New book published in Japanese titled:

What Endangers Tokyo Olympics ― Clear andPresent Radioactivity and Health Damage
Written and edited : the Citizens’ Group for Appealing against Danger ofTokyo Olympics
Writen and contributed by the Citizens Appealing the Danger of Tokyo
2020
Chief Editor : Etsuji Watanabe
Published by Ryokufu Publishers Co. Ltd, September 11, 2019http://www.ryokufu.com/isbn978-4-8461-1914-0n.html

Introductory Summary
Etsuji Watanabe, Nozomi Ishizu1

To everybody who feels something dangerous about Tokyo 2020.
The book has been published in Japanese, so Etsuji Watanabe and Nozomi Ishizu, theco-editors of the book, tried to overview it in English. We are very honored if you spreadthis introductory summary among your friends and supporters as widely as possible byusing any media. In addition, you can use this full text or any part of this document
freely as you like for the purpose of warning against Tokyo 2020.
――A poem by an evacuee from Fukushima――
To an old friend of mine in my hometown
Naomi Tsubakura*Thank you for sending me photographs of the festival
Your heroic festive figures become you very well
Four hundred years-lasted Festival
That nuclear disaster broke it off, I heard
The revival should be rejoicing for me too, though
Oh while I am looking for the words that are to reach you
You breathe and breathe and breathe the contaminated air
When I talked to you about my evacuation plan
I saw you shrug your shoulder saying that’s overblown
You laughed at me being frightened by invisible smell-less things
I was so annoyed that my eyes got filled with tears
Yes, I wish I could send you the air I am breathing here
I wish I knew the magic to extinguish the poisons around you
You feel as if I became crazed
I believe that your sense is wrong
Who’s creating disaccords among usRadioactivity is undermining our existence, but what is it
The eggs of swallows not destined to be hatched
The mother birds continued warming them up, I heard
The lives of life having been repeated
So sorry for not being able to protect* Naomi Tsubakura: In 1986, when the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster happened, she moved to Tomioka
town, Fukushima Prefecture, and spent her puberty period there, where the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power
Plant was located. At the time of the Fukushima nuclear plant accident, with chronic disease she wasundergoing medical treatment. Now she has evacuated to Kansai, the western part of Japan, but she still
continues fighting her illness.

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----------------In about 10 months, the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is scheduled to be held. This
book is an urgent publication to warn people of Japan and the rest of the world against
a grave danger of radiation exposure to be posed by the Tokyo Olympics.
The main points of this book are:(1) To strongly urge the athletes, visitors and audiences who are planning to attend theTokyo Olympics never to trust any propaganda of the Japanese government claimingthat Fukushima and Tokyo ‘are 100% safe now’, ‘have no risk of radiation exposure’, or‘radiation exposure won’t cause any health effects,’ and the like.
(2) To request these people to recognize the real danger or risks of radiation exposure
from visiting Fukushima and Kanto regions including Tokyo even only for short stays,and to reconsider their plans of attending the Tokyo Olympics by applying to it theprecautionary principle.
(3) To prompt people, especially the international community, to pay attention to theJapanese government’s cruelties that, behind the large scale mass-media propaganda
and construction extravagance for the Olympics, the authorities are terminating all thefinancial support for Fukushima evacuees and victims, economically forcing thesepeople to return to heavily contaminated areas with 20mSv/year (33mSv/y in reality),leading to stochastic ‘mass murder.’ Such a violent act by the authorities against thepeople is equal to “a crime against humanity” comparable to war crime. Based on theJapanese government risk factors, though greatly underestimated, the early-death rate
for returnees in lifetime is estimated at 5-15%.
(4) To encourage people to understand the real picture of health damage spreading andbecoming more serious in Fukushima, Tokyo and all over Japan, which we cannot help
but be convinced as irradiation-related.
(5) To demand the Japanese government forfeit hosting the Tokyo Olympics, and tourge the governments and sport associations of other countries to take potential
irradiation risks in Tokyo 2020 seriously and to refrain from sending their athletes tothe Tokyo Olympics based on the precautionary principle.
Main contents of this book are largely divided into two sides. One is criticism fromobjective sides of radiological and medical sciences and specific radiation exposure
situations in Tokyo and Fukushima. The other is criticism from the viewpoint of justicethat Tokyo 2020 is against morals, humanity, democracy, and human rights.

