“blind”: A disturbing view of what children in Japan may face

For anyone with children in Japan, this short film, “blind,” is very powerful, and very scary, as it doesn’t seem all that unrealistic to imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SgonaD4U0

This map by Japanese professor Yukio Hayakawa suggests that the nuclear contamination that came from Fukushima may be pretty widespread, including the Tokyo metropolitan region.

Radiation being found in Fukushima children

Children living in the Fukushima area are beginning to show internal radiation exposure in urine tests that have been conducted recently:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/30/fukushima-children-radiation-tests-caesium

 

Quite a few internationally abducted children are living in or near the radiation zone and left-behind parents are helpless to do anything about it, and are not even able to communicate with them and get information about them.

How can subjecting children to this be considered “in the best interests of the child”?

The international parental abduction issue in Japan has gone beyond being a human rights issue and has become an issue concerning the protection of children’s health and lives.