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Starting Image<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Thank you for watching, everyone.
In Japan, the declaration of a state of emergency has been lifted and social andeconomic activities have resumed, but the outbreak of the novel coronavirus has notbeen contained yet. Since last March, various meetings and events have beencancelled or suspended.
The NPT Review Conference, which was supposed to be held in April this year, hasbeen postponed to the next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, thenuclear-haves like the US, Russia and China still continue, rather than stopping, their
nuclear development.
In addition, there are also challenges and problems concerning nuclear power
generation, such as the discharge of tritium-contaminated water from the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to the ocean and the “approval” of the Rokkasho
Reprocessing Plant by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Therefore, the GENSUIKIN World Conference for the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic
Bombings is a crucial turning point in tougher situations on nukes.
The GENSUIKIN conference is held online this year to mobilize toward the eliminationof nuclear weapons, nuclear phase-out, and support for and solidarity with hibakushas.
Your participation is highly appreciated.
Now, we’d like to start the Fukushima GENSUIKIN Online World Conference for the75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings.
My name is Hashimoto Mayu, the facilitator and a staff member of GENSUIKIN.
Firstly, Kawano Koichi, the chairperson of GENSUIKIN, delivers a message.

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【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<Mr. Kawano Fukushima Greetings GENSUIKIN 2020>

My name is Kawano, the chairperson of Gensuikin. More than 9 years have passed
since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and 75 years have passed since Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
However, still more than 40,000 people have been obliged to evacuate in Fukushima.
And this year, we are suffering from the outbreak of the coronavirus. I hope everyone is
all fine.
Due to the virus, the Tokyo Olympic Games and the NPT Review Conference were
postponed, and the Gensuikin Conference can be held only remotely. Therefore, I am
grateful if you could allow me to deliver my messages remotely.
The Japanese Government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) abandon the
responsibility and try to cut off support for victims of the nuclear disaster, but only 30%of the former residents have returned to the evacuation order-lifted areas. It is neveracceptable to cut off the support in the name of the expiration of the evacuation period.
It is a matter of course that TEPCO must honestly handle demands from the victims fortheir material and psychological damages.
In addition, the government and TEPCO are trying to go ahead with the release ofradioactive water into the ocean despite resistance from many residents in Fukushima.
However, this is never acceptable especially in view of the fact that a resolution to
oppose the release was adopted unanimously in the Namie Town Assembly,
Fukushima Prefecture.
This also violates the London Convention and the decision of Japan’s Nuclear
Regulation Authority “not to dump radioactive water into the ocean”.
Japan has 60 nuclear reactors, and only 9 of them are currently in operation. There are
only 4 reactors in which plutonium for thermal use is adopted, and it has been said that
nuclear power proponents attempt to introduce the technology into 16 to 18 reactors.
However, regarding the fact that countries around the world are trying to realize nuclear
phase-out, is it meaningful to use MOX fuels like plutonium, which are far more
expensive and dangerous than uranium? In view of the global trend, it is necessary for
us to shift to renewable energy.
The latest total number of nuclear weapons in the world is 13,410 in 9 countries,
decreased by 470 from the last year. However, the number increased by 30 to 320 in
China, surpassing the one in France, and made China the third largest nuclear nation
after Russia and the US.
The total number has slightly decreased for sure, but still the nuclear weapons canannihilate the whole population on the earth dozens of times.
In addition, US President Trump abandon the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces)
Treaty, and unfold in the nuclear posture review, that It promote the development ofusable nuclear weapons, making the situation in the world extremely dangerous. A
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negotiation on the reduction of the weapons between the US and Russia is not in sightat all.
In such a situation, it is supposedly the time for Japan to do something as “the only
nuclear weapon victim state in the world”.
First, support TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) Then, North
Korea, South Korea and Japan will not have the weapons. The US, Russia and China
will not attack the former three nations with the weapons. In other words, promote theNortheast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Initiative.
We do not need the nuclear umbrella of the US any longer. Spread this initiative to thenorthern hemisphere from the southern. It is important for Japan to lead this move.
The end of the undemocratic Abe Administration is in sight. The administration has aseries of scandals, such as the Moritomo and Kake, the cherry blossom viewing, theformer superintending prosecutor Kurokawa, and the arrest of major party lawmakers
who are Abe’s close allies. Our democracy is questioned. Let’s change the politicaltides. Save the peace constitution and take back peace in a real sense.
And let’s realize a world free of nukes as well as war. Let’s join hands.

