18 September 2013

Please bring back our clean ocean instead

The last week, the IOC announced that Tokyo is going to host 2020 Olympic.

During the IOC's meeting in Buenos Aires, the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe made his final presentation to win the bit.

During his presentation, he made his claim that the situation at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station is now under control.  He promised to the world that the radio active water has been contained within the plant, and the contaminated water is not leaking out to the ocean.

Anyone, who has been following news of the power plant since the accident in 2011 and having a bit of common sense, knows what the Japanese Prime Minister was saying is untrue. 

Even Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), who is responsible for all human errors which caused the 2011 accident and all other stuff up to follow after that, now admits that the radio active water had made its way to the ocean. They say that the contaminated water is still flowing out to the sea as we speak. It is just so timely that they announced this a week straight after Tokyo winning the bit to hos the game though.

Fishing on the Tokyo Bay 2010
It is pretty clear that TEPCO not only can't stop the radio active water leaking from storage tanks on the ground, but they now have to deal with the underground water being contaminated. The radio active water is silently traveling underground and is gradually seeping straight out to the sea, and the company got no effective way to solve the problem at this moment.

Scientists and researchers continue to catch highly radio active fish in the area. If the Prime Minster really believes that the crisis is over, then he should be getting those fish on his dinner plate to back up his claim.

I don't know about how other Japanese people feel about this, but I am not in the mood of jumping up and down to celebrate the news of the 2020 Olympic game. Tokyo won that because of Mr Abe's lie anyway (at least it feels like that to me), and above all, I believe that there are other far more important things that Japanese people and government have to deal with first.

In stead of spending money on things like media advertising, creating an Olympic mascot, and making those crap merchandise with its face on it,  money can be spent on the development of more efficient and safer renewable energy source.  In stead of spending money on building new stadiums, money can be used to build new hospitals and research centres for those who have been exposed radiation from Fukushima power plant. There are still countless number of people living in temporary housing.

I don't care much about the Olympic.   I would rather get our clean ocean back instead.


2020年に東京にてオリンピックが開催される事に決まりました。日本にとっては東京にオリンピックが来る事は喜ばしいことの筈ですが、僕は、両手を広げて万歳三唱という気分にはどうもなれません。

阿部首相は、プレゼンの中で「福島の問題は、コントロール下にある。汚染水の海への流出は完全に食い止められている」と笑顔で言っていましたが、とんだ嘘っぱちです。汚染水は今も海に流れ出ているし、東電には、それをなんとかする技術もない。

オリンピックに使うお金があるなら、原発を先になんとかしてほしい。しょうもない五輪キャラを作って、そのキャラのグッズを沢山作って、オリンピックが終われば、全てゴミの山。そんなものにお金を使うなら、風力発電の風車をもっと建ててほしい。被爆した子供たちの将来のために、最新の医療機器がそろった病院を建ててほしい。

嘘をついて勝ち取ったオリンピックなんていらない。それよりも、みんなが安心して泳げて釣りが出来る綺麗な海を返して欲しい。

A small rock fish that I caught on the Tokyo Bay in 2010

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