Japanese jr. high radiation education: Science education or brainwashing?

The Japanese Science and Education Ministry (MEXT), is mandating a new curriculum which includes radiation education to be taught at schools across Japan. MEXT doesn't only mandate education standards, they define specific material and teaching techniques in many cases. This video analyzes the new radiation education curriculum. This is the same ministry that is responsible for setting some of the sky-high radiation "safety" standards with regards to the Fukushima disaster.

This curriculum is aimed at junior high school and is thus compulsory education that all children in Japan will receive. Japanese junior high school is grades 8-10.

Links and references:
Japanese Science and Education Ministry courses of study. (This is information on the curriculum that MEXT mandates for Japanese school children - Japanese language only.)
http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/new-cs/youryou/chukaisetsu/index.htm

Radiation Education Promotion Committee web site (Japanese)
http://www.radi-edu.jp/

My video on radioactive lantern mantels (which are used as part of the new radiation education material)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhE8-5g39SQ

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[RACINGWILDONE]

I also notice you don't mention Plutonium, or uranium, which are both being dispersed from Fukushima, for almost a year now.

[AluminumStudios]

@RACINGWILDONE I don't recall talking about radionuclide in this video, but it's a given that the fuel (Uranium and Plutonium), in addition to the fission and subsequent decay products are out in the environment.

[RACINGWILDONE]

That was very interesting when you were talking about lantern mantles. does that include old mantles or new ones ? I have a collection of antique lanterns, and many boxes of original antique mantles. I havn't really handled them much, I usually use my old oil lanterns. I like the warm glow they give off. I can't help but feel sorry for the children of Japan, the same way I lost respect for the adults of Japan. They used to have honor, but where is the honor in killing there children.

[AluminumStudios]

@RACINGWILDONE Old ones in most of the world, but in Japan they still sell the radioactive kind. Please watch this video: watch?v=VhE8-5g39SQ

[RACINGWILDONE]

Good job Will, I feel I should leave you with a tasteless joke, but I just finished going through all my updates, and to tell you the truth, I just don't have it in me anymore. The news coming out of Japan is so riddled with lies, it just made me so dam depressed, that for the first time in a very long time. I'm speachless. Take care my old friend, and stay safe.

[AluminumStudios]

@RACINGWILDONE Yeah, I'm exhausted from it all. One of the reasons I've been slow on getting around to my next video. The thing is I think the Japanese are getting tired of it too, but in a way where they are reacting less and less. I'm sadly starting to feel that way, but know I mustn't.

[iamgoddard]

Awesome expose! What's puzzling to me is anti-safety advocates saying the invisibility of radiation causes people to fear it. As if being able to see, in a contaminated zone, thousands of subatomic bullets shooting through your body tearing up cellular strucutre and DNA strands would lead people to believe radiation is safe. Nothing the anti-safety advocates say makes any sense when you stop and think about it.

[LondonLanguageLounge]

its Brainwashing not science, if it was science it would show some kind of balance and this thing being put forward in the schools is pandering to the nuclear industry, very sad ..but we've come to expect that from Japan nowadays.

[AluminumStudios]

@dtrcoelho The point is that it's part of a larger system of downplaying and opinion control of a major disaster that needs more transparency to see us through with minimal health damage. I've lived in Japan for years and speak Japanese, so I have every right to be concerned with the issue and have valid views on it. The Japanese government is not God and do not know best. They have interests that do not always put the safety of the population first.