Doro-Chiba Quake ReportFebruary 1, 2012/ issue 39
International Labor Solidarity Committee of Doro-Chiba (National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba)

Health Clinic for Fukushima Children!
We ask for your support and cooperation to save lives of and look after
360,000 Fukushima Children
December 1, 2011

Fund-raising Committee for Fukushima Clinic

At least 15,000 terabecquerels (TBq) of cesium
137—equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs—wasreleased from the Fukushima nuclear power plant; theFukushima catastrophe is far more serious than that ofChernobyl.
Around 120,000 residents who were forced toevacuate from their homes within the mandatory
evacuation areas and 60,000 who voluntarily
evacuated had to abandon their homes and are
deprived of their livelihood. What is worse, about
75% of Fukushima’s 360,000 children are obliged tokeep going to schools that are more contaminatedthan in a radiation control area (higher than 0.6µSv/h).
Already cesium 134 and 137 are found in urine ofchildren who have evacuated from the areas around
Fukushima Daiichi. The exposure of children,
especially the internal exposure is the matter ofcritical importance. We need to evacuate all children
from the contaminated areas as soon as possible.
But the Japanese government does not recognize theFukushima people’s right to evacuate and refuses topay compensation. The most workers worry about
their children’s exposure. But, being bound by socialand economic conditions, they have no choice but tocontinue to stay in Fukushima. No one trusts theremarks of the government-hired pundit Shunichi
YAMASHITA, the vice-president of Fukushima
Medical University: “There are no health effects at all
as long as the radiation level remains under
100mSv/y” “The effects of internal exposure on thehuman health are too small and causes no harm.”

Fundraising Campaign for Fukushima Clinic
radiation every day and forced to live in an extremely
critical and stressful situation for nearly ten months.
Anxiety and concerns that all Fukushima mothers
have for their children will not be alleviated byconducting decontamination operations. We do nottrust medical institutions that treat our children as
human guinea pigs. It would really be heartening tothe Fukushima people to have a reliable health clinic
close to us to consult with a doctor when we areconfronted with a serious question about our health:“Is it the effect of radiation?”

Because of that, the Fukushima mothers rushed to theMinistry of Education in Tokyo to lodge a protest andcontinue a sit-in campaign in front of the Ministry ofEconomy. We are fighting with them to save ourchildren’s lives and protect their future. Our indignantand alarming voices led to 60,000 strong anti-nukerallies in Meiji Park in Tokyo on September 19, 2011
and are spreading all over the world. Let us stand up
together and make a big movement to save theFukushima children’s lives.
What we now desperately need is to establish a healthclinic that will be the cornerstone of health andsolidarity of Fukushima people.

The children of Chernobyl are reported to be sufferingfrom various diseases caused by radiation exposuresuch as enlargement of the thyroid gland, hormone
abnormality, anemia, headache, impairment of heart
and lung function, immune compromise, accelerated
aging, cancers and so on.

The children in Fukushima have been exposed toIt will be needed to take a comprehensive approach1

beyond the concept of modern medicine. We should
put priority on good preventive medical care. The
health clinic we aim to set up is not only a medical
institution but a comprehensive health care center
which covers alternative medicine that develops
natural healing power of human nature. In otherwords, we regard “revolution in daily life” as an
essential part of our health clinic to offer suggestions
for dishes to protect from radioactivity or
re-examining our way of life.

Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers
Organizations who together carried out the movement,
said that Koyo Daiichi Clinic was the “window to thesoul of the A-bomb victims”. A writer Kenzaburo OE,
one of the supporters of this movement, wrote in thenewspaper at that time, “There was obviously [in thatClinic] an amalgamation of practice, education andfirm intention to live through”. Since then, Koyo
Daiichi Clinic has been the cornerstone of theHiroshima people to live through for 40 years.

It is not an easy task to establish such a medical careinstitution. But if we make a collective effort withthe help of our friends all over the world, we will
surely carry out our ambitious undertaking.

Such medical care institution is really needed now inFukushima for the people to live through. We
earnestly ask all the people including doctors andmedical workers to join us in carrying out this project!

In fact, the A-bomb victims of Hiroshima andNagasaki have been developing their courageous
activity, raising their voices “Bring back the humanbeings!”, to protect their lives and take back medicalcare in their hands.

Children create the future. Children just must not live
worrying about the radiation exposure. We really wish
to establish a reliable health clinic where we can get
together free from anxiety and consult with doctors
whatever we want. It is a struggle to defend our own
lives by unity and solidarity of all of us and to takeback the medical care in our hands. It is a movement
to stop and abolish all nuclear power plants
immediately and create a society without any nuke.

Koyo Daiichi Clinic in Hiroshima City is one of theresults of their activity. In 1970, manifestation ofleukemia occurred to the young people of aroundtwenty years old one after another. They were all thesecond generation of A-bomb victims. They weredeeply stunned by the fact but bravely started amovement to establish a medical center by themselves.
And then in 1972, the two-storied prefab housing
Koyo Daiichi Clinic was built.

We call on all friends of the world for your support
and cooperation to establish a health clinic to save
lives and look after health of 360,000 Fukushima
children.
Thank you.

The late Nobuko KONISHI, a member of the Japan

Initial Endorsers:
From Fukushima
Kazuhiko SEINO, Ex-President of Fukushima Prefecture Teachers’ Union
Sachiko SATO, Chairperson of a Nonprofit Organization
Chieko SHIINA, Gestation Period Action of Women’s Tent Village to Bring Future into the World
Koichi HASHIMOTO, Secretary General of Kokuro (National Railway Workers’ Union) in Koriyama Plant
BranchJunko ICHIKAWA, President of Fukushima Joint Labor Union
Nobuo SASAKI, Professor Emeritus at the Sakuranoseibo Junior College
Koichiro SUZUKI, Dairy farmer, Fukushima Network “Yui”
Kaoru WATANABE, Head of Fukushima Coordinating Center of Labor Unions
Medical Doctors
Ryojun YOSHIDA, Director of Hiroshima Koyo Daiichi Clinic [Clinic for A-bombs survivors]
Yoshihiko SUGII, Director of Motomachi Clinic
Hiroto MATSUE, Director of Cancer Advisory Center
Tetsuro YOSHIMOTO, Director of Kumade-cho Clinic
Michimasa SUEMITSU, Director of Yaokita Medical Center / Yao City council member
Yukihiko FUSE, Medical Doctor of Tatebayashi Welfare Hospital

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Secretary Treasurer, International Labor Solidarity Committee of Doro-Chiba
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