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    Prayer:

      Since last May, I have developed following three activities concepts for the 3.11 2012, the first year anniversary. Mothers, women, girls, younger people, and creative & imaginative men of various ages have awakened, stood up and taken actions in various ways. I could have certain confidence a kind of profound “value shift” is going on.

       Therefore, I could write this letter to you.


    1) Japan  Report  <The 3.11 Revelation “:Requiem,Purification transcendence, Hope (vision) for A Sustainable Future > - published for the“3.11 Anniversary”, every year.

       A whole picture of Japanese‘s transformation efforts and various practical examples as forerunners would be compiled as a report in Japanese, English and Chinese.


    2) An Independent Safety Committee for Child, Living Creature, Ecosystem”

      This organization could be operated in cooperation with an international Board and would be based on this philosophy:

    (1) The 4.6 billion years’ earth and 3.8 billion years’ life-stream has evolved a common sense, “to nourish, protect and love infants” in all living creatures.

    (2) The Homo Sapiens was born in and from above the earth and life-stream history.

      Our human beings could be considered as bio-cultural species, rooted to the animals’, life’s, Earth’s and cosmos history.

         (3) In order to live, every individual of us, human beings, have to eat   ( take ) other living creatures whom evolved us. The every individual of human beings carries this life-debt” on his/her back. Each individual has to consider how to return own ”life-debt” to the earth or living creatures in order to be fair to the universal cord. 

     

    3)  < Action-“Return to the Earth for Free-Life・Debt!” >

         In order to act the meaning of human transcendence practically, each individual returns own ”life-debt” to the earth or living creatures in order to be fair to the universal cord. A kindof guide book and examples would be produced.

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       I would like to ask you to help or support to these activities.

      If you are interested in these activities, please send me your ideas or suggestions. or advices or recommendations.

      If you know any organizations and individuals who could support and help these activities financially or any other ways, please introduce me to them. If you are interested in, I would send you more details of these activities.

                  
                      From the Bottom of My Heart   

                               Miwako Kurosaka


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                   In a quick decision

                  I cut off my trail

                  I believed this had saved my life

                  But now I fear that trail

                  Left behind at that site

                  Was the real me

                  And what survives

                  Is only a shrivelled skin

                  This feeling strikes me

                  Like a leather whip

                        

                     The Lizard by Hiroko Kagawa

                            Translated by Miwako Kurosaka & Alfred Birnbaum

                       (“ The Shadow of Fujisan, Jo Steward-Smith, 1987)

                    


                                  

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                        -    References - 

        (1)  Internal and expernal radiation exposures to human health and living creatures

        * “Chernobyl A Million Casualties “, by Karl Grossman ( http://envirovideo.com ) March24.

        * “Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor’s Message for Japan:’ Run Away as Quickly as Possible’  by Natalia Manzuroza, March 22 ,2011                           ( http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/22/chernobyl-cleanup-survivors-message-for-japan-run-away-as-qui/

        * Nuclear's green cheerleaders forget Chernobyl at our peril”, byJohn Vidal , Apri.1.2011    ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnvidal )

        * Radiation in Japan Seas: Risk of Animal Death, Mutation? More radiation from nuclearplant could cause "bizarre mutations."by Christine Dell'Amore National Geographic NewsApril 1, 2011

        * “Fukushima-Katastrophe / Japan legt hohe Strahlengrenzwerte für Kinder fest “    ( http://t.co/xj8cWfw ) April 21,2011

        * Japan’s irradiated waters: How worried should we be? by Ken Buesseler, April 26,   (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/26/buesseler.fukushima.radiation/index.html )

        * “Fukushima is serious as well as Chelnobyl “, Russian Today TV, April ,2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PFRQ4jDUE4&feature=related )

        * “Japan: 45 Percent of Children Near Stricken Plant Exposed to Radiation “after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.”  ( http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/5/headlines#5 )

        * Dr. Ernest Sternglass’s books on Radiation and Health and on Comparison with US &Japan

        * Prof. David Waltner-Toews’ book on radioactive substances contamination in foodchain


        2) Problems of Japanese society

        * Japan ‘s TV Programs useless. by Russia TV ,March 19,2011  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIG53ZrJDJY&feature=related ) 

        * Japan's disaster : A crisis of leadership, too”, March 24, 2011   ( http://www.economist.com/node/18441143 )

        * Aftershocks -A nation bears the unbearable.  March 28, 2011( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/28/110328fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all )

        * Heute Show  ( Germany TV : Satire program) ,Apri.1.2011  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH00psyB4lc&feature=player_embedded )

        *  Takashi Uesugi:The Interview Time Out meets the journalist・・・   Apr 01 2011    ( http://uesugitakashi.com/?p=677 )

        * Japan Frantically Tries To Trace Radioactive Water In Pacific Ocean” , April 4,2011(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/japan-nuclear-plant-radiation_n_844436.html?ir=Green )

        *  Hubris Punished: Japan as Nuclear State by Gavan McCormack Early April,22

        ( http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gavan-McCormack/3517 )

        *”I don't think the end of Japan Fukushima accident is in sight”, April23,2011

                  ( _ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmRrXViVok )

