Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
Having read much of what you have said about the Reconstruction plan for the radiation contaminated areas, and seeing the revised areas that are now safe, it would seem that if the evacuated residents of these areas had confidence in what the Government of Japan is saying, more evacuees would be moving back to try and “reclaim” their former lives. However, it does not seem to be happening. There exists doubts about what is being said about it being safe to come back and live.
Maybe being so close to the situation, it is hard for you to see why this plan is failing. However, it is not hard for others to see. The mistake was when you granted the “researchers” access to all the long term radiation monitoring in the areas that are now restricted. And, the announcements were made by those scientists and published in the newspapers. When you did this, you actually created a conflict between what the Government was saying is safe and what the scientists are publishing. Every one of those evacuees is very familiar by now with the Chernobyl studies. They have seen the photos of the children that were effected by exposure to radiation.
Now, you have your own group of scientists and foreign scientists that are publishing studies showing mutations in butterflies, changes in birds, cattle that are contaminated from eating grass, chickens that are contaminated from feeding off the soil. Since you have a huge area of contaminated area, in the middle of where you would have evacuees come back to live, and with common sense telling them that you cannot keep contaminated dirt from blowing out of that area and what they have read from those published radiation research studies by your own scientists and more “long term” studies planned, why would any one want to move back to live in those areas?
It is the case of trying to have it both ways. What the Government says is defeated by what your scientists that are being funded by your Government and who are publishing studies about contamination of animals. Since people are more apt to believe a scientist over a politician, you will not be able to convince people that the area is safe. Adding to that will be the animals that the 2 prior Prime Ministers foolishly allowed to remain, possibly under the advice of the Ministry of Environment who was following the advice of the President of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association that will start to die and convince even more people. It is why those animals needed to be removed, not left for the purposes of “planned studies”.
There is no mystery why people are not willing to move back. Those studies that you funded have done their damage. When radiation researchers began publishing about contamination and mutations in Fukushima organisms, it made the impact that you did not want to happen, it showed people that if it was not safe for the animals, it was not safe for them. And, with each study that is published showing contamination of animals and mutations of genes, the more convinced the evacuees will be that there is nothing safe about moving back.
Our Coalition again asks you to remove the remaining pet animals, dogs, both chained and free, and the cats from these areas. Once they start to die and are shown to be from radiation contamination, there will be no one that will be convinced that it is safe to live there, even if it is “low” level radiation contamination.
Please remove the pet animals. Please do not leave them to get sicker. Please give control of the rescue of these animals to actual rescue groups that do not have ulterior motives like the Japan Veterinary Medical Association has. Give them the funding needed to do this properly. The Japan Veterinary Medical Association has caused you more damage than you know by their “published” studies.
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