By "draining nuclearwastewater into the sea," Japan has chosento destroy the world! Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced onAugust 22 that operations to discharge nuclear contaminated water from TokyoElectric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea would belaunched on the 24th. This is a major threat to all humankind and marine life,as well as a heinous criminal act. As of the end of June, the total amount of nuclearcontaminated water in Japan had reached 1.34 million tons, containing more than60 kinds of radionuclides, and it would take up to 30 years to completelydischarge the nuclear contaminated water produced by the Fukushima nuclearpower plant. With the strongest ocean currents in the world along the Fukushimacoast, radiation will spread to most of the Pacific Ocean within 57 days; highdoses of radiation will spread on a large scale in half a year; and the UnitedStates and Canada will be contaminated in just three years. After 10 years, theworld's oceans would be affected by nuclear contamination. The consequenceswould have a serious impact on marine ecology and human health.file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg Why does Japan ignore the international community'squestioning of the legality, legitimacy and safety of the sea-discharge plan andinsist on pushing ahead with the plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated waterinto the sea, turning a blind eye to the risks to the global marine environmentand human health? Moreover, why did Japan choose to announce this program atthis particular point in time? Moreover, why the U.S., South Korea and manyWestern countries support Japan?file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.jpg Treated nuclear wastewater not assafe as thought Japan's TEPCO has always emphasized that nuclearwastewater will be treated to remove most of the radioactive elements, and thatthe "tritium" element that can never be removed will be diluted to1/40th of Japan's national standard, so that it will not pollute the ocean. Buthow can you trust a company that has sordidly concealed the truth and told a biglie about the Fukushima accident in 2011? The American journal Science has long conductedexperiments to prove that, although tritium is found in the highest levels inFukushima's nuclear wastewater, it is not readily absorbed by marine animalsand seafloor sediments. Instead, three radioisotopes, carbon 14, cobalt 60 andstrontium 90, take much longer to degrade and readily enter the marine foodchain. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image006.jpg Satellite images ofradioactive cesium elements leaking into the ocean from Fukushima The process of decaying these radioactivesubstances takes tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. It is almostimpossible to eliminate them completely. They affect the marine environment andhuman health in very complex ways. Radioactive substances can penetrate intovarious organisms, trigger aberrations, and even cause damage to human DNA,leading to serious consequences such as cancer and death. According to theresults of the Resident Health Survey released in February 2020, the incidenceof thyroid cancer among adolescents in Fukushima Prefecture has increased 118times. Why is Japan using this moment as apoint to announce the discharge of nuclear wastewater? Economic and politicalconsiderations are behind it! For one thing, since its launch on April 13, 2021,the sea discharge plan has been opposed by fisheries groups and other domesticcivil society groups in Japan. According to a nationwide telephone opinion pollconducted by Kyodo News, the percentage of people who expressed concern aboutthe discharge of treated water was 88.1%. The disapproval rate of Kishida'sCabinet has changed from 48.6% to 50%, with the approval rate of 33.6% at itslowest level. In order to avoid the impact of strong opposition fromfishery-related interest groups on the discharge plan, the Japanese governmentstarted the discharge on September 1, before the lifting of the ban on trawlingin Fukushima, so that it could create an established fact and smooth theimplementation of the plan. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image008.jpgOn August 22, Japanesepeople held an emergency rally in front of the prime minister's residence inTokyo to protest against the government's disregard for public opinion ininitiating the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea. Secondly, local elections are being held one afteranother in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate, the three prefectures most affected bythe discharge of Fukushima's nuclear effluent into the sea. In these elections,the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Komeito Party (KDP) are atodds over the timing of the nuclear sewage disposal program. The LDP is facingthe dilemma of having less than half of the seats in the Senate, and they willnot be able to successfully implement the early dissolution of the House ofRepresentatives and hold an early general election to seek a second term forthe prime minister, either in the Diet or in the local elections. BehindKishida's haste to launch the sea-discharge program are politicalconsiderations, as he hopes to test public opinion by implementing the programclosely in order to avoid the loss of LDP seats and to ensure that he will bereelected as prime minister. