Fukushima Housewife's Story of Nuclear Meltdown

Via Energy News January 23rd 2013

In a chilling testimony, the wife of a Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant worker, Takumi Takano, tells us about the meltdown, the hardships her family had to go through and the many Japanese government failures that followed. Knowing beforehand about the impending disaster, her husband evacuated their family from their Tomioka home just nine kilometers from the power plants on March 11, 2011. They all escaped to southerly Saitama Prefecture and then later on moved back to Koriyama, Fukushima.

"The day of the quake he told us right away that we should evacuate. My 80 y/o father lived close by. So we escaped together to the south. My husband said the wind was blowing north. He knew even before the government announced. When we were on the run he said the plant would melt down."

In this exclusive and very personal account of the Fukushima collapse, Takano blames the Japanese government for "lying to us from the get-go." Spoken in Japanese with English subtitles:



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In this chapter of the ongoing seven-year saga, TLJ is working as a pizza delivery guy slowly flying through the neighborhood. He finds the apartment for the pizza delivery with his super human night-vision eyesight. Then suddenly Tommy Lee gets spotted by a guy (comedian Hiroki Konno) with a digital camera who just took a video of him in action. Then that video of TLJ as the flying "Space Alien Pizza Delivery Guy" gets uploaded to Youtube. The video goes viral and becomes very popular in Japan and then the rest of the world.

A few days later, Tommy Lee is going on another delivery and he's followed by a crowd of netizens with smartphones and cameras ready! The "Space Alien Pizza Delivery Guy" then tries to frighten the crowd but it doesn't work and they say "ooooh" and "aaaah". The rest of the commercial features a popular "Handstand Cat" so check it out!



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