High School Students in Tohoku to PM Noda: "We Want A Memorial Hall for the March 11, 2011 Disaster"

They also want safe environment for disaster volunteers. Do they mean decon volunteers?

The future is bleak.

From Nico Nico News quoting Jiji Tsushin (whose link disappears quickly) (2/19/2012):

野田佳彦首相は１９日午前、首相公邸で福島県立磐城高校３年の堀越優生さん（１８）ら東北６県の高校生８人と懇談した。堀越さんらから「東日本大震災からの復興の計画作りに高校生も参画させてください」とのメッセージを手渡された首相は、「東北の将来を担う世代が熱い思いで復興を考えていることを知り、頼もしく思った。復興には若い世代のエネルギーが必要だ」と激励した。

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met with 8 high school students from 6 Tohoku Prefectures in the morning of February 19. The students delivered the message to the prime minister asking for the participation of high school students in the planning of the recovery from the March 11, 2011 disaster. The prime minister gave them word of encouragement by saying, "I feel heartened to know that the next generation of Tohoku is thinking about recovery passionately. The recovery will need the energy from the young generation."

　高校生側は、安心して災害ボランティアに参加できる環境の整備や、震災の教訓を後世に伝えるメモリアルホールの建設を要望。これに対し、首相は「震災の影響で学校で勉強を続けられなくなった友達はいますか。それが一番心配。そうならないように奨学金などを準備している」と語り掛けていた。　

The high school students requested the safe environment for the volunteers in times of disaster, and the construction of a memorial hall to memorialize the lessons learned from the March 11, 2011 disaster. To their request, the prime minister answered, "Do any of you have friends who cannot continue the study at school because of the disaster? I'm most worried about them. We are getting scholarships ready for such students."

NHK, reporting the same event, quotes one student from Iwaki City as follows:

「福島県の農産物は、食べることができるのに原発事故の影響で買ってもらえないといった差別を受けている。こうした問題を早く解決してほしい」

"Fukushima produce is safe to eat, but is discriminated against because of the nuclear plant accident. I want this problem to be solved quickly."

I guess it hasn't occurred to this student there are things called radioactive materials all over them coming out of that plant. I don't know where he got the idea that for consumers to refuse buying the produce from Fukushima that may be contaminated with radioactive materials is discrimination.

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