#3.11.

[drawing-every-day-2023]

So I wanted to buy a new jacket, but every store I went to had only ones with fur, which I didn't want.

[verwelktesgedicht]

Song: Shuntou (春灯) Artist: Radwimps

366 days song challenge - Day 165

[bitchking-of-angmar]

Also the German Time magazine just published a really good article on Fukushima. Here, have a makeshift translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fwissen%2F2015-03%2Ffukushima-atomunfall-tsunami

(Original: http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2015-03/fukushima-atomunfall-tsunami)

[bitchking-of-angmar]

Fukushima 3.11.

I went there last year and talked to some of the 230.000 people still living in containers and provisional housings with no hope to ever return to the areas their ancestors were burried in. I helped out at the Iwaki Mission Center (shoutout to you guys, you're doing an incredible job!), talked with them, talked with families who returned despite the radioactivity. We went to Tomioka, which is around 10km away from Fukushima Daiichi. The place looks like the catastrophe had maybe happened the day before, just the corpses were gone.

Japan, despite being highly industrialized, is the country with the highest government debt in the world. There is a lack in workers and building material which is why the reconstruction of the non-radioactive areas takes so much time. All attempts to ever reclaim the polluted areas are bound to fail if the state isn't able to get these two catastrophies back into it's peoples conciousness. My impression was that Fukushima isn't a point of interest to anyone who isn't living there. It is as if people were actively trying to ignoring it.

If you happen to come to Japan and have some time to spare: Facilites such as the Global Mission Center in Iwaki are always happy to accept volunteers and might even be able to offer accomodations for those who offer to work for them. I was only able to spend a week there, but I keep these people in my heart. Despite being a Christian organization they will accept you with any religious background and most of the members are fluent in English.