From: Starr, Steven
Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:59 AM
Subject: FW: Japanese MD: gTokyo Should No Longer Be Inhabitedh
http://www.popularresistance.org/tokyo-should-no-longer-be-inhabited/
Tokyo Should No Longer Be Inhabited
By Staff, www.save-children-from-radiation.org
July 23rd, 2014
Tokyo Doctor Moves Because gIt is clear that Eastern Japan and Metropolitan Tokyo have been contaminated with radiation.h
Urges fellow doctors to promote radiation protection describes changes
in blood tests and symptoms of radiation poisoning of people in Tokyo
Doctor Shigeru Mita, who recently moved to Okayama-city, Okayama
prefecture, to open a new clinic there, wrote a short essay in the
newsletter published by Association of Doctors in Kodaira, metropolitan
Tokyo.
Although the target readers for this essay were not the general public,
it has been cited in a weekly e-mail magazine published by journalist
Kota Kinoshita, who has been organizing actions to urge people to leave
radiation affected areas (including Tokyo) since 3.11, 2011.
On many occasions, public talks and gatherings, both Dr. Mita and Mr.
Kinoshita have acknowledged the danger of radiation and they have
called out for immediate action for radiation protection.
In November 2013, WNSCR translated an essay that Dr. Mita wrote for
parents concerned about radiation: (Please read the article here).
Despite the interests of many parents in Japan, there are very few
doctors who show serious concern on the issues of radiation, and
commenting on the issue publicly is even rarer.
It is the opinion of WNSCR that Dr. Mitafs views have significant
meaning for the general public, especially for those who are interested
in the health impact of radiation on the general population. We have
permission to translate a new essay of Dr. Mita, through Mr. Kinoshita
Why did I leave Tokyo?
Shigeru Mita ( Mita clinic)
To my fellow doctors,
I closed the clinic in March 2014, which had served the community of
Kodaira for more than 50 years, since my fatherfs generation, and I
have started a new Mita clinic in Okayama-city on April 21.Doctor
Shigeru Mita photo from Mamarevo magazine
I had been a member of the board of directors in the Kodaira medical
association since the 1990fs, the time I started practicing medicine at
my fatherfs clinic. For the last 10 years, I had worked to establish a
disaster emergency response in the city.
In Tokyo, the first mission of the disaster response concerns how to deal with earthquakes.
In the event of a South Eastern Earthquake, which is highly expectable,
it is reasonable to assume a scenario of meltdown in the Hamaoka
nuclear power plant in Shizuoka prefecture, followed by radiation
contamination in Tokyo.
I have been worried about the possibility of radiation contamination in
Tokyo, so I had repeatedly requested the medical association, the
municipal government and the local public health department to stock
medical iodine. However, every time my request was turned down; the
reason given was that Tokyo did not expect such an event. Hence there
was no plan for preparing for the event.
In the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Tokyo experienced slow but great
motions in the earthquake. I thought, gnow this is whatfs called
long-period seismic motions. The South Eastern Sea earthquake, with the
following Hamaoka NPP accident, are finally comingh. Instead, the
source of the earthquake was in Tohoku. The temperature of the reactors
in Fukushima Daiichi NPP rose and it caused massive explosions,
followed by meltdowns and melt-through.
It is clear that Eastern Japan and Metropolitan Tokyo have been contaminated with radiation.
Contamination of the soil can be shown by measuring Bq/kg. Within the
23 districts of Metropolitan Tokyo, contamination in the east part is
1000-4000 Bq/kg and the west part is 300-1000 Bq/kg. The contamination
of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, is 500 Bq/kg (Ce137 only). West
Germany after the Chernobyl accident has 90 Bq/kg, Italy has 100 and
France has 30 Bq/kg on average. Many cases of health problems have been
reported in Germany and Italy. Shinjuku, the location of the Tokyo
municipal government, was measured at 0.5-1.5 Bq/kg before 2011.
Kodaira currently has 200-300 Bq/kg contamination.
I recommend all of you to watch the NHK program, gETV special:
Chernobyl nuclear accident: Report from a contaminated landh, which is
available on Internet. I think it is important to acknowledge what
people who visited Belarus and Ukraine, and heard the stories of the
locals, have seen and felt there, and listen to those who served in
rescue operations in Chernobyl in the past more than 20 years.