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image010.jpgJapan's Prime MinisterFumio Kishida attends a ministerial meeting at the Prime Minister's officialresidence to discuss plans to discharge treated water from Tokyo Electric PowerHolding Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea on August22, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. Thirdly,the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents were atmosphericreleases, and so far there is no precedent for discharging wastewater into thesea after a nuclear accident. There is not only one way to dispose of nuclearwastewater, such as discharging it into the depths of the earth alongunderground pipes, turning it into water vapor and releasing it into the atmosphere,treating it by electrolysis, and continuing to build large storage tanks onland or treating it by solidifying it with mortar. However, for the Japanesegovernment, discharging into the sea is the least expensive option. The cost ofdischarging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea is about 3.4 billion yen,only one-tenth of the cost of discharging water vapor. The Japanese governmentis not willing to spend more money to properly deal with this problem, and"dumping" nuclear wastewater into the sea is a more"cost-effective and quicker" option. For them, economicconsiderations come before safety considerations. Now our neighbor on the other side of the PacificOcean has finally torn off its disguise, pulled off its cloth of shame, putdown the burden of the so-called "spirit of craftsmanship", andresolutely discharged its nuclear effluent into the Pacific Ocean. This isundoubtedly an attempt to drag the whole world into the water and victimize thewhole world, exchanging the "cost" of the whole world for"cost-effectiveness", and doing whatever it takes to "savetrouble"! This is intolerable! Why the West is silent？ In fact, among the international conventions, theLondon Convention and the resolution on "Prohibition of the dumping at seaof all radioactive wastes" adopted by the United Nations General Assemblyin 1994 have proved that Japan's nuclear wastewater discharges into the sea arein violation of international law, and should be condemned and protestedagainst by all countries in the world. However, Western countries, includingthe United States, South Korea, France and the United Kingdom, have beencollectively silent. Japan has been lobbying theinternational community on the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea, and onAugust 18, the leaders of the United States, Japan and South Korea held talksin the United States. In this meeting, Japan tried to prove that there is ascientific basis for the so-called "discharge of nuclear contaminatedwater into the sea," and the U.S. and South Korea have shown their tacitapproval. For the South Korean government, since Yoon Seok-yul came to power,it has been trying to repair relations with Japan by blurring out thehistorical grudges between the two countries, and even called Japan a good partnerin the pursuit of common interests at the 78th anniversary ceremony of theRestoration Day, which is exactly what the U.S. wants to see. Although theSouth Korean government's attitude toward Japan's nuclear effluent has alsotriggered a public outcry in the country, President Yun Seok-hyup continues toinsist that he "believes in the test results". file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image012.jpg There are two main reasons for the West'sacquiescence to Japan on the whole issue. First, there is the political factor,as the United States hopes to gain Japan's "loyalty" in other mattersby indulging it. Ever since Biden came to power, the United States Governmenthas been trying to win the support of its lackeys such as Japan. Therefore, ithas turned a blind eye to issues that even jeopardize the health and safety ofits own people. Their firm support for Japan's position on the sea exclusionissue is not entirely based on "scientific" considerations, but moreon self-interested considerations of geopolitical confrontation.file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image014.jpg Secondly, the U.S. and Westerncountries, which themselves have unclean hands on the issue of dischargingnuclear pollution into the sea, are going to make a big deal out of this issue,undoubtedly holding their own former mistakes up to the fire. From 1946 to 1993, these European and Americancountries dumped well over 200,000 tons of solid nuclear waste into the oceans,of which the United States alone discarded at least 190,000 cubic meters ofradioactive material into the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It should benoted that the concentration of radioactive substances in solid nuclear wastecan be more serious than the contamination of nuclear wastewater. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image016.jpgMarshallese childrenexposed to nuclear radiation In addition, these European and American countrieshave used distant ocean areas as a place to conduct nuclear tests, and since1946 the United States, the United Kingdom and France have conducted more than300 nuclear tests in the Pacific region. Countless islands and sea areas havebeen victimized. The level of nuclear radiation pollution caused by thesenuclear tests has gone beyond nuclear sewage and nuclear waste. The oceans havebeen used as a "big dumping ground" for nuclear waste. