“The Japanese government covered up the precise information necessary to save residents’ lives”

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Jun 19th 2012 18:31 nuclear Edano SPEEDI reactor

The Asahi Newspaper reported as a front page story on June 18th that although the U.S government detected radiation level near the Fukushima plant and provided it with the Japanese government, the Japanese government didn’t publicized it and made residents exposed to dangerous radiation.

In the article, an emeritus professor Tokushi Sibata, who was referred as being well acquainted with monitoring of radiation, insisted that the residents would have been able to flee to a safe area if the government had publicized the information.

You can read a part of the article on the internet.
http://www.asahi.com/politics/update/0618/TKY201206170453.html

Based on this article, one of the most influential TV casters Monta Mino harshly criticized the Japanese government, claiming that officials who were charge of the issue should be imposed on a criminal punishment.

I’ve frequently been annoyed to see the media’s reports since the Fukushima crisis happened and written my opinions here. It is not exaggeration that I was the most furious in my life when I read the article.

I am not raging to the government’s lack of responsibility. I am raging to thises extremely misdirected reports. I am going to write about the reasons why I think so tomorrow.