        * No foreign journalists, but Japanese officials spoke in English,April25,2011  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4RqW0RsSGY&feature=fvwrel )

        * "Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant, NY Times, April 27, 2011

        (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?pagewanted=all )

        * 'Fukushima - gross miscarriage of radiation science'  2011/04/27  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3T_bTPmDC8 )

        * Fukushima TEPCO LIES, Meltdown Mayham”, May 17, 2011-This is the human right issue.(  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEFtfkJc4kM )

        * “Katastrophe in Japan 2011–Alle Artikel und Hintergrunde”, May 23, 2011   (  http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,764069,00.html )

        * "In Reporting a Scandal, the Media Are Accused of Just Listening” May29,2011   ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/world/asia/29japan.html ) 

        * “In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency”, May 30,201

        (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/world/asia/31japan.html?ref=japan )

        *” Japan ‘s Nuclear Dependency”, May 31,2011  (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901EFD9103CF932A05756C0A9679D8B63&ref=japan )

        * “Japan Concedes Severity of Blast -Nuclear Disaster Strained Relations With U.S. in Days After the Meltdown “, June 7, 2011( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576369753543372860.html?mod=ITP_pageone_2 )

        * “Japan still wrestling with nuclear crisis.flv “, ABC-Australia, June10,2011,  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O68YyfO2uds   ) 

        * “TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident –No Truth by the government”  Democracy Now, July 5,2011, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YaF_9M_WTI&feature=related )

        * “In Japan, nuclear bestsellers reflect new debates”, July 19,2011  (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/in-japan-nuclear-bestsellers-reflect-new-debate/2011/07/16/gIQATh5QNI_story.html )

        * Japanese Nuclear "Reactors Are Almost In The Same Situation As The Early Days Of The Accident" July 19, 2011 CNN, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykkKnQvhpLo )

        * “Atomic Cover up the Hidden Story”, Aug.9,2011  ( http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/9/atomic_cover_up_the_hidden_story )

        * “The explosive truth behind Fukushima's meltdown”,  Independent, Aug.17,2011 ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-explosive-truth-behind-fukushimas-meltdown-2338819.html)

        * Fallout forensics hike radiation toll-Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates.”(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fukushima-nuclear-planet-released-more-radiation-government-said )( http://www.nature.com/news/2011/251011/full/478435a.html )

        * "Altogether, we estimate that 6.4 TBq of 137Cs, or 19% of the total fallout until 20 April, were deposited overJapanese land areas, while most of the rest fell over the North Pacific Ocean. Only 0.7 TBq, or 2% of the total fallout were deposited on land areas other than Japan.  ( http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/11/28319/2011/acpd-11-28319-2011.html )

        * "Report: 76 trillion becquerels of Plutonium-239 released from Fukushima ― 23,000 times higher than previouslyannounced”, August 29th, 2011 (http://enenews.com/report-76-trillion-becquerels-plutonium-239-released-fukushima-23000-times-higher-previously-announced )

        * “ Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl, “Independent, August 29, 2011: (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/why-the-fukushima-disaster-is-worse-than-chernobyl-2345542.html )  Independent: Why Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl; “Now the truth is coming out” ―   72,000 times worse than Hiroshima & 1 million+ cancer deaths, says professor

        * “Living in the Dead Area- Fukushima’s Reality”, WDR、Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Oc.18,2011

        * "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"-The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN”  ( http://www.gregpalast.com/completely-and-utterly-fail-in-an-earthquake/ ) Nov.10,2011

        * "Does Japan Really Need Nuclear? “, NewYorker, Nov.4,2011 ( http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/11/does-japan-really-need-nuclear.html) 

        * Dr. med. Martin Walter  ( http://www.swissinfo.ch/jpn/i.html?cid=31290712&sb=twi )

         

        3) For Japan ‘s back to “the Eco-Outlaw” again after 22 years efforts 

        * SOS From Japan Fukushima IMPORTANT    ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI4GB-4ly-0&feature=related )

        * Japanese government killing its own people in Fukushima   ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVuGwc9dlhQ&feature=related )

        *  Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school    ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq4JG9ULVNE&feature=related )

        *  Fukushima people forced to do a contamination work for free    ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRxGBxl6fJg&feature=watch_response )

        *  Stop Japan from sending radioactive fishes to third world!  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLMufDf-rC0&feature=related )( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeRutaMSEzI&feature=watch_response )

        *  Lunch menu of Elementary Schools in Natori City.  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjHwBiUBRg&feature=related )
        *
         "No More Nuclear Power" 100 Women from Fukushima: A Sit-in Action in Tokyo  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyhB8JYyQ3M )

        *  touching Speech by Ruiko Mutoh at the anti-nuclear Rally in Tokyo on September 19th ( http://iwakamiyasumi.com/archives/12572#more-12572 )

        * Fukushima Women Lead Anti-Nuclear Protest in Tokyo  ( http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/31/headlines#14 )

        * Japanese government still refusing to evacuate Fukushima child 

        ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6158RyYKZX0 )

        * Japan knowingly exposing young female runners to high radiation in Fukushima  ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlBa36I8Yw&feature=related )

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          Apology:

           Firstly, I would like to apologize my this delayed letter. I needed to grasp a whole picture of government’s basic policies and and scholars’ attitudes towards these disasters, while I myself saw the realities and heard directly from various people who  were affected especially by radioactive substances .

