{"id":133103,"date":"2014-07-24T17:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=133103"},"modified":"2014-07-24T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:21:38","slug":"wake-fukushima-left-tokyo-eastern-japan-contaminated-radiation-metro-tokyo-longer-inhabited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/environmental-news\/wake-fukushima-left-tokyo-eastern-japan-contaminated-radiation-metro-tokyo-longer-inhabited\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wake of Fukushima: \u201cWhy I Left Tokyo\u201d? Eastern Japan Contaminated with Radiation. \u201cMetro Tokyo Should no Longer be Inhabited\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctor Shigeru Mita, who recently moved to Okayama-city, Okayama prefecture, to open a\u00a0new clinic<\/a>\u00a0there, wrote a short essay in the newsletter published by Association of Doctors in Kodaira, metropolitan Tokyo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although the target readers for this essay were not the general public, it has been cited in a weekly e-mail magazine published by\u00a0journalist\u00a0Kota Kinoshita<\/a>, who has been organizing actions to urge people to leave radiation affected areas (including Tokyo) since 3.11, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

On many occasions, public talks and gatherings,\u00a0both\u00a0Dr. Mita and Mr. Kinoshita have acknowledged the danger of radiation and they have called out for\u00a0immediate\u00a0action for radiation protection.<\/em><\/p>\n

In November 2013, WNSCR translated an essay that Dr. Mita wrote for parents concerned about\u00a0radiation: (Please read the article\u00a0here<\/a>). Despite the\u00a0interests of many parents in Japan, there are very few\u00a0doctors who show serious concern on the\u00a0issues of radiation, and commenting on the issue publicly is even rarer.<\/p>\n

It is the opinion of WNSCR\u00a0that Dr. Mita\u2019s views have significant\u00a0meaning for the general public,\u00a0especially for those who are interested in the health impact of\u00a0radiation on the general population.\u00a0We have\u00a0permission to translate a new essay of Dr. Mita, through Mr. Kinoshita.<\/p>\n

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Why did I leave Tokyo?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shigeru Mita ( Mita clinic)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To my fellow doctors,<\/p>\n

I closed the clinic in March 2014, which had served the community of Kodaira for more than 50 years, since my father\u2019s generation, and I have started a new Mita clinic in Okayama-city on April 21.<\/p>\n

Map Left by Toshiaki Mizuno & Hideya Kubo, April 29, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

I had been a member of the board of directors in the Kodaira medical association since the 1990\u2019s, the time I started practicing medicine at my father\u2019s clinic. For the last 10 years, I had worked to establish a disaster emergency response in the city.<\/p>\n

In Tokyo, the first mission of the disaster response concerns how to deal with earthquakes.<\/p>\n

In the event of a South Eastern Earthquake, which is highly expected, it is reasonable to assume a scenario of meltdown in the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka prefecture, followed by radiation contamination in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doctor Shigeru Mita, who recently moved to Okayama-city, Okayama prefecture, to open a\u00a0new clinic\u00a0there, wrote a short essay in the newsletter published by Association of Doctors in Kodaira, metropolitan Tokyo. Although the target readers for this essay were not the general public, it has been cited in a weekly e-mail magazine published by\u00a0journalist\u00a0Kota Kinoshita, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,6],"tags":[695],"class_list":{"0":"post-133103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-environmental-news","9":"tag-fukushima"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}