<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Thank you, Mr. Kawano.
The next is a message from Tsunoda Masashi, the co-representative of the Fukushima
Peace Forum, representing the Fukushima Conference committee. Mr. Tsunoda,
please go ahead.

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【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<Tsunoda Masashi, Fukushima GENSUIKIN Address>

Hello everyone. My name is Tsunoda, a co-representative of Fukushima Peace
Forum.
75 years have passed since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nearly 10 years havepassed since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
In addition, this year is the 35th after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and thus amilestone year. This year, unfortunately, it is impossible to have opportunities towelcome many people here in Fukushima, show them its realities or deepen thedebate on a nuclear-free future.
However, we are still able to disseminate what is going on here in thisopportunity. We’d like to express our gratitude to all of those who have been
involved in this Conference.
In the Fukushima conference of last year, we reported that TEPCO (Tokyo
Electric Power Company) had reportedly and formally announced its decision todecommission all the four reactors of the Fukushima Daini (2nd) Nuclear Power
Plant. Eventually, TEPCO formally decided the decommissioning.
This can be our significant achievement of our movement in solidarity with our
fellows from all around Japan, which has continued since the nuclear disaster, insearch of a nuclear-free Fukushima.
However, even the decommissioning has been decided, there are still manydifficulties lying ahead – Is it possible to remove the rubble from the crippled
reactors? Even if it’s possible, how is it disposed of? How can we handle spent
nuclear fuel?
How can highly contaminated reactor containers be disposed of? There remains
the issue of nuclear waste that has nowhere to go.
This is not only the problem of Fukushima. The situation is the same in all
nuclear power plants in Japan. They have to be stopped as soon as possible,
construction of additional nuclear power plants has to be stopped, and the futureneeds to be created mainly based on renewable energy.
In Fukushima, a movement toward safe and steady decommissioning of the
Fukushima Daiichi and Daini Nuclear Power Plants has started.
Now, the Japanese Government and TEPCO indicate their intension to discharge
multi-nuclide removal equipment (ALPS)-treated water to the ocean as soon as
possible. The contaminated water contains a large amount of tritium in highconcentration.
It is fishermen who are most seriously affected by the discharge of thecontaminated water. They have repeatedly continued trial operations, and aprocess to full-scale ones is now under way.

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When TEPCO requested the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations to approve the discharge of groundwater from bypasses
and sub-drains to the ocean, it promised not to discharge ALPS-treated water
there. The Japanese government and TEPCO are going to break the promise.
Not only the fishery federation in Fukushima, but also those of all around Japanstrongly oppose the discharge. Today, we’d like you to listen to the feelings offishermen in Shinchi Town, Fukushima.
It is not only fishermen who clearly oppose the discharge to the ocean. Local
farmers also object it, who have worked on reducing radioactivity in farmlandthat has been contaminated, growing safe and delicious crops, and restoring
trust since the nuclear disaster.
Those in forestry who have protected its culture insist that further discharge ofradioactivity is absolutely unacceptable in such a situation that decontaminationin mountains has not even started at all.
The Japanese Government and TEPCO, which caused the nuclear disaster,prioritize their interests, saying that there is no more capacity to store
contaminated water, ignoring opposition from those who work hard forreconstruction and future livelihood, and try to intentionally discharge
radioactivity. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Both the Japanese Government and TEPCO say that it is essential to reconstruct
Fukushima and decommission the nuclear power plants at the same time.
However, what they are doing is to decommission at the expense of the people.
The discharge of tritium-contaminated water to the ocean in defiance of victims
and many other people has to be stopped.
In order to take back a nuclear-free Fukushima, we continue our protest.
In order not to have the tragedy of Fukushima be repeated, we strengthen our
movement against restart of a nuclear power plant in all around Japan, andexpress our determination to strive for a peaceful society without nuclear power
plants, nuclear weapons or war. This is our message from Fukushima.
Let’s work together!

<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Thank you, Mr. Tsunoda.
Here, let us introduce a solidarity message from the German Greens, a partner with
GENSUIKIN, Co-chair Ms. Annalena Baerbock.

<Ms. Annalena Baerbock, German Greens speaks in English>5【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Thank you for your attention.
The next is a message from a victim of the nuclear disaster. His name is Ono Haruo.
Mr. Ono, please go ahead.

