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DESCRIPTION:1/11 SF Action For Justice For The People Of Fukushima and Japan\nDefend 
 the People Of Fukushima-Evacute the Children and People\nProsecute the 
 Tepco and Government Officials Who Hid The Facts Of Contamination And 
 Poisoning\nStop The Secrecy Laws In Japan That Will Cover-up The Fukushima 
 Disaster\n\nSaturday January 11, 2013 3:00 PM\nJapanese Consulate\nMeet 50 
 Fremont St. between Market and Mission in San Francisco\nMarch to San 
 Francisco Union Square\n\nThe Japanese government has just passed a secrecy 
 law which will be used to silence journalists\nand to prevent the people of 
 Japan and the world from knowing what is happening at Fukushima\nand the 
 other 50 nuclear plants in Japan.\nThe government continues to work to 
 re-open the plans and also compensate all those who want to\nevacuate from 
 Fukushima. They have spent billions of dollars on crooked contractors some 
 run by\nthe Yakuza to supposedly "decontaminate" the area and also argue 
 that you can "overcome"\nradiation.\nThey are also seeking to militarize 
 Asia and allow the US to continue their military occupation of\nOkinawa as 
 well as removing Clause 9 in the Japanese constitution which forbids 
 developing\nthe military and it's expansion around the world.\nThe US is 
 supporting the re-militarization which will benefit US and Japanese war 
 profiteers who\nwant to sell more military weapons and 
 equipment.\n\nSponsored by No Nukes Action 
 Committee\nhttp://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/\n\nThyroid cancer rates on 
 the rise in Japanese children, experts warn residents to 
 evacuate\nhttp://www.naturalnews.com/043436_thyroid_cancer_Japanese_children_Fukushima_radiation.html\nWednesday, 
 January 08, 2014 by: L.J. Devon, Staff Writer\n\n\n(NaturalNews) When 
 Japanese Professor Toshihide Tsuda of Okayama University sat down with 
 leaders from the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, talk about citywide 
 evacuation near the Fukushima nuclear breakdown site began. Deeply 
 concerned about rising thyroid cancer rates in Japanese children, these 
 leaders believe that it's time to evacuate the city of Koriyama.\n\nWhen 
 the two spoke to Japanese government officials, their concerns were 
 downplayed.\nThe Japanese government remains reluctant to evacuate the 
 city, not wanting to scare citizens, but Professor Tsuda has begun urging 
 residents to evacuate Koriyama anyway.\n\nThe epidemiology professor 
 reports, "An incident rate of thyroid cancer on children in Fukushima are 
 from several times to dozens times higher than usual. This is a rash of 
 disease. There is a possibility [it will] increase more in [the] future and 
 we need a countermeasure."\n\nA Japanese judiciary, the Sendai High Court, 
 agrees and "acknowledges a danger of low-level radiation exposure," and it 
 concludes that the only solution is to evacuate or relocate children from 
 the area. They report that changing schools in the area won't prevent 
 radiation exposure over 1 mSv/y. While they believe that there is "no 
 immediate risk on health," it's clear that they understand the long-term 
 risks of exposing children to radioactive particles in the area.\n\nMore 
 minors coming down with thyroid cancer\n\nWhen the March 2011 nuclear 
 disaster went down, no one understood the impact that the radioactive 
 breakdown could have on the surrounding cities and the people, especially 
 minors. Six minors in the area of the disaster have recently been diagnosed 
 with thyroid cancer, with another ten young ones reportedly now developing 
 the life-threatening cancer. These rates continue to climb, up from 28 
 affected children last June to 44 going into 2014.\n\nAs thyroid cancer 
 begins to show up, the damage has already been done, as the deadly 
 radioactive substances have already pervaded the cells of the young ones, 
 ravaging their smaller, developing bodies faster.\n\nWith approximately 
 360,000 children aged 18 or younger affected by the nuclear disaster in 
 2011, the Japanese government has begun giving annual checkups and will 
 continue doing so throughout the children's lives.\n\nJapanese government 
 downplaying the rising thyroid cancer rates in children\n\nAs radioactive 
 substances accumulate in the tissues and glands of the young children, the 
 government in Japan continues to remain quiet. Japanese officials are now 
 saying that the recent cases of thyroidcancer couldn't have come from the 
 disaster at the Daiichi power plant in March 2011, stating that thyroid 
 cancer from radiation takes several years to develop.\n\nBut what the 
 government fails to understand is that these smaller, developing bodies 
 might not be able to handle the load of radioactive isotopes in the same 
 way as an adult body. The smaller, younger generation could be the first to 
 show signs of cancer. Adult thyroid cancer rates may begin spiking in a few 
 years.\n\nAfter the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, thyroid cancer 