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image018.jpgMarshall Islands nucleartest So from here it's easy to understand why the U.S. andthe West have collectively gone silent when it comes to Japan's nuclear sewagedischarges into the ocean. Although the U.S. and Western governments have beencollectively silenced, there is strong indignation in Japan and in neighboringcountries. Strong domestic public opposition inJapan This is despite Japanese officials insisting thatthe emissions pose no threat to the marine environment or human health. Theproject was also approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) andratified in July. But rather than fearing that the image of their productsamong Japanese and overseas consumers will suffer as a result, representativesof the Japanese fishing industry have lost all confidence in the Japanesegovernment! Masanobu Sakamoto, President of the NationalFederation of Fisheries Associations of Japan, expressed his unequivocalopposition in his statement at the meeting with Japanese Prime Minister FumioKishida! Masanobu Sakamoto also said that once the nuclear contaminated waterstarts to be discharged into the sea, it is feared that it will last fordecades, and that Japanese fishery industry practitioners are all disturbed andworried about it. Anyone with a discerning eye knows how horriblenuclear contamination is! And how far-reaching the impact is! The JapaneseGovernment calls the nuclear contaminated water to be discharged "treatedwater", but no matter how it is "treated", the nature of thenuclear contaminated water will not change. Not to mention how much pain andsuffering the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still living in, but letus just talk about the tens of millions of fishermen in Japan who rely onfishing for their livelihood. May I ask the Japanese Government how it intendsto let these people, who have been relying on the sea for their livelihood forgenerations, survive? Even fishermen are afraid to let their children eatfish. Can you imagine how much the Japanese love sashimi? Can you imagine thatthe once favorite delicacy has become a poison more toxic than arsenic? Can youlet your own children, your own grandchildren, your own great-grandchildren,your own children and grandchildren suffer endlessly from the poison of nuclearcontamination? Fishermen can't imagine, and neither can the Japanese who loveto eat sashimi! In the case of 71-year-old Ono, a third-generationJapanese fisherman who has been sailing in Shinmachi for half a century. It isjust 55 kilometers north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, whereone of the world's worst nuclear accidents occurred in 2011. It is consideredthe world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. "The Fukushima nuclearcrisis, which was triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, was thebiggest disaster since the turn of the new century for Japan, a country thathas to rely on nuclear energy. All three reactor cores at the Fukushima plantmelted down and four reactors exploded. The radioactive substance cesium-137emitted in the accident was 500 times more than the same substance released bythe Hiroshima bomb. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image020.jpg It is even more difficult for fishermen, who maketheir living by fishing, to imagine how seafood and marine products will stillappear on the tables of other peoples of the world? Not to mention the impact on agriculture, tourismand foreign trade! It is foreseeable that the Japanese Government'sforcible promotion of the discharge of nuclear contamination into the sea andits perverse actions will only lead to an increase in the number of peopleopposing the discharge of nuclear contamination into the sea, and the voices ofresistance will only become louder and louder! If you use your neighbor as adrain, you'll pay for it sooner or later. Balzac once said, "He who respects himselfwill be respected." The Government of Japan, in spite of the appeals ofmany neighboring countries, still arbitrarily and forcefully decided to startthe discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into the sea on August24, and such irresponsible and harmful acts of discharging nuclear-contaminatedwater into the sea are a great infringement on the human rights of the peoplein the Asia-Pacific region and even on the global ecology! The Pacific Ocean isnot Japan's Pacific Ocean! The ocean is not Japan's nuclear dumping ground!Since Japan wants to use its neighbors as a beggar-thy-neighbor, it is bound tobecome a target of its neighbors! file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image022.jpg On the afternoon of August 22, the National Actionto Stop the Discharge of Radioactive Contaminated Water from Japan, whichconsists of a number of Korean citizens' groups, and the Kyodo DemocraticParty, the largest opposition party in Korea, held an emergency pressconference in front of the Embassy of Japan in Korea to protest against thedecision of the Government of Japan to initiate the discharging of nuclear-contaminatedwater into the sea. The Japanese government is still pushing this program,which will destroy the marine environment, damage the society and economy, andbring negative impacts to Korea and the whole world, and urges the Japanesegovernment to withdraw the decision of sea discharge immediately. Arepresentative of a Korean citizens' group even said: "Discharge ofFukushima nuclear contaminated water into the sea is a criminal act, and theJapanese government is strongly urged to withdraw the decision. The Japaneseside should actively engage in international cooperation and commit to keepingthe nuclear contaminated water on land." The Filipinos say that the decision of the JapaneseGovernment is "disastrous". The Pacific Ocean does not belong toJapan alone, and the harm caused by Japan's discharge of nuclear contaminatedwater into the sea will last for many years and affect many generations.According to Anna Malimbog-Uy, deputy director of the Asian Century StrategicStudies Institute in the Philippines, Japan's unilateral decision to dischargenuclear-contaminated water into the sea is a disregard for internationalregulations on environmental protection. "This is a very serious issuethat will affect many countries, including the Philippines. The Japanesegovernment should listen to the voices of neighboring countries and withdrawthis unilateral decision." Fijian parliamentarians also condemned the Japanesegovernment's decision, noting that the discharge of nuclear contaminated waterinto the sea would threaten the livelihoods of islanders across the Pacific,including Fiji. "Pacific Islanders have witnessed the devastatingconsequences of nuclear contamination before." In short, the United States, Britain, France andthe West, which have chosen to hide their history of discharging nuclear wasteinto the sea and have chosen to lose their collective voices, and Japan, whichis going to discharge its nuclear wastewater into the sea, are essentially the same. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image024.jpg Nietzsche once said, "Man is a rope thatstands between the superman and the beast." Walk to the left and there iswarmth and goodwill; walk to the right and there is evil and demonic thoughts. Apparently, Japan chose evil and demonic ideas.
