The health damages of the nuclear radiation in Fukushima are becoming ever clearer. Many people there complain of typical symptoms that appear as a result of irradiation.
Nose bleeding, extreme tiredness and pain in the bones are common. Ever more children are showing conspicuous changes in their thyroid gland.
The government denies any connection with the Fukushima nuclear disaster and most organized doctors play along with that.
That has left the victims to fend for themselves by trying to build their own health centre. They need financial help.
A German anti-nuclear group is calling on its members to donate. I have asked them for a contact in Fukushima so that I might start a call-out here as well.
Members of the Lüchow-Dannenberg Citizens Initiative for Ecological Protection, which fights nuclear waste dumping and processing at Gorleben in north Germany, have visited Japan twice.
Gorleben locals and anti-nuclear activists from all over Germany and abroad have opposed the nuclear industry in the Gorleben area for more than 30 years, many in the second generation. They are arguably Germany’s best-known anti-nuclear group.
They report that the 10-day visit by two of their members, Martin Donat and Lennart Müller, in January was much appreciated.