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Part One: Scientists, Doctors and Citizens Warning the Danger of theTokyo Olympics
This part introduces various works of scientists, doctors and citizens who have been
warning the danger of the Tokyo Olympics and addressing their opinions to oppose
Tokyo’s hosting the Olympics.
The book publishes for the first time the full Japanese text of the Open Letter to theInternational Olympics Committee (IOC) dated October 3, 2013 by Tetsu Kariya, theoriginal author of the famous manga series ‘Oishinbo’, translated by Nozomi Ishizu andEtsuji Watanabe. This document was one of the most important forerunners on thisissue.
The book presents the first statement by the International Physicians for thePrevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) Germany (translated by Yu Kajikawa), andintroduces movements against irradiation in the Tokyo Olympics in Germany (writtenby Shinobu Katsuragi and Yoko Kawasaki), and anti-Tokyo-Olympics actions inCalifornia, United States (written by Nozomi Ishizu).
Excerpts from the statement of Hiroaki Koide (former assistant professor at theKyoto University Research Reactor Institute) appear in this book, pointing out the riskof the Tokyo Olympics, with the introductory notes written by Norma Field (anemeritus professor at the University of Chicago).
Etsuji Watanabe summarizes an article “Atomic Balm” by Arnie Gundersen, an famous
no-nuke activist in the United States.
This book quotes an interview of Mitsuhei Murata, a former Japanese ambassador toSwitzerland, who is actively involving in anti-Tokyo-Olympics-Paralympics movement,urging the Japanese government to relinquish hosting the Olympics.
Anti-radiation movements in Tokyo have started calling for a Japanese version of theChernobyl laws to be established. Toshiko Okada, Chieko Yamada, and Toshio
Yanagihara (lawyer) explain why they are now fighting also against radiation exposurein the Tokyo Olympics.
Kosaku Yamada (emeritus professor at the Kyoto University) writes about protest
movements against the Japanese government’s plan to dump to the pacific ocean
radioactive tritium-contaminated waste water accumulated in the disaster-hit
Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Eiichiro Ochiai (emeritus professor at the Juniata College of the United States, now
resides in Canada) emphasizes ‘Invisible Threat’ of radiation in Japan theoretically aswell as based on his personal experiences.
Katsuma Yagasaki (emeritus professor at the University of Ryukyu) shows the realityof health damage with an excessive deaths, approximately 280 thousand, within aperiod of 7 years. He defines ‘No health damage’ campaign by the Japanese government
as a symbol of the prime minister Abe’s fascism and an integral part of “unknown
invisible nuclear wars” that have still been raging now.

Part Two: Reasons Enough to Conclude that Radiation Exposure in theTokyo Olympics should be Dangerous
This part analyzes potential radiation risks that the Tokyo Olympics poses to athletes,audiences and visitors coming from around the world. And we also objectively andscientifically clarify that the scale of the Fukushima nuclear accident and its
characteristic severity will cause those athletes, audiences and visitors to incur serious
radiation exposure risks for the rest of their lives, even if they make short stays.
In this book Etsuji Watanabe asserts that considering the amount of radioactivity
released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster reveals the real picture of the Tokyo 2020,
which is equivalent to Olympics held in the vicinities of Nevada nuclear test site or
Chernobyl disaster site. It is also emphasized that micro-sized insoluble radioactive
particles, characteristic of Fukushima disaster, discharged from the reactors
melt-through entail so serious biological danger or 4,500 times that of the external
exposure, that only one small particle, say with 1Bq in each, breathed and deposited in
one’s lung could cause lifetime threat to one’s health.
Tadashi Hongyo (professor at the Osaka University medical faculty) discusses how
large individual differences in sensitivity to radiation are, especially for children,
young women, and those with specific genetic mutations innately.
Etsuji Watanabe and Kosaku Yamada argue multiplied dangerousness of tritium.
Among others, organically bound tritium (OBT) is 50-600 times more dangerous than
external exposure or K40 (natural radioactivity) internal exposure. This chapter
presents many specific cases that show the real health damage caused by tritium.

