Film Director Hitomi Kawana: Why Fukushima people can't face the reality?ドキュメンタリー映画監督, 鎌仲ひとみ; なぜ福島県民は危険な現実を否定するのか？

The people of Fukushima think it is to late. They think they have been contaminated and the country has abandoned them. They can't do anything about it. So t hey better live without worrying.

A lot of people think like this.

Today I was reading newspaper, that the children of Fukushima say they will die of radioactivity anyway, sos there is no need to study.

It's not only the cancer risk that grows. For example, heart attacks, the risk of stroke grows, diabetes, vascular diseases, and other diseases too...

In spite of that, they just say “everything is fine”. This is because these are diseases anyone can have. And when they appear, there is no way to prove it comes from radioactivity. Concerning this accident, we will have to face all this, face the fact that we have been contaminated, that is is still not over, that there is still no serious compensation even though we lost our way of life, and that for a long period of time our health will be exposed to danger.

We need to face the problem otherwise it will never be solved. 

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Trust was broken because of a few things... They knew there was a meltdown and they didn't say it. To avoid the explosion and release the internal pressure, they vent radioactive vapor into the air releasing a lot of radioactivity. But when they did this, they didn't inform the population to escape in a certain direction. They didn't say the quantity relased into the air. They didn't say anything. …...

These are unbelievable situation.... They were not prepared to crises management, and altough these facts were openly revealed, one year has passed, and there is still no one to take a responsibility. Before and after the disaster, the very same people are still in charge. It is an incredible situation. If they had changed to new people, people whom we could trust, it would have been different. And if they had opened Information to the public, in such a way that trust would be rebuilt, this would have changed everything.

Hitomi Kamanaka 鎌仲ひとみ is a Japanese documentary filmmaker known particularly for her films on the danger of atomic power and the nuclear industry in Japan. In 2012, she directed a movie on internal contamination where she interviews 4 doctors from Japan and Russia who studied the consequences of Hiroshima, Tchernobyl, and now Fukushima.