Pets and Animals in the Fukushima radiation zone have been without food support:                         

We need Your Signatures on this Petition to the Ministry of Environment to Allow Animal Rescue Groups to rescue the animals left inside the 20km zone Fukushima.

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We NEED your help. We need your signatures on this petition to the Ministry of Environment in Japan. Please sign and share with friends and organizations in your network. We must deliver this petition immediately as rescues by the government have started with a paltry 10 government workers! This is a blasphemy!
The Japan Ministry of Environment (MOE) 誰に：日本環境庁: Allowing private groups to rescue animals　個人動物救助隊へ
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Hachiko Coalition Petition to Japanese Ministry of Environment (MOE)

Yesterday the GOJ issued a statement that beginning in March 2012, they will begin rescuing remaining surviving cats and dogs from the zone.  The Hachiko Coalition has started a petition for signature to be delivered to Ministry of Environment adding some key elements that they have omitted from the rescue plans. Please read and sign. Your support is very important.

Here is the link:
https://www.change.org/petitions/the-japan-ministry-of-environment-moe-%E8%AA%B0%E3%81%AB%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E7%92%B0%E5%A2%83%E5%BA%81-allowing-private-groups-to-rescue-animals
 

Japanese Veterinarian Shigeki Imamoto Speaks About the Fukushima Animal Disaster.

Japanese Veterinarian to Speak About His Efforts to Save Animals in Fukushima Evacuation Zone

Dr. Shigeki Imamoto

A Japanese veterinarian who is in the United States to help raise awareness of the plight of livestock abandoned in the evacuation zone in Fukushima Prefecture will be giving presentations in California about the issue and his efforts to save the animals.

The Northern California talk by Dr. Shigeki Imamoto will be on Friday, Feb. 10, at 1:30 p.m. at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter St., San Francisco, and is being sponsored by the JCCCNC and its Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.

The Southern California talk will be on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 1:30 p.m. at the SPCA, 7700 E. Spring St., Long Beach (in El Dorado Park). Iwamoto will be introduced by Dr. Yuko Nishiyama of Village Veterinary Hospital in Gardena.

Imamoto, who runs the Shinjo Animal Hospital in Nara Prefecture, realized that there were many veterinarians who were fighting to save dogs and cats in Fukushima, but he considered livestock the forgotten victims. He began fighting for the lives of cows, pigs, horses and chickens and helping the region’s farmers.

Iwamoto became the chief medical advisor for the organization Farm of Hope (http://bit.ly/qjePKP), an organization that is trying to help farmers in the 20-kilometer “no go” radiation exclusion zone in Fukushima. The zone was declared a restricted area by the Japanese government on April 22, 2011, because of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

“I would like to ask everyone, ‘Do you think that the life of an animal is worth less?’” Imamoto said in an interview with the Hachiko Coalition (http://hachiko-coaliton.org), an American organization that is calling for the rescue of animals in the restricted zone. “Do you think that destroying livestock (that) cannot be sold is a right decision? … I do not think our society should abandon life. Animals live in the flow of life. Humans are maybe the only animals who are able to think that they wish to die and kill themselves. Animals do not think they want to die. Animals want to live.”

Residents have been evacuated from the zone, but untold thousands of dogs, cats and livestock were either destroyed or abandoned and left to die, affecting thousands of farmers who depend on the animals for their livelihood. In 2009, animal husbandry — dairy cattle, beef cattle, pigs and poultry — made up $51.3 billion yen, or 21 percent of Fukushima Prefecture’s agricultural economy.

Imamoto said the Japanese government has prohibited veterinarians from entering the exclusion zone and currently only researchers from universities can enter the area. Animal rescue groups are also banned from entering the zone.

For more information about Imamoto, see his YouTube presentation at http://bit.ly/xoDDpa.

The JCCCNC (www.jcccnc.org) established the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund on March 11, 2011, to provide aid to the citizens and survivors of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The fund was created to provide citizen-to-citizen assistance to bring hope and direct assistance to the most affected communities. NJERF has become the largest Japanese American community-based relief fund, with more than $4 million in donations to date. All of the donations go directly to citizen relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts.

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The Fukushima Animal Holocaust.

For those who have recently joined the Hachiko Coalition page please read this brief summary of what is happening with the Animals Left Behind inside the 20km zone Fukushima. Read both Part 1 and Part 2 of the CNN ireports, scroll down to the page, sign in and click the button that says this should be on CNN. Our visual petition, The World Is Watching Save the Animals, is waiting for a photo of your pet to join the hundreds of other pet photos. These photos are sent to the various Japanese ministries to petition that they open up the “no go zone, or death zone” and rescue the hundreds of surviving animals. The Fukushima Animals have no voice, so it is up to us and our pets to be that voice. Save the Fukushima Animals, NOW!

 http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-708650

 

Watch this video carefully. Mr. Yoshida is the first speaker in the video. He is addressing the parliament. The topic of animals is finally being brought up in Japan Parliament! This is a huge milestone, and in this particular case for the livestock. Please continue to send your visual petitions to nancy@hachiko-coalition.org Thank you.

Video Translation:

Mr. Yoshida: “Please look at this photo. Is this a scene from a developed country? Why don’t you care about life? When we entered the zone in a group of Jimin tou we took this photo. The livestock were already mummified. Why didn’t you save life? Why does the Japanese government rescue only pets and put them in shelters but why did not they care about livestock? I cannot be proud of myself coming from a developed country. Prime minister, there are only 1000 cows left there. So I know they are already contaminated with radiation so we cannot sell them as meat but until they finish their life why can’t we enclose them and keep them alive? Also as the government, please help them and conduct research on them. Radiation will affect generations so please answer my questions.  Please let them alive.”

Minister of Agriculture Kano: “Thank you so much for all information. I feel very regretful for them. We are considering all aspects. Also I have heard many ideas to use livestock as research animals. In order to study effect of radiation to livestock soon we will offer grants to conduct studies. For example, Kitazato University is conducting research on about 30 cows starting from December. From now on if we have requests from research institutes Fukushima prefecture and the Minister of Agriculture will consider taking research opportunities. “

Prime minister Noda: “As Mr Kano said we are considering using livestock as research animals. According to the correct information we will keep you updated.”

Mr. Yoshida: “There are only 1000 cows. Please save ALL of them. Please do not save only few, like 10 or 20 cows. Please rescue ALL of them.”

 

Fukushima Daiichi Status Report produced by Japan Government hides truth about the Fukushima Animals

The Fukushima Daiichi Status report has been released by the International Atomic Energy Agency on November 24th. Their sources are the Government, so already you should be afraid. Well. Be very afraid. On page 6 you will find the following: “As of 10 November 126 cattle remain in the deliberate evacuation zone out of the approximately 9300 that were originally located in the zone. As of 26 August, arrangements to protect 302 dogs and 190 cats have also been made.” August 26th is their last update on companion animals. None of this is true. Over 1000 cattle still live. Hundreds if not thousands of companion pets are still there. They even have the International Atomic Energy Agency fooled. The report can be found here: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/statusreport241111.pdf