This is a one and a half day record from September 8th to the morning of September 9th.

0.Today’s photo shows the case and packaging we prepared to hand over the USB containing messages from Japanese and Korean citizens to Japanese National Diet officials.

1. The two of us depart while the aftermath of Typhoon No. 13 still remains. Together with Shoichi Akiyoshi.

1. Today we will enter Yokohama City.

 2. While passing over a bridge where strong winds blow,

3. Take a commemorative selfie.

4. We took a commemorative photo in the rain about 2km from Yamato Station.

5. Arrive at Yamato Station.

6. After having a big lunch, find a nearby bathhouse and take a rest.

7. Yamato Station again.

8. During a short break, Professor Emeritus Jang Hoe-ik of the Department of Physics at Seoul National University, who is an advisor to the Korean Society for Nuclear Energy Destruction, criticizes the controversy over contaminated water science.  (read the article below.

http://www.minplusnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=14089

Recently, some members of the government have been making sophistry about Japan’s release of radioactively contaminated water into the ocean, claiming that it is legitimate because safety is scientifically guaranteed. As a scientist myself, I have to say that I cannot agree with this. (Translation of the above message)

The noteworthy part of the sentence is, “Due to the by-products of today’s material civilization, our seas are inevitably polluted even if we try our best to protect them. Therefore, if possible, even pollutants that have already been discharged should be collected and treated separately. However, even so, “Intentionally dumping pollutants that were never dumped into the ocean before is an extreme crime that seeks to destroy life on Earth.”

9. Students I met near my destination, Nishitani Station, in the afternoon. They showed great curiosity, so I explained this march to them in detail and took a selfie as a souvenir. After all, students are different from adults. These students will learn about the lies of the Japanese government. There is a famous saying. “You can fool one person forever. You can fool many people temporarily. But you can’t fool everyone.” These students who found out that they had been deceived will someday become angry at the Japanese government and vested interests that deceived them. And they will be angry at the generation of intellectuals and adults who have remained silent. Do you have the confidence to withstand its wrath? 

10. When we arrived at our destination, Nishitani Station, there was someone waiting for us. Etsuko Sato.

11.  And when I came to the lodging in the evening, the comrades I had longed for had already arrived from Korea and greeted me. From the right: Jung Young-hoon, Kim Jung-mi, Choi Ja-young. We will be walking together starting tomorrow.

12. In the evening time, in the Line group chat room, I was advised to prepare a case and packaging to hand over a USB containing photos of messages from Japanese and Korean citizens to Japanese Diet officials.

13. Depart from Nishitani Station.

14. A terraced house that takes advantage of a sloping land catches my eye.

15. Shusaku Sato, who lives in Yokohama, joined us.

https://play-tv.kakao.com/embed/player/cliplink/rvigbjul1t5kocdv03n2gjvkw@my?service=player_share

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17. I also found a hibiscus flower in Yokohama city.

Comrade Choi Ja-young took a photo of me marching at the front.

Whenever waiting for a traffic light at an intersection, raise my voice with the group. “Don’t pour radioactively contaminated water into the sea!”  “Don’t dump radioactively contaminated water into the sea!”  “Children are in danger. Don’t flush contaminated water!”

As I walk, the title of the article I contributed eight years ago comes to mind.

“Nuclear-free society, can you sleep? Everyone in Ulsan!”

http://m.usjournal.kr/news/newsview.php?ncode=179513435988390

“Nuclear-free society, can you sleep? Everyone in Ulsan!” A nuclear power plant that is completely uninsured. The time is spring 2012. After having already traveled to Germany twice at my own expense… (translation of the image above)

Just like then, I want to shout.

Can you sleep? Dear Japanese people!

I find the silence of the average Japanese intellectual very strange. The media is the problem? In this day and age where SNS and one-person media are developed, it is nothing more than an excuse. Intellectuals and religious figures who should be distressed by the destruction of life have remained silent, so the public is also just looking on in bewilderment.

What will children watch and learn? Aren’t they going to grow up thinking that the lies and deception of the older generation are the law of the world? Children are not only at risk because their bodies are surrounded by radiation hazards. The mental aspect is also at risk. In a society like this, there is no hope for the future. Japanese citizens must stop it themselves.

19. When I arrived at Yokohama Station, there were some students who were interested. They’re better than adults.

20. Commemorative selfie.

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23. After finishing, I looked at the Line group chat room and found out that this wonderful box was prepared by Yoshiko Hojo of Myotsuji Temple in Aichi Prefecture.

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