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【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<Ono Haruo, Appeal from Fisherman in Fukushima, GENSUIKIN 2020>

My name is Ono, and I’ve been a fisherman here in Shinchi Town, Fukushima
Prefecture for 50 years.
You can see a fish boat behind. Actually, I have two. It’s impossible to use theone behind me. I haven’t used this for 2 years. The one over there was newly
built two years ago, and I go to the sea with the new one.
Due to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, we are not allowed to use the fishingground in our discretion in front of us despite following the regulations and thefishing quota. We are carrying out trials 8 times a month according tonegotiations with TEPCO, and any fish we catch here are not radioactive at all.
In this stable situation, the Japanese Government and TEPCO are going todischarge tritium-containing water, and we feel bewildered by, afraid of andanxious about this. Really anxious about the future of this sea.
My three sons are also fishermen, and I’m responsible for them. News reports
say such toxic water is going to be discharged to the sea. Everyone opposes thedischarge at any public hearings that are conducted all around Japan, butneither the Japanese Government nor TEPCO says that tritium-contaminatedwater is not going to be discharged.
We fishermen have already suffered enough, but are they going to trouble us
further? The number of fishermen in Fukushima has nearly halved since thenuclear disaster, so if such tritium-contaminated water were discharged, I would
never ask my sons to be fishermen.
And those having junior high school or high school children could notrecommend them to be fishermen, either. Then, fishery in Fukushima Prefecture
will decline.
If tritium-contaminated water were discharged, the damage would be real rather
than reputational, and sales of fish in Fukushima, which are already sluggish
with low prices now, will drop further as well as the prices. Then, how can wesurvive with such low prices?
Full-scale operations are possible with a good catch, but fuel and material prices
are high and fish prices are unbearably low. Then, it’s impossible for us tosurvive. There will be possibly some suicide cases in such a situation.
It’s really difficult to find another job even if we quit fishing. It will be reallyimpossible to shift to an onshore job from fishing. I wonder why they are going
to trouble us. I understand if there were no other option. In this case, increasestorage tanks on shore, then someone clever may develop a device to remove
tritium from contaminated water.
The question is why high-concentration contaminated water needs to bedischarged to the sea. It’s not correct that it is stored in Fukushima Prefecture.

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If the contaminated water really needs to be discharged to the sea, it should befrom Tokyo Bay instead. Osaka Mayor Matsui says contaminated water may bedischarged to Osaka Bay. If it were discharged from these bays, there may belittle damage for reconstruction in Fukushima. This is my wish.
Even if I own two fish boats, this one is inevitably idle now. It is maintained withsome amount of money and ready for fishing operation, but it’s impossible forme to operate both. I have various necessary materials ready for full operation.
As for my three sons, I have sent two of them to another place temporarily fortraining because we don’t need manpower as long as it’s impossible to use bothboats.
It’s physically and mentally painful for us if there is no workplace. We’re reallyanxious that our future is unforeseeable. I have many anxieties about my threesons who are fishermen.
With fish prices being low, who would take responsibility if contaminated water
were discharged to the sea? This is actual damage on us, so who are going to
finally take responsibility for it? Is it possible to continuously support us until
the nuclear reactors are decommissioned?
Now, I feel really terrible. What happens if such contaminated water isdischarged to this beautiful sea in Fukushima? It also influences neighbouring
prefectures, the whole Japan and even the world.
Who takes responsibility for the damage 30 or 50 years later. Nobody does it now.
We’d be relieved if someone said, “We take responsibility for this”, but they
simply say contaminated water will be discharged to the sea. Only this option is
being considered.

<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Thank you, Mr. Ono.
The next is an appeal from the 22nd High School Peace Messengers – Akanuma Yuki
and Saito Honoka. Ms. Akanuma and Ms. Saito, please go ahead.

