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- （2013/02/28）
Video message from Hasegawa Kenichi to South Africa
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
This video was recorded on March 4, 2012 as a message for the Global Conference: Nuclear Power for Africa? to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on March 8-9, 2012.
Carry On Fukushima
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
This video was presented at the Institute for Strategic Leadership's "Carry On Fukushima" program in Tokyo on 7/21/11. It includes voices from food producers in the area around the still-leaking Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant:
Safecast Radiation Monitoring Seminar
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
At Tokyo Hacker Space on 6/24/11, members of the NGO Safecast present the goals, methods, and results of their ongoing volunteer project to independently measure and map contamination levels from the Fukushima
Remembering Hiroshima bombing after Fukushima disaster
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
On Aug. 6 we attended the 66th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack in Hiroshima, with Yuji Ohashi, a Fukushima City bread company owner who is committed to rebuilding Fukushima in the face of the nuclear fallout.
Sugeno fights for his Fukushima farm
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Seiju Sugeno is an organic farmer in Towa, Nihonmatsu, 50 km from the failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Abukuma Mountains partly shielded his rice fields from contamination, but runoff is an ongoing threat.
Fukushima EMfarmer: no radiation detected
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Kinju Watanabe grows in Fukushima City have shown no detectable radiation, despite soil contamination in the area of 2,000 Becquerels per kilogram, and other farmers’ fruits testing at 40-80 Bq/kg.
The Farmers of Hanawa—Uncanny Terrain week 1
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
We landed in Japan on 5/24 to and spent our first three days in Tokyo. There we interviewed representatives of Greenpeace who’ve engaged in independent testing of land and sea contamination.
Kaidomari: Uncanny Terrain week 2
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Hiruta has spent decades recruiting farmers from across Japan to join him in the tiny agricultural community of Kaidomari, nestled among tall pines in the mountains on the edge of Iwaki in Fukushima.
Living with the Fallout
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Yuji Ohashi has spent his life on the edge of disaster: he contracted hepatitis from a blood transfusion for his hemophilia and had his leg amputated after a fall.
Fukushima Nuclear Protest
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Ruiko Mutou of the Fukushima Network Against Nuclear Power has been opposing the plants since the Chernobyl disaster.
Fukushima Animals
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
fighting to recover their land and livelihoods from nuclear fallout.
Can microbes decontaminate irradiated soil?
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Scientists and farmers have seen promising early results from their experiments using bacteria to decontaminate soil irradiated by fallout from the March 2011 meltdown . But at what cost?
One Year After the Meltdown
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
We’re going beyond disaster reporting, to show what it is really like for these people who refuse to bow to devastating odds.
Yoshizawa refuses to kill his cows
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Yoshizawa’s ranch is 14km downwind from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The government ordered him to kill his 300 cows.
Evacuated farmer promises to fight
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Yoshizawa was evacuated with the rest of Namie on March 17. He spraypainted “save them or die trying” on the roof of the barn, and went to Tokyo.
Rio+20: Four Fukushima Farmers
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
This video, capturing the diverse views of four Fukushima activist farmers, screens beginning June 16 in the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference,
Going home to the nuclear exclusion zone
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
13 months after the tsunami, the fields remain strewn with twisted cars and the insides of ravaged houses. Cracked and roofless buildings stand untouched since the earthquake.
Why do Fukushima farmers stay on contaminated land?
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
Fukushima organic farmer Seiji Sugeno turns the tables on documentarian Ed M. Koziarski, challenging him to come out from behind the camera
Takahashi: Uncanny Terrain
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
he was also told that to receive compensation for the lost income, he must grow the rice. So he’s planting the crop, expecting it will never be eaten.
Documentary Uncanny Terrain: organic farmers in Japan’s nuclear zone
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
about organic farmers facing Japan’s nuclear crisis.
Fukushima farmers fight for their land
by Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski
The farmers have steadily educated themselves about the threat of radiation and how to cope with it, try to decontaminate the land with minimum loss of its fertility.
- （2012/12/06）
“Fukushima Now: in the Aftermath of Nuclear Disaster” documentary
by janic
A 30 minute documentary commissioned by CWS-Asia/Pacific on the aftermath of the March 11, 2011, nuclear disaster
“The Great East Japan Earthquake and Japanese NGOs” report
by janic
After we witnessed the horrifying devastation, we couldn’t stop asking ourselves what we could do. March 11, 2011 was a new start for many Japanese NGOs for International Cooperation, to question their own roles and capacities.
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