Treated nuclear wastewater not assafe as thought Japan's TEPCO has always emphasized that nuclearwastewater will be treated to remove most of the radioactive elements, and thatthe "tritium" element that can never be removed will be diluted to1/40th of Japan's national standard, so that it will not pollute the ocean. Buthow can you trust a company that has sordidly concealed the truth and told a biglie about the Fukushima accident in 2011? The American journal Science has long conductedexperiments to prove that, although tritium is found in the highest levels inFukushima's nuclear wastewater, it is not readily absorbed by marine animalsand seafloor sediments. Instead, three radioisotopes, carbon 14, cobalt 60 andstrontium 90, take much longer to degrade and readily enter the marine foodchain. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image006.jpg Satellite images ofradioactive cesium elements leaking into the ocean from Fukushima The process of decaying these radioactivesubstances takes tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. It is almostimpossible to eliminate them completely. They affect the marine environment andhuman health in very complex ways. Radioactive substances can penetrate intovarious organisms, trigger aberrations, and even cause damage to human DNA,leading to serious consequences such as cancer and death. According to theresults of the Resident Health Survey released in February 2020, the incidenceof thyroid cancer among adolescents in Fukushima Prefecture has increased 118times. Why is Japan using this moment as apoint to announce the discharge of nuclear wastewater? Economic and politicalconsiderations are behind it! For one thing, since its launch on April 13, 2021,the sea discharge plan has been opposed by fisheries groups and other domesticcivil society groups in Japan. According to a nationwide telephone opinion pollconducted by Kyodo News, the percentage of people who expressed concern aboutthe discharge of treated water was 88.1%. The disapproval rate of Kishida'sCabinet has changed from 48.6% to 50%, with the approval rate of 33.6% at itslowest level. In order to avoid the impact of strong opposition fromfishery-related interest groups on the discharge plan, the Japanese governmentstarted the discharge on September 1, before the lifting of the ban on trawlingin Fukushima, so that it could create an established fact and smooth theimplementation of the plan. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image008.jpgOn August 22, Japanesepeople held an emergency rally in front of the prime minister's residence inTokyo to protest against the government's disregard for public opinion ininitiating the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea. Secondly, local elections are being held one afteranother in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate, the three prefectures most affected bythe discharge of Fukushima's nuclear effluent into the sea. In these elections,the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Komeito Party (KDP) are atodds over the timing of the nuclear sewage disposal program. The LDP is facingthe dilemma of having less than half of the seats in the Senate, and they willnot be able to successfully implement the early dissolution of the House ofRepresentatives and hold an early general election to seek a second term forthe prime minister, either in the Diet or in the local elections. BehindKishida's haste to launch the sea-discharge program are politicalconsiderations, as he hopes to test public opinion by implementing the programclosely in order to avoid the loss of LDP seats and to ensure that he will bereelected as prime minister. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image010.jpgJapan's Prime MinisterFumio Kishida attends a ministerial meeting at the Prime Minister's officialresidence to discuss plans to discharge treated water from Tokyo Electric PowerHolding Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea on August22, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. Thirdly,the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents were atmosphericreleases, and so far there is no precedent for discharging wastewater into thesea after a nuclear accident. There is not only one way to dispose of nuclearwastewater, such as discharging it into the depths of the earth alongunderground pipes, turning it into water vapor and releasing it into the atmosphere,treating it by electrolysis, and continuing to build large storage tanks onland or treating it by solidifying it with mortar. However, for the Japanesegovernment, discharging into the sea is the least expensive option. The cost ofdischarging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea is about 3.4 billion yen,only one-tenth of the cost of discharging water vapor. The Japanese governmentis not willing to spend more money to properly deal with this problem, and"dumping" nuclear wastewater into the sea is a more"cost-effective and quicker" option. For them, economicconsiderations come before safety considerations. Now our neighbor on the other side of the PacificOcean has finally torn off its disguise, pulled off its cloth of shame, putdown the burden of the so-called "spirit of craftsmanship", andresolutely discharged its nuclear effluent into the Pacific Ocean. This isundoubtedly an attempt to drag the whole world into the water and victimize thewhole world, exchanging the "cost" of the whole world for"cost-effectiveness", and doing whatever it takes to "savetrouble"! This is intolerable! Why the West is silent？ In fact, among the international conventions, theLondon Convention and the resolution on "Prohibition of the dumping at seaof all radioactive wastes" adopted by the United Nations General Assemblyin 1994 have proved that Japan's nuclear wastewater discharges into the sea arein violation of international law, and should be condemned and protestedagainst by all countries in the world. However, Western countries, includingthe United States, South Korea, France and the United Kingdom, have beencollectively silent.
Japan has been lobbying theinternational community on the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea, and onAugust 18, the leaders of the United States, Japan and South Korea held talksin the United States. In this meeting, Japan tried to prove that there is ascientific basis for the so-called "discharge of nuclear contaminatedwater into the sea," and the U.S. and South Korea have shown their tacitapproval. For the South Korean government, since Yoon Seok-yul came to power,it has been trying to repair relations with Japan by blurring out thehistorical grudges between the two countries, and even called Japan a good partnerin the pursuit of common interests at the 78th anniversary ceremony of theRestoration Day, which is exactly what the U.S. wants to see. Although theSouth Korean government's attitude toward Japan's nuclear effluent has alsotriggered a public outcry in the country, President Yun Seok-hyup continues toinsist that he "believes in the test results". file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image012.jpg There are two main reasons for the West'sacquiescence to Japan on the whole issue. First, there is the political factor,as the United States hopes to gain Japan's "loyalty" in other mattersby indulging it. Ever since Biden came to power, the United States Governmenthas been trying to win the support of its lackeys such as Japan. Therefore, ithas turned a blind eye to issues that even jeopardize the health and safety ofits own people. Their firm support for Japan's position on the sea exclusionissue is not entirely based on "scientific" considerations, but moreon self-interested considerations of geopolitical confrontation.file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image014.jpg Secondly, the U.S. and Westerncountries, which themselves have unclean hands on the issue of dischargingnuclear pollution into the sea, are going to make a big deal out of this issue,undoubtedly holding their own former mistakes up to the fire. From 1946 to 1993, these European and Americancountries dumped well over 200,000 tons of solid nuclear waste into the oceans,of which the United States alone discarded at least 190,000 cubic meters ofradioactive material into the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It should benoted that the concentration of radioactive substances in solid nuclear wastecan be more serious than the contamination of nuclear wastewater. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image016.jpgMarshallese childrenexposed to nuclear radiation In addition, these European and American countrieshave used distant ocean areas as a place to conduct nuclear tests, and since1946 the United States, the United Kingdom and France have conducted more than300 nuclear tests in the Pacific region. Countless islands and sea areas havebeen victimized. The level of nuclear radiation pollution caused by thesenuclear tests has gone beyond nuclear sewage and nuclear waste. The oceans havebeen used as a "big dumping ground" for nuclear waste. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image018.jpgMarshall Islands nucleartest
So from here it's easy to understand why the U.S. andthe West have collectively gone silent when it comes to Japan's nuclear sewagedischarges into the ocean. Although the U.S. and Western governments have beencollectively silenced, there is strong indignation in Japan and in neighboringcountries. Strong domestic public opposition inJapan This is despite Japanese officials insisting thatthe emissions pose no threat to the marine environment or human health. Theproject was also approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) andratified in July. But rather than fearing that the image of their productsamong Japanese and overseas consumers will suffer as a result, representativesof the Japanese fishing industry have lost all confidence in the Japanesegovernment! Masanobu Sakamoto, President of the NationalFederation of Fisheries Associations of Japan, expressed his unequivocalopposition in his statement at the meeting with Japanese Prime Minister FumioKishida! Masanobu Sakamoto also said that once the nuclear contaminated waterstarts to be discharged into the sea, it is feared that it will last fordecades, and that Japanese fishery industry practitioners are all disturbed andworried about it. Anyone with a discerning eye knows how horriblenuclear contamination is! And how far-reaching the impact is! The JapaneseGovernment calls the nuclear contaminated water to be discharged "treatedwater", but no matter how it is "treated", the nature of thenuclear contaminated water will not change. Not