Head of Fukushima Thyroid Exams: I’m trying to help “so that Japan as a country will not fall apart” — Lawsuits over health effects would victimize all Japanese

Published: August 28th, 2012 at 2:19 pm ET
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Follow-up to this report on Shunichi Yamashita: Head of Fukushima health study: 100 mSv/yr OK for pregnant moms -- "Effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy... They come to people that are weak-spirited"

FRCSR (Fukushima Radiation Contamination Symptoms Research) Newsletter
August 28, 2012

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We asked Fukushima Medical University vice president Shunichi Yamashita, who is in charge of the thyroid examination, about his challenges.

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Reporter: What do you think about the effect of radiation?

Yamashita: We might find small cancer, but thyroid cancer can occur at a certain frequency under normal circumstances. We won’t know the conclusive trend until over 10 years later. We cannot get into oppositional relationships with the prefectural residents. I would like to guide them so that Japan as a country will not fall apart. After the Chernobyl accident, many lawsuits happened regarding health effects, with compensatory expenses cut into the national budget. When that happens, the ultimate victims are people of the country.

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10 comments to Head of Fukushima Thyroid Exams: I’m trying to help “so that Japan as a country will not fall apart” — Lawsuits over health effects would victimize all Japanese

  • Sickputer

    For Dr. Smiley it's all about the money. Destined to go down in Japan's history as one of the most hated individuals of all time. Yes, I would label him a traitor… to his face.


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    • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK

      as predicted long-ago SP, just wait until the lawyers get of whiff. The damages alone will finish-off nuclear power.

      So now we see the 'learned' ones quietly calling for calm. He's asking that we be reasonable? Where was the reason over the last five decades when others warned of such catastrophes occurring with this technology?! With condescending smiles, they dismiss anyone who warned against the use of this technology within the biosphere. So, to add salt to the wound, they're now asking that damages be limited or outright not rewarded to the public, so they can buy 'wound packages' for the victims?! Now, all of a sudden they're concerned with the welfare of the public?

      I say, find each-and-every person who's either spoken for or worked for this industry and strip them of their assets! That includes every corporation and…university professor who's shilled for that industry. That should buy more than a few bandages. And don't kid yourself. If any of us were found to have made illicit profits from some ongoing threat to society, these same 'people' would have no problem stripping us of those ill-gotten gains. And as governments have no problem making retro-active law, we'll simply claw-back every dollar and apply it to the medical and environmental remediation costs. Hell…Yamashita's worried about a few farmers getting their due?


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    • rambojim

      I am hoping that Dr. Smiley's own thyroid finds that "certain frequency".


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  • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK

    an interesting point – on the Honorable Yamashita's part – regarding compensatory awards versus resources allocated for remediation. Problem is, limiting damage-awards doesn't guarantee effective remediation!

    So, what is it supposed to be?! Now that the world's realizing the loses from nuclear power plant failures can far exceed the insurance coverage (that, by-the-way, we the public pays for), are we supposed to waive any right to punitive actions against those who create these catastrophes? Is there no limit to the machinations of these 'people'? If I were the people of Japan, given the in-you-face neglect that their government's shown from day one, I wouldn't bother waiting for their idea of justice…


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  • Chelsea

    "When that happens, the ultimate victims are people of the country." Umm, maybe I missed a memo or two, but aren't the 'ultimate victims' of country already victims, and have been since 3.11?? In fact, your ongoing crusade to play all of this away is making the entire N. Hemisphere the 'ultimate victims'.

    I wish there were a way to get the true victims out of there for good where they can get appropriate care and be treated as a human being and just let the government and TEPCO slowly succumb to their toxic deaths.


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    • jec

      Its not new. Since WWII-see how the citizens who were war wounded – from nuclear -were treated by their fellow citizens. Or Chernobyl-but at least those victims were evacuated. Would be interesting to find the MISSING meeting minutes after the Fukushima disaster. Did MONEY have more to do with evacuation? Is that what is in the missing information?


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  • or-well

    Smiley The Psychopath Yamashita
    is an apparition from Nightmare Theater.

    He`s committed acts murderous, quite obscener
    than mere lying, denying medical gleaners
    from gathering facts and acting as screeners.

    For denying that children need life that is cleaner
    he should meet the business-end of a`repeater`
    and be sent to hell or to meet his redeemer.

    He`s a dirty corpse-raping inhuman turd,
    a butt-sucking nukespawn puking death-words,
    he`s living rot, a pain-feasting cannibal
    who deserves worse than a rabid animal.

    He`s a pus-tongued, maggot-souled walking excrescence
    of foulness, filth and evil tumescent,
    engorged with power, cold ego and hate;
    may for Eternity this be his fate -

    to be pounded to pulp on a fissioning anvil
    by acid-dipped, razor-tipped smiley-face hammers
    wielded by demons screaming DENIER!
    with awareness-sustaining pain-amplifiers.

    Un-anaesthetised vivisection with pliers
    would be too kind for his kind of liar.

    Please note – the above is gender, age and nationality neutral.


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  • or-well

    They would send to Doom
    the Helpless, the Innocent,
    the blindly obedient
    simply because
    it`s financially expedient.


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  • or-well

    Has Yamashita nodules on his brain
    that make him immune to childrens pain,
    that make his words lies, filthy and septic –
    no one should listen that isnt a sceptic,
    much that he says is the height of venality,
    ignoring medical ethics, morality,
    he would bring sickness and infant mortality.
    He`s a pathological one-man calamity
    who should be bronzed and stand for eternity
    named as Japans Staue of Medical Infamy.


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