Comment: There has been a massive cover-up of the scale of the devastation caused by Fukushima and the ongoing human and ecological disasters. Japan is restarting nuclear reactors, in spite of ongoing safety issues and public protests, and at the same time is trying to convince people that it is safe to return to the areas near Fukushima by 'normalizing' radiation standards when clearly, there is no medical or scientific evidence to support this.
Five years ago a killer tsunami knocked out the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, spewing radiation and forcing 160,000 people to flee their homes. Authorities in Japan want locals to think "nothing happened," documentary director Jeffrey Jousan told RT.
"The government prints the number of people who died as a result of the 2011 disaster in the newspapers every day. [In some other prefectures], the [death toll] amounts to 300-400 people in each prefecture, but in Fukushima it is over 8,000 people," Jousan, a US director and producer who has been living and working in Japan since 1990, said.
It is very telling about the situation in Fukushima. It is hard for everyone who is affected by the tsunami, who lost their homes and lost their families. But [in Fukushima], people are not able to go back home, they are unable to work because people won't buy food from Fukushima, farmers cannot farm anymore. It is affecting people, and more people are dying because of that.
It is shocking... to see [how] many people have died in Fukushima," the co-director of the documentary film 'Alone in the Zone' told RT.
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