Here is a short YouTube appeal for help from a few of the residents about the safety of their children, with English subtitles. They are not panicking or sentimental, but they are afraid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYjYtVrOro&feature=youtu.be (Also, see the related videos on the same page.)

Through the summer heat, while some pundits debate the relative severity of the disaster and the politicos are still trying to make a plan, the residents of Fukushima are living with the threat of radiation that they do not understand any better than the rest of us. And like a whole line of other residents, from Mayor Sakurai of Minami-Souma in the weeks after 3.11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a78lgT6qavY), they are frustrated at the lack of governmental support.

David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Sophia University, Tokyo

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