            In the following, I would like to apologize in three aspects.

          1) For release of radioactive substances to air and ocean

          The most unforgiving conducts what the Japan’s Prime Minister had done were these fivedecisions:

          1) The wrong immediate action in emergency e time to deal with TEPCO Fukushima Diichi Nuclear Power Plant Complex ( No.1-4),

          2) No immediate action to protect children and youth not only in Fukushima’s larger area but also in Tokyo’s larger areas,

          3) No immediate measures to protect drinking water, agricultural products, living creatures and others,

          4) No honest, correct and just information regarding radioactive substances’ total amount, distribution ratio to the air and the ocean, and regarding radiation risks to human health and living creatures,

           5) No sincere notice to other surrounding countries when the first release of radioactive contaminated water to ocean in April 4-5.

           After April 5, radioactive contaminated water’s leaking to the ocean have done often. As of Nov.11, it is very difficult to have that correct data and information.

           These are reliable data in the following:

          * "Altogether, we estimate that 6.4 TBq of 137Cs, or 19% of the total fallout until 20 April, were deposited over Japanese land areas, while most of the rest fell over the North Pacific Ocean. Only 0.7 TBq, or 2% of the total fallout were deposited on land areas other than Japan. ( http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/11/28319/2011/acpd-11-28319-2011.html )

          * "76 trillion becquerels of Plutonium-239 released from Fukushima ― 23,000 times higher than previously announced, August 29th, 2011   (http://enenews.com/report-76-trillion-becquerels-plutonium-239-released-fukushima-23000-times-higher-previously-announced )

          * 72,000 times worse than Hiroshima., Independent, August 29, 2011:   (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/why-the-fukushima-disaster-is-worse-than-chernobyl-2345542.html )* Fukushima Radiation Map - Clouds Stream, from 11 March - 5 April.    ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXSaxcJJ6eU&feature=fvwrel )

           If these estimation numbers ( 72,000 times worse than Hiroshima. and only 2% of total fallout on land areas and 98% to the ocean ) are correct, unprecedented effects to human health and living creatures not only in Fukushima and Japan but also other areas of the earth could be occurred.

          The Japan’s nuclear promotion complex ( legislators, bureaucrats, scholars, companies, labor unions, major medias and international group) could not be forgiven. But as Japanese citizens, we feel responsibility to allow them to be arrogant and irreponsble.

           

          2) For no more Japan’s substantial contribution to climate change and biodiversity issues

           

           I would like to apologize this fact that Japan could not continue to involve in contributing to climate change and biodiversity issues because the TEPCO Fukusihima Diichi Nuclear Power Plant’s crippling conditions are unstable, and radioactive substances are still discharging everyday to the air and ocean. We have no capacity and qualification to work for these global environmental issues anymore. 

          Climate Change Issue  

           In Sept.2009, at the United Nations Speech, Hatoyama former Prime Minister announced the 25% reduction of CO2 and surprised us (Japanese citizens ). The truth is that a plan to build new nuclear power plants and to export that to Asian countries was the set with the  25 %. Furthermore, “the Kyoto Protocol “ seemed to be meaningless after this recent news .

           “In 2010, total global CO2 emissions reached 33.0 billion tonnes, a 30 percent increase from 2000 and 45 percent more than 1990, the base year  of the Kyoto Protocol. In turn 1990 global emissions were 22.7 billion tonnes, an increase of 45 percent on the 1970 level of 15.5 billion tonnes. “

          (http://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2011/long-term-trend-in-global-co2-emissions-2011-report )

          Furthermore, more than one trillion yen every year has been spent by the Japanese government (tax) under the name of climate change measures and most of them seems to be used for various activities of nuclear energy promotions. Dr. Y.Fukai points out that " the exclusive global warming complex "was built, just like "the exclusive nuclear promotion complex" in Japan. 

          ( Since 1999, I did not take any income regarding climate change issue .)

          Unfortunately, climate change issue was used for other purposes by certain bureaucrats, scholars, NGOs, medias, etc in Japan.

          Therefore, If you believe in the fact that a CO2 emission reduction is a major measures of climate change, I would like to ask a first major step could be taken from USA as the largest total CO2 emission country.

           (TIME,April9,2001,p30-31,WorldResources2000-2001p282-285 )

          Biodiversity Issue

           Last year, the Biodiversity Convention COP10 was held in Nagoya, Aichi . The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing  and The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets are major results. The United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020 is also agreed.

          However, less than five months later, Japan scattered radioactive substances as 72,000 times worse than Hiroshima.” to the air and ocean from TEPCO Fukushima Diichi Nuclear Power Plant ( No.1-4). And as of No.11, it is said that quire large amount radioactive substances are still leaked.



          3) For Japan ‘s back to “the Eco-Outlaw” again after 22 years efforts

           In May 1989, the article ,"The World's Eco-Outlaw? –Critics takes aim at Japan" was appeared in NewsWeek  (May 1,1989). Then,  the article "Putting the Heart on Japan- Accused of ravaging the world's forests and seas, Tokyo starts to clean up its act! "(by Eugene Linden) was appeared in Time (July 10,1989).  In this article, my comment was referred as follows.

