（４月１２日発出BCC英文発信）
Dear Friends,
An American friend has sent me an excellent and worrisome article about
Chernobyl and the long term dangers of radiation in the April 4 issue
of the New York Review of Books.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/04/chernobyl-syndrome/
We are enlightened on the adamant and persistent efforts of cover-ups
concerning the dangers of radioactivity and radiation by the following
passage in the rticle.
“When the United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
the immediate effect was a huge single release of radiation.
Radioactive fallout then drifted down from the sky, moving with the
wind to distribute a smaller amount of radiation across a larger area.
People who arrived in Hiroshima after the attack fell ill, including US
soldiers helping to rebuild the city, and the Japanese press wrote
about the longer-lasting effects of the“atomic poison.”
This infuriated General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project,
who could not countenance the possibility that the hugely expensive new
weapon might be vilified and banned, as German mustard gas had been
during and after World War I. Groves directed an effort to use
censorship and propaganda to suppress information about the dangers of
the radiation emitted by the atom bomb.”
With warmest regards,
Mitsuhei Murata
Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland
（４月１２日発出BCC英文発信）
Dear Friends,
I am sending you the attached document sent today from an American friend.
It is a serious and convincing warning against radiation risks of the Tokyo Olympics.
https://www.change.org/p/no-olympics-or-paralympics-in-radioactive-fukushima
Criticism against holding baseball and soft ball in Fukushima has recently been mounting.
In this document,we learn that soccer has been added and there is the following passage.
“Even after 30 years, the 30 km area around Chernobyl remains an
exclusion zone, yet only 5 years after the Fukushima disaster began
there are misguided plans to train young athletes in the town of Nahara
at J Village, which is located 19 km (12 mi) from Fukushima Daiichi.”
I have learned that an American journalist is now visiting the relevant ground in Fukushima.
His report could have an impact.
With warmest regards,
Mitsuhei Murta
Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland
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