NNMH wrote:
> Don't Dump Radiation into the Sea And Land!
> "GRAND AUTUMN HARVEST FESTIVAL"
> by: NoNukesMoreHearts, StopReprocessingPlant, LoveRokkasho
> 
> Sunday November 30, 2008
> at UENO SUIJOU ONGAKUDOU
> (UENO MUSIC HALL ON WATER)
> T O K Y O
> 
> 
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> The Rokkasho reprocessing plant in Aomori is a chemical factory to
> process nuclear spent fuels (nuclear trash) produced at 55 nuclear
> power plants across Japan. Once the full scale operation begins, it
> would release one year worth of radiation into the sky and ocean. How
> many of us are aware that "the environment and food are about to be
> polluted by dumped radiation across the land and sea as a part of a
> Japan's energy policy." The level of predicted pollution has already
> been publically announced, but there're almost no press reports.
> It's all about the energy that every one of us depends on. "Will we
> just let it be?" We are committed to question from a major energy
> consuming site of Tokyo, share this issue with as many people, and
> widely disperse the concern.
> This is a fun and entertaining event for everyone. Please come along
> with your friends and family!
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> ***********
> 
> 
> DATE: November 30th, 2008, Sunday (Opens in case of rain)
> 
> OPEN: 10:30 , START : 11:45 , DEMO PARADE : 15:00, END : 17:25
> 
> PLACE: UENO SUIJOU ONGAKUDOU (UENO MUSIC HALL ON WATER)
> 2-1 Ueno Kouen, Taito-ku, Tokyo (By Shinobazu pond in Ueno Park)
> 
> BY TRAIN: Ueno, Yushima, Ueno-hirokoji, Ueno-okachimachi
> 
> ADMISSION: FREE
> 
> CONTENS: Music lives, talks, demonstration parade, workshops, booth
> exhibitions, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> STAGE:
> 
> *TALKS
> Hiroaki Koide / Hitomi Kamanaka / Yu Tanaka / Yuko Hirose / Takami
> Yoshimoto / David Kinoshita / Takashi Tomita / and surprise guests
> 
> *MUSIC LIVE
> PANTA / Youko Utsumi / Ann Sally / Gyokou / FUNKIST / Kotobuki /
> Kazeyoshi
> 
> *GUESTS FROM AOMORI
> Wakako Yamamoto / YAM
> 
> *DEMONSTRATION PARADE
> Starts and ends in Suijou Ongakudou - one hour demonstration parade
> - Join us in your own style
> - Music instruments, sound makers, and signs are welcome! Let's get
> together!
> 
> 
> 
> HOSTED BY: "1130 Say "NO!" to Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant From Tokyo"
> Committee
> ORGANISING GROUPS: NO NUKES MORE HEARTS / Citizen's Nuclear
> Information Center / DAICHI WO MAMORU KAI
> CONTACT: e-mail: info [at] nonukesmorehearts.org
> MORE INFO: NO
> http://www.nonukesmorehearts.org/english.html
> 
> 
> If you'd like to download the flyer, please click these links:
> 
> face side (color) -
> http://www.nonukesmorehearts.org/artfiles/1130_flyer_face.pdf
> face side (b/w) -
> http://www.nonukesmorehearts.org/artfiles/1130_flyer_mono_face.pdf
> back side -
> http://www.nonukesmorehearts.org/artfiles/1130_flyer_mono_back.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> ●SPONSORED BY:
> ★PATAGONIA　★VEGAN Healing Cafe ★STOP SAISHORI KOJO / IKEN KOUKOKU NO
> KAI ★SHOKU TO KANKEIKACHI KENKYUJO
> 
> ●SUPPORTED BY:
> ★STOP ROKKASHO★A SEED JAPAN★RIZINE★MOMONGA TOMODAZCHI NET
> 
> 
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> 
> ■A PLANT TO EXTRACT DEADLY PLUTONIUM
> Plutonium is super toxic substance as much as "5 sugar cubes of it
> would wipe out the entire Japanese population." In the extraction
> process, Rokkasho reprocessing plant under the normal operation
> releases radiation 300 times more than that at a regular nuclear power
> station and will operate over approximately 40 years. The related
> costs in reprocessing is announced to be approximately 19 trillion
> yen, and it's already been deducted from our electricity bills.
> 
> ■NATIONALLY-SPREADING VOICE OF "NO! REPROCESSING"
> Concerns over the quasi-permanent effect of radiation is significantly
> growing. Many farmers, fishermen, sea-loving surfers, and supporters
> for environment and safe food get together regardless of their
> positions to oppose to the reprocessing plant. Their voice has been
> widely spreading across Japan. According to a report by a group of
> scientists in this May, "an active fault is located directly under
> nuclear fuel cycle facilities at Rokkasho reprocessing plant. If it's
> connected to the fault of shelf edge, an 8-magnitude earthquake would
> be possible to occur." This remark is raising general fears.
> 
> *As of Oct.20th, it is announced that "the full operation of
> reprocessing plant will resume in this November." However, it's been
> delayed 14 times so far, and the latest schedule is most likely to be
> postponed according to the press.
> 
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After over thirty years of studying and using several different Asian
languages in military and civilian environments ... and actually living
here a bunch fewer years ... I *still* cannot understand the Japanese
fixation with quotation marks.

Or why they never take the time to find a sympathetic native-English
speaking Patagonian Vegan Momonga to fix their insipid translations.

-- 
CL