからして最も被曝を大量にしてしまった。
Although they tried to help Japanese people through Operation Tomodachi, they have exposed to radiation massively due to the wind direction.
日本人としてきちんと受け止めなくていいのだろうか？ I think we Japanese need to humbly accept this fact.
米国海軍も無視、日本政府もそれを受けて無視、東電も無視。
However, the US Navy ignored, and Japanese government ignored and so did TEPCO.
東電だけでなく、日本も米国も関係ないことにしてしまっている。
Not only TEPCO, both the government of Japan and the US pretend that they have nothing to do with the Case.
私たち自身も被害者だが、彼らの被害を知ることによって、一緒に連帯していけないかと感じる。
We are also victims, but by knowing their damages, we could be united and act together.
白石：日本でもいろいろな症状が出ている。また、子供にたくさん甲状腺がんが出ている。
Q: In Japan also, there have been various diseases, and many children got thyroid cancer..
しかし日本の場合は、声が上げにくい。 However, in case of Japan, it is hard to raise voice.
この裁判では、被害そのものを訴えており、似たような症状で、手を取り合える人々がたくさんいる可能性もある。 In this Case, the health damage itself is on focus, and there may be many people in Japan who can cooperate with the US victims through similar symptoms.
A: At first, one woman soldier went to consult a lawyer. The lawyer visited the base and interviewed many soldiers and then he found such soldier one after another.
裁判の報道の後、さらに名前が挙がってきた。
After the media's broadcasting, more names were listed.
本当に止むにやまれぬ感じで弁護士さんの所に相談が寄せられた。 In this way, lots of consulation were made to the lawyers.
それだけ深刻な被害の広がりが見られている。 Serious
damages seem to be exising widely.
まだまだ今いる原告の方たちだけでない可能性もある。
There is a high possibility that there are more victims other than the plaintiffs.
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CBS: Now 2 US sailors dead after Fukushima radiation exposure — Doctor:
Officials have to re-look at this entire situation — Reporter who served on USS
Reagan: “We were done so wrong… Critical health risk to all of us onboard…
People are not realizing how serious the issue is” (VIDEO)
California State University, Northridge, Nov 12, 2014: Little
did [U.S. Navy veteran Kelli Serio, 25] know her service would change the way
she viewed the system she vowed her loyalty to… Serio may have been affected by
radiation during what she calls her “final and most personally sacrificing
deployment” in Japan… カリフォルニア州立大学ノースリッジ校：2014年11月12日： 元海軍兵、Kelli Serioさん（２５）は、かつて忠誠を誓った軍のシステムに対し、自分の任務遂行によって見方が変わることになろうとは思わなかった。Serioさんは「最後となった最も個人的な犠牲を伴った派遣」となった日本での任務遂行により、放射能に侵されてしまった可能性があると言うのである。 at 18, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy [and] was deployed off Japan’s coast… to assist with the cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear plant. While there, her carrier acted as a floating fuel station… Serio said she’ll never forget the day her captain said their water filtration system had been compromised… “I feel like we were done so wrong,” Serio said. “We were drinking the water.” 18歳になって海軍に入隊、福島原発事故のクリーンアップ作戦を助けるために日本沿岸での任務に就いた。その間、彼女の船は海上燃料補給場となった。 Serioさんは船長が、浄水システムに不具合が生じたと言った日のことを忘れない。 「とんでもない過ちをしてしまったと思う」とSerioさんは言う。 「私たちはその水を飲んでいたのです。」 Serio said she and the other 70,000 first responders have been
dismissed by the government as if nothing happened out there. She wants justice…
Serio’s team-like mentality has also led to her modeling with organizations like
Pin-Ups for Vets… to help bring up the morale of veterans and current soldiers
[and] bring awareness to the men and women who’ve served their country through
speaking engagements and visiting patients at veteran hospitals… Serioさんが言うには、彼女とその他7万人にも及ぶ福島事故に最初に対応した兵士たちは、まるでなにもなかったのように除隊させられたと言う。正義がなされて欲しい。。。Serioさんのチーム・スピリットにより、「退役兵士たちの写真」というモデルとなるような組織をつくった。そして講演会をしたり、退役軍人病院を訪問したりしながら、退役兵士と現役兵士の士気を高め、自国に貢献した兵士たちをより覚醒させるための援助活動をしている。 [E]arlier this