Their experience tells them that Tokyo should no longer be inhabited,
and that those who insist on living in Tokyo must take regular breaks
in safer areas.
Issues such as depopulation and state decline continue to burden the
lives of second and third generation Ukrainians and Belarusians today,
and I fear that this may be the future of Eastern Japan.
Since December 2011, I have conducted thyroid ultrasound examinations,
thyroid function tests, general blood tests and biochemical tests on
about 2000 people, mostly families in the Tokyo metropolitan area
expressing concerns on the effects of radiation. I have observed that
white blood cells, especially neutrophils, are decreasing among
children under the age of 10. There are cases of significant decline in
the number of neutrophils in 0-1 year-olds born after the earthquake
(<1000). In both cases, conditions tend to improve by moving to
Western Japan (Neutrophils 0–>4500). Patients report nosebleed, hair
loss, lack of energy, subcutaneous bleeding, visible urinary
hemorrhage, skin inflammations, coughs and various other non-specific
symptoms.
Kodaira, in western Tokyo, is one of the least-contaminated areas in
Kanto; however, we began to notice changes in childrenfs blood test
results around mid-2013 even in this area. Contamination in Tokyo is
progressing, and further worsened by urban radiation concentration, or
the effect by which urban sanitation systems such as the sewage system,
garbage collection and incineration condense radiation, because
contaminated waste is gathered and compressed. Data measured by
citizensf groups showed that radiation levels on the riverbeds of
Kawabori River in Higashiyamato and Higashimurayama in Tokyo have
increased drastically in the last 1-2 years.
Other concerns I have include symptoms reported by general patients,
such as persistent asthma and sinusitis. The patients show notable
improvement once they move away.
I also observe high occurrences of rheumatic polymyalgia characterized
by complaints such as gdifficulty turning over,h ginability to dress
and undress,h and ginability to stand uph among my middle-aged and
older patients. Could these be the same symptoms of muscle rheumatism
that were recorded in Chernobyl?
Changes are also noticeable in the manifestation of contagious diseases
such as influenza, hand-foot-and-mouth disease and shingles.
Many patients report experiencing unfamiliar symptoms or sensing
unusual changes in their bodies. Perhaps they feel comfortable speaking
to me, knowing that my clinic posted signs informing of possible
radiation-related symptoms immediately after the nuclear accident. Many
young couples with small children and women worried about their
grandchildren visit my clinic and earnestly engage in the discussion,
and there is not a single patient who resists my critical views on the
impacts of radiation.
Ever since 3.11, everybody living in Eastern Japan including Tokyo is a victim, and everybody is involved.
We discovered that our knowledge from the discipline of radiology was
completely useless in the face of a nuclear disaster. The keyword here
is glong-term low-level internal irradiation.h This differs greatly
from medical irradiation or simple external exposure to radiation. I do
not want to get involved in political issues; nonetheless, I must state
that the policies of the WHO, the IAEA or the Japanese government
cannot be trusted. They are simply far too distanced from the harsh
realities that people in Chernobyl still face today.
The patients from Eastern Japan that I see here in Okayama have
confirmed the feelings that I have had for a long time, since I was
based in Tokyo. People are truly suffering from this utter lack of
support. Since 3.11, mothers have researched frantically on radiation
to protect their children. They studied in the midst of their hostile
surroundings in Tokyo, where they could no longer trust either
government offices or their childrenfs schools. Family doctors were
willing to listen about other symptoms, but their faces turned red at
the slightest mention of radiation and ignored the mothersf questions.
Mothers could not even talk openly to friends anymore as the atmosphere
in Tokyo became more and more stifled.
I believe that it is our duty as medical doctors to instruct and
increase awareness among the Japanese public. This is our role as
experts, having knowledge of health that the general public does not
possess. Three years have quickly passed since the disaster. No medical
schools or books elaborate on radiation sickness. Nevertheless, if the
power to save our citizens and future generations exists somewhere, it
does not lie within the government or any academic association, but in
the hands of individual clinical doctors ourselves.
Residents of Tokyo are unfortunately not in the position to pity the
affected regions of Tohoku because they are victims themselves. Time is
running short. I took an earlier step forward and evacuated to the
west. My fellow doctors of medicine, I am waiting for you here. And to
the people in Eastern Japan still hesitating, all my support goes to
facilitating and enabling your evacuation, relocation, or a temporary
relief in Western Japan.
(Translation by WNSCR team)
HOME