The following is from the serial column of Yasunosuke Kudan, which brings the monthly magazine Hanada on sale to a successful opening.
As I have already mentioned, I assume that "Kudan Yasunosuke" is a pseudonym of Masayuki Takayama.
Another genuine article that people who only subscribe to Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, and other newspapers and watch their subsidiary TV stations and NHK news programs will never know.
Tetsuro Fukuyama, don't talk impudent.
The Kan administration has decided to dispose of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by releasing it into the ocean.
The treated water, from which removed radioactive materials from the contaminated water that cooled the molten core (debris), contains the only tritium, which cannot remove.
This water is diluted with seawater to 1/40th of the international standard and then released.
As a result, the tritium concentration is one-seventh of the drinking water quality guideline set by the World Health Organization (WHO), a deficient level.
On April 13, Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commented.
"Japan has unilaterally decided to dispose of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant by discharging it into the Sea, without regard for doubts and opposition at home and abroad, and without sufficient consultation with neighboring countries and the international community. It is highly irresponsible. It will significantly damage global public health and safety and the interests of neighboring countries. Japan should not release treated water into the Sea independently without consulting with interested countries and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)."
Taro Aso, deputy prime minister of Japan, said at a press conference after hearing this.
"The tritium concentration in the treated water is lower than that released into the ocean by nuclear power plants in China and South Korea, so there is no problem with drinking it."
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded.
"If you can drink it, drink it. The Pacific Ocean is not Japan's sewage system."
Aso was not to be outdone.
"Isn't the Pacific Ocean Japan's sewer? If so, is it China's sewer? Isn't it everyone's ocean?"
As Aso said, every nuclear power plant in every country disposes of tritium by releasing it into the ocean or the air.
That's why French nuclear officials say, "Fukushima is just a return to the way things were; there's nothing wrong with it."
US Secretary of State Blinken also expressed support for Japan's disposal method.
The funny thing is South Korea's response.
The fishermen's union shouted, "We are firmly against it," and citizens' groups shouted, "Dilution will not change the total amount of radioactive materials released into the Sea.
President Moon Jae-in instructed the judicial bureaucracy to file a provisional injunction with the International Tribunal for the Sea to prevent Japan from releasing radioactive materials into the ocean.
However, there is a report compiled by a South Korean government working group last October.
It contains the following statement.
Even if the discharged treated water reaches South Korean waters, "it will be diffused and diluted by the ocean currents and will have no significant impact."
These statements are at odds with President Moon Jae-in's order to file a lawsuit against Japan.
In other words, they are laughable.
The Moon Jae-in administration's approval rating has been on a downward spiral, currently at 30%.
The ruling party was trounced in the recent mayoral elections in Seoul and Busan.
The order to file a lawsuit against Japan, as usual, seems to be based on the stereotype that anti-Japan is a cure-all to restore support.
The comedy is also in Japan.
Fukuyama Tetsuro, secretary-general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, says, "The public's understanding of the situation is not improving. There are no concrete measures to deal with the rumors. Regrettably, it decided to release into the ocean under such circumstances."
Emi Kaneko, chairwoman of the Disaster Reconstruction Subcommittee of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said, "As soon as the decision is made to release it into the ocean, rumors will spread."
Wait a minute.
The top advisor to the Rikken DPJ is Naoto Kan.
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant occurred when Naoto Kan was prime minister.
At that time, Naoto Kan wielded his half-baked knowledge and confused the on-site response to the accident.
Although Naoto Kan graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he was involved in the student movement while he was a student and had little to do with nuclear physics.
He aspired to become a patent attorney in the future.
Let me repeat.
The former Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government was responsible for the messy response to the Fukushima disaster. Its leader is the current Supreme Advisor to the Constitutional Democratic Party, Naoto Kan himself.
The issue of disposal of the treated water arose at that time.
And Tetsuro Fukuyama, you were the deputy chief cabinet secretary of Naoto Kan's administration at that time.
You were the deputy chief cabinet secretary of Naoto Kan's administration at the time. You were in a position to bear part of the responsibility for confusing the response to the accident and causing the treated water problem.
And yet, without wiping his mouth and expressing remorse, what right does he have to make impudent criticisms of the Yoshihide Suga administration's painful disposal of the treated water?
Put your hand on your chest for a change and do some self-reflection.
Moon Jae-in and Tetsuro Fukuyama.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that these two men are similar in some way in their mentality.