              { ,,,,,,,,,,,   ,Perhaps indicative of modern Japanese attitudes is a question posed by a member of the Japanese contingent to a Sumithonian Institution symposium on the ethics of whaling. Their representative asked how a whale differed from a mosquito, not to argue that both should receive protection but that both are expendable. "The Japanese don't seem to accept the concept of sustainable development," contends conservationist McManus,

          "[the idea] that there can be a middle ground between total exploitation or total protection." Still, there are many heartening signs of changes in Japan.    Miwako Kurosaka, a longtime environmental activist, says with some awe that she has been invited to address a prestigious Keizaikai study group for senior executives that ordinarily devotes its sessions to business and politics. Diet member, Kosugi points out that meetings of his environmental subcommittee, which used to draw five or six legislators to a small room, now draw 40 or more, forcing a move to larger quarters.,,,,,,,,,,,,, , If Japan decides to guard the environment around the world with this kind of care, then the island nation might turn its critics into admires.}

          It was just before the Arche Summit (July14-16), the first Summit that global environmental issues were included as one major agenda.

          By then, Japan overtook the USA as No.1 donor to ODA ( Official Development Assistance).

          Since the Tokyo Conference on the Global Environment and Human Response Towards Sustainable Development, held jointly by the Japanese government and UNEP in Sept.1989, Japanese companies officially started taking actions to deal with global environmental issues.

            Since then, as Mr. Speth’s WRI ( World Resources Institute) staff, my task to improve and promote Japan’s polices and measures for global environmental problems began officially in ways of issue and institutional approaches. Through this role, I learned and experienced a lot of not only Japan’s issues but also others ones.

            Since the beginning of 2010, after I helped key officials of the government quietly to prepare the Biodiversity COP10, I started to review about Japan ‘s past efforts for global environmental issues for a Rio+20 (and Stockholm +40 ) reparation process.

           For this purpose, I needed to be back to and to confirm my basic standing point. Such my confirmation work was to retranslate Edith Cobb’s  book ,The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood  (Columbia University Press 1977). My first Japanese translation of this book was published in Sept.1986. ( http://bloge.miwako-kurosaka.com/?cid=38962 ) Just after I assisted Prof. Stephen Kellert’s research on “Japan ‘s concept of nature and wildlife”, and met with Ms. Jo Steward-Smith, BBC film producer and author of In the Shadow of Fujisan-Japan and its Wildlife ( 1987 ) and with Mr. Alan Miller, Fulbright scholar.


           At the 2:46pm, March 11, 2011, I was just working for finalizing my retranslation of Edith Cobb’s book. Before this day, we had experienced several small scale shaking, so at the first moment, I ignored. Instantly ,I felt the differences from the past, so I switched off my PC. I embraced my two cats at the door where I could see the outside. I became a kind of seasickness. Even I could perceived this strong shaking never  experienced before.

          By the end of April, I had to accept the fact that Japan is back to the real ” Eco-Outlaw”, even more worse than that of 1989.

            As I briefly mentioned above, Japanese establishments could not accept this reality as the result of own policies and actions and take just measures to protect children and own constituencies. However, Japanese ordinary citizens have raised profound questions about human values .

          The gap between the establishments and ordinary citizens has been widening.

            After I heard various voices from Fukushima, Tohoku area and others, I came realize this thought: this “3.11” pushes Japanese people to be a real front of industrial material pursuing civilization of line.

           Therefore, I change my purpose to produce Japan Report for a sustainable future from toward a Rio+20 to the 3.11, 2012.

          If the Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency and Commission exist for nuclear promotion, and Environmental Ministry, Education Ministry, Health Ministry, and Agriculture, Forestry & Fishery Ministry are weaker than the nuclear promotion group, we, Japanese citizens, must have an independent safety committee for children, living creatures and ecosystems.

          And in order to envision a sustainable future, we need to review Japan ‘s past 150 years mistakes & failures and also accomplishments from ordinary citizen’s point of view. We may need to go back to 1300 years or more for our review work.

               being strongly historical, i.e.in often substituting historical inference for experimental analysis, ecology. “ (p 20 Edith Cobb)

              "the value of what an ecologist described as “mental prolepsis”- a casting back into history in order to go forward in time.“ (p.80 Edith Cobb )

              This kind of my work seems to be back to my basic standing point and question about Japan’s purpose of economic growth after I heard the book, Japan as Number One” by Ezra Feivel Vogel in1979. I did not trust this kind of expression because my family was the repatriate from Manchuria. It took 43 days from Tanton ( Anto) , run through Korea peninsula by small boats, walk, train and ship, via Pusan to Hakara, Japan. I was in my mother’s womb.  The day when my family landed on Japan was Dec.8 ( US time-Dec.7) . I was given my life just by chance.

            Since the “ 3.11” happened, it seems to verify about Japan’s history about what I heard from my parents and I learned from various references on the War.