 cases started rising as early as four years after the explosion. Maybe the 
 release from Fukushima is twice as dangerous as Chernobyl, since rising 
 thyroid cancer cases are already pouring in just two or three years after 
 the meltdown.\n\nOr possibly, the new 44 cases of childhood cancer come 
 from children who were already predisposed. This is what the government 
 believes.\n\nFukushima prefecture government officials report, "It is 
 likely (the 44 children) developed tumors or lumps before the nuclear 
 accident."\n\nRegardless of reason, a shift of rising incidence in thyroid 
 cancer has begun.\n\nAccording to Christopher Busby from the European 
 Committee on Radiation Risks, "the 2005 Japanese national incidence rate 
 for thyroid cancer in the age bracket 0-18 is given in a recent peer 
 reviewed report as 0.0 per 100,000."\n\nHe states that this scientific 
 model could be used to predict that "some 200,000 extra cancers in roughly 
 10 million of the population in the 200km radius of the site" could come up 
 in the next 10 years, with "400,000 new cases in over 50 years."\n\nWhile 
 the International Commission of Radiological Protection of the Japanese 
 government predicts that "no detectable cancers will be seen as a result of 
 the 'very low doses' received by the population," radiation expert 
 Christopher Busby calls the government's radiological assessment 
 "nonsense."\n\nMany local residents are now questioning the prefecture 
 government's downplaying of radiation exposure risks, the accuracy of its 
 thyroid testing and the means by which information is disclosed.\n\nSources 
 for this article 
 include\n\nhttp://enenews.com\n\nhttp://rt.com\n\nhttp://science.naturalnews.com\n\n\nLearn 
 more: 
 http://www.naturalnews.com/043436_thyroid_cancer_Japanese_children_Fukushima_radiation.html#ixzz2pv3jn4CS\n\nThousands 
 protest against Japan state secrets bill at 
 Parliament\nhttp://labornetjp.blogspot.com/2013/12/thousands-protest-against-state-secrets.html\nWednesday, 
 December 11, 2013\nThousands protest against Japan state secrets bill at 
 Parliament\n\n\n The government of ABE Shinzo forced passed the state 
 secrets law in the lower house on Nov. 26. As the news spread, people after 
 work started to gather around the parliamentary building in Tokyo.\n About 
 1000 people chanted calls against the designated state secrets bill in 
 front of the parliament on Nov. 26.\n “Shame on you, Abe!”“Say no to 
 country with no freedom,” people called out even louder along with drum 
 beats, while deliberations were on the way in the lower house in the 
 evening.\n “People’s voices against the bill may only be ‘loud 
 noise’ to the parliamentarians who are pushing the bill, but for us this 
 IS the citizens’ voices,” one of the participants said. “This law is 
 trying to draw a Coup d’Etat. We must never allow such a law that 
 violates the Constitution and gets the country ready for war.”\n At one 
 public hearing the government held in Fukushima City, all seven speakers 
 expressed opposition against the law.\n “I can’t believe that the 
 government forced passed the law without carefully discussing the bill. The 
 government shouldn’t and can’t do this to us,” participants screamed 
 in protest and in anger.\n Politicians from Japan Communist Party and 
 Social Democratic Party of Japan criticized the government and how it is 
 ignoring public opinion.\n “People rule,” the demonstrators chanted. 
 “We will continue struggling in demand for abolishing this 
 bill.”\nLeading up to the demonstration against the government’s 
 dictatorial decision on the secrets bill, people from all walks of life 
 protested in front of prime minister’s residence in Tokyo over concerns 
 that their country is diving into a war in the near future.\n Journalists 
 from Newspaper Workers’ Unions, workers from All Japan Dockworkers Unions 
 and truck drivers from construction workers unions came together on Nov. 21 
 to raise their voices against Abe government.\n The state secrets bill, 
 they claim, will subject not only the public workers but anyone who leaks 
 classified information that threatens national security in the 
 government’s eyes.\n On this day, some 150 union members gathered in 
 front of prime minister’s residence.\n In the evening, there was a 
 protest staged at a nearby park in Tokyo, where some 10,000 people 
 gathered.\n Bipartisan politicians were among them to vow to strike the 
 bill altogether in solidarity.\n “The statute of limitation for the state 
 secrets is now set for 60 years. Who would survive all these years to see 
 the secrets disclosed?” “Stop mocking us! Prime minister can’t be the 
 third party (to check and see the designated secrets are appropriate for 
 classification).”\n The bill is so immature and incomplete that drew some 
 anger and laughs from the crowd.\n The parties that oppose the bill are the 
 minority in the parliament, but the voices against the bill have been 
 manifested today with the strong commitment to strike the bill. 
