The Voice of Japan

Konnichiwa, Countrymen

My name is Chinatsu Arihyoshi. I come from a small agricultural community in the the prefecture of Fukushima, Japan. Before the flurry of chaos that landed on us last year with the hit of the Great East Japan Earthquake, life at home was normal. Now I have no home. Sure, I own a house, but I haven't been there in over a year. I am one, of the tens of thousands of fellow countrymen, who can’t go home. All we want is to return, but it will not be safe for us to return for some time. So we will wait. We will wait right outside the house of Prime Minister Noda Chanting, "SAIKADO HANTAI!” (No Nuclear Restarts). Because HOW? How could you put MORE fellow countrymen at risk of what happened to me, and the rest of us who call home to the 20 Kilometer evacuation radius?

Nuclear power is not safe! I am a living proof of that statement. I have been exposed to live radiation. Worse then that, my children have been exposed to radiation! It is children that are most susceptible to developing cancer from radiation exposure. The thought of one of my children developing thyroid cancer (the most common from radiation), or anyone’s child for that matter developing any type of cancer due to exposure to radiation, should be enough to hate the idea of having a nuclear power plant anywhere near you’re home. The fact is, our government is now reopening Nuclear power plants. There are two already reopened. We had six earthquakes between 2011 and 2012! Are you kidding me? Japan is clearly no place to host nuclear power plants. We can not afford to reopen any more.

It is my promise to you, the people of japan, that I will continue to stand outside Prime Minister Noda’s house screaming "Saikado hantai” at the top of my lungs!

Sayonara,

Chinatsu Arihyoshi

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