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【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<High School Peace Messenger in Fukushima GENSUIKIN 2020>

Hello, everyone. My name is Akanuma Yuki in the third grade of Nihon University
Tohoku High school, 22nd High School Peace Messenger.
My name is Saito Honoka in the third grade of Iwaki Shuei High School.
(Akanuma)
We do various activities for nuclear abolition, such as a High School 10,000 Signatures
Campaign. In August 2019, we were appointed as Youth Communicators for a World
without Nuclear Weapons by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and visited the UN
European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Fukushima draws much attention from the world.
We strongly felt this. Many said that nuclear power plants were abolished in theircountries due to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, and safety in Fukushima become
topical.
I am bewildered by unrealistic situations that are sometimes picked up by local media,
and I have wondered if I am really from Fukushima as they think. I’m thinking about
what I can do in such situations.
When we think about the issue of nukes, radioactive contamination is the issue wecannot avoid.
One of the reasons why the International Red Cross, we visited, appeals nuclear
abolition is that it is impossible to carry out rescue activities in a contaminated place.
Fukushima failed to use nuclear power safely. Reconstruction is supposed to take thenuclear disaster seriously and avoid making our children and grandchildren sad. We
may not be convinced visible reconstruction efforts, such as lifting evacuation zones
and recovering industries, and they will not become lessons for the world.
Then, I think that education is important. Japan is victimized by nuclear weapons andsupposed to think about nukes more seriously than any other countries in the world, as
we experienced the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (exposed to radiation caused by a hydrogenbomb test in the Pacific) and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
However, is the current peace education in Japan sufficient? It is necessary to promote
it in schools to learn the nuclear issue from scientific, historical and ethical perspectives.
I would like to be a history teacher.
However, it is not easy to promote peace education. It will be important to pave the way
for making our peace activities prevalent and more easily be understood.
Such activities of high school students are not common in Fukushima, so there may besome who feel it difficult to act or speak out. I still sometimes hesitate despite that I cando more. If you think such a way, we’d like to ask you to join us.
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9 years have already passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Still, I havenever forgotten the shock I could not even stand, astonishment when I saw houses andcars washed away by tsunami, and the possibility of death that I felt when I was
exposed to radioactive rainwater.
Despite that people pledged not to commit the mistakes again after Hiroshima andNagasaki were devastated by the atomic bombs, the third nuclear disaster happened
here in Fukushima.
have done activities as a Peace Messenger with a goal to pass down the messages ofFukushima disaster victims and hibakushas so that these tragedies will never be
repeated.
The most impressive in our activities was a reception hosted by the JapaneseRepresentative Office to the UN Conference on Disarmament. There, we were able toexchange opinions with diplomats from various countries.
We felt mainly two things during our communications with them. One is that the nuclear
states would not like to possess nuclear weapons.
When we asked diplomats from various countries, “Do you think it is necessary toabolish the weapons?”, most of them, including those from nuclear haves, answered,“They should be finally abolished”. We were able to feel that most countries shared thecommon final goal – elimination of nuclear weapons.
However, when we asked about nuclear power generation, some answered that they
were not supposed to use it, but some others said that nuclear energy was importantand continued to be used because it was safe as long as sufficient safety measures
were taken.
They would think that nuclear power generation is peaceful use of nuclear energy anddifferent from weapons. I don’t think this is correct.
This means that there is a big gap between us who actually experienced the nuclear
disaster and those who did not. I strongly felt it is necessary to disseminate thenegative aspects of nuclear power generation to the whole society.
Recently, the 40th country ratified Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons(TPNW), and 10 more countries are needed for the treaty to entry into effect. Although
this is not the final goal, we are going to go beyond a watershed to the elimination of
nuclear weapons.
This is supposed to be an achievement of citizens’ wishes for nuclear abolition. Whateach individual can do is limited. Howeer, if people unite and raise their voice, I believe,
we can change the world.
(Akanuma)Thank you very much for your cooperation with our signature-collecting campaign lastyear. This year, our activities are carried out online, but it is possible to sign digitally or
print out a signature sheet on the webpage of the High School Peace Messengers.
Your signatures are highly appreciated.

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Together with friends wishing for peace, we continue our activities for the elimination of
nuclear weapons and a world without war anywhere and in any form.

<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Ms. Akanuma and Ms. Saito, thank you for your appeal.
The next is a proposal of the keynote from Kitamura, the secretary general of
GENSUIKIN.