 \n\n\n\n国会議員は恥を知れ！～衆院本会議の議場に迫った主権者の声\n「特 
 定秘密法 絶対反対」「強行採決 
 絶対反対」「安倍晋三は 恥を知れ」「自由のない国 
 絶対反対」「国会議員は 
 恥を知れ」。打楽器の伴奏に合わせたリズミカルなテンポのコールが、途切れなく続いた。「秘密保護法案」が衆院本会議通過した26日午後8時、国会周辺 
 は、官邸前・正門前・議員会館前の3ヶ所で抗議集会がもたれ、大コールが繰り返された。傍聴者によれば議場内にも声が届いているという。「賛成派にとって 
 は声ではなく“大きい音”にしか聞こえないかもしれない。でもここにいる私たちこそが民意なのだ」「この法律はクーデター。憲法に違反し戦争する国を準備 
 するこの法律は絶対に許さない。参院で廃案に追いこもう」。怒りの発言が続く。この日は参加者は1000人を超え、脱原発運動の高揚期を思わせる盛り上が 
 りとなった\n\nひどすぎる！～「秘密保護法案」衆院特別委員会で強行採決\n11 
 月26日午前の衆院特別委員会で「秘密保護法案」が強行採決された。議員会館前には続々と怒りの市民が集まってきた。官邸前の労働者集会とあわせて500 
 人に達した。「福島公聴会では反対と懸念の意見ばかり。それを検討する時間もとらず強行採決。信じられない」「こんなことしていいのか、ひどすぎる！」。 
 口元を奮わせて市民たちは怒りをぶつけた。共産党や社民党の国会議員も次々にマイクを握り、「いまの国会は民意を完全に無視している。主権者は国民だ。参 
 院で廃案を求めて徹底して闘う」と口々に語った。国会周辺は、各グループの集会や座り込みの人々で騒然とした状態が続いている。\n\n\n\n歴史の逆行を許すな！～「秘密保護法」反対集会 
 1万人の怒りと熱気\n「特 
 定秘密保護法案」衆院採決の危機を前にして、1万人の人々が怒りに立ち上がった。大集会が開かれた11月21日の日比谷野外音楽堂は、集会開始6時30分 
 の10分前にすでに満杯になり、外に数千人の人々があふれた。身動きがとれない会場で始まった集会。民主・共産・社民・無所属の国会議員、主催団体や各界 
 の発言は、短い時間に精一杯の思いをこめたもので、どれも迫力に満ちていて感動的だった。「秘密指定期間が60年、いったいこの中のだれが生きているので 
 すか？」「首相が第三者機関、ふざけるな！」。あまりにお粗末な「秘密保護法案」に怒りと失笑が交差した。国会では反対派は少数である。しかし「歴史の逆 
 行を絶対に許さない」という固い決意をもった人々が、きょう大きく立ち上がった。長い長い請願デモの列。「秘密法はいらない」という主権者の声が霞ヶ関を 
 包み込んだ。\n\n労働者も「秘密保護法」に反対～首相官邸前で三労組が声上げる\n11 
 月21日昼、新聞記者の組合（新聞労連）、コンクリートミキサー車の運転手などの組合（全日建）、そして港で働く労働者の組合（全港湾）が一緒になって、 
 官邸前で声を上げた。小谷野全日建書記長は「この問題は公務員だけの問題と思っている人もいるが、そうではない。民間の労働者もすべて芋づる式に調査の対 
 象とされる。会社や経営者の秘密に迫る労働運動も安心してできない。絶対に廃案にしよう」と呼びかけた。市民の参加もあり、官邸前の歩道はあっというまに 
 150人近くに膨れあがった。この日は「秘密保護法」反対のさまざまな取り組みがあり、国会・官邸周辺は、プラカードを持った人々の流れが続いた。\n\nJapan 
 TEPCO worker frustrated over company's treatment of 
 employees\nhttp://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140104p2a00m0na008000c.html\n\nThe 
 work clothing that the TEPCO employee wears, which he says he has stopped 
 hanging out to dry following the Fukushima nuclear disaster because he's 
 afraid of what his neighbors will think. (Mainichi)\n拡大写真\nAn 
 employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), who was asked by the utility 
 to return evacuation compensation payments he received for the Fukushima 
 No. 1 nuclear plant disaster, lamented the company's frosty attitude toward 
 workers like him who had devoted themselves to bringing the crippled plant 
 under control.\n\nThe employee was among those who worked on the front 
 lines immediately after the onset of the nuclear disaster in March 2011, 
 under the leadership of then plant manager Masao Yoshida. Amid high levels 
 of radiation, the employee and his colleagues trembled with fear as they 
 worked to contain the unprecedented atomic disaster.\n\nFaced with TEPCO's 
 unsympathetic treatment of them, however, young employees are leaving the 
 company in despair. Declining morale among workers is casting a shadow on 
 ongoing efforts to decommission the plant's reactors.\n\nHailing from 
 outside Fukushima, the employee has developed a fondness for Fukushima 
 after working for many years at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear 
 plants. "I feel as if this is my hometown," he says about Fukushima, where 
