It is a beautiful saeson with fresh green leaves and early summer flowers like irises, azaleas, and peonies. Rice paddies are filled with water and rice seedlings are already planted in some of them. Blue skies and green mountains are reflected on the water. It must be one of the most beautiful landscape of Japan. But many of those rice paddies are disappearing. In the cities or along the roads they are changing into shops, or restaurants, or apartment houses. In the country you can see many abandoned farms. They have no people to keep farming on them. We can't make a living on a small farm now, and sons and daughters of the old farmers leave the farm.
Today's newspaper made a scoop that 90% of the workers of the Tokyo Electric Company left the exploded plant, against the order of the Head of the Fukushima 1, including the member who were responsible to take care of the plant with the accident. The Head told the fact but TEC has hided it. I've heard that the families of the TEC employees were the first to get away, on the other hand huge number of the people were left in the radiation without information.
I heard a talk of a comedian who has kept researching and reporting about the TEC and the accident in Fukushima and the government. She said she was asked in Germany
" Why don't you fight against the government?" " Do you think the posters can stop the nuke?"
Why don't we, Japanese get angry about the wrong? Why can't we fight against the power? Why are we this timid? Why are we this ignorant about suffering neighbors, about democracy? It's a shame.
Oh, again I'm complaining about this and that. We are planning to have a gathering and demonstration to protest the government that intend to change our constitution and join the wars all over the world. Now people are acting all over Japan though each one is not so large.
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