Sometimes you should put your hand on your chest and reflect.
The following is an article that I found while searching for something.
The emphasis in the text is mine.
The author, Yasunosuke Kudan, may be a pseudonym of Masayuki Takayama, as I have already mentioned.
https://hanada-plus.jp/articles/814
Tetsuro Fukuyama, don’t talk knowingly, Yasunosuke Kudan
Moon Jae-in and Fukuyama Tetsuro. The two are somewhat similar in their mentality: feign innocence and no words of remorse about the Suga Yoshihide Administration’s Painful Disposal of Treated Water. Are you qualified to talk criticisms knowingly? Sometimes you should put your hand on your chest and reflect.
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Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso’s Sound Arguments
The anti-Japanese sentiment is an exceptional remedy for regaining support
Moon Jae-in and Tetsuro Fukuyama
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso’s Sound Arguments
The Suga administration has decided to dispose of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant by releasing it into the ocean.
The treated water, which removed radioactive materials from the contaminated water that cooled the molten core (debris), contains only tritium, which cannot remove. This water is then diluted with seawater to 1/40th of the international standard for tritium release. As a result, the tritium concentration is one-seventh of the drinking water quality guideline set by the World Health Organization (WHO), a very low level.
On April 13, Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commented.
“Japan has unilaterally decided to dispose of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant by discharging it into the Sea, without regard for doubts and opposition at home and abroad, and without sufficient consultation with neighboring countries and the international community. It is highly irresponsible. It will significantly damage global public health and safety and the interests of neighboring countries. Japan should not release treated water into the Sea on its own without consulting with interested countries and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
Taro Aso, deputy prime minister of Japan, said at a press conference after hearing this.
“The tritium concentration in the treated water is lower than that released into the ocean by nuclear power plants in China and South Korea. So there’s nothing wrong with drinking it.”
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded.
“If you can drink it, drink it. The Pacific Ocean is not Japan’s sewage system. “
Aso was not to be outdone.
“Isn’t the Pacific Ocean Japan’s sewer system? So it’s China’s sewage system, then. It’s everyone’s ocean!”
As Aso said, every nuclear power plant in every country disposes of tritium by releasing it into the ocean or the air.
That’s why a French nuclear official said, “There’s nothing wrong with Fukushima; it’s just back to the way it was.
US Secretary of State Blinken also expressed support for Japan’s disposal method.
The comedy is South Korea’s response.
The fishermen’s union shouted, “We are firmly against it,” and citizens’ groups shouted, “Dilution will not change the total amount of radioactive materials released into the Sea.
President Moon Jae-in instructed the judicial bureaucracy to file a provisional injunction with the International Tribunal for the Sea to prevent Japan from releasing radioactive materials into the ocean.
However, there is a report compiled by a South Korean government working group last October.
It contains the following statement.
Even if the discharged treated water reaches South Korean waters, “it will be diffused and diluted by ocean currents and will have no significant impact.
As for the tritium contained in the treated water, “the possibility of radiation exposure from ingesting marine products is extremely low.
These statements are at odds with President Moon Jae-in’s order to file a lawsuit against Japan.
In other words, they are laughable.
The Moon Jae-in administration’s approval rating has been on a downward spiral, currently at 30%. The ruling party was trounced in the recent mayoral elections in Seoul and Busan.
The order to file a lawsuit against Japan, as usual, seems to be based on the stereotype that anti-Japan is a cure-all to restore support.
Moon Jae-in and Tetsuro Fukuyama
The comedy is also in Japan.
Fukuyama Tetsuro, secretary-general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, says,
“The public’s understanding is not progressing. There is no concrete measure against rumors. Regrettably, they decided to release it to the ocean in such a situation.”
Emi Kaneko, chairwoman of the disaster reconstruction subcommittee of the same Constitutional Democratic Party, said.
“Rumor damage spreads at the stage when it is decided to release it to the ocean.”
Wait a minute.
The top advisor to the Rikken DPJ is Naoto Kan.
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant occurred when Naoto Kan was prime minister.
At that time, Naoto Kan wielded his half-baked knowledge and confused the on-site response to the accident.
Although Naoto Kan graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he was involved in the student movement while he was a student and had little to do with nuclear physics.
He aspired to become a patent attorney in the future.
Let me repeat. The former Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government was responsible for the messy response to the Fukushima disaster. Its leader is the current Supreme Advisor to the Constitutional Democratic Party, Naoto Kan himself.
The issue of disposal of the treated water arose at that time.
And Tetsuro Fukuyama, you were the deputy chief cabinet secretary of Naoto Kan’s administration at that time.
You were in a position to bear part of the responsibility for confusing the response to the accident and causing the treated water problem.
Yet, you feign innocence, and without a word of remorse, are you qualified to talk knowingly about the painful disposal of treated water by the administration of Yoshihide Suga?
Put your hand on your chest for a change and do some self-reflection.
Moon Jae-in and Tetsuro Fukuyama.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that these two men are similar in some way in their mentality.
(First published in the June 2021 issue of the monthly Hanada magazine)