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DESCRIPTION:On November 11, 2014 at 3:00 PM at the Japanese consulate people will speak 
 out about the plants to restart the Sendai nuclear plant. The Japanese 
 government which now runs TEPCO which was responsible for the meltdown at 
 Fukushima. The government with pressure from the US government and 
 politicians wants to re-open all more that 40 nuclear plants.\nThis 
 criminally dangerous action is a threat not only to the people of Japan but 
 the world. Another major earthquake could lead to more meltdowns and 
 further massive contamination. There is already a growing number of thyroid 
 cancer surgeries which the government of Japan is keeping a secret. They 
 have passed a new secrecy law that will criminalize those who are getting 
 information out about the Fukushima meltdown.\nit is time for all people to 
 speak out against the restarting of nuclear plants in Japan and for the 
 evacuation of children and families in Japan.\nThe No Nukes Action 
 Committee NNA has a monthly speak out on the 11th to remind people that the 
 Fukushima meltdown on March 11, 2011 still is with us and the plant 
 continues to lead radioactivity.\nFor more 
 information\nhttp://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/\n\n\n\nFirst Japanese 
 nuclear power plant since Fukushima to resume 
 operations\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/07/japanese-nuclear-power-plant-fukushima-restart\nLocal 
 governor gives final approval to restart two reactors at Sendai under new 
 safety rules despite residents’ concerns\n		\n		Associated Press in Tokyo 
 \n		\n		The Guardian, Friday 7 November 2014 08.03 GMT\n \nAnti-nuclear 
 protesters shout their opposition as the prefectural assembly adopted a 
 petition that agrees to restart the Sendai nucelar power station. 
 Photograph: AP\nA local governor in Japan has given final approval to 
 restart a nuclear power plant in southern Japan, the first to resume 
 operations in the country under new safety rules imposed after the 2011 
 Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdowns caused by an earthquake and 
 tsunami.\nKagoshima governor Yuichiro Ito said restarting two reactors at 
 the Sendai power station would go ahead despite the concerns of 
 residents.\n“All things considered, I must say that we still need to rely 
 on nuclear energy, and it is extremely important for us to steadily carry 
 out the plan,” Ito told a news conference.\nThe announcement marks the 
 final step before the Sendai reactors are expected to go back online early 
 next year following regulators’ on-site checks. Japan’s nuclear 
 regulation authority in July gave them passing grades under stricter safety 
 requirements that factored in the lessons of the Fukushima Dai-ichi 
 meltdowns.\nAll 48 workable reactors in Japan have been offline for safety 
 checks or repairs since the 2011 disaster, except for two that have 
 temporarily operated for about a year. Sendai would be the first to restart 
 under safety rules imposed after the Fukushima crisis.\nThe plant’s host 
 town, Satsumasendai, has already voted to restart the plant. The 
 governor’s endorsement completes the required process of local 
 consent.\nSome residents are not convinced by the decision. At the 
 prefectural assembly on Friday, the chairman’s announcement of the yes 
 vote was nearly inaudible as about 200 citizens in the audience shouted 
 their opposition. They stood up, some held “no” signs, while others 
 shouted “Protect residents’ lives” and “Shame on you”, according 
 to Kyodo News agency.\nResidents are particularly concerned about several 
 active volcanos around the plant,.\nShinzo Abe, the Japanese prime 
 minister, has been pushing to restart some of the 48 reactors, saying a 
 prolonged shutdown hurts the economy in Japan, which is heavily dependent 
 on imported sources of energy.\nThe minister of economy, trade and industry 
 Yoichi Miyazawa, who visited Kagoshima to urge the governor to support the 
 government’s energy policy, applauded Kagoshima’s announcement. 
 “Gaining local residents’ understanding is very important,” he 
 said.j\n\n\nA Fukushima Mother’s Lament\n\nThe Sorrow of Living in 
 Fukushima\n\n\n1\n\nMaking my kids wear a glass badge*, a useless almighty 
 protector, \nI send them onto a battle field. \nI see decontamination 
 trucks in town\nThere are unknown men in the local convenience store. \nI 
 smell dusty soil from them. \nPlastic storage bags are piling up here and 
 there, \nand I recall there is a school meal center just near by. 
