Liberal lawmaker reports on Chernobyl and Fukushima

At a Friday anti-nuke protest on September 2, 2016 in front of the Diet Building, FUJINO Yasufumi, a Communist member of Japan’s House of Representatives, reported on his research on nuclear power plants in Europe. He said, “A dosimeter showed a sudden increase in radiation at a bush in Pripyat, near Chernobyl even 30 years after the nuclear disaster. Nothing has changed there. I also visited Kawamata Town, Fukushima. There, former residents said that they could not return to the hometown even if the national government ordered them to do so. A town official told me that, if they postponed their return, the Japanese Government strongly pressed them to come back as soon as possible. I have reassured that nukes and mankind can never coexist”. YANAGIDA Makoto from Tampopo-sha Anti-Nuke Plaza referred to the retraction of candidacy of IZUMIDA Hirohiko, the incumbent Niigata Governor in the coming gubernatorial election. According to Yamagida, Niigata Nippo, a local paper that has been at odds with the governor, has carried five big advertisements of Tokyo Electric Power Company since the beginning of this year, which is the operator of the currently idle Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in the prefecture. He said that this is a corruption. (KINOSHITA Masaaki) 

藤野議員が「チェルノブイリ・福島」 調査報告～9.2金曜行動レポート

9月2日、金曜日の反原発抗議行動。今夜は国会前で共産党の藤野保史衆院議員がヨーロッパでの原発調査の報告をした。「チェルノブイリは30年たってもプリピャチという労働者の街のヤブなどに線量計をあてるとビビビッとはね上がった。何一つ変わっていない。福島にも行ってきたが、川俣町では、国が住民に帰れといっても帰れないと。帰還予定を先送りすると国がものすごい圧力をかけてきたと町の職員が訴えていた。原発と人間社会は共存できないと改めて実感した」と。たんぽぽ舎の柳田真さんは、泉田新潟県知事が立候補をとりやめた件をスピーチした。それによると、知事と対立している『新潟日報』は、今年に入って5回も東電から大きな広告を出してもらっている。これは買収だ、と。

（木下昌明）