Ban-san’s News Summary
CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
Category: Fukushima Daiichi Evacuees
Urging Support for the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Trial
By Ido Ken’ichi (Attorney) A group of six young people currently aged 17 to 27, who had been living in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident (then 6 to...
The 2022 Fukushima Peoples’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima
By Kikuchi Yukari (Deputy Chair of the Fukushima Prefecture Teachers’ Union) “The 2022 Fukushima Prefectural Residents’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima” was held on March 12, hosted by the planning committee, comprised of...
Resisting through Composing Haiku about the Earthquake Disaster with High School Students
By Nakamura Susumu High School Teacher, Fukushima City 陽炎や被曝者失語者たる我ら How the heat shimmers! Those who were exposed are left Speechless—that is we I am a high school teacher living in Fukushima City. I currently...
Reference Material: Impacts of the nuclear accident on Fukushima Prefecture—Evacuee numbers, population by district, primary and junior high school students, agricultural output
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Statistical data on changes in Fukushima Prefecture’s evacuee numbers, population by district, numbers of primary and junior high school students in areas that were evacuated and agricultural output were used...
Long-term Evacuation 10 Years After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Results of a Nationwide Survey of Nuclear Accident Evacuees
By Saito Yoko, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance, Kwansei Gakuin University Introduction The number of evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture due to the accident at the Tokyo...
Group Intro: ‘Children’s Lawsuit Against Radiation Exposure’
By Konno Sumio, Representative Plaintiff A trial was held from August 2014 in which about 200 plaintiffs—parents and children from Fukushima—filed suit in Fukushima District Court calling to account the governments of Japan, Fukushima...
Post-Fukushima Educational Practices
By Omori Naoki (Professor, Center for the Research and Support of Educational Practice, Tokyo Gakugei University) Children exposed to radiation or forced to evacuate as newborns in 2011 are currently in their 5th or...
Fukushima Now Part 1: Human Time, Time of Radioactivity
By Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director Very soon now, ten years will have passed since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Some aspects of the “recovery” from the hard infrastructure...
Voice of Fukushima Daiichi Evacuee in Niigata Prefecture
This is the second part of our series: “Nine years after 3.11: Listening to the voices of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster victims” I was robbed of my hometown by the government and TEPCO By...