 \n\n\nNote by translator #    A glass badge is a simple personal dosimeter 
 that measures air dose radiation. Children living in the radiation affected 
 areas are strongly encouraged to carry them at all times when they go out 
 and while attending school. \n\n\n2. \n\nWaking up in the wee hours of the 
 morning often,\nI think of the thyroid nodules of my children, are they 
 seeming to be all right?\nWhat if I accept the reality that seems to 
 ridicule my best effort to protect my kids? \nI perfectly know the answer, 
 It it is just the matter of time. \nThen what should I do? \nI betray 
 everyone and just leave? \n\n\n3. \n\nMy mother in my hometown worries 
 about radiation. \nMy father is intent on staying in Fukushima, being 
 deceived by the government. \nThe two are most likely being exposed to 
 radiation equally, \nwhile arguing everyday and living in the same moment. 
 \nI don't want them to be irradiated. \nChildren, adults, elders. 
 \nIrradiation. I can’t accept it, there is no way to accept it. \n\n4. 
 \n\nI fight with my parents for where to store the bottled water we bought. 
 \nIt is 0.5 there and 0.2 here, so I’ll place them here. \nNo, it does 
 not make a difference!\nSo we fight. \n\n\n5. \n\nThe level of 
 contamination is more or less the same all around,\nbut we still compare 
 the radiation levels: here is lower than there.\nIt makes us feel 
 superior,\nbut that kind of life troubles me.\n\n\n6. \n\nBeside the 
 mountains of bags storing radioactive soil, \nGerman journalists are 
 walking in protective suits. \nBeside them, I see my children walking 
 toward me with school backpacks on their back. \nFrom my anguish, I become 
 completely speechless…… \n\n\n7. \n\nI got ill with depression (Have I 
 suffered from depression?), the cancer of my heart (my mind?). \nExposure 
 to radiation, divorce. \nThey destroyed my children’s future. \nI was 
 told evacuation was a stupid action.\nThyroid nodules were found in my 
 children.\nThe truth is so unclear, and I can't bear that we, adults and 
 society, are so irresponsible. \nI got ill with cancer in my mind (Am I 
 suffering cancer in my heart?) \nRadiation seems to have contaminated my 
 heart first, the most vulnerable. \n\n\n\n8\n\n\nWhat is recuperation? 
 Thyroid nodules? Radioactive Iodine?\nWhat are they all? \nOnce you step 
 out of Fukushima, very few people know what these words mean. \nI now think 
 they are simply fortunate as they are. \nIgnorance is bliss.\nSee no evil, 
 Hear no evil, Say no evil.\nThat must be bliss. \n\n\n9. \n\nWhat 
 vegetables were we harvesting in this season? \nPotatoes with the smell of 
 fresh soil.\nSo many eggplants, rolled over on the floor of the entrance 
 area.\nI now see only the weeds covering the garden.\nI try to recall what 
 kind of vegetables I used to harvest, but the memory seems far away. 
 \n\n\n\n10. \n\nBoth my parents and my children are precious to me \nOne 
 morning my mother of 69 years says, \nyou should protect your kids. \nI 
 want to protect both.\nIn Fukushima, protecting both at the same time \nmay 
 be difficult. \nSo here comes the extreme decision to choose which to pick. 
 \nAny parent wishes the happiness of the child, first and foremost. \nWe 
 are forced to choose either, again and again.\n\n\n\n11. \n\nChoose a child 
 or husband?\nThe sense of value over life became a profound gulf between 
 us. \nWhat I can only say is that I didn't want to put even one particle of 
 radiation in those of my flesh and blood. \nI wanted my beloved children to 
 have an ordinary life just like before the accident \nand experience the 
 richness and beauty of Fukushima, just as I did .\nThe gulf between us was 
 too deep.\n\n\n12. \n\nThere is no other way but to live the life I believe 
 in, \na decision that took me more than three years to make. \nI had lived 
 my life, compromising myself, going along with my husband, others, and 
 school activities. \nI had compromised myself to go along with 
 Fukushima．\nI want to live the rest of my life in my truth. \nWill it be 
 possible?\n\n\n13. \n\nThere is no place I can go back to.\nMy loving home 
 is \nFukushima. \nSomeday in the future, \nI shall be a part of Fukushima 
 soil\nbecause that is where I go back.\n\n\nThis is a Japanese 
 original,\nhttps://twitter.com/sasukensuke \n\nFor more information on the 
 No Nukes Action Committee\nhttp://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/09/18763962.php
SUMMARY:Stop Japanese Government From Opening Nuke Plants-Speak Out
LOCATION:San Francisco Japanese Consulate\n275 Battery St. Suite 2100\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/09/18763962.php
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