             I came to the point that if Japanese citizens accept this 3.11’s precious message humbly, we could be forgiven the past sin and fault, and we could transcend our limitations for a sustainable future.

          One junior high school girl’s essay shows a hope.

            " The nuclear power plant exists based on various human victims of radioactive exposures,

          when the uranium as a raw material is mined out,

          when the plant is operating, and

          when that accident is happened.. “

          This kind of perception and intelligence is a hope.


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            Dear my mentors, friends, and all concerned persons

             who sent us your compassion for the 3.11 ‘s earthquake and tsunami disasters and who feel strong concern for the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s disasters.

             Since the 3.11’s natural and man-made disasters happened, almost eight months passed.

            Now I could write a letter of appreciation, apology and entreaty to you.

             My special silent prayers for who were sacrificed by other natural disasters and man-made disasters during past eight months.   


            Appreciation:

             1) For Your compassion

             2) For your facts information and justly advices

             3) For your deep analysis of both internal and external radiation exposures and Japanese social problems


            Apology: 

            1) For release of radioactive substances to air and ocean

              2) For no more Japan’s substantial contribution to climate change and biodiversity issues

              3) For Japan‘s back to “the Eco-Outlaw” again after 22 years efforts


            Prayer:

              1) Japan Report<The 3.11 Revelation :Requiem,  Purificationtranscendence, Hope (vision) for a Sustainable Future >-published for the“3.11 Anniversary”, every year.

              2) An Independent Safety Committee for Child, Living Creature, Ecosystem”

              3) < Action-“Return to the Earth for Free-Life・Debt!” >

             

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            Appreciation:

            1)  For Your compassion

              I would like to express deep appreciation to all of you whom sent immediately your compassion, rescue teams, various aid stuff etc to us ( victims and others ). Your words and various actual supports encouraged us and recovered consciousness because for several days, most of us were overwhelmed by the unprecedented after shock feelings. 

            As of Nov.11, 2011, at the Pacific coast of Tohoku, 15836 lives were lost and 3652 lives were still missing. Most people, who lost their love ones by the huge Tsunami, expressed their sorrow and painful feelings, but no hateful words to the natural powers. They are now looking ahead their rebuilding of houses, community relationships, workplaces, new job opportunities, etc. People of the Pacific coast of Tohoku are the people who do not talk so much, but have unique history with beautiful nature, strong wills with patience and high moral spirits. They will rebuilt their home towns under their new visions. What we ( other regions) could do is just to support what they want us to do. 


            2)  For your real information and justly advices

              I would like to express special appreciation to all of concerned people who provided us the real information, analyzed the data scientifically with conscience and advised us honestly, sincerely, and justly regarding the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (No..1-4) accident.

            Just after big shaking shocks, we came to realize the serious fact that TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi NuclearPower Plant Complex (No..1-4) faced at unprecedented dangerous situations, through the internet tools-Twitter, e-mail, ustream, youtube, facebook ..Interestingly, most internet users realized how this accident was seriously the Mr.Roos US Ambassador’s twitter,warning words to American citizens who lived in Fukushima area, afternoon of March 12. By the evening of March 12, I got the information that Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University was warning that a catastrophic accident could be happened at TEPCO Fukushima Diichi Nuclear Power Plant Complex.

            At afternoon of March 15, I received from one friend, who works for medical and educational issues, that one nuclear researcher found out the125I and 133Cs in Tokyo area, so be very careful !. Therefore, key officials of the government and major medias should have had that kind of information already. 

              By the March 15, CBS, BBC,CNN and other foreign medias used the term of meltdown”, but no Japanese mass media used that word and wrote articles about what the government announced. Major media companies set the role that no staff entered into the Fukushima area within 40-50km..

            However, Kan Prime Minister, Edano Chief Cabinet Secretary, The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the Nuclear Safety Commission, scholars, and main stream medias (four major newspapers, most TV including public TV (NHK ) had never informed the true situations to the larger public. Therefore, many children and younger people not only in Fukushima area but also in other areas were exposed by the contaminated air with radioactive substances.

             Various Japanese free journalists members ( http://fpaj.jp/?page_id=1008 ) visited the Fukushima area just after the earthquake and tsunami and reported us what was going on in Fukushima area, via the internet tool. While major medias wrote articles based on the government’s information without any logical and scientific analysis..

             Several NGOs (http://www.cnic.jp/english/ : http://www.tanpoposya.net/main/index.php?id=563 ) , several former nuclear power plant engineers, and several scholars like Prof. Hiroaki Koide and Prof. Tetsuji Imanaka of Kyoto University Research  Reactor Institute began to speak out about the truth. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBVQ3B-Jvrw )

              By the March 16-17, certain people could admit the truth that we should consider the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident as the same level of the Chernobyl disaster.

             Mothers, parents and concerned people,not only in Fukushima but also in other areas of Japan stood up to protect children and youth. However, no Japanese experts could suggest the right answer to them, because by the 3.11, it was believed that the Japanese nuclear power plants were managed by perfectly safe ways. Many self-important  scholars and researchers did not touch with this important issue.

