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Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response : Fukushima JPF's New Program in Support of Reconstruction for Disaster Affected Communities The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response: Fukushima Support Program 2021 Solving the “Three Remaining Issues in Fukushima” Japan Platform JPF decided to continue our assistance beyond the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response: We are starting a new program to help solve the three remaining issues in Fukushima. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude for your continued support for Japan Platform (JPF). JPF decided to mobilize on March Fukushima Support Program 2021 11, 2011, the very day the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, and has since supported recovery and reconstruction efforts while always working closely with the local people. For Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures, we completed our support program in fiscal year 2016. At the time, infrastructure had been largely restored, and the support framework had been fully transitioned to local communities and entities. We could confirm that the reconstruction efforts were now led locally by the municipal governments, local social welfare councils, and local organizations. Fukushima Prefecture, on the other hand, is still facing complex and long-term issues. In November 2015 we launched our policy to strengthen support for Fukushima and have been making efforts to improve the reconstruction framework there by continuing the Living Together Fund until fiscal year 2019. Through this fund, we supported local NGOs together with organizations engaging in regional cooperation and intermediary support. JPF Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response: Fukushima Support Program We will continue to support Fukushima to solve the three remaining issues there as identified by external experts in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response program evaluation*1. Activity Areas Donating to JPF’s Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response: Three Remaining Issues in Fukushima Fukushima Support Program - Fukushima Prefecture - - Tokyo Metropolitan Area - Japan Platform’s (JPF) activities are supported by your generous donations. *MUFG Bank, Ltd., has kindly agreed to waive the fees for Support for Disaster-Affected Fukushima Information for donating by bank transfer transfers to this account from ATMs at the MUFG Bank head People and Evacuees Within and City Musashino City, office and branches. Additionally, Japanese Bankers Association 1 Tokyo, etc. Account Name : TOKUHI JAPAN PLATFORM Outside of Fukushima Prefecture has taken measures to waive handling fees for transfers to this Minamisoma Bank Name : MUFG Bank, Ltd. Kawamata City account from other banks if the transfer is made from bank Branch : Head Office Nihonmatsu Town counters. (Excludes transfers from ATMs.) City Bank Address : 2-7-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8388, Japan *If you would like to receive a receipt, please register your address Reduction of Radiation Swift code : BOTKJPJT through the receipt request page at the JPF website. *If you wish to donate by credit card, postal transfer, 2 Exposure Risk Account Type : Saving or PayPal, please visit this page: AAR Japan Account No. : 1354054 Responding to Issue 1 https://www.japanplatform.org/support/tohoku.html Building a Framework for 3 Locally Led Reconstruction Iwaki Japan Platform City Responding to Issues 2&3 Monthly Supporter Program Please sign up online to become a monthly supporter. Japan is a country prone to large-scale natural disasters. You never know when a Search “JPF Monthly Supporter” or visit: disaster may strike the area where you or your loved ones live. JPF’s Monthly Supporters make monthly donations to help us strengthen our organizational and JPF Monthly Supporter Search financial capacity and provide prompt humanitarian and disaster relief. Your Focusing on areas that still require support due to the effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, JPF will continued support during non-disaster times will enable us to be prepared for support Open Science*2 initiatives during the entire year of 2021 so that people affected by the disaster and their supporters can emergency initial assessments when a disaster strikes. https://www.japanplatform.org/support/monthly_supporter.html share a common awareness of issues and promote reconstruction efforts through the power of citizens. JPF is committed to mobilizing the power of citizens so that people can live in good health and with a sense of hope in the long stretch of the post-disaster phase of their lives. We ask for your continued warm support. Japan Platform (JPF) [Tokyo Office] [Tohoku Office] January 2021 Kojimachi GN Yasuda Bldg. 4F, 3-6-5 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Kadokawa Bldg. 511, 2-7-30, Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Takeharu Takahashi Tokyo 102-0083 Miyagi 980-0021 Secretary General, Japan Platform Phone: 03-6261-4750 FAX: 03-6261-4753 Phone: 022-399-7997 Phone: 03-6261-4425 (Domestic Programs) *1: JPF Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Response Program Evaluation Report (March 2020) Search http://tohoku.japanplatform.org/docs/JPF_evaluation_202003.pdf Japan Platform www.japanplatform.org *2: “[Open Science] is a movement to transform scientific research into an activity that is more open to citizens (who are non-specialists). […] It aims to expand traditional methods of scientific communication so that we can build up scientific and educational theories that allow for the realization of the types of scientific research that more people including the general public cooperate with Japan Platform @japanplatform Twitter (Domestic Programs): @jpf_kokunai Citizens themselves are measuring the radiation levels of seawater and fish from off it, are involved in it, and trust it.” Michinori Hatayama, Katsuya Yamori, Ana Maria Cruz, Muneta Yokomatsu, Masamitsu Onishi, Genta Nakano, and Emmanuel Garnier, “Present and Future Research the coast of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This is a quite laborious task in Disaster Reduction Systems (4),” Kyoto University Disaster Prevention Research Institute Annuals Vol. 63 A (2020):124. ©2021 Japan Platform All rights reserved (Published April 2021) that involves the collection of samples at various points and depths. The seawater and fish are measured separately by type and part, and the information is made public.©JPF Oceanographic survey ©Tarachine Solving the “Three Remaining Issues in Fukushima” Support for Disaster-Affected Building a Framework for People and Evacuees Within and Outside Reduction of Radiation Exposure Risk Locally Led Reconstruction of Fukushima Prefecture Activities that address the concerns about the ongoing disaster Developing human resources among local groups so of radioactive contamination among local residents and workers Activities that target those who have fallen between the cracks that they can become more self-reliant, and creating a taking care of the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear due to the termination of public assistance and the withdrawal of framework for civic organizations to complement each power plant accident 1 private support initiatives. 2 3 other's activities The number of evacuees still at the mercy of the evacuation orders following the The advantage of measuring radiation ‒ which cannot be seen, smelled, or felt ‒ is not only about being able to understand the current Among the radioactive materials spread by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident is about 7,200 within Fukushima Prefecture and condition and to avoid danger. It also allows people to scientifically confirm the actual situation and to exercise their autonomy in deciding Nuclear Power Plant accident, there are some nuclides whose about 29,000 outside the prefecture scattered across the country, of which about where and how to live, which is an invaluable human right. In fact, JPF has seen many disaster-affected people regain their mental health measurement process is complicated and requires a high level of 20,000 have evacuated to the Kanto region (as of 13 January 2021, according to through a radiation measurement project. knowledge. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop capable the Reconstruction Agency). human resources in order to obtain accurate measurement results in In response to this issue, we will continue the radiation the months and years to come. In order for people to live healthy and hopeful lives wherever they have evacuated, measurement project through our contract with the Iwaki Citizens’ Radiation Measurement Center, which is also it is essential to continue supporting the creation of spaces where people can share Our objective is to increase the number of measurement technicians known as Mothers’ Radiation Lab Fukushima and more their complicated feelings that they have had for a long time as well as any health by taking the technologies acquired so far, compiling them into commonly referred to as Tarachine (a word that means concerns they may have. These spaces can also allow for people to overcome the teaching materials (textbooks and videos), and offering online classes mother and appears in old Japanese poetry). Tarachine divisions among themselves due to differences in thinking about radiation. and training to those who wish to acquire the techniques. As with the is a non-profit organization in Iwaki City, Fukushima radiation measurement activity itself, this activity will also be Even when we look internationally, the number of internally displaced persons Prefecture, that has
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