year… she met her friend and mentor, Fox News reporter Hollie McKay [who
recommended] Serio for a reporter position at [breitbart.com]… Her first piece
for the website was a first-hand account of and a look back at Operation
Tomodachi. 今年前半、Serioさんは友人であり彼女のめんたーでもあるFox Newsの記者であるHollie McKayに会った。彼女はSerioさんにBreitbart.comでの記者のポジションを勧めた。彼女がウェブサイトで初めて手掛けたページは、「トモダチ作戦」の実体験と反省であった。 Tahlequah Daily Press, Aug 7, 2014: USS Ronald Reagan… passed
through radiation plumes and clouds… the ship and most of those onboard, tested
positive for radiation exposure… Serio, now a broadcast journalism major at
[CSUN], has recently written a column… on breitbart.com. “I feel as if people are not realizing how
serious the issue is, and I would like to shed as much light on it as possible,”
said Serio. Tahlequah Daily Press, 2014年8月7日：USSロナルドレーガン号は放射能プルームと放射能雲の中を通り抜けた。船体もほとんどの乗組員も放射能被曝の検査で陽性が出た。Serioさんは今、カリフォルニア州立大学でTVジャーナリズムを専攻しているが、最近 breitbart.comを書いている。「私は人々がこの問題の深刻さに気付いていないのではないかと感じています。できる限りこの問題に光を当てたいと思います」とSerioさんは話す。 Breitbart, by Kelli Serio, Jul 23, 2014: I was onboard the USS
Ronald Reagan [and went] directly through a radiation cloud. The commanding
officer warned us that our water and ventilation systems had been contaminated,
posing a critical health risk to all of us onboard. We were advised to refrain
from showering or drinking water… Sailors worked tirelessly… while being left
vulnerable to dangerous levels of radiation… most of us onboard the ship were
tested for radiation exposure and many came back positive, resulting in
full-body scrubdowns… [W]e were issued gas masks… myself and other junior
sailors were asked to don protective garments in an effort to decontaminate the
ship… Breitbart Kelly Serio、2014年7月23日：私はUSSロナルドレーガン号に乗っていて直接放射能雲の中を通りました。司令官は私たちに、水も空調システムも汚染され、乗船していた私たち皆が深刻な健康リスクにあると警告しました。私たちはシャワーを浴びたり水を飲むのを控えるように言われました。兵士たちは休むことなく働き、その間危険なレベルの放射能に晒されました。乗船していた私たちのほとんどからは放射能が検出され、全身をたわしで洗わなければなりませんでした。 ガスマスクも配布されました。私と若い兵士たちは船を除染するために防護服も着るように言われました。 Proper medical care for the victims of radiation exposure [is needed, it's
a] dire situation for many… Many of us are enduring the unfortunate consequences
[and] hoping for care from the VA that appears to never arrive… we are reassured
of our good health, despite the presence of mysterious and unexplained symptoms…
A lack of coverage by the mainstream media has left victims without a voice… We
do not want to be forgotten. 放射能被曝を受けた犠牲者への適切な医療ケアが必要であり、多くの人々にとって、酷い状態となっています。我々の多くが、不幸な影響に見舞われ、退役軍人協会からのケアを願っているのですが、まったく受けられる気配がありません。 おかしな説明のつかない症状があるにもかかわらず、私たちの健康は何も問題がないと言われます。 メインストリームのメディアからはカバーされず、犠牲となった人々は声なき声にされています。私たちは忘れられたくありません。 CBS San Francisco, Nov 21, 2014: Rare cancers, blindness,
birth defects and now, two deaths. Hundreds of U.S. sailors… say they were
exposed to dangerous levels of radiation… [Steve] Simmons… began feeling weak
and sick with uncontrolled fevers… Soon he was in a wheelchair, unable to walk. CBS San Francisco, 2014年11月21日：まれにみるガン、失明、先天性異常、そして今は二人の兵士が死亡している。米兵士数百人が危険なレベルの放射能に被曝したと言っている。Steve Simmonsは体力がなくなり、熱ばかり出て体調がすぐれなくなった。しばらくして彼は車いすの状態となり、歩けなくなった。
He says military doctors would never tell him what was wrong. “Every one of them
wanted to discredit radiation as a possible cause,” Simmons said… “[There's]
evidence that the doses that were assumed to be on board the USS Reagan may have
been under-reported,” said Dr. Robert Gould, a former Kaiser pathologist… “Given
that there is more information that has come out, I think you would have to
re-look at the entire situation,” said Dr. Gould. >> Watch the CBS broadcast here
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