5Etsuji Watanabe examines the logic of the Fukushima nuclear accident’s ‘No’ healtheffects theory and its ‘self-destructive’ nature. In order to prove its truth (i.e., totalfalse), the theory intrinsically leads the government and ruling circle to expose as
many people as possible including as famous people or celebrities as possible, including
emperor and empress, prime minister, ministers, politicians, actors and actresses,
singers, news casters or others, to as large risks of irradiation as possible like visiting
the devastated nuclear plant or highly contaminated areas without any protective
clothing, symbolically masks.
Tsuyoshi Fujioka (guest professor at the Osaka University of Economics and Law) tellsthat some parts of UNSCEAR reports which the Japanese government quotes to justify
their ‘No health damage’ theory are absolutely nonfactual. He even suspects that thosecontents used by the Japanese government to justify their Zero Health Effects theory
could have been inserted in exchange for financial support from the Japanesegovernment.
In addition to micro-sized particles, Koichi Oyama (councilor of Minamisoma city in
Fukushima prefecture) discusses ‘black materials’ found on walls and ceilings of rooms
or on the surface of public roads, possibly resulting from radioactivity’s
bio-accumulation and contamination cycles.
The article written by Masaaki Suzuki makes it clear that radioactive contaminationsof city tap water in Tokyo metropolitan area can be easily detected by using simple
zeolite water purifiers and the conditions are worsening (complemented by YokoShimosawa).
Koji Owada (former professor at the Kyoto Pharmaceutical University) discusses thereal conditions of food contamination and accuses the danger and the moral
responsibility for the plan to cater Fukushima food extensively to those athletes toparticipate in the Tokyo Olympics.

Part Three Fukushima Disaster Radiation Exposure Effects Appearingin Reality, Health Damage to Evacuees from Fukushima and Kanto
Regions Including Tokyo
This part covers a series of serious health problems surfacing in Japan, especially inTokyo and Fukushima, which we cannot help but conclude are caused by or related toradiation exposure from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in other words, irradiation
health damage. This book also features stories of evacuees not only from Fukushima
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prefecture but also from Kanto regions including Tokyo area who have been
experiencing health damage in reality.
Dr. Shigeru Mita, an evacuee from Tokyo area himself and a clinician who has beentreating health problems of Fukushima evacuees, overviews “new hibakusha” patients
conditions. He named the typical symptoms that many irradiated evacuees and victims
are suffering from “declining abilities syndrome”, which shows very similar symptoms
to what late Dr. Shuntaro Hida called “burabura disease” typically found among
Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic-bomb-survivors.
Etsuji Watanabe statistically analyzes official data of cancer registration and of special
needs classes of schools, and finds the increases clear and undeniable in cancer onset
cases, specifically of radiologically sensitive leukemia and blood cancers, as well as inchildren’s developmental disorder cases.
The important research done by Sachiko Saito is introduced on urine inspection(radioactive cesium) to examine children’s cesium contamination in Fukushima andKanto regions.
Evacuees from Fukushima and Tokyo areas speak up and reveal their experiences ofevacuation including various symptoms which we cannot help but conclude are causedby radiation exposure. You can read the following self-revealing personal histories andinterviews: Atsuko Fukushima (evacuated from Fukushima prefecture), Atsushi
Haneishi (evacuated from Ibaragi prefecture, south of Fukushima), Yoko Shimosawa(evacuated from Tokyo), Ryota Sono (also evacuated from Tokyo), Kinue Suzuki(evacuated from Fukushima prefecture) from a view point of the handicapped.

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