No. 8　“Let’s hear the voices of the Fukushima evacuees”

(August 10^th, 2012)

People affected by the nuclear disaster thought how they should cope with the situation, and from now on, what are the perspectives for their future. 100 000 people moved inside and outside the Fukushima prefecture, in addition more than 1500 people live as evacuees in Sapporo area. There are a lot of evacuees who have moved outside of Fukushima. Let’s listen directly to the voices of those who have been evacuated from the nuclear accident area, this time I would like both of us to think about the current situation.

Speakers ;

Mr. Ueno (Fukushima)
Yoshida Shinobu (Sukagawa)
Sato Kenta (Iitate village)

Table of contents

Fukushima map

1) “Evacuation in Fukushima prefecture, general committee review of Ministry of Education on nuclear power and damage dispute” （No. 14） handout （September 21^st , 2011 ）

2 ）“From Fukushima Prefecture to outside the prefecture,  evacuation situation ( Heisei 24 March 5th) Recovering after the Great East Japan Earthquake in Fukushima Prefecture, refugee’s support team of the reconstruction department headquarters” 

3 ） “Situation and challenges in Fukushima Prefecture” [Present reconstruction and efforts] from the Reconstruction Agency excerpt( Heisei 24 June 11th )

4 ） “DIET’s accident investigation board report” from the excerpt on the evacuation of residents”

5 ） “Evacuation zone and danger zone;  Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, nuclear victims conceptual diagram [Instructions for evacuation] “

Heisei 24 (2012) March 30^th nowadays, Heisei 24 April 1^st hereafter, Heisei 24 June 15^th nowadays, Heisei 24 July 31^st nowadays.  

6) Michinoku Association home page

7) Giving back Project-Loving Iitate village

“Don’t give up!, Iitate village”
Homepage
According to the whole-body counter
Petition for measuring body radiation

8)” So-so Association on nuclear accident victims”

No.3 bulletin

Bulletin No. 1   Bulletin No. 2   Bulletin No. 3   Bulletin No. 4   Bulletin No. 5   Bulletin No. 6   Bulletin No. 7   Bulletin No. 8   Bulletin No. 9   So-so bulletin No. 1   So-so bulletin No. 2　So-so bulletin No. 3   So-so bulletin No. 4   Status of Refugees

No. 7 “How does international community see Japan”

(June 9, 2012)

1.  ” Nuclear village‐lack of ethics and responsibility “

2. ” Letter of  United States Ambassador Roos to  Ambassador Murata ”  (January 29^th , 2011)

3. “Letter of  former Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad to Ambassador Murata”  (April 4^th , 2012）

4. “Letter of  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to Ambassador Murata“（March 2^nd 2012）

5. “Letter of  Ambassador Murata to Prime Minister Noda”  （May 31^st , 2012）

6. “First Anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident: crisis situation, acceleration of nuclear power  – from the emphasis on the economy  towards value of life”  （Murata Kohei）

7. “Paternal and maternal culture feature and comparison”  ( Murata Kohei )

Annexes “Nuclear power by Mr. Kohei Murata (Elimination of nuclear weapons and energy policy shift) Remarks on major activities” (Taken from Murata Kohei’s official website)

Document- Introducing the latest research results; [RERF] (Radiation Effects Research Foundation) To study the effects of radiation on the human body,  “Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors, Report 14, 1950–2003: An Overview of Cancer and Non-cancer Diseases” (March 2012） （From the homepage of Radiation Effects Research Foundation ” 

• Summary in Japanese  

• English full-text　

(5th lecture additional material)

During the following dates (2012 April 7th) lecture from invited Chernobyl’s experts took place.
These documents were developed as an aid for all visitors, for better understanding the lecture material. Please acknowledge that they weren’t intended for professionals.

• Michael Mariko presentation materials

• Evgeniya Stepanova presentation materials

Dr. Michael Mariko

Dr. Michael Mariko was born in 1942. Peaceful usage of the nuclear energy expert. Graduated from the National University of Belarus, department of physics. Received PhD in physics in 1973. During 1966-2008, worked in the Institute of Nuclear Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Institute of Physical and Chemical radioactivity. From 2008 worked as principal researcher of the Belarus Academy of Sciences, Institute of Power Engineering. 1989-1991 Belarus special top executive committee member, of the Chernobyl accident measures. 1990-1994 Belarus radioactivity protection Central Committee member, European committee member of radiation risk analysis.

Professor Yevgeniya Stepanova

Professor Yevgeniya Stepanova was born in 1939. In 1962 graduated from the National Medical University, in Tomsk. Tomsk National Medical Institute, pediatric radiation specialist, from 1998 Ukraine National Institute of radiation medicine, director of pediatric radiology department. Served as Ukraine’s Chernobyl committee medical advisor, International Risk Analysis Committee member.

Research activities (英語・研究活動）

Research topics: Central and East European regional studies, Hungary, Slavic Eurasian environmental studies

List of works by topic　

Social rural history, theory of cooperative unions, economic history

• Transformation and Diversification of Rural Societies in Eastern Europe and Russia

National thought, political thought, social thought

• The Hungarian Status Law: Nation Building and/or Minority Protection 2004

• Beyond Sovereignty: From the Status Law to Transnational Citizenship? 2006

• Reconstruction and the Interaction of Slavic Eurasia and Its Neighboring Worlds 2006

Environmental issues

• Integrated environmental policy from a regional perspective in Slavic Eurasia, “Forum on Public Policy”, A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, no.3 (online), 2010.

