Yabu Shiro “Japan’s Reconstruction Projects, Past & Present, and the People’s Struggle” 「今日と過去の復興政策、民衆の運動」 Tuesday, October 9th @ 5:30 pm @ 41 E. 11th Street, 7th Floor [Map] This talk (in Japanese with English translation) considers Japan’s reconstruction after the devastation of Fukushima in 2011 from a historical perspective. Looking at past projects such as ones that … Continue reading Conversation with Yabu Shiro: "Japan’s Reconstruction Projects, Past & Present, and the People’s Struggle”→
By SHIRO YABU (photo: Global2000 on flickr) (Originally published in Japanese for Gendai Shiso 現代思想, July 2012 Issue) Doesn’t Radiation Discriminate? The Japanese Reggae musician, Rankin Taxi, has a song he has been singing for over twenty years: “You can’t see it, and you can’t smell it either.” Radiation is strong Radiation is powerful … Continue reading Radiation Exposure is Unequal→
by TODOS SOMOS JAPON (Photo: Takumi Sakamoto – Goldenrods grow tall in the abandoned rice fields in Fukushima.) 【日本語は下部に掲載。スクロールダウンしてお読みください。】 Voluntary Evacuation: A New Form of Struggle A Conversation with Takako Shishido by Todos Somos Japon (1) June 23, 2012, NYC Takako Shishido (TS) Ayumi Hirai (AH) Sabu Kohso (SK) Yuko Tonohira (YT) Yuko Tonohira: Today … Continue reading Voluntary Evacuation: A New Form of Struggle – A Conversation with Takako Shishido (1)→
Sunday October 7th, 2012 11am-9pm @ 16 Beaver: 16 Beaver Street 4th Floor, New York, NY 10004 [MAP] Subway: 4/5 train to Bowling Green Free Childcare is provided. [RSVP on Facebook] Where we are at today after Fukushima in the struggles against nuclear power – that is the question. As news from Japan slowly reveal … Continue reading FORUM::: RadioActivity! – Creating Everyday Revolution After Fukushima→
by SHIRO YABU Photo: 汚染帝都 by Kai Wai散策 (Translation by Umi Hagitani) *The original text of the present article in Japanese has been published in at Plus 10 (Tokyo: Ohta Publishing Company, November 2011). What is the Nuclear State? There were not many people who foresaw the March 11th nuclear reactor accident in Fukushima. … Continue reading Before and After 3/11→
by YOSHIHIKO IKEGAMI Photo: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara (日本語による原文下部に掲載） More than a hundred days have passed since the accident. Thanks to the autonomous investigative actions of the people, the radiation situations within Fukushima Prefecture as well as in the Tokyo metropolitan area are, if gradually, being revealed day by day.
Toward Pirate Communism: Tyranny and Anarchy From Shiro Yabu’s Diary *The following is the March section of the blog by Shiro Yabu, an anti-capitalist activist living in Japan. English translation and editing by Adam Broinowski 12 March 2011 6:49 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and Isodine When I heard the news that coolant at the Fukushima … Continue reading Toward Pirate Communism: Tyranny and Anarchy→
(日本語による原文下部に掲載） Leaving Tokyo Shiro Yabu (Translation by Max Black) After the rain I go to a city park with my elementary-school age daughter. She jumps onto the chin-up bar. I notice that it is dripping wet. Lazily swinging back and forth on the bar, she starts to lick the rainwater off the bar. When I … Continue reading Leaving Tokyo→
A Request from a Japanese Activist Todos Somos Japon A Japanese activist Shiro Yabu has sent us a request for foreign comrades: Now what we are in desperate need in Tokyo is concrete data of radioactive contamination. We will have to measure and publicize the radiation of the soil at every park and public spaces … Continue reading A Request from a Japanese Activist→
LINK TO PETITION ISSUE On March 20th, 2018 the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced plans to remove approximately 2,400, or 66%, of the 3,600 radiation monitoring posts in Fukushima prefecture by March 2021.[1] This was announced as part of an effort to refocus government radiation monitoring on the evacuation zone. Note on Evacuation Zones “Non-mandatory … Continue reading FUKUSHIMA UPDATE: KNOWLEDGE, DISCRIMINATION, AND SYMBOLIC REDUCTION→
Exchanging Thoughts Since 3.11 Great Eastern Earthquake & Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
