Petition Call for fair deliberation and judgment for the “Trial to Protect Children from Irradiation”

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To the Civil Department of Fukushima District Court

There are two parts in the “Trial to Protect Children from Irradiation”: the “Children’s Rights Trial ” and the “Parent-Child Trial”. In the case of the first trial the defendants are the local governments. The plaintiffs demand the recognition of the right of primary and secondary school students of Fukushima Prefecture to enjoy education in a healthy environment. The second trial requires the recognition of the responsibility of the central and prefectural governments for not having taken the necessary protective measures and thus for unnecessarily exposing the children to radiation. The civil party, consisting of children and their parents who were residents in the Fukushima Prefecture when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident occurred, seeks compensation from the Fukushima prefectural and Japanese central governments.

The Japanese government totally underestimates the health risks associated with low-dose radiation exposure, and with internal radiation from the soil, water or air, or from contaminated substances. As a result, many children are exposed to the radiation they could have avoided. According to the thyroid examinations performed on children and adolescents under the age of 18 at the time of the nuclear accident, as of December 25, 2017, the number of cancers diagnosed was 193 cases. However, the government continues to consider that there is no link between this fact and irradiation, and has not undertaken research to find out the cause of the greatly increased frequency*. We must protect children from radiation. Since the government refuses to take action, it is our deepest wish that the judiciary would make a reasonable judgment taking reality into account.

Here is the site of Change.org where you can sign the petition.

Below is the text prepared by the Citizens’ Network for Evacuation from Radiation Japan (of March 2018) which explains the context.

From Hiroshima: a powerful testimony of an evacuee of the Fukushima accident

Yoko Shimosawa, who evacuated from Tokyo to Kobe with two children, speaks from Hiroshima on August 6th at the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the a-bomb.

Her powerful testimony is delivered in English and in Japanese.
The Japanese video and its transcription are placed below the English transcription.

8月6日、原爆投下73周年を迎えた広島から。東電福島第一原発事故後、東京から神戸へ避難した下澤陽子さんの渾身のスピーチです。英語スピーチと全文テキストの後に日本語スピーチの動画と全文テキストがあります。ぜひご覧ください。

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73 years ago today, many precious lives were instantly destroyed by the terrible blast and the heat from the atomic bomb. Did you know, however, that the atomic bomb has had another, lasting effects? It’s an invisible, quiet and lasting effects from the nuclear bombing, called “internal radiation exposure.”

New study says Minami-soma as safe as Western Japan cities – do they really expect us to believe this?

新しい調査によると、南相馬市は西日本の都市と同じくらい安全だそうです。こんな調査結果が信じられるでしょうか？

On September 5, 2017, Minami-soma city made a statement on the city’s radiation levels compared to 3 cities in West Japan, which has been reported in several newspapers. It’s important to comment on this study because the statement is intended to persuade the population to return to live there.

We are publishing comments on the articles below after having discussed with M. Ozawa of the citizen’s measurement group named the “Fukuichi Area Environmental Radiation Monitoring Project“. For English speaking readers, please refer to the article of Asahi Shimbun in English. For our arguments we refer to other articles published in other newspapers – Fukushima Minyu and Fukushima Minpo – which are only in Japanese.

2017年9月5日、南相馬市は同市と西日本の３市の外部被曝ばく線量を測定し、その結果について発表しました。いくつかの新聞が報道しています。この発表は住民帰還を促す意図を持っていますので、コメントすることが重要かと思われます。

Olympic games in Fukushima: Is it safe?

福島でオリンピックゲーム。安全なのか？

Fukushima city is going to host Olympic baseball and softball games in 2020.
What is the level of radio-contamination there? This is the question on everybody’s mind, spectators and players from all over the world. Is it really safe?

2020年のオリンピックで硬式野球と軟式野球のゲームは福島市で開催することになっています。
この場所での放射線汚染のレベルはどれくらいなのでしょうか？世界中からやってくる選手や応援団、観客など、そこに行く予定の人たちにとって、この疑問は当然のことです。
この場所に行っても本当に安全なのだろうか？

No human rights in terrifyingly contaminated Namie in Fukushima

想像を絶する汚染地帯の浪江町には人権は存在しないのでしょうか？

The evacuation orders of the most populated areas of Namie, Fukushima were lifted on March 31, 2017.
We are publishing the most recent soil surface density map of Namie created by a citizen’s measurement group named the “Fukuichi Area Environmental Radiation Monitoring Project“. Their members are mainly from Tokyo metropolitan region.

Incredible contamination in Namie, Fukushima

The evacuation orders of the most populated areas of Namie, Fukushima were lifted on March 31st this year.

“Fukuichi area environmental radiation monitoring project” has published airborne radiation measurements map and soil surface density map. The results are simply incredible. This is far much worse than in Radiation Control Zone. Any area becomes designated as such when the total effective dose due to external radiation and that due to radioactive substances in the air is likely to exceed 1.3mSv per quarter – over a period of three months, or when the surface density is over 40,000Bq/m2. In the Radiation Control Zone, it is prohibited to drink, eat or stay overnight. Even adults are not allowed to stay more than 10 hours. To leave the zone, one has to go through a strict screening.

Namie’s radio contamination is far over these figures! And people are told to go back to these areas.

福島県浪江町の人口集中地域の避難指示が3月31日に解除されました。
主として南相馬市に在住の市民の皆さんが作っておられる団体「ふくいち周辺環境放射線モニタリング・プロジェクト」が浪江町の空間線量マップと土壌汚染マップをアップされました。結果は驚くべきものです。外部放射線による実効線量と空気中の放射性物質による実効線量との合計が三月間につき一・三ミリシーベルトを超えるおそれのある区域、または土壌の表面密度が４万ベクレルを超えると、放射線管理区域に指定され、成人でも10時間以上は滞在できず、飲食もできず、宿泊もできません。そこから出るときには厳しいスクリーニングを受けなければなりません。地図を見ると、浪江町の状態は放射線管理区域をはるかに超える汚染の状態です。

浪江町の汚染はこの数値をはるかに超えるものです。そして、こんなところに住民の皆さんは帰れと言われているのです。

Here is the posting of “Fukuichi area environmental radiation monitoring project” in their FB page on April 20th.

以下、「ふくいち周辺環境放射線モニタリング・プロジェクト」の投稿です。

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第38回モニタリング活動で測定した浪江町の避難解除地域のギョロガイガーによる地上高1mの空間線量マップが完成しましたので、UPします。
100箇所のポイントのうち、1μSv/hオーバーは実に56ポイントありました。マップでは1μSv/hオーバーを赤枠で囲みましたが、最高は3.71μSv/hでした。
なんとこの数字は、1年間に換算すると32mSvにもなります。こんなところに、被災者を帰還させて良いのでしょうか？

We are uploading the map of airborne radiation rate map measured by GyoroGeiger, the Android supported Geiger counter, during the 38th monitoring action between 3 and 7 April 2017. Dose rate is measured at 1m from the ground.
At 56 points over 100 measuring points, the dose rate was over 1µSv/h. These points are indicated in red. The highest measure was 3.71µSv/h. Conversion to annual dose gives 32mSv. Is it allowed to make evacuees return to such areas?

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Here is the soil contamination map uploaded on April 15th. They even had to introduce 7 scales, for the contamination is so high and they couldn’t deal with the scales they were using before! It is a violation of human rights to let people live in such areas.

こちらが4月15日投稿の土壌汚染地図です。今までの区分では対処しきれなかったため、新たに７段階区分を導入したそうです。このようなところに人を住まわせるのは、基本的人権の侵害です。