• Osamu Ieda “Red sludge spill in Ajka, Hungary in 2010: Disputes on the dual criteria of waste management between the EU and Hungary” Japan Border Review 『境界研究』 Issue No. 2, 2011, 149-172 pp.

• Matrix of Scale and Scheme in Trans-boundary Environmental Policy, in The Dilemma of Boundaries, 2012, Springer, 193-197 pp…

Theory of Area Studies

• Regional Identities and Meso-Mega area dynamics in Slavic Eurasia: focused on Eastern Europe, in Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries:Histories Revived or Improvised?2005

• Where Are Slavic Eurasian Studies Headed in the 21st Century?SRC, 2005

• Mid-range area: New area studies in the globalization era（Osamu IEDA, ed. ” Slavic & Eurasian Studies course 1 Towards open area studies: In mid-range area and globalization ” 27-63, Kodansha ）2008

• Socio-Economic the Dimensions of the Changes in the Slavic-Eurasian World

Publications by Year

List of research projects

• Murata Science Foundation “Towards sudden environmental pollution accidents, social disaster correspondence: construction of social model of disaster prevention system based on the field survey of Hungary red mud accident ” (research representative)

• Toyota Foundation ” EU integration and crossing the border, the formation of community- across the Danube, Reexamining from the symbiotic point of view the Slovak-Hungarian border”（research project member: representative Nagayo Susumu [Waseda University] ）

• “Synthesis of East European Russian history studies” （research project member: representative Akiko Watanabe [Osaka Education Univ.] ）

• GCOE Program “boundary research foundation : Slavic Eurasia and the world “( A business promotion)

• 21 Century COE program “Construction of Slavic and Eurasian Studies : Globalization and the mid-range area ” (End) (project leader)

• “Studies on the Community formation in Eastern Europe, Mutual influence of expansion of EU “(end) (research representative)

• Transformation of the rural economic structure in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (End) (research representative)

• List of grants for aid in scientific research studies

Most recent journal article  “Red sludge spill in Ajka, Hungary in 2010: Disputes on the dual criteria of waste management between the EU and Hungary”

No. 6　”Measuring the radioactivity by ourselves”

（2012 May 25th）

Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, spatial dose rate

Preliminary measurement of atmospheric radiation (Hokkaido University, Graduate School of environmental science, Watanabe Yutaka)

Hokkaido University CoSTEP  “Understanding more: radioactivity and radiation”

No. 5 “Facing low levels of ionizing radiation“

（2012 April 7th）

(additional documents)

• Tetsuji Imanaka “Questionable from the very beginning; Japan’s nuclear energy policy”

• Tetsuji Imanaka “Chernobyl accident 25 years later: Chernobyl 26 years, Fukushima 1 year” Communication Information Office nuclear materials  No.453, 2012.3.1, pp.12-15.

• Tetsuji Imanaka “Below 100 mSv there is no affect, new myth on nuclear village?” ‘Science’ 『科学』 Nov.2011, Vol.81 No.11, pp.1150-1155.

• Michael Mariko “Chernobyl radiation medical consequence”

• Evgeniya Stepanovna ” Chernobyl and Ukraine children’s health (25 years of observation results)

No. 4 “Social change and electric power as seen from inside “

（2012 , December 16th）

Lecturer: Sayohara Masataka

• Kansai Electric power company,  selection of 50 years history ( in preparation）

• Energy white paper ” Introduction to reactivated energy use trends in Japan ” (2010 Year ）

• “Analysis of electricity supply and demand till 2012, related to restart of nuclear power plants operations ”

• The Atomic Energy Commission “Estimation on nuclear fuel cycle cost, accident risk cost”

• “Cost estimation of the risk of a nuclear power plant accident “

• Energy and Environment Conference “Committee report on costs of energy power resources “

• Oshima Kenichi “Real cost of nuclear power station as seen in official published data”

No. 3 “The great earthquake and ocean pollution”

（2012 January 14th ）

Instructor: Ikeda Motoyoshi

Ikeda Motoyoshi, presentation materials

Hirayama Norio article

No. 2 “Fukushima and us”

（2011 December 3rd）

Fumikazu Yoshida materials

Meeting- protection of children of Fukushima・Hokkaido Bureau

Related articles:

1. Koide Hiroaki Sapporo lecture 2010

2. Koide Hiroaki Sapporo lecture 2011

3. Imanaka Tetsuji:100 MSv

4. Imanaka Tetsuji: Chernobyl

5. Kawano, Shinji 「accountability of nuclear power」

6. Sapporo citizens, questions and answers

7. SATO Sachiko NY message

Fumikazu Yoshida’s lecture has been canceled due to exceptional circumstances; some materials were introduced the same day.

No. 1 ” What about nuclear energy? “

（2011, 28th & 29th of October）

Kawano, Shinji presentation materials

Fujiwara Setsuo presentation materials

Sapporo citizens, questions and answers

Kawano, Shinji 「accountability of nuclear power」

Related articles:

1. Koide Hiroaki Sapporo lecture 2010

2. Koide Hiroaki Sapporo lecture 2011

3. Imanaka Tetsuji:100 MSv

4. Imanaka Tetsuji: Chernobyl

5. Kawano, Shinji 「accountability of nuclear power」

6. Sapporo citizens, questions and answers

7. SATO Sachiko NY message

No. 1 poster