March 11 Anti-Nuke Plant Fukushima Action 2020

Nuclear “Accident” Far From OverNot a time for the Olympics!
Protect our Children’ s Lives and Future!
Koriyama City Hall
●March 11, 2020 1PMVenue:

開成山公園

Bunka-Dori Str.

Koriyama City
Cultural Center

Koriyama Culture Center Main Hall
Sponsored by:
Organizing Committee of March 11 Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima Action
Tel & Fax: 024-905-7759

Cell: 090-2271-8514

Koriyama Sta.

Date & Time:No Nuclear Weapons and Power Plants!
A flurry of powerful typhoons tore through Japanleaving widespread damage. We offer our deepest
condolences to all the victims.
Typhoon Hagibis, which ravaged the eastern andnorthern parts of the archipelago in mid-October,caused massive flooding that resulted in nearly 100
deaths and more than 850 incidents of landslides andmud-flows. Also, 85,000 houses were damaged. Some
300 rivers overflowed and at least 25,000 hectares ofland were flooded.
In the event of a typhoon or other anticipated natural
disaster, the government used to call for the public toremain vigilant and to recommend or order to take aspecified action in the middle of the typhoon disaster.
TV and radio repeatedly and strongly advised us all
the time to “act to protect your lives immediately!”
The way of these directions sounds to us Fukushimapeople like: “Evacuate at your own risk” or “Youshould take all responsibility upon you whatever
happens to you”. We expect that every one of you
shares the same feeling of being abandoned with us
this time.
As was the case with the devastating tsunami at thetime of Great East Japan Earthquake, the government
has learned nothing from the precious lesson from thepast floods. As a result, our country has suffered fromserious damages. It has revealed the poorly
maintained infrastructures of Japan. Utility
poles―water pipes, roads, bridges, levees etc.―they
all significantly exceed the limit of durable years. The
Japanese government has promoted municipal
mergers and job cuts to reduce local government
expenditures, which has inflicted further damage andprolonged recoveries.
Money is concentrated in a handful of people and not
spent on a vital necessity. Most people insist that thegovernment should spend money for disaster recovery
expenses instead of buying 100 of F-35 fighter jets
which cost billions of dollars. It has been revealed
recently that the executives of Kansai Electric PowerCo. (KEPCO) took cash and gifts worth about 320
million yen ($3 million) from local companies thatworked on its nuclear power plant in Takahama via
one of its former deputy mayors. But it is just the tipof the iceberg. Nuclear power plants have been
operated thus without putting safety as a top priority.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant“accident” happened as an inevitable result of thiskind of business behavior.

Last September, the Tokyo District Court ruled thatthree former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co.
(TEPCO) were not guilty of causing the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear disaster, despite their repeatedsuppression of warnings from the accident site about
discovered cracks in water pipes, possible hugetsunami and many others. Not a single official of thegovernment, not a single executive of the utility hastaken or are requested to take responsibility of theenormous human disaster. On top of it, they are
openly aiming to dump Fukushima Daiichi's
contaminated water into the ocean claiming that it isharmless because nuclear power plants around theworld daily release tritium.
Eight years have passed since the nuclear “accident.”
There is no end in sight. No one can evenapproximately tell when TEPCO will terminate thedisaster. The Typhoon Hagibis' heavy rainfall
inundated forests in Fukushima, stirred the riverbeds
and carried enormous amount of radioactive mud totowns and villages. More and more people are sick ofhearing blatant lie from the advocates of nuclear
power. Although even the official health survey foundover 230 child thyroid cancer cases in Fukushima,
they still keep speaking; “it’s not the effects offallout.” Teachers and parents around the country arefighting against introduction of the supplementary
textbooks, which describe radiation “safe”, toelementary, middle and high school classrooms.
The government has been spending a gargantuan
amount of tax money for the Olympics, in order tosuppress all the struggles of people.
We need neither nuclear power plants nor nuclear
weapons. Angers in Fukushima must be shared by allof you.
Let’s defeat the divide-and-conquer tactic of thegovernment!
Stop the Olympics, aiming to showcase
Fukushima’s “recovery from the nuclear accident”
and suppress people’s struggle.
Please join March 11, 2020 Fukushima Anti-NPP
Action!
Please gather endorsements to the Action as many
as possible, in order to help organize it!