By Abe Yurika<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe experience must not be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch a nuclear disaster must never happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n
I experienced the nuclear disaster. My family was torn apart. I lost friends and my hometown. While struggling with the feelings of loss, anger, distress, and conflict, I have continued to speak out, having the above intentions in mind.<\/p>\n
I was nine years old when the disaster occurred. Leaving my father, my mother and I traveled around and decided to evacuate to Kyoto on our own.<\/p>\n
It is now 15 years after the nuclear disaster. I was an elementary school child, but today I am a grown-up with a job.<\/p>\n
I feel that people are forgetting the earthquake and the disaster. From time to time, I feel that only we are being left behind since March 11, 2011.<\/p>\n
However hard I continue to speak out, the experience of the disaster is being written off with time. Restarting once-stopped reactors is being promoted, although their security is not ensured. The international conditions are unstable. Being unable to fend off anxiety, I have a sense of crisis that the risks of a nuclear accident are becoming higher than 15 years ago. Don\u2019t you think the circumstances are becoming worse, rather than remaining unchanged? Tired of being angry, I am sometimes inclined to give up realizing my wishes, wondering if what I say might be meaningless.<\/p>\n
Year by year I suffer from the feelings of despair and hopelessness more frequently, but at the same time I feel I need to keep making efforts to speak out.<\/p>\n
The nuclear disaster is not over. No problems have been resolved. By facing up all the divisions and discriminations due to the accident and communicating with people in different positions, I would like to continue speaking out even in a low voice, while looking for what I can do today, even if no immediate change is to be expected. I hope to change the situation even if it is little by little.<\/p>\n
Another nuclear disaster must be prevented.<\/p>\n
Now that 15 years has passed since the disaster, I feel that we are all probably standing at the crossroads of where we will go in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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