Photo : On the flight to research Svalbard in November. 2013 3/11/2011 was a busy day for me. I went to work at 7:30 in the morning to submit my something by 16:00. Suddenly a huge quake hit my backbone in the afternoon. Power was down, PC was shut down and all of my work disappeared. but it was nothing compared to what happened to us afterwards. I got home by foot because all the transportation was not working. I ignored my boss’s order to stay in the office because my intuition told me he didn’t understand what was happening. The next day, I saw the reactor 1 exploded (on my screen). I immediately understood the world order has changed. Everyone left Japan the next couple of days, except for those who can’t leave. I was one of the “can’ts”. I rented my apartment, I had my job in Japan, and I had my pets. However I knew I couldn’t stay there. Most of my friends and family members are still in Japan. What made us different was that I looked for the reasons to leave there, when they looked for the reasons to stay there. In the complete mess of the information, I started looking for every piece of relevant information on the internet, and sharing it on Facebook with brief translation. Why Facebook ? Because I wanted the world to know what Japanese government were doing for us. Huge radioactive plume hit my hometown (Yokohama) on 3/15 and 3/16/2011, but they didn’t even tell us to stay home and keep the windows completely sealed. (Fortunately I felt something “frightening” in the early morning on 3/16/2011. I called in sick and stayed home all day long. I don’t know where that idea came from but that saved my potential medical expense after all.) Moreover, variety of data support the possibility that Reactor 3 had nuclear explosion unlike Japanese government and Tepco denies. I was banned from several Facebook groups because I “mongered fear”. Most of those group administrators were Japanese. An Indian anti-nuclear group let me contribute to their website. My first column was featured by Dr. Helen Coldicott’s radio show. However the site was down because of Ddos attack half day after I posted things for them. One week after the shut down of the Indian site, an American person let me contribute to her website. She expected many Japanese people to write about their daily lives on the website, and it was named “Fukushima Diary”. For some reason, nobody else wanted to write on it. I took it over one year later and this is what you are reading now. Not to mention, it wasn’t the piece of cake to leave where you were born and lived for 28 years. However it was becoming the matter of time. I became sicker and sicker after the accident. The first symptom was the incurable “hay fever”. It used to stop by the end of May until 2010. However I had to keep using the anti allergy medicine until December, when I left Japan. I didn’t know other people were having nosebleed that time. Maybe my allergy saved me in unexpected way such as having to wear a mask all the time. The next symptom was the heart pain. I thought it was simply a muscle pain from working out too much. However it started lasting longer than ever, and it became the pain like having pencil sticking my heart continuously. Then I started having persistent diarrhea, coughing and slight fever from August. I seriously think I would have died if I stayed there. Yes, I found a thyroid nodule in July of 2011 too. I couldn’t start packing until September of 2011 for the same reason why everybody stays in Japan. I still remember it was the night of 9/14/2011. Watching the calendar, I asked myself if I would let myself slowly die from the lie of the government. The answer was obviously no. I swore to myself that I was going to take one month to decide where to go, and take the other month to prepare to go. and I wrote that on Fukushima Diary. Fortunately, my destination was decided in the morning of 9/15/2011. I found tonnes of offers in the comment section. I took 3 months to prepare leaving, and managed to get out of there in December of 2011. When I left Japan, all I had was just a suitcase, second hand macbook, and 700 USD in my pocket. Not much has changed but I’m still alive. I was honest when I left there. I wrote that I was going to have to leave there because of the nuclear accident caused by Tepco, on the resignation letter to my company. I told that to the owner of my apartment, and also the public offices too. but I was told not to tell that to other people because it would disturb them. Of course I did. I have my freedom of speech, fcuk siht. I travelled around 10 countries in 2012, and got kind of settled in Romania in the beginning of 2013, and incorporated Fukushima Diary there. Why Romania ? Because it’s cheap and everyone speaks good English. I must collaborate with many web engineers, lawyers, designers, translators, and have to rent an apartment for head office. Everything costs less than half but the quality is the same as western world. Just come and see it if you doubt me. Especially the internet speed is fabulous for its cost. I decided to go to Romania when Romanian crackers attacked Fukushima Diary in 2012. This website is the news publishing media of Fukushima Diary S.R.L. . Fukushima Diary S.R.L. also serves legal consultancy about immigration and offshore business for other Japanese to consider moving. Yes, it’s a researching company. I’m creating the future. This is why I’m not a refugee. You won’t believe 99% of the articles on this website because you haven’t seen them on major media. Why they don’t cover it ? Because it’s too serious and their shareholders are nuclear industry. In the summer of 2013, BBC contacted me to talk on their Radio show. I was waiting for their call during their show. However they never called me because their “specialist reporter” was kept on talking “Fukushima is not serious as Chernobyl” on and on not to let me speak. He was saying “He rowed his boat Fukushima offshore to confirm nothing was wrong.”. Probably he must be an alien to be able to visually see radioactive material. Alien was talking on BBC radio show. This is the world you live in. At least 3 reactors had explosions and they still have to keep cooling. This is the difference from Chernobyl. In Chernobyl, it was only one explosion and settled a few months later. However Fukushima is still on-going. Nobody knows where the fuel is, how it is (molten ? burning ? scattered ?). There is no such technology to pick up the fuel, however the government of Japan is saying it would be settled in 40 years. No one knows where the number came from. Even if some genius invents the miracle technology in 40 years, the Pacific will be contaminated for 40 years till then because they keep cooling the reactors by water. Good bye Sushi, good bye sashimi. I was accepting “Donation” from 2011 through PayPal. That was the only source of money for Fukushima Diary until PayPal closed my account in May of 2014. They still haven’t explained why, and all the donations from 2012 were taken up by them. I don’t even know if they are going to give it back to me some day. Yes, I called them 5 times a day. Not 5 times in total. 5 times a day. I even asked my lawyer to call them. but their “customer support” doesn’t know anything. PayPal is controlled by the central computer like the world of Terminator. So currently I have no means to accept donation or whatsoever except for bank, but I’m thinking that I could do something for the bank too. This is me and this website. I’m writing this in a country of South Europe now to research the immigration and offshore business thingy. Iori Mochizuki Sunny day in July 2014
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:08:01 +0000
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