             During such a confusion time, the advice note on ECRR Risk Model and radiation from Fukushima by Dr. Chris Busby, (Scientific Secretary European Committee on Radiation Risk, March 19,2011)( http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/ecrrriskmodelandradiationfromfukushima.pdf ) and

             the Recommendation to Minimamize Radiation Risk in Japan  (the German Society for Radiation Protection, March 20,2011)( http://www.strahlentelex.de/) were very helpful for us to understand how the Japanese government’s minimum standard numbers were quite high risky levels.

            And Dr.Arnie Gundersen’s analysis have been very useful for Japanese concerned people to recognize how we were naïve about nuclear issues. ( http://www.fairewinds.com/ja )

              Furthermore, various simulations of radioactive substances distribution, like The Germany  Weather Agency, The Norway Weather Institute and France ( IRSN) were also informative. (http://www.irsn.fr/FR/popup/Pages/animation_dispersion_rejets_17mars.aspx)

             The Greenpeace’s radiation sampling results and analysis were very useful. (http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/nuclear/Fukushima-nuclear-disaster/ )

             By the end of April, we had enough information to raise different voices from the government’s radiation levels.

            Angry Parents in Japan Confront Government Over Radiation Levels” . ( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/world/asia/26japan.html?_r=1 )

             Mr. Takashi Hirose proceeded to sue Prof. Yamashita, Minister of Education and Science and TEPCO Management.  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR3t01eIeNs&feature=related )

              Women, mother, father, grandparents and well-balanced men began to stand up and take various actions to protect children, foods, water, living creatures, land & ocean from radioactive internal and external exposures. Yes, such various actions have evolved  day by day and month and month !

             

            3)  For your deep analysis of both internal & external radiation exposure and Japanese social problems

            By the end of July, we, concerned Japanese citizens, have learned a lot about serious risks of internal and external radiation exposures to human health and living creatures.

              We commonly raises this profound question why we made this third radiation exposure by own hand, even though we were given the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the first and second time of human history.

            Why ?

              Because the accident was happened at the TEPCO nuclear power plant which the largest power company made this historical disaster, a kind of the very “taboo” was broken. Various hidden facts, sad and violent stories and lies related to past nuclear power plant promotions were revealed in a short period.

              Critical and deep analytical articles by foreign medias, like NY Times, Independent, Spiegel, Le Monde and others, helped us to see own profound social and cultural problem objectively. Various Japanese who live in various countries, have sent us their objective views and useful translation materials from outside of Japan.

              We have opened our eyes critically toward legislator, bureaucrats, scholars, major companies, and major medias who have been involved in nuclear energy promotion process since the US supported several key Japanese who worked to construct the nuclear power plant in Japan, just after the President Eisenhower proposed his "Atoms for Peace"program in 1953. In 1954,       Japanese government, initiated by Mr.Yasuhiro Nakasone supported by Yomiuri Shimbun  owner, budgeted 230 million yen for nuclear energy, marking the beginning of the program. The Atomic Energy Basic Law limited activities to only peaceful purposes.

            Can you believe this so fast and inhuman decision, just 9 years later the historical Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing ?

              The Japan‘s first Tokai nuclear power plant was build in the early 1960s to the British Magnox design at Tokai Village, Ibaragi Prefecture, and generated power from 1966. As of Nov.11,2011, 54 units of nuclear power plants are existed in this small fleuquent earthquake island,Japan. We may have a big earthquake tonight or tomorrow morning and we may make

            similar accidents tonight or tomorrow morning again!

            At the first time since the Aug.15,1945, we, quite many Japanese citizens, have awoke to the realities of Japan ‘s  66 years history. It means that “the certain mentality of Japanese establishments”, who made and carried out the War, survived after 1945 and were covered by their clothes of “democracy”, “industrial affluent well-beings” and “peaceful use  of atomic energy”.

            Therefore, Japanese government, most scholars and major medias could not prevent various victims of air & water pollutions,drug poisoning, pesticides poisoning and etc, and have destroyed not only in own nature of four-seasons’ beautiful island ecosystems but also in tropical forests and other beautiful various ecosystems of other regions. .

             As Prof. Gavan McCormack expressed as “ The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence” (1996 ), Japan’s unreal and fantastic materialistic affluence was exploded by the 3.11 natural disaster. And the third radiation exposure was made again by the Japanese establishment’s arrogance.   ( http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gavan-McCormack/3517 )

              And total radioactive substances from the TEPCO Fukushima Diichi Nuclear Power Plant (No.1-4) might be at least 72,000 times worse than Hiroshima   .(Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl, “Independent, August 29, 2011).

              What happened !

              Why this kind of big failures repeated again and again.?

              Where has gone Japanese traditional ways in harmony with nature ?

              What missed or ignored something philosophical, moral, ethical and religious cores of Western science and technology ?

              What threw own cores of harmony with nature away?  

              At this historical counterpoint of life and death and Japanese citizens may begin to step toward a real democratic way, if we review justly about mistakes and accomplishments of past 150 years since Meiji restoration when Japan introduced Western science and technology.to develop the Japan ‘s wealth.

              Unconsciously, Japan and Japanese citizens now seem to be standing at the front of human historical failure line, if we believe this:” The linear, more time-conscious cultural world imagery of Western civilizations have evolved as intellectual structures ultimately dominated by the sciences.”(p49, Edith Cobb, 1977)

              The “3.11’huge natural disasters and own historical mistake” seems to teach us something fundamental something for Japanese’s historical role.

