Professor Yamashita's speech on "Fukushima as Number One" was meant to cheer Fukushima City residents (he's from Nagasaki, and always prefaces his talk with the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombs).
As I've said before, it was a bad, bad timing. March 21 is where the second largest spike in air radiation took place in Fukushima, part of Tohoku and most of Kanto, thanks to a certain event at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant which hasn't been fully disclosed. (All we have from TEPCO is that there was a black smoke, then gray smoke, then white smoke rising from Reactor 3 on that day.) Fukushima City residents braved the rain to attend the lecture.
The doctor looks rather ill at ease.
(H/T Tokyo Brown Tabby)
(UPDATE) A Fukushima prefectural assemblyman tweeted a few days ago that Dr. Yamashita was "removed from the post", and some English sites may have misunderstood what he wrote. According to the later clarification by the assemblyman, Dr. Yamashita is no longer in charge of radiation protection, but still fully in charge of health monitoring and follow-up research of the Fukushima residents.
It seems he has simply moved on from preaching safety as a radiation protection advisor to health monitoring after the radiation exposure. There is no official word on Fukushima Prefecture's website at all.
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German news about photographer Kazuma Kohara, translated to japanese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNZ3bFUGyq4&feature=player_embedded#!
sry., Obara is the name
He is smiling like the cat that ate the canary!
So the jist of this speech is that the accident (and resulting radiation) is SO BAD, the WHOLE WORLD will know, but the Japanese folks must just "grin and bear it"! Hurry and get it cleaned up while you are wearing that RADIATION PROOF SMILE!
The Japanese government supporting agenda21 must
He is smiling like the cat that ate the canary!
So the jist of this speech is that the accident (and resulting radiation) is SO BAD, the WHOLE WORLD will know, but the Japanese folks must just "grin and bear it"! Hurry and get it cleaned up while you are wearing that RADIATION PROOF SMILE!
The Japanese government folks that support agenda21 must be "grinnin' like possums eating" poop about the prospect of so many shortened lives due to radiation caused diseases!
Is it true, he resigned from his advisory post?
from
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/08/news-8282011/
@anon at 8:52PM, I read the tweet by the Fukushima prefectural assemblyman saying that Dr. Yamashita resigned, and I posted the tweet on my Japanese blog. But I haven't seen any confirming info of that, other than the assemblyman's word.
Updated with Dr. Yamashita's "resignation" that wasn't.
Looks like one of those expert subversives to me.
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