Showing posts with label fukushima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fukushima. Show all posts

10/11/13

"Fukuppy" Fukushima's New Corporate Character

In an effort to alleviate the fear of Fukushima's ongoing nuclear disaster and food safety, the Fukushima Industries Corporation (a refrigerator/freezer manufacturer) has recently unveiled an all-new corporate character named "Fukuppy":

Fukuppy Fukushima's New Corporate Character

On the introduction page for this character it begins with this question and answer:

Q. Where were you born Fukuppy?

A. I was born in a Fukushima refrigerator.

The character also states that it is not yet a male or female because it is still an egg (with wings). It goes on to explain that it enjoys eating alot of food and is always on patrol and checking out the quality of meat, fish and vegetables in all new refrigerators. Also, to be fair, most likely, the Japanese pronunciation of this new oddity is "FOO-KU-PEA" or 「ふくっぴ」. And perhaps the logic behind this is that by putting a raw egg in one's refrigerator, somehow it will then indicate if any food has become irradiated. Mmmkkaaaayy...

Related:

Japanese Pluto-kun Your Plutonium Friend!

News Documentary on Food Safety in Japan

7/16/13

Flawed Fukushima Fruit & Vegetables w/ Radiation

Fresh Fukushima Fruit & Vegetables w/ Radiation
Two-Headed Corn

Via MSN Now July 15, 2013

Recent photos from a Korean website of many irradiated and malformed fruit and vegetables from Fukushima, Japan have gone viral and are now being reported by mainstream news entities. And these are not pretty pictures, indeed:


Deformed Peaches


Hand-Shaped Radish


Giant Cabbages

More photos...

Related:

Fukushima Deformed Baby Rabbit w/ No Ears

News Documentary on Food Safety in Japan

3/27/13

News Documentary on Food Safety in Japan



Two years after the March 11, 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan The New York Times has published a short news documentary entitled "In Japan, a Portrait of Mistrust" by Itai Keshet. In this he reports on some cases of public mistrust, fear and suspicion about the levels of radiation in food. Since the exact amount of radiation that was leaked from the Fukushima power plants has not yet been fully disclosed, various Japanese people express concern about the safety of food and where they live. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Related:

Forever Alone in The Nuke Zone of Fukushima 2013

Fukushima Housewife's Story of Nuclear Meltdown

1991 GE Tokyo Electric Power TV Commercial

Japan's Chim↑Pom‬ 'Super Rats' Attack Tokyo

3/12/13

Forever Alone in The Nuke Zone of Fukushima 2013

Forever Alone in The Nuke Zone of Fukushima 2013

Recently produced by Vice Media Japan, here is a very chilling short documentary on two Fukushima farmers who, in the face of high levels of radioactivity, are still bravely working their desolate farms and feeding their animals. One farmer, Naoto Matsumura, is still living within the 20 kilometer evacuation zone in Tomioka. Another farmer, Kenji Hasegawa, had to evacuate his town of Iitate and now lives in temporary housing. Together they tell some very somber tales of the nuclear accident, TEPCO's lies, their separated families and Japanese government failures two years after the disasters of March 11, 2011.



See also:

Fukushima Housewife's Story of Nuclear Meltdown

Kraftwerk Live in Tokyo @ NO NUKES

1/23/13

Fukushima Housewife's Story of Nuclear Meltdown

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:



Related:

Kraftwerk Live in Tokyo @ NO NUKES

Japanese Government & TEPCO Have Lied & Failed

PBS Documentary "Nuclear Aftershocks"

7/5/12

Japanese Nuke Protesters vs Japanese Police

Japanese Nuke Protesters vs Japanese Police

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Here is a truly incredible photo of some Japanese nuclear protesters standing right up against the Japanese police. Notice how some of the protesters are sharing their umbrellas with the cops! Amazing.