                           

                                            

                                      

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            Japan 's new movement for No-Nuke: Four college students' hungerstrike-various "No-Nuke"demonstrations-Occupy METE Tent - 100 Fukushima Women 's Three days Sitting Demo- Human Chain around METI

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                 At the front of the METI ( Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry )  building, various activities have performed since the last summer.
                  The 3.11 has sent concerned Japanese to stand up!
                  Something new value shift seems to be happening in Japan !
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              "the Farmland for Hope": Mr.Jun Murata & Mr.Masami Yoshizawa who keep their cattles alive at the now-contaminated farmland,just nine miles away,from TEPCO Fukushima Diichi.

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                  Mr.Murata and Mr.Yoshizawa 's farmland is called as " The Farmland  for 
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                 " Around the Fukushima plant, a world left behind "

                By Chico Harlan, Published: November 20,  the Washington Post

                Namie, JAPAN Eight months ago, people left this place in haste. Families raced from their homes without closing the front doors. They left half-finished wine bottles on their kitchen tables and sneakers in their foyers. They jumped in their cars without taking pets and left cows hitched to milking stanchions.

                 Now the land stands empty, frozen in time, virtually untouched since the March 11 disaster that created a wasteland in the 12-mile circle of farmland that surrounds the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

                Some 78,000 people lived here; only a handful have been permitted to return. Cobwebs spread across storefronts. Mushrooms sprout from living-room floors. Weeds swallow train tracks. A few roads, shaken by the earthquake, are cantilevered like rice paddies. Near the coastline, boats borne inland by the tsunami still litter main roads.

                Only the animals were left behind, and their picture is not pretty. Starving pigs have eaten their own. Cats and dogs scavenge for food. On one farm, the Tochimotos, the skulls of 20 cows dangle from their milking tethers.

                Several thousand Fukushima workers, draped in white protective gear, pass daily through the front gates of the plant, site of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

                 But beyond the plant, for at least 12 miles in any direction, the Japanese government maintains a no-entry zone, with teams of policemen sealing off all roads going in.

                 Nobody is allowed to live there a condition that could continue for decades.

                If the dormant Chernobyl plant in Ukraine provides any guide, the land surrounding the Fukushima facility will one day grow wild, with villages eventually bulldozed and buried. Maybe decades from now, Japan will tailor the area to adventure-seeking tourists, or it will use the region as a wildlife preserve. For now, though, the land surrounding the nuclear plant still preserves the history of those who were told to abandon it.

                The area is dangerous over long periods, with many spots even 10 miles away from the plant showing radiation levels exceeding those at the facilitys main gate. But spend a full day driving through all parts of the no-entry zone and the risks are minimal, with a total exposure comparable with that from a 12-hour plane ride or two chest X-rays.

                 Only emergency workers and select residents with special permits are allowed to enter the zone, and only for brief trips. When two Washington Post reporters rode into the zone by traveling with a local rancher, only a few cars whizzed along the main roads. The rancher, Masami Yoshizawa, said that only about 1,000 of the areas 3,500 cows are still alive. At one point, while driving, he spotted a few brown cows with yellow tags on their ears.

                 “Those are probably mine, he said.

                Many who once lived close to the nuclear plant have felt severed from their previous lives. But Yoshizawas case shows an alternative torment: He makes daily visits to his now-contaminated farmland, preferring a dangerous reminder of his old life to no reminder at all.

                Before the nuclear accident, Yoshizawa worked at the M Ranch, a 30-hectare farm with the curvature of a salad bowl. From the corral where Yoshizawa kept his cattle, one could see the towerlike stacks of Fukushima Daiichi, just nine miles away.

                 Yoshizawa and his fellow ranchers raised the cows for their prized Wagyu beef, selling them to wholesalers for $13,000 per head. Then, in a five-day span of meltdowns and explosions, cesium and other radioactive isotopes were swept across the countryside; the cattle were worthless, and the farms president, Jun Murata, lost $6.5 million in assets. On March 18, Murata told his employees that this was the end. He went to the corral and unlatched the gate. Some 230 cows wandered into the open.

                Most of the employees never returned. But Yoshizawa, with no wife and children, spent the next week thinking about his livelihood. He identified in new ways with the animals he once sold for their beef he felt as if his own worth, too, was verging on zero.

                 So he clung to the ranch. He obtained a permit from a friend at the local mayors office, allowing him unfettered access to the no-go zone. He bought a dosimeter, clipping it to the front window of his car. He and often Murata as well made daily trips to the ranch, feeding the cattle with contaminated hay. A few of the animals turned feral, but most just stuck around.

                Still, theres a question now about how best to treat the creatures inside the 20-kilometer zone. A few animal rights groups have made quick trips to save dogs and cats but not livestock. Scientific groups say the animals represent the best chance for research on the effects of radiation. But in May, the Japanese government recommended that farmers euthanize their animals. It also banned farmers from bringing feed into the no-entry zone.

