ハフィントンポスト（2016年5月19日）
小泉純一郎、トモダチ作戦の健康被害に涙「見過ごせない」
http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2016/05/18/tomodachi-usnavy_n_10034834.html?utm_hp_ref=japan
東日本大震災の「トモダチ作戦」に従事し、福島第一原発沖で被曝（ひばく）したとして、東京電力側を相手に集団訴訟を起こした米海軍の元兵士らが４００人に達した。「原発ゼロ」を唱える小泉純一郎元首相（７４）が訪米して健康被害の訴えに耳を傾け、「見過ごせない」と涙を流した。
小泉氏は訴訟支援者の求めに応じ、１５日から原告の元兵士ら１０人と面会。窮状を聞き、１７日（日本時間１８日）に現地で記者会見を開いた。「救援活動に全力を尽くしてくれた米国の兵士たちが重い病に苦しんでいる。見過ごすことはできない」。感極まって泣き、訴えた。「原発推進論者も反対論者も、何ができるか共同で考えることだ」
（後略）
原発を推し進め(確か安全基準も緩めたのも彼だと思います）、原発レスキューロボット開発をも差し止めた小泉首相は、「反原発派の元首相として涙を流すパフォーマンス」をする前に、贖罪すべきですね。
彼の行いは、「戦犯なのに世渡り上手で生き延び、『平和』という言葉を利用していた戦後の大物政治家」と重なります。
2011年3月28日のブログで紹介した、Japan Timesの記事、リンクがうまく働くかわからないので、全文はりつけさせてもらいます。
Japan Times (2008.6.5)
Japan’s renewable energy drive runs out of steam
By Takashi Kitazume
（http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20080605d3.html
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/05/news/japans-renewable-energy-drive-runs-out-of-steam/#.Vz0tPZVJnIV ）
Japan could be left behind in renewable energy innovation unless it creates a large domestic market in this field, Ashley Seager, economics correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, warned in the May 23 symposium.
While nuclear power has been touted here as a clean source of energy in terms of carbon dioxide emissions and subsidized for many years, Japan “does not seem to want to give any boost — at least in the short term — to renewable energy,” he said.
A decade ago, Seager said, many people expected Japan to dominate every aspect of renewable energy technologies such as solar panels and wind-power generation.
Today, Japan’s use of renewable energy remains extremely low, accounting for a mere 1.3 percent of its total energy production, he said. Tokyo plans to increase that ratio to 1.6 percent by 2014 — a goal surprisingly unambitious for a country so heavily dependent on oil imports and so technologically advanced, he added.
Britain is also lagging behind other European countries, he noted. It produces only 2 percent of its energy from renewable sources, and a plan being debated to increase the figure to 5 percent by 2020 pales in comparison with the situation in countries such as Germany, which generates 8.5 percent of its energy from renewables and aims to boost that figure to more than 20 percent by 2020, he said.
Japan, home to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol against global warming, is struggling to meet the treaty obligation to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent from the 1990 level during the 2008-2012 period.
The United States, the world’s largest emitter, has pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol. But even the U.S. caught up with Japan in the use of solar photovoltaics (PVs) last year and is set to surpass Japan this year, Seager pointed out.
And as for wind-power generation, the U.S. last year fitted wind turbines with a total capacity of 5.2 gigawatts — 38 times as much as Japan did, he said.
What does the situation mean for Japanese makers of solar panels and wind turbines? “Ten years ago, Sharp was easily the world’s biggest maker of PVs and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was the world’s biggest wind turbine maker,” he said.
Today, the world leader in solar-cell production is Germany’s Q-Cells, which was established as recently as 1999, and Sharp was been pushed to second place, Seager noted. Japan has slipped to 14th place in the world ranking on wind-power installations, and Japanese firms like Mitsubishi Heavy still make wind turbines but 80 percent of their production is made outside of Japan, he added.
Innovation in renewable energies is not just about technology or products but also about policies to promote their use, he said.
Countries where the use of renewable energy has increased have adopted a mechanism called feed-in tariff, which guarantees an above-market price for a certain period of time and gives businesses the certainty to plan for a certain volume of production, Seager said.
Japan has adopted a system much like that of Britain called renewable portfolio standard (RPS), obliging power companies to buy a certain amount of renewable energy. The system “has not worked in Britain and is not working here,” he said.
“Today, there are feed-in tariffs across most of Europe, and that’s where the action is . . . Spending on research and development on renewables has surged in countries that have feed-in tariff, with costs falling as a result,” he said.
“Does it matter for Japanese firms? As long as you’re making the goods and selling them (overseas), then perhaps it doesn’t,” Seager said. “(But) innovation must definitely be suffering from the lack of a big domestic market. Without a big domestic market, the future Google of renewable energy is unlikely to come from Japan.”
以下の記事で名前はでてきませんが、ロボット開発をストップさせたのは、小泉元首相です。
ロケットニュース24 （2011年5月11日）
ロボット大国日本、なぜ福島原発に国産ロボが投入されないのか
http://rocketnews24.com/2011/05/20/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9C%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E5%A4%A7%E5%9B%BD%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%80%81%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9C%E7%A6%8F%E5%B3%B6%E5%8E%9F%E7%99%BA%E3%81%AB%E5%9B%BD%E7%94%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9C%E3%81%8C%E6%8A%95/
もっとも、福島原発ではロボットはのちに導入されたものの、死んでしまいましたけどね。
参考：
地球に優しいのは原子力発電？後退した自然エネルギー部門
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club-2/e/0d938aff6416c4444fd4df669ca498f3
The Robots Sent Into Fukushima Have ‘Died’
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club-2/e/706ff5790337d0af63b3e06ad6391d05
