2011年3月15日。
ＮＨＫの報道で、福島第一原発事故の深刻化の一因が、津波によって非常電源用の重油タンクなどが流されたことにあったと知り、著者は強い怒りを表明する。
事実が早く伝えられていれば、国民は不要な不安や不信を抱かずに済んだはずであり、株価暴落を含む二次災害もここまで拡大しなかったはずだと論じる。
これは震災と原発事故をめぐる情報隠蔽、政治責任、市場混乱への怒りを刻んだ当日の記録である。
March 15, 2011.
Learning from NHK that one major reason the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident worsened was that emergency fuel oil tanks had been swept away by the tsunami, the author expresses deep anger.
He argues that if this fact had been communicated earlier, the public would have been spared unnecessary fear and mistrust, and even secondary disasters such as the stock market collapse might not have been amplified so severely.
This is a same-day record of outrage over information concealment, political responsibility, and market turmoil in the wake of the earthquake and nuclear crisis.

今、ＮＨＫで、津波で非常電源用重油タンク等が流されてしまったのが原因だと…。
2011-03-15
ならば、なおのこと、あの、馬鹿野郎が、視察等と称した事に、時間を費やされて居る間に、その手配に走っていれば良かったじゃないか。
日本中からかき集めても必要な物がなかったのなら、米国でも何処でも対応できる物を持っている国に、瞬時に、調達を依頼すれば良かったじゃないか。
それに、今、チェルノブイリを担当して、これを覆い尽くした強大な石棺を作った原子力の専門家が言っていたが、今回の事故は、チェルノブイリとは全く違う…。
今回は、地震が来て、設計通り、自動停止した…。
チェルノブイリは、運転中に核分裂が、どんどん、進んで行った事故だ。…。
今回のは、重油タンク等が津波に流されて、温度を下げるのに苦労している、そういう事故だ…。
チェルノブイリとは全く違う…。
石棺も必要ない。と
地震以降の二次災害…株の大暴落は、その最たるものだ…をもたらしたのは、全て、あの様な執行部を作った者たちの責任である事を、私は決して忘れない。
それに、この、津波で重油タンク等が流されたという事を、私は、今の今まで知らなかった。
皆さんも知っていれば、余分な不安感や不信感を持つ事はなかっただろうと私は思う。
誰が、この情報を今日まで隠ぺいさせたのか？
事実は事実として伝えていれば、皆、納得した話しじゃないか。
そうだったら、頑張ってくれよ、と言えたし思えたはずじゃないか。
それとは反対に、不要・無用の不安だけを増大させたのは誰か？
こんな馬鹿げた隠ぺいを為したのは誰か？
千年に一度の大地震で、タンクが流される様な事があっても当然だろうし、それを非難する馬鹿などいる訳はないじゃないか。
挙句は、２日間で51兆円も、東証一部上場企業の時価総額を減少させる様な馬鹿な事にはならなかっただろう。
そういうことを為すのが、そういう結果をもたらすのが、まさに雑兵なのだと私は思うのだ。
この、下らぬ、情報隠ぺいに責任の有る者は、この51兆円の過半の責任を取れ。

③ 原文に忠実に英訳して、私のスタイルで出す
Just now, NHK reported that the cause was that the emergency fuel oil tanks and the like had been swept away by the tsunami….
March 15, 2011
If that was the case, then all the more reason that, while that fool was wasting time on what he called an inspection, they should have been running around arranging for those things.
If the necessary equipment could not be gathered from all over Japan, then they should instantly have requested procurement from the United States or from any other country that possessed items capable of responding.
And moreover, a nuclear expert who dealt with Chernobyl and built the massive sarcophagus that covered it completely was saying that this accident is entirely different from Chernobyl….
This time, the earthquake came, and the reactor shut down automatically, just as designed….
Chernobyl was an accident in which nuclear fission kept progressing while the reactor was in operation.….
This time, the fuel oil tanks and the like were swept away by the tsunami, and they are struggling to lower the temperature, that is the nature of this accident….
It is completely different from Chernobyl….
A sarcophagus will not be necessary either.
I will never forget that all those who created such an executive leadership are responsible for the secondary disasters after the earthquake… the massive collapse in stock prices being the greatest of them….
And furthermore, I myself did not know until this very moment that the fuel oil tanks and the like had been swept away by the tsunami.
If everyone had known that, I think they would not have felt such unnecessary anxiety or distrust.
Who was it that had this information concealed until today?
If the facts had simply been conveyed as facts, would everyone not have understood?
If that had been done, we could have said, and felt, do your best.
Who, on the contrary, only increased unnecessary and pointless anxiety?
Who carried out such a ridiculous concealment?
With an earthquake that comes only once in a thousand years, it would be natural enough for tanks to be swept away, and there is no fool who would blame them for that.
In the end, it would not have led to such stupidity as reducing the market capitalization of companies listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 51 trillion yen in just two days.
I think that doing such things, and bringing about such results, is precisely what mere foot soldiers do.
Those responsible for this worthless concealment of information should bear responsibility for more than half of that 51 trillion yen.