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【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<Tomoyuki Kitamura, Keynote of Secretary General in Fukushima GENSUIKIN
2020>

9 years and 5 months have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and thedisaster of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and we will have the 10th
anniversary this coming March.
However, as of 5 June, 2020, 37,826 persons from Fukushima Prefecture are still
forced to evacuate in and outside the prefecture.
The nuclear disaster has not been brought under control yet. Melted fuel has not been
removed at all, and contaminated water continues to accumulate. Decontaminated soil
and garbage are still temporarily stored even in spheres of life.
It is never forgivable to contaminate once decontaminated land again. Tokyo ElectricPower Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese Government have to explore how tosecure safety in a long term due to their own responsibility, in consultation with
Fukushima Prefecture, and local municipalities and residents.
GENSUIKIN has demanded since the disaster happened that support for victims
should be established according to their respective choices. Such choices include
evacuation of children only or whole families, living outside Fukushima Prefecture, andreturn to the prefecture, thus Japanese Government must take responsibility forenabling various choices.
Now, the most important things are to thoroughly protect people in Fukushima fromexposure to radiation and guarantee their health for the future, as well as investigating
the cause of the disaster and clarifying who is responsible.
It is important to mobilize demands for more comprehensive medical and livelihood
support from the national government, such as the official designation as hibakusha,
and to develop this into concrete movement.
Japan’s nuclear policies are criticized in terms of use of plutonium, more than the
nuclear disaster in Fukushima from abroad. Japan’s possession of plutonium, which isreportedly 46 tons, is thought to be equivalent to approximately 5,800 Nagasaki-typeatomic bombs.
The “nuclear fuel-cycle programme” using plutonium has no prospect for the future at
all due to the postponement of the completion of the reprocessing plant in Rokkasho,
Aomori Prefecture, and the decommissioning of the “Monju” fast-breeder reactor.
The Japanese Government has to accept this reality seriously and withdraw from thenuclear fuel reprocessing and use of plutonium. It is totally meaningless to maintain the
nuclear fuel-cycle programme while being condemned internationally.
GENSUIKIN advocates the “Northeast Asia Nuclear-Free Zone Initiative” fordenuclearization in Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Japan has to abandon its policies
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and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). China has already declared no
first use.
Japan is requested to strive for the “Northeast Asia Nuclear-Free Zone” as its specificmeasures to let the US and Russia declare no first use as well as denuclearization in
the Korean Peninsula.
Nuclear phase-out and the shift to renewable energy have become global trends. The
percentages of the energy in power generation are 79% in Denmark, 66% in Canada,
and 59% in Sweden. On the other hand, it is only 20% in Japan.
The global trends in energy are toward the promotion of renewable energy without
nuclear power and are encouraged by the Paris Agreement to curb global warming. In
Japan, there was no power shortage without any nuclear power plant operating after
the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
Nuclear phase-out, decarbonisation and the shift to renewable energy are conducted inreality, not just a theory any longer.
In November 2019, an appeal by Greta Thunberg who sat alone in front of the Swedish
Parliament, “Youths will be affected by climate crisis”, spread to youths all around theworld. In the following month, she told in COP25,“Inaction is not worst danger. The real one is that politicians and CEOs are making
them look like doing real action, in fact, however, almost nothing is done apart fromcunny discourse and imaginative PR”.
GENSUIKIN argues that the promotion of renewable energy leads to new andprosperous regional economy. Decentralized energy is indispensable for policies ofgovernment that advocate regional revitalization.
If the government is seriously to consider revitalizing regional society, it is necessary to
promote renewable energy as a key part of its policy. An energy revolution from
communities possibly contributes to a better future in Japan.
Vulnerable people like indigenous ones have been victimized by nuclear energy
development due to discrimination and human-rights suppression. Use of nuclear
power brings radioactive contamination and exposure to radiation in the process fromuranium mining to disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
GENSUIKIN has enhanced solidarity and shared our efforts with many nuclear victims
all around the world, such as nuclear test victims in the Marshall Islands, native
Americans and indigenous Australians living near uranium mines, and victims of theChernobyl nuclear disaster.
The spread of nuclear damage is never acceptable. We need to be in solidarity withhibakushas and nuclear victims all around the world who are enduring tough situationsof discrimination and oppression, and to strengthen our movement to establish humanrights, to make compensation for them and to end the nuclear era.
“Nukes and mankind cannot coexist”. GENSUIKIN has always based its actions on the
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advocated by the runaway Abe Administration denies peace, democracy and basic
human rights guaranteed by the Japanese Constitution.

Under the philosophy of the peace constitution, being proud of our GENSUIKIN
movement, carry on our achievements, and maintain an unwavering conviction for what
we do.
GENSUIKIN continues its struggle based on the dignity of life against the Abe
Administration’s security policies with nuclear deterrent, pro-nuclear policies, and any
policies that neglect each of lives.