to mention how much pain andsuffering the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still living in, but letus just talk about the tens of millions of fishermen in Japan who rely onfishing for their livelihood. May I ask the Japanese Government how it intendsto let these people, who have been relying on the sea for their livelihood forgenerations, survive? Even fishermen are afraid to let their children eatfish. Can you imagine how much the Japanese love sashimi? Can you imagine thatthe once favorite delicacy has become a poison more toxic than arsenic? Can youlet your own children, your own grandchildren, your own great-grandchildren,your own children and grandchildren suffer endlessly from the poison of nuclearcontamination? Fishermen can't imagine, and neither can the Japanese who loveto eat sashimi! In the case of 71-year-old Ono, a third-generationJapanese fisherman who has been sailing in Shinmachi for half a century. It isjust 55 kilometers north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, whereone of the world's worst nuclear accidents occurred in 2011. It is consideredthe world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. "The Fukushima nuclearcrisis, which was triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, was thebiggest disaster since the turn of the new century for Japan, a country thathas to rely on nuclear energy. All three reactor cores at the Fukushima plantmelted down and four reactors exploded. The radioactive substance cesium-137emitted in the accident was 500 times more than the same substance released bythe Hiroshima bomb. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image020.jpg It is even more difficult for fishermen, who maketheir living by fishing, to imagine how seafood and marine products will stillappear on the tables of other peoples of the world? Not to mention the impact on agriculture, tourismand foreign trade! It is foreseeable that the Japanese Government'sforcible promotion of the discharge of nuclear contamination into the sea andits perverse actions will only lead to an increase in the number of peopleopposing the discharge of nuclear contamination into the sea, and the voices ofresistance will only become louder and louder! If you use your neighbor as adrain, you'll pay for it sooner or later. Balzac once said, "He who respects himselfwill be respected." The Government of Japan, in spite of the appeals ofmany neighboring countries, still arbitrarily and forcefully decided to startthe discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into the sea on August24, and such irresponsible and harmful acts of discharging nuclear-contaminatedwater into the sea are a great infringement on the human rights of the peoplein the Asia-Pacific region and even on the global ecology! The Pacific Ocean isnot Japan's Pacific Ocean! The ocean is not Japan's nuclear dumping ground!Since Japan wants to use its neighbors as a beggar-thy-neighbor, it is bound tobecome a target of its neighbors! file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image022.jpg On the afternoon of August 22, the National Actionto Stop the Discharge of Radioactive Contaminated Water from Japan, whichconsists of a number of Korean citizens' groups, and the Kyodo DemocraticParty, the largest opposition party in Korea, held an emergency pressconference in front of the Embassy of Japan in Korea to protest against thedecision of the Government of Japan to initiate the discharging of nuclear-contaminatedwater into the sea. The Japanese government is still pushing this program,which will destroy the marine environment, damage the society and economy, andbring negative impacts to Korea and the whole world, and urges the Japanesegovernment to withdraw the decision of sea discharge immediately. Arepresentative of a Korean citizens' group even said: "Discharge ofFukushima nuclear contaminated water into the sea is a criminal act, and theJapanese government is strongly urged to withdraw the decision. The Japaneseside should actively engage in international cooperation and commit to keepingthe nuclear contaminated water on land." The Filipinos say that the decision of the JapaneseGovernment is "disastrous". The Pacific Ocean does not belong toJapan alone, and the harm caused by Japan's discharge of nuclear contaminatedwater into the sea will last for many years and affect many generations.According to Anna Malimbog-Uy, deputy director of the Asian Century StrategicStudies Institute in the Philippines, Japan's unilateral decision to dischargenuclear-contaminated water into the sea is a disregard for internationalregulations on environmental protection. "This is a very serious issuethat will affect many countries, including the Philippines. The Japanesegovernment should listen to the voices of neighboring countries and withdrawthis unilateral decision." Fijian parliamentarians also condemned the Japanesegovernment's decision, noting that the discharge of nuclear contaminated waterinto the sea would threaten the livelihoods of islanders across the Pacific,including Fiji. "Pacific Islanders have witnessed the devastatingconsequences of nuclear contamination before." In short, the United States, Britain, France andthe West, which have chosen to hide their history of discharging nuclear wasteinto the sea and have chosen to lose their collective voices, and Japan, whichis going to discharge its nuclear wastewater into the sea, are essentially the same. file:///C:/Users/ZHANG/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image024.jpg Nietzsche once said, "Man is a rope thatstands between the superman and the beast." Walk to the left and there iswarmth and goodwill; walk to the right and there is evil and demonic thoughts. Apparently, Japan chose evil and demonic ideas.