Also today the independent parliamentary committee known as the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (FNAIIC) released a highly critical report which concluded that the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster was “man-made” and the result of “collusion” between Japan’s regulatory bodies and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). This report also "blames Japanese culture for the fundamental causes of the disaster" and comes at a time when it could further inflame the overall distrust of the government and significantly empower the anti-nuclear movement in Japan. On Sunday, the Ohi nuclear plant was switched back on against widespread anti-nuclear sentiment and protests that continue in Tokyo.

Source: Report: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster was “Manmade”

Related:

Japan's Chim↑Pom 'Super Rats' Attack Tokyo

Makoto Wada Anti Nuclear Poster

Japanese Government vs Fukushima Citizens on The Right to Live

2/11/12

Makoto Wada Anti Nuclear Poster

Via Ex-Skf February 11, 2012

In a similar style of protest art first seen by Tokyo's Chim↑Pom‬, Japan's famous graphic designer, illustrator and film director Makoto Wada recently exhibited his own anti-nuclear poster. And apparently this has created quite a backlash within Japan's social media networks.

Makoto Wada Anti Nuclear Poster

See more anti-nuclear protest art posters at 反原発ポスター展 NO MORE FUKUSHIMA.

Related: Japan's Chim↑Pom‬ 'Super Rats' Attack Tokyo

Mutant radioactive rats invade Shibuya Tokyo!

2/9/12

PBS Documentary "Nuclear Aftershocks"

In their popular show Frontline, PBS recently released a truly stunning documentary called "Nuclear Aftershocks." This documentary film presents an in-depth look at the Fukushima disaster. It includes previously unpublished footage and an accurate account of how it all happened. Nuclear Aftershocks also takes us to the US and Europe and questions the possibility of a Fukushima type disaster happening in the United States. Presented by Frontline correspondent Miles O'Brien.




See more interesting documentaries at Frontline. And don't miss Frontline's upcoming film "Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown." Below is the trailer:

Watch Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

12/20/11

Trailer for "Surviving Japan"

Earlier this year Chris Noland volunteered to help cleanup the devastation from the 9.0 quake and tsunami in Northeastern Japan. While doing so he also started to produce a very interesting documentary entitled "Surviving Japan". In this film he and his assistants talk to many Japanese citizens, the government and TEPCO and their stories tell what really is happening now in the wake of the natural and nuclear disasters. Here is the trailer for this film:



Please visit and support the production of this documentary at the official Surviving Japan kickstarter website.

Related: Japanese Government vs Fukushima Citizens on The Right to Live

12/18/11

Fukushima Spy Camera Video

Here is a fascinating look at inside the Fukushima power plants as filmed by journalist Tomohiko Suzuki with a voyeur spy camera watch. This video is Japanese only, but you can turn on Google's Beta translate captions by clicking on the red CC button. But the results are mostly generated Engrish nonsense. However despite that, this video shows a very interesting view of it all from inside the crippled plants:



See also: Japanese Government & TEPCO Have Lied & Failed

SNL Report on Fukushima Monkees

Via Enenews December 18th, 2011

In a humorous tongue-in-cheek news story about the wild monkeys to measure radiation levels in Fukushima, on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live this was reported last night:



Even worse this could be the real life sequel of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes!



Related: SNL: J-Pop America Fun Time Now!

10/3/11

Japanese Government Laughing at Japanese People

Apparently it is not enough that The Japanese Government is Destroying Japan, now Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his cabinet cronies are LAUGHING AT the victimized Japanese people and children over the issue of refusal to drink contaminated milk in Fukushima schools:



See also: Japanese Government vs Fukushima Citizens on The Right to Live

9/18/11

Tokyo May Have To Be Evacuated

Via Al Jazeera English

"The need to evacuate parts of the sprawling capital of 35 million, may have once seemed an incredible prospect, but some experts say the possibility can no longer be ignored."



