Thursday, March 22, 2012

We Are All Radioactive (teaser)

WE ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE is a online documentary film created by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama and TED film director Jason Wishnow. It's about surfers rebuilding northern Japan after the earthquake and tsunami on 3.11.2011.

Lies of Fukushima

Lies of Fukushima by ZDF (a German TV network)


ドイツZDF フクシマのうそ by sievert311
-ZDF(German TV), ♪Resists x Babylon♪

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Fukushima Hamadori

Time Lapse Video of Fukushima Hamadori (March 2012)
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

1 year from 3.11

Today March 11, across Japan, people paused at 2:46 pm - the moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck a year ago - for moments of silence, prayer and reflection about the enormous losses suffered and monumental tasks ahead.
The areas most affected by last year's March 11, 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that left 15,848 dead and 3,305 missing. continue to struggle. Thousands of people still remain without homes living in temporary dwellings.
Japan must rebuild dozens of ravaged coastal communities, shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and decontaminate radiated land so it is inhabitable again.

Please take a moment of silence for victims of 3/11.

先の震災で被災し亡くなられた方々のご冥福をお祈りいたします。。。

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Japan’s Children of the Tsunami

A BBC documentary using interviews with children to describe the March 2011 Tsunami/Nuclear Radiation disaster in Japan.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Tsunami: Before & After...

The moment when the tsunami struck Japan and the same view today.

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-Reuters Full Focus

Monday, March 5, 2012

Faces of the Tsunami

The photographer Denis Rouvre spent a month last fall traveling the coast between Ishinomaki and Minamisoma, photographing the devastation, visiting the temporary housing and speaking to the survivors.

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-Tamiko Sato, 86 ‘‘I don’t want to go back there. I found a body between the first and second floor in my house. I went back three or four times without noticing it. It was one of the two people who died in our town.’’

-Chie Kobayashi, 87 “During the earthquake, I just tried so hard to save my husband, who is 102. Walls fell down, but I made desperate efforts to save my husband.”

-Katsumi Suzuki, 72 ‘‘I am in a wheelchair. During the tsunami, I went to the second floor. Water came up to the second floor, up to my neck. All of my body was soaked.’’

-Shigeo Yamase, 63 ‘‘We should keep studying and developing nuclear-power generation to prevent accidents. I disagree with people who say that we should stop using nuclear power entirely. We should use it in a good way.’’

-Kiyoko Sato, 74 “I was with my husband at my sister-in-law’s when the earthquake happened. When I got back to Ishinomaki that evening, we were directed to sleep at the high school. I wasn’t able to get in touch with my sisters and sons for four days.”

-Kohei Itami, 77 ‘‘I can’t rush for things to be better. I try not to think far into the future. I take good care each day.’’

-Sachiko Adachi, 81 ‘‘I try now to find something to do every day that I can enjoy. I am knitting, which I hadn’t done for 20 or 30 years. And I started to paint.’’

-Takashi Momose, 69 “After the tsunami, it was an eerie silence. I was living by myself, so I really appreciated when a welfare commissioner visited me with food. I tried to survive on the food I had at home because I was afraid to go out. ... I learned later that I had been depressed for four months after the earthquake.”

-Masashiro Tateyama, 73 “I enjoy the community in the temporary housing facility. Since I have started gathering and talking with other people, I feel much better. If nobody cared about me and I didn’t have neighbors, I would think about suicide.”

-Tomoko Ujiie, 77 ‘‘Before all of this, I wanted to live with my daughter in Fukushima. Twenty years ago, we made a promise that we would live together. It’s difficult to give up on everything.’’

-Kiyoko Ishimori, 66 “My husband and I stayed on the second floor of our house for four days. After the flood waters receded, I went down to the first floor. The refrigerator had fallen down, but the refrigerator door was closed, with the food still inside. We were saved with that food.”

-Katsuyoshi Hayasaka, 71 “With the radiation, we have to fight with an enemy that we can’t see.”

*Related Article: Low Tide by New York Times

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Station Photos from 28 Feb, 2012.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Station Photos from 28 Feb, 2012.

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-CRYPTOME

Inside of Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. This is their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony from the people on the front lines.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Then and Now

It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered atsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century.
In the last 12 months, some progress has been made in rebuilding lives, but much remains unfinished. Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder, who chronicled the devastated towns in the aftermath of the disaster, has revisited these communities to see what has changed -- and what hasn't.


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