Secrecy law approved in Japan — Fear Fukushima cover-ups to worsen- approved by US

Japan Parliament and prime minister Shinzo Abe. Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg

Japan’s more powerful lower house of Parliament approved a state secrecy bill late Tuesday [...] 
Critics say it might sway authorities to withhold more information about nuclear power plants [...] 
The move is welcomed by the United States [...] 
lawyer Hiroyasu Maki said the bill’s definition of secrets is so vague and broad that it could easily be expanded to include radiation data [...] 
Journalists who obtain information “inappropriately” or “wrongfully” can get up to five years in prison.

Taro Yamamoto [an upper house lawmaker] said the law threatened to recreate a fascist state in Japan. 
“This secrecy law represents a coup d’etat by a particular group of politicians and bureaucrats,” he told a press conference in Tokyo. 
“I believe the secrecy bill will eventually lead to the repression of the average person. 
It will allow those in power to crack down on anyone who is criticising them – the path we are on is the recreation of a fascist state.” 
He said the withholding of radiation data after the Fukushima disaster showed the Japanese government was predisposed to hiding information from its citizens and this law would only make things worse. [...] 
The Asahi Shimbun newspaper likened the law to “conspiracy” regulations in pre-war Japan and said it could be used to stymie access to facts on nuclear accidents.




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The Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan is struggling with high radioactivity levels spikes and leakages. There is an ongoing crisis, which is threatening our whole world, and with no known solution.


                      

Robert Jacobs, a professor at Hiroshima Peace University, told RT the compounding problems at Fukushima Daiichi underscore one critical reality: no one really knows what to do.

 “Nobody really knows how to solve the problems at Fukushima. There is nobody who has solutions. The problems at Fukushima are unprecedented, so even bringing in outside expertise, all that they can try to do is problem solve. There is no solution that other countries have that they can come in and fix the reactors, or rather, shut down the contamination, shut down the leaks.”

Nuclear power expert Arnold Gundersen told RT:

“They have a thousand tanks that are held together with a plastic pipe, so if there is a moderate earthquake the plastic pipes will fail and all that material will run across the ground surface and into the ocean,” .

He added that the health risks are great and continue to increase every year. “Somewhere between 100,000 to 1,000,000 [people] will over the next thirty years get cancer from this accident…1,000 additional cancers a year from eating fish from the Pacific.”

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