Prof. Kodama Angry about Japanese Gov.'s Gross Negligence (Part 2) (July 27, 2011)

Please click on "cc" button to show English subtitles. Part 1 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlf4gOvzxYc
Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama is the head of the Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo. On July 27, he appeared as a witness to give testimony to the Committee on Welfare and Labor in Japan's Lower House in the Diet.

(At the end, Prof. Kodama was able to elaborate only three of his "four requests" probably due to the time constraint.)

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Translation by EX-SKF blog (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/) and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.
For additional information, please visit the following blogposts:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/professor-tatsuhiko-kodama-of-tokyo.html
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-2-professor-tatsuhiko-kodama-of.html
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-3-professor-tatsuhiko-kodama-of.html

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German-subtitled version is here:
part1　http://youtu.be/PDOBKu8P-DE
part2　http://youtu.be/XefmvjI7Mk4

French subtitled-version is here:
part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOOJUjFuqM&feature=channel_video_title
part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOOJUjFuqM&feature=channel_video_title

French translation (text only) is here:
http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.com/search?q=kodama

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• japan
• Fukushima
• radiation
• Kodama
• nuclear
• cancer
• contamination
• decontamination

[chromosome24]

wish i understood japanese

[tokyobrowntabby]

@chromosome24 Isn't the english subtitles shown on the screen? Would you try clicking on "cc" button and turning it red?

[dubjoyce]

this speech is incredibly convincing.I wonder why now this video hasnt got something like 1 Million views alrdy & hundreds of comments of ppl debating, & mobilizing behind this uni professor bringing a great expertise in front of the diet. I wonder why all the damn comments are in english, there should be so many japanese concerned by this, where are they ? not on the internt it seems.. i guess they just have a different way to express its understable.. tho this speech should get MORE attention!

[tokyobrowntabby]

@dubjoyce

That's a misunderstanding. There was a long complete version of this video uploaded in Youtube and had been accessed something like more than 300,000 times by Japanese viewers, full of comments. Then a few days ago, that video was suddenly removed. But split versions like this one still survive now and Japanese viewers are commenting on them.

[dubjoyce]

@tokyobrowntabby thanks for your reply, yes i realized that after leaving my comment, fair enough, then why was it removed ? some say censorship, hope its not that

[tokyobrowntabby]

@dubjoyce I have no idea. Don't want to think that way, but it's true that Japanese government has strengthen its "monitoring" of information on the net.

[azjeff1971]

I wish more people would get behind this guy's position.

[jesusgray922]

This is a "plausible" video. =p

[kirbysawyer25]

This video is a favorite on Jakarta

[iluvmycousin2much]

seht ihr es wurde benutzt und 20 oder 30 jahre später krebs... wer weiß die psychopharmaka mit denen ihr mich vollpumpt wer weiß wa die in 20 jahren bewirken.. hört auf mich damit vollzupumpen

[mildseven73]

@ptbarnes Government don't care about victims, they only care about next election. and medias don't critisize government and Tepco, because Tepco has paid huge money medias for advertising. actually this Kojima's speech hasn't been aired on TV in japan. this is the reality in japan.

[danielregwan]

HELP THE JAPANESE PEOPLE!!!! FOR FUCK SAKE!!!!!!!! HELP THEMMM

[ptbarnes]

I sure hope the japanese government does the right thing, this scientist/proffessor is clearly very upset and rightly so, he should be and so should everyone else in the world when you hear whats happened in japan and chernobyl it's a warning to the rest of us, just how many nuclear reactors are there in the world. I'd hate to find out the hard way.

[cloa513ch]

I can understand Prof. Kodama is quite reasonably upset at the Diet parliamentarians- they're a bunch of corrupt useless babies. But this speech is not the way to get the Fukushima situation sorted out. It really shows the way that Japanese can't communicate. Some of the action items are really executive government inaction issues- only one is a law issue. Hit them with emotion impact- protect our children and keep it short. Leave the technical which was incomplete for the supporting paper.