Ten New York based Japanese etc. artists with their visual art works in different media warn that it is disapprovingly dangerous for earthquake country Japan to keep nuclear power plants.
出品アーティスト Participating Artists
青柳愛子 Aiko Aoyagi H・マックス・ホルバンド H. Max Horbund 飯塚国雄 Kunio Iizuka 池田佳子 Yoshiko Ikeda 金美貞 Mi Jung Kim 小島健治 Kenji Kojima 越光桂子 Keiko Koshimitsu 長倉一美 Kazumi Nagakura 中里斉 Hitoshi Nakazato 藤原未佳子 Mikako Fujiwara 由賀子 YUKAKO
311 Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake 3rd Year Memorial Exhibition "Anti-Nuke Power Art"
On March 11, 2011 our beautiful native country Japan experienced an unprecedented large earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. Even now, after three years from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, 150,000 people have not returned yet to their home town. After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, many people in Japan felt it is our responsibility to make the world aware of the dangers of nuclear power and to lead the world in anti-nuclear power awareness so as not to waste the inconceivable losses we suffered.
Even after three years have passed, it’s still obvious that the situation has not changed at all we can see the government and country are depending on nuclear power. They say that it’s safe for people, but the government, politicians, and related companies are lying. The disaster should have brought us all to an awareness of the safety of nuclear power, but the reality is things are becoming worse and the situation is being hidden from the public. Those with vested interests in nuclear powers plants and the power structure surrounding them point to energy security and the country’s economy. What is evident in the Fukushima disaster is the hoax perpetrated by nuclear related industry, academia and the government in deceiving the people about its safety. The news media has concealed the radioactive damage and the massive release of radioactivity that is becoming increasingly serious. Then the news of them may be erased by the power of politics.
In November last year, our former national leader who has retired from politics already has issued a statement that our primary Policy of Nuclear Power was the wrong way such as Electricity had enough even without nuclear power, Nuclear power is not safe, Cost is highest as compared with the power otherwise, there is extensive damage that could eliminate a hometown to disappear if an accident at least happens once. Many people agreed but oppose the nuclear power is still taboo. Even yet this subject is considered as taboo in Japan and the U.S. The burden including the issue of nuclear waste to the later generation is not being dealt with responsibly. It is time for all of us to recognize as social beings in order to protect the "life" of the children we love, and to leave an era of hope for them in the future.
The whole world has been manipulated by the rhetoric of "peaceful use of nuclear energy". Now is the time to pull out from this lie and to use art to bring awareness to the devil of nuclear power.