                 “If the livestock have nothing to feed on, they will languish and eventually die, then-government spokesman Yukio Edano said. I understand we are forcing the farmers to make a very tough decision, but we also do not want the farmers to go inside the no-entry zone, because its not safe.

                Yoshizawa says hell defy the order to euthanize his cattle, but he also understands the governments logic self-preservation in a disaster. Its the same logic that forced the Tochimotos to leave in such a rush. Yoshizawa knew the Tochimotos. They were his neighbors. And on his recent trip into the no-go zone, Yoshizawa stopped by their house where the people lived on the second floor, the animals on the first.

                Persimmons rotted on the driveway. Near the front door, weeds rose knee-high. A Mazda Titan truck was speckled white and black by birds. The cows, who died without being milked, no longer even smelled, their flesh pulled off by other animals.

                They were dead within 10 or 12 days, Yoshizawa said.

                He said he had talked to the Tochimotos just once since the disaster. They have been having nightmares about cows, he said. They cant even think to come back here and see. But you cant blame them. They made the right choice.’’

                 Special correspondent Ayako Mie contributed to this report.

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                "Resonance In Nature " ( Three Volume Book ) Compiled & Edited by Miwako Kurosaka, Shisakushya Paublishing Co. 1988,1989,1990

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                       This  " Resonance In Nature "  ( Three Volume Book ) was compiled and edited because I was  inspired by Edith Cobb 's book, her paper and her speech paper.
                      After this work, I was fully involved in policy work for global environmental problems as a staff  of  WRI ( World Reseouces Institute ).
                     This another story  will be written soon.

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                              " Resonance In Nature "
                            
                  ( Three Volume Book )
                            by Shisakushya Publishing Company
                     

                  Vol. 1 “Nurturing Creative Imagination in Childhood “  ( 1988 )

                  Editor’s forward: Miwako Kurosaka

                  On Learning: Gerald A.P. Carrothers /Prof. Environmental  Studies, York Univ.

                  Foreword:  Makoto Numata /Prof. Chiba University,  President The Nature Conservation Society of Japan

                  I. Preludes

                  * Knowledge of Our Vital Senses-Creating a Dynamic Ecology: Yujiro Nakamura / Philosophy  Prof. Meiji Univ.

                  *” Whole Image”-Its Potentiality: Yoshinaru Fujioka /Anthoropology Prof.Konan Univ.

                  * In Search of Preludes –Resonance of Women, Nature and Culture: Lois J. Parker/ Psychology Cunselor, Univ. of Nevada-Reno


                  II. The World of Edith Cobb

                  * The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood ( 1959):   Edith Cobb

                  * Philosophy and the Health of the Child ( 1961):     Edith Cobb

                  * World of Children’s Imagination-Narrating and Living: Nobuko Uchida/Psychology Assistant Prof .of Ochanomizu Univ.

                  * A New Image of Human Beings: Masako Murakami /philosophy

                  * Blossom! My Handicapped Child: Kayo Shimizu / Chairperson The Association of the Cleft Lip or Palate Children

                  * Dreams-The Garden of the Child: Kunitomo Emori/ Poet

                  *The Ecology of Education and Children: Kazuko Nakazawa /Preschool Education Prof. Joetsu Kyoiku Univ.

                  * Poetry and the Anthropologist- My Experience in Fuji: Naoki Kasuga / Anthoropology Associate prof. Of Nara Univ.

                  * Destructive Potential of the Imagination: Don C. Gifford / Literature Prof. Emeritus of Williams College

                  * Prelude to a Method for Analysis of the Experience of Edith Cobb: Willard F. Day Jr./ Psychology Prof. Emeritus of Nevada-Reno


                  III. Children’s Immediate Environment

                  * The Story of a Conference-Child, Nature and Urban Environment (1975): Calvin W. Stillman / Economics, Environmental Studies Prof. Emeritus of Rudgers Univ.

                  * Children in the Country of the Maple Leaf-A Letter from CANADA: Warabe Asaka/ Artist

                  * Education in Nature Conservation for Children-Based on My Experiences as a Forest Ecologist: Tsunahide Shidei / Forest Ecology Prof. Emeritus of Kyoto Univ.

                  * My Landscape Photographs and My Childhood:  Sinzo Maeda / Photographer

                  * Greenery for Our Five Senses-An Effort in the Urban Planning: Hitoshi Akiyama/ Planner, Director, TAM Office for Regional Landscaping

                  * Environment and Full of Life-Remembered Landscapes and Our Immediate Living Space: Iami Kunoshita / Architect, Chief, The Research Group of the Child’s Play & Twon

                  * Dance of Life-Child Development and the Ecology of Play: Robin C. Moore/Landscape Design Prof. North Carolina State Univ.

                   

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                   Vol. 2 Reflections on the Relationships Between Man and His Environment  ( 1989 )

                   Understanding the Relationships between Man and His Environment: Charles H. Gimingham / Regius Prof. Aberdeen Univ.

                  I. Examination of the Japanese Attitudes Towards Nature

                  * Rescuing People from “ Traffic Congestion”: Masao Watanabe /History of Science Prof. International Christian Univ.

                  * Dual Structure of Nature Conservation in Japan