 he is also involved in community activities.\n\n"I can't stand any further 
 contamination of my hometown," he thought in the wake of an explosion at 
 the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant on March 12, 2011. 
 He and his colleagues approached the reactor building, trembling. When they 
 returned to a quake-proof building about 300 meters away from the No. 1 
 reactor after work, Yoshida was yelling angrily in a teleconference with 
 TEPCO's Tokyo headquarters. But he was tender to local staff, often telling 
 them, "You guys are doing great work."\n\nThe employee continued to work 
 under harsh conditions, but felt what he was doing was worth it. However, 
 he received a letter from TEPCO last spring asking him to return part of 
 the compensation he received from the utility, and to sign and send back a 
 letter of consent.\n\n"That can't be possible," he thought, and read the 
 letter over and over again. But it was unmistakably an invoice addressed to 
 him by his employer. He shed tears of frustration and suffered sleepless 
 nights. His coworkers had also received similar documents. A gloomy, 
 depressing atmosphere prevailed, significantly undermining workers' 
 morale.\n\nThe salaries of TEPCO employees were slashed by 20 percent 
 immediately after the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Such 
 cutbacks have been followed by the suspension of compensation payouts to 
 employees in 2012 and the demand to return compensation in spring 2013. 
 These changes resulted in more than 10 employees -- mainly in their 20s -- 
 leaving TEPCO. Among them were employees who worked together with the male 
 employee to bring the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant under 
 control.\n\n"Everyone felt responsible that a nuclear plant that we'd been 
 operating caused this crisis, and we all persevered in our work (following 
 the disaster)," the employee said, adding that motivation among his 
 colleagues waned because of their maltreatment by the utility. The employee 
 says he couldn't tell an outgoing coworker, "Let's hang in there 
 together."\n\nThe employee recalls Yoshida telling them, "You guys tried 
 very hard amid high radiation doses. I will look after you 
 properly."\n\n"If he (Yoshida) was alive, things wouldn't have turned out 
 like this," the employee sometimes thinks to himself.\n\nWhile he feels 
 helpless, he tells himself he's going to stick it out for the sake of his 
 "hometown."\n\nJanuary 04, 2014(Mainichi Japan)\n\nAMERICAN Government 
 Forces Re-Start of Japanese Nuclear 
 Reactors\nhttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/it-is-the-american-not-japanese-government-forcing-a-re-start-of-japanese-nuclear-reactors.html\nPosted 
 on October 3, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog\nAmericans Are Largely Responsible 
 for Japan’s Ongoing Nuclear Policy\n\nArchaic nuclear reactor designs 
 such as those used at Fukushima – built by American company General 
 Electric – were chosen because they were good for making nuclear bombs.   