See also: Japan Prediction: Nuclear Holocaust, Tokyo Evacuated

9/2/11

Fukushima: "The Lid Syndrome" by Maliki

Here is a brilliant, funny and ironic comic by Maliki on the Fukushima disaster and sarcophagus solution entitled "The Lid Syndrome"



While visiting Maliki's excellent website, be sure to check out some of his numerous other comic strips and listen to the very cool French Pop Music Radio



See also: Posing for Friendly Photos at Fukushima

8/22/11

Japanese Government & TEPCO Have Lied & Failed

Via Fairewinds Associates August 21, 2011

New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis and has now proven that the Japanese Government & TEPCO have lied and failed to take full responsibility for the severity of the Fukushima radioactive contamination in Japan and the world.

Continued...

Arnie Gundersen: "Burning of radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive Cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean, and across the Pacific Ocean to North America."



UPDATE: Fukushima Robot Operator’s Blog Deleted

See also: Fukushima: One of The Greatest Disasters Ever

7/24/11

Japanese Government vs Fukushima Citizens on The Right to Live

Via pejorativeglut Jul 23, 2011

UPDATE: Per my suggestion, this video is now featured on Boing Boing.

UPDATE #2: This video is now featured on Gizmodo.

Here is a truly astounding and WTF unbelievable, must see video on how current Japanese government officials are mistreating, ignoring and insulting their very own citizens in Fukushima! These residents are located outside of the current 20-30 km evacuation zone. However, since more high levels of radiation are being discovered near their homes and schools, they want the government to increase the evacuation zone and financially support them and their families to evacuate. But, of course, the Japanese government does not want to do this as it would involve many more residents and cost much, much more. In the beginning of this video, the Director of Local Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, Mr. Akira Satoh, answers some very serious questions from some very concerned Fukushima citizens:

Citizen: "As other people do, people in Fukushima have a right to avoid the radiation exposure and live a healthy life too. Don't you think so?"

Akira Satoh: "The government has tried to reduce the radiation exposure dose as much as it can."

Other citizens: "You didn't answer his question!"

Citizen: "So are you saying that they don't? They have that right don't they?

Akira Satoh: "I don't know if they have that right."

Can't believe it? Watch:



Above video was filmed and edited by some anonymous members of the Japanese Save Child website. English subtitles are 100% correct and were done by pejorativeglut.

The below picture is of Mr. Akira Satoh. Towards the end of the video, when he refused to accept the childrens' urine for radiation testing, they should have poured it all over him!



See also: Japan Prediction: Nuclear Holocaust, Tokyo Evacuated

6/26/11

Posing for Friendly Photos at Fukushima

Here is a delightful and ironic little clip of some friendly Fukushima workers posing for photos:




Watch another cute and adorable video of Three Earless Rabbits Born in China

6/16/11

Three Earless Rabbits Born in China

Last month a Fukushima Deformed Baby Rabbit w/ No Ears was discovered in the town of Namie just outside the 18-mile exclusion zone of Fukushima's crippled reactors. Since then, Namie has been identified as a radiation hot-spot.

Now three baby bunnies with no ears were recently born in China. These rabbits were discovered in Chengkou County, Chongqing Municipality of Southwest China. The earless rabbits have bald heads and gray eyes instead of hairy heads and red eyes. The rabbits' owner Aunt Geng was interviewed yesterday by CCTV:

Reporter: "Did the previous rabbits given birth by the same mother rabbit have ears?"

Aunt Geng: “The previous ones have ears. Only rabbits that were born this time don't.”






See also: Chinese Twins w/ 2 Heads 1 Body

5/22/11

Fukushima Deformed Baby Rabbit w/ No Ears

In this video by yuunosato we see the first deformed baby rabbit recently born with no ears in Fukushima:



First Fukushima Deformed Baby Rabbit Born With No Ears"

See also: Chinese Twins w/ 2 Heads 1 Body

5/10/11

Nuclear collapse in Fukushima Reactor No. 4

(May 10, 2011) Via Russia Today Dr Robert Jacobs a Research Associate Professor of Nuclear History and Culture at the Hiroshima Peace Institute gives us an update on the current nuclear disaster in Fukushima:

"Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning'"



See also: Japan Prediction: Nuclear Holocaust, Tokyo Evacuated