NUCLEAR NATION is now available on DVD!

It is Japanese version (region 2) with English subtitles.

You can buy it from Amazon Japan.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%95%E3%82%BF…/dp/B00GI8BZ1Q

Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba talks with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! on Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Archival footage of yesterday’s show)

http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2014/1/17

Here’s the archival link of Democracy Now! yesterday.

Amy Goodman interviewed director Atsushi Funahashi on “NUCLEAR NATION” and Fukushima refugees.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/15/for_fukushimas_displaced_a_struggle_to

At 8-9am ET on Jan 15 director Funahashi will be Democracy Now!, the America’s most liberal and independent news channel. He is talking about Fukushima issues with Amy Goodman, the anchor lady. She is now in Tokyo and they’ll broadcast the LIVE show between Tokyo and NYC! NUCLEAR NATION will be introduced. Don’t miss it!

You can see the streaming video at; http://www.democracynow.org/.

People are saying that since Tokyo has no nuclear plants, and since the city holds few Tokyo Electric Power Company shares, the concept of eliminating nuclear power is not an issue in the upcoming governor election.

Have we already forgotten…

… that most of the electricity produced at the Fukushima Daiichi plant was sent to Tokyo? In order for us in the city to have this electricity, we imposed years of risk on people living in the coastal regions of Fukushima. And when shit finally hit the fan, they were the ones left to deal with the aftermath of the calamity. There are still 150,000 displaced people living in limbo.

We living in Tokyo are in part responsible for the nuclear accident.

Saying that “nuclear power won’t become a campaign issue” is like saying that we might have been indebted to them in the past, but now that they’re not sending us any electricity, it doesn’t concern us anymore. This convenient forgetfulness is arrogant.

Voters in Tokyo need to be conscious that NOT making nuclear power an issue in the upcoming election is exactly the same as dumping Fukushima.

– Atsushi Funahashi

(translated by Ivy Oldford)

Here’s director Funahashi’s interview on NUCLEAR NATION and Fukushima refugees by La Figa.

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http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2014/01/06/nuclear-nation-ignites-conversation-about-fukushimas-refugees/