Let Fukushima Children Have a Future...

Build Clinics for Fukushima Children!!

We have to protect children from radiation. Setting up clinics in Fukushima is crucial for children to survive.
The accident of Fukushima nuclear plants spread tremendous amount of cesium out to the air that was equivalent to 168 times the cesium released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The damage caused by this accident could far exceed the severity of the Chernobyl accident. 120,000 people were forced to evacuate from their hometown, and 60,000 left their home by their own decision even though they would lose all of the provisions of their lives. In reality, there are still 360,000 children in Fukushima Prefecture who have remained behind, and 75% of the lands upon which these children run and play every day have been identified as having heavy contamination of radiation. They also found cesium in the urine of children who evacuated urgently at the time of the crisis. Radiation contamination can cause serious disease. Children therefore should be removed from the area immediately. However, in reality, there are many people who cannot afford moving out of their homes without financial help or governmental assistance, and they have demanded help from the government. The government does not show willingness to help. Moreover, the special advisor for health care of victims who was hired by the prefectural government has tried to convince people that the contamination level was still very safe, and has falsified the scale of the disaster as small as possible by hiding the sickness of the children. A mothers group from Fukushima has been sitting in occupation tents at different ministries offices in Tokyo, and calling for the government to protect their childrens future. This was the beginning of this movement, and it inspired 60,000 people to join the demonstration against nuclear plants in Tokyo on September 19, 2011. It is now spreading over many different places in the world.

Reliable clinics are urgently wanted in Fukushima!

Scoring the surface of the contaminated soil is not enough to secure their safety, and the children have been continuously contaminated every day for a year by now. There is anxiety that some children starting to show symptoms of sickness. Many mothers are wondering whether their childrens symptoms are caused of the radiation, but cannot find trustworthy doctors who will truly listens to the concern of the victims. It is a crucial issue in Fukushima that there are no doctors whom people rely on. Most doctors in general hospitals and clinics in cities refuse to admit, and even doubt, that there is a correlation between these symptoms of sickness and radiation in any cases. In the case of Chernobyl, there are reports of thyroidrelated disease, hormonal disorder, anemia, headache, heart-related disease, lung conditions, low immune system and cancers.

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Please help Fukushima children by setting up clinics that they can rely on...
Hiroshima victims of the atomic bomb obtained peace of minds because of a clinic they could rely on, but they had to set it up by themselves. They also spent tremendous effort to fight against the Japanese government over injustice in treatments.
Koyo Clinic in Hiroshima-city is an excellent model of this type of clinic. In 1970s, leukemia was found among the second generation of the atomic bomb victims. Those people who suffered leukemia could not find a doctor who would admit the correlation between their leukemia and the radiation and give special treatments. They therefore had to set up a clinic themselves and found a doctor who was willing to fight against the government. Kenzabro Oe praised the clinic and said, It was the integration of education and peoples commitment. Children in Fukushima urgently need to set up clinics so that they can invite doctors willing to work with this issue from different places outside of Fukushima.

We are people calling to set up clinics:

Kazuhiko Seino (Teachers Union Fukushima), Sachiko Sato (Kodomo Fukushima Network) Chieko Shiina (Occupy Tokyo, Fukushima Women Against Nuclear Power), Koichi Hashimoto (National Union Koriyama branch, chairperson), Ichikawa, Junko (Fukushima Union), Koichiro Suzuki (Farmer/Yui Networking), Noburo Sasaki (Sakuranoseibo College), Kaoru Watanabe (Prefecture Union of Fukushima), Ryojun Yoshida (Hiroshima Koyo Clinic), Yoshihiko Sugii (Honcho Clinic), Hiroto Matsue (Cancer Treatment Center), Tetsuro Yoshimoto (Kumatecho Clinic), Michimasa Suemitsu (Yaokita Clinic, Yao City Council Member), Yukihiko Fuse (Tatebayashi Kosei Hospital)

Our Goal is to raise US $ 3,000,000

PayPal Account for Donation PayPal Account : clinicfukushima@yahoo.co.jp Account Holder : WATANABE Kaoru Secretary Treasurer, Fund-raising Committee for Fukushima Clinic Fund-raising Committee For Fukushima Clinic 84 Taira Hobaracho, Date, Fukushima 960-0662, Japan info@clinic-fukushima.jp http://www.clinic-fukushima.jp The problem is the control over medical experts in Fukushima. They have to follow infamous Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, who is a governmentally supported nuclear medical care expert, who says that a child can be exposed to 100 milliSV of radiation yearly. An ad by a clinic on local papers says, "Breastfed milk are safe". Many concerns are expressed, but only in anecdotal level because we cannot acquire any good information since the Japanese government excluded Fukushima from its annual health monitoring. If somebody goes to a clinic, she or he will see obvious sign languages among staffed nurses saying "hush...don't tell that!" It's all about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". We need investigation, and need to accumulate data from people in Fukushima for the use of people. With the clinic project, we also want to promote psychological care for people who are suffering with this anxiety. Chieko Shiina at The Peace and Resouce Center of San Diego, July 7th, 2012