 The U.S. secretly helped Japan develop its nuclear weapons program starting 
 in the the 1980s. Therefore, the U.S. played a large role in Japan’s 
 development of nuclear energy.  (See this).\n\nAfter the Fukushima disaster 
 – in an effort to protect the American nuclear industry – the U.S. has 
 joined Japan in raising “acceptable” radiation levels.  U.S. Secretary 
 of State Hillary Clinton also signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan 
 agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite the 
 fact that the FDA is refusing to test seafood for radiation in any 
 meaningful fashion.  So U.S. actions are helping to protect a pro-nuclear 
 policy in Japan.\n\nIndeed, mainstream Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports 
 that it was President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton who have 
 pressured the Japanese to re-start that country’s nuclear program after 
 the Japanese government vowed to end all nuclear power in the wake of the 
 Fukushima disaster.\n\nEx-SKF reports:\n\nJapanese media has been saying 
 for some time that it was the US government who pressured the Noda 
 administration to drop the “zero nuke by 2030″ (which morphed into 
 “zero nuke sometime in 2030s) from its new nuclear and environmental 
 policy decision. Tokyo Shinbun reported it a while ago, and now Nikkei 
 Shinbun just reported it with more details. There is no news reported in 
 the US on the matter.\n\nThe difference of the Nikkei Shinbun’s article 
 is that it names names: President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary 
 Clinton.\n\nIt’s hard for me to believe that this president has time for 
 trivial matters like actually governing the affairs inside and outside the 
 US in the election year (he must be very busy right now preparing for the 
 big “debate”), but that’s what Nikkei Shinbun wants us to believe. 
 The article also mentions Secretary of State Clinton pressuring the Noda 
 administration officials by strongly indicating it was the wish of 
 President Obama and the US Congress that Japan scrap that silly nuclear 
 energy policy.\n\nAnd then, one added twist: the Nikkei article has 
 disappeared. [Washington's Blog has located a version of the article cached 
 by Google.]\n\n***\n\nHere’s Nikkei article:\n\nThe US request that Japan 
 continue nuclear power plant is “the President’s idea”\n\n2012/9/25 
 0:12\n\nIt has been revealed that the United States government was strongly 
 urging [the Japanese government] to reconsider its policy of “zero nukes 
 in 2030s” which was part of the energy and environmental strategy of the 
 Noda administration, as “President Obama wishes it”. [The US objection] 
 was based on the fear that the framework of Japan-US cooperation for 
 non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy might collapse [under 
 the new policy]. [The Noda administration] eventually shelved the cabinet 
 decision, but this ambiguous resolution may cause further trouble in the 
 future.\n\nAccording to the multiple government sources, as the Noda 
 administration was moving in August toward explicitly putting down “zero 
 nuke” in the official document, the US strongly requested that Japan 
 reconsider the “zero nuke” policy, saying the request was “the result 
 of discussion at the highest level of the government“, indicating it was 
 the Obama administration’s consensus, from the president on down.\n\nOn 
 September 8, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met with the US Secretary of 
 State Clinton during the APEC meeting in Vladivostok in Russia. Here again, 
 representing the US president, Secretary Clinton expressed concern. While 
 avoiding the overt criticism of the Noda administration’s policy, she 
 further pressured Japan by stressing that it was President Obama and the US 
 Congress who were concerned.\n\nThe Noda administration sent its officials, 
 including Special Advisor to Prime Minister Akihisa Nagashima, to the US on 
 an urgent mission to directly discuss matters with the high-ranking White 
 House officials who were frustrated with the Japanese response. By treating 
 the new strategy as only a reference material, the Noda administration 
 averted the confrontation with the US with the “equivocal” resolution 
 (according to the Japanese government source) which allowed the US to 
 interpret the Japanese action as shelving the zero nuke 
 policy.\n\n(According to Former Deputy Energy Secretary Martin,) the US 
 government thinks that “The US energy strategy would be more likely to 
 suffer a direct damage” because of the Japan’s policy change toward 
 zero nuclear energy. It is because the Japanese nuclear policy is closely 
 linked also to the nuclear non-proliferation and environmental policies 
 aimed at preventing the global warming under the Obama 
 administration.\n\nIn the Atomic Energy Agreement effective as of 1988, 
 Japan and the US agreed to a blanket statement that as long as it is at the 
 Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, reprocessing of the nuclear fuel is allowed 
 without prior consent from the US. Japan’s most important role [in the 
 agreement] is to secure the peaceful use of plutonium without possessing 
 nuclear weapons.\n\nThe current Japan-US agreement will expire in 2018, and 
 the government will need to start preliminary, unofficial discussions [with 
 the US] as early as next year. There is some time before the expiration of 
 the agreement, butif Japan leaves its nuclear policy in vague terms the US 
 may object to renewal of permission for nuclear fuel reprocessing. Some (in 
 the Japanese government) say “We are not sure any more what will happen 
 to the renewal of the agreement.”\n 
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