Fukushima-Sado ’Open-shut hands’ Recuperation Project
Message from the director of Ryozen Satoyama school Mr. Hisao Seki “To American friends who are sending warm hearts to Fukushima”
“To American friends who are sending warm hearts
to Fukushima”
Message from the director of Ryozen Satoyama school
Mr. Hisao Seki
About my family and the Fukushima's people
My name is Seki Hisao. I work at a non-profit promoting experiential learning about traditional and natural living, located at Ryozen town in the mountains of Fukushima.But our normal activities could not continue after the Fukushima Daiichi accident. We are living in an area of high radioactive contamination which would have undergone evacuation and resettlement if standards applied in Chernobyl were used.
We are often asked 'why don't you evacuate yourselves?'. Many of us have no option but stay here as Japanese government and the local government will not admit the human right of evacuation.
We cannot move without have any guarantee for a new job and new life. Nevertheless, my own wife and fourteen-year-old son were able to evacuate to Yonezawa city in Yamagata prefecture beginning last March (2012). Soon it will be two years since the disaster.
The government asks our Fukushima people to return home of Fukushima after decontamination work around the house and narrow the exclusion zones. But from among the many children whose thyroids were tested, many have already developed "cysts" or "nodules", which are abnormal. Such results were found in 43% of children in Fukushima city.
Family bonds are strained, as opinions are
divided over the situation - to stay or leave, whether the radiation is safe or
harmful. I am very worried, though,
that we may see dreadful results like those following Chernobyl within a few
years.
About the recuperation project, and the policy of Japanese Government
In
such a situation, The recuperation and camp for recovery children's health has been supported by the grass roots
citizen organizations throughout Japan. Our non-profit, the Ryozen Satoyama*
School, also has started the recuperation project since 2011 at Sado Island in
Niigata prefecture.
Our organization
has supported about 200 children, during thirteen retreats, including other
areas' recuperation projects. Honestly, we really think recuperation retreats
lasting more than one month are appropriate for children who live in the
radiation-contaminated areas, but the reality is that such long retreats have
not been possible because of restricted school holidays and lack of funding.
In Fukushima it
was reported that daikon radish which had been dried outside to make a
traditional preserved food called Kiriboshi, were measured to contain 3000
becquerels/kg [3000 radioactive disintegrations per second per approx. 2 pound
quantity -ed.] because the radioactive particles are drifting in the air. It
really makes sense to send children to
other areas for recuperation spells.
This is something
that the government really should do. However, last December, the IAEA
[International Atomic Energy Agency] and the Japanese government organized a
meeting, the "Global Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety",in
Fukushima Prefecture. They said that
there is no need to evacuate residents, and announced to the world their intention
to continue to promote a 'safe' nuclear power plants in the future. We
protested outside this event as we could not possibly gain admission. However,
the situation did not change.
The vision how we wish to live in what kind if world
We promote many
actions to protect the children as well as my own child. Sado Island is an area
which fortunately is less polluted. So our recuperation projects aim to provide
children's bodies respite from contamination and a chance for unworried
enjoyment of nature. As a teacher, I
wish to convey to children some idea of how we should live with mother
earth.
I believe it's
important is to have vision in such a time.
I'd like to build such kind of school that people can learn how to make
such a world that man and man, humans and nature would live together in cooperation.
Currently, the
Japanese economy is in a severe situation. Japan is moving to prioritize the
economy above all else, and in this context gearing to restart nuclear power
plants and continuing to strongly promote exports of nuclear technology to foreign
countries.
Until the nuclear
disaster, Japan had many beautiful virtues like taking care of each other, but
sadly now, Japan is taking away these virtues and questioning whether social
inequality is really a bad thing. In
contrast with past civilization, more and more it is regarded as an
Individual’s own
responsibility if they lose a job or become homeless. This is the spirit that brought us the "Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear accident." Now is the time to reexamine our values,
to ask how we
should live and to make a vision for the next generation.
appeal
for support
I feel that the
next crisis is imminent, including the problem of the No.4 reactor at Fukushima
Daiichi. I wish families and all Fukushma children to escape to a safe place as
soon as possible. But reality is, I can not have all that I wish.
No, people living
there will ask for compensation, while they adapt to a lives of desperately
searching for food low in radioactivity, wearing masks, and otherwise trying to
boost immune systems with natural medicine. Recuperation retreats are not long
enough, but we must do the best we can for the children under the
circumstances.
Sado recuperation
camp has such an aim and accords with the wishings of all parents who cannot
move from Fusushima.
Please send
Fukushima what you can. Any amount is
gratefully appreciated.
Thank you very
much for sharing with my thoughts.
Junuary13.2013
Hisao Seki
Mr. Seki, Hisao, before visiting TEPCO in
Tokyo 17 July 2012
RyozenSatoyama school
address:
17 Aza Hosokura, Ryozen town ooishi,
Date city,
Fukushima, Japan 〒960-0804
http://www.date-satoyama.com/index.html
http://www.date-satoyama.com/index.html
TEL:
011-81-24-587-1032
FAX:
024-587-1082
Donations to support the Sedo Island
Recuperation Project
may be sent to the address below
【Payee Account Number】
１１２５０－１９４５３０９１
【Name of Account Holder】
Fukushima support net Sado
【Payee Address】
256 Yahatamachi, Sado-city, Niigata, 952-1313,
Japan
【Payee Telephone Number】
090-6625-4022 (Japan)
Or, Please
contact us:
Steve Burck Steve@MidcoastPeaceAndJustice.org
Fukushima Awareness Group Midcoast Maine
Norma Athearn athearn2@midcoast.com
Cell 207-594-1478---------------------------------------------------------------------
The radiation air doses of
Sado city are less than Okinawa city!
Sado city is 0.043 μSv/h
Okinawa city is 0.044 μSv/h
Air Doses of the dadiation
Sado city : http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/map/ja/area2.html city
Okinawa city: http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/map/ja/area2.html
by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 
Masayo Harada: A secretary General
"Our noprofit organization Fukushima Support Net Sado, SAPONE are supporting Fukushima's people who suffer from the radioactive exposure at the t the Sado Island on the Japan Sea."
Address: 256 Yahata town, Sado city, Niigata, Japan 〒952-1313
http://saponet-sado.jugem.jp/
http://saponet-sado.jugem.jp/
TEL: 011-90-6625-4022
FAX: 0259-63-3848
e-mail: saponet.sado@gmail.com
NERIMAYA
NERIMAYA
address: 福島サポートネット佐渡
住所：新潟県佐渡市八幡町２５６
事務局長名（お金の受取人）：事務局長 原田雅代
Hisao Seki : A secretary General
address: 17 Aza Hosokura, Ryozen town ooishi,
Date city, Fukushima, Japan 〒960-0804
http://www.date-satoyama.com/index.html
TEL: 011-81-24-587-1032
FAX: 024-587-1082
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