<Facilitator Mayu Hashimoto>Thank you, Mr. Kitamura.
Finally, we’d like to adopt the Fukushima Appeal. It’s going to be proposed by Kikuchi
Yukari, a member of the Fukushima Conference committee. Ms. Kikuchi, please go
ahead.

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【Text of subtitle of Fukushima GENSUIKIN World Conference】<Kikuchi Yukari, Fukushima Appeal>

Fukushima Appeal
A year has passed since it was formally decided to decommission the
Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. This was a significant achievement of thewill of the people in Fukushima in solidarity with fellows all around Japan, which
finally moved the Japanese Government and Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO).
However, it is impossible to recover the people’s livelihood that was lost due tothe nuclear disaster.
Even now, more than 9 years after the disaster, the victims’ livelihood has notbeen restored or anxiety about health hazards has not been allayed at all. Still,
many people in Fukushima have feelings, “If there had been no nuclear power
plant”.
Japan’s national policy to promote nuclear power generation caused the severe
accident, and the Japanese Government and TEPCO are responsible for thedevastation. However, it’s going to be 10 years after the disaster, the governmentis ending support to the victims as if the damage caused by the nuclear disasterwere non-existent any longer.
Since the nuclear disaster, we have consistently demanded safe and steadydecommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini Nuclear Power Plants.
However, the Japanese Government and TEPCO are going to decide thedischarge of approximately 1.2 million tons of accumulated multi-nuclide
removal equipment (ALPS)-treated water to the ocean.
The water contains approximately 730,000 becquerels of high-concentration
tritium per litre, totalling 860 trillion becquerels.
In addition, other radioactive materials like strontium are contained in highconcentration. The Japanese Government and TEPCO say all the tanks for thecontaminated water will be full within 2022 even if additional tanks are built, andspeed up the disposal.
At a public hearing about the disposal of ALPS-treated water, which thegovernment held in summer of 2018, the overwhelming majority of theparticipants opposed the discharge to the ocean, and many requested theonshore storage of the water for a long period of time.
However, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which actually
hosted the hearing, did not reflect these opinions in actually policies, andsummarized a report in a subcommittee meeting about the handling of the ALPStreated water held in early February 2020, which says, “It is a realistic option todischarge ALPS-treated water to the ocean”.
Ignoring many opinions of people in and outside Fukushima Prefecture who
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promise for Fisheries Corporative that not to discharge the water, the Japanese
Government very unfairly rushes to the conclusion to do so amid thecoronavirus crisis.
If the Japanese Government and TEPCO that caused the nuclear disaster
discharge radioactive materials again and worsen contamination, it is anintentional act of secondary misconduct and contempt for the victims.
The discharge of tritium-contaminated water nullifies efforts for restoration ofconfidence after the radioactive contamination, such as the rebuilding ofpeople’s lives, reduction in radioactivity, elimination of rumours, andreconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas,
which took 9 years involving all disaster victims; farmers, fishermen and forestry
workers; tourism workers; and disaster-stricken local governments.
In addition, it causes not only additional rumours but also grave consequences
to people’s livelihood and health and the environment. Furthermore, it affects not
only Fukushima Prefecture but also the whole Japan and the world.
More than 100,000 people have signed the message against the discharge oftritium-contaminated water to the ocean so far, which started from Fukushima.
Not only people in Fukushima and the whole Japan but also those who share thePacific Ocean from the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands and Palau, andvictims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, support us with encouraging
messages.
With the background of the power of the people in Fukushima, the whole Japanand the world, we enhance our efforts to stop the discharge of tritiumcontaminated water to the ocean.
The tragedy of Fukushima should never be repeated. We are in solidarity with
anti-nuke movements and nuclear phase-out movement in Japan and the world.
We strengthen our movement to rigorously question the responsibility of theJapanese Government and TEPCO, refuse the abandonment of disaster victims,
establish the rights and seek compensation.
We unite with nuclear victims of the world such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini,
Chernobyl
Based on the principle “Nukes and Mankind Cannot Coexist”, let’s move on
together to realizing a “peaceful society without nukes, nuclear power plant orwar”.
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Thank you, Ms. Kikuchi. Here, we’d like to adopt the appeal.
Now, we’d like to close the Fukushima GENSUIKIN Online Conference.
Thank you very much for watching until the last.
The subsequent ending image will show relay messages from people in Fukushima,
expressing their feelings about the nuclear disaster.

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