2017: Radiation brings fear, and kids...

Fukushima: 2011-03-11  -   2017-03-11
Sechs Jahre Danach
Mit freundlicher Erlaubnis von:  Japan Times, 25.03.2017

Radiation brings fear, and kids let it all out

BY MICHAEL HOFFMAN

SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES

"... When Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant cracked under the strain of a tsunami six years ago and irradiated large swaths of Fukushima Prefecture, refugees streamed out of the stricken area, settling where they could. Forty thousand of them remain out-of-prefecture, 5,100 in Tokyo. Most of them will never go home again. Will they ever be at home where they are? Josei Seven magazine raises the issue of “nuclear bullying.” Children too young, one might think, to even know the word “radiation” picked it up under the circumstances, and flung it with what seems like gleeful malice at disoriented new classmates who had enough to cope with already. Six years on, says Josei Seven, they’re still flinging it.
“It started immediately,” says one refugee ...."