Nuclear Hotseat, May 21, 2014, 31:00 in —

Katsutaka Idogawa
Former Mayor of Futaba, Fukushima:

In the midst of all this sorrow, Prime Minister Abe is facing outward and promoting exports of nuclear power plants. […] As a Japanese citizen I am truly ashamed […] The contaminated water from the plant is polluting the Pacific Ocean more and more. I feel humiliated when Abe lies to the world, when he says the radioactive contamination is completely blocked from spreading further into the ocean.

[…] I urge the people of the world to take a look at us […] We’re living in conditions that punish us for what happened. Our dreams, our children’s futures, out towns have all been destroyed. We’ve been swept to the very margins of Japanese society and told to live there in silence.

[…] Nuclear facilities bring misfortune on human kind. We all need to raise our voices and demand a safe environment where we can live and children can have dreams. We inherited a clean environment from our parents, but I as a parent cannot pass along a clean and beautiful town to my own children. This sad situation can never happen again.

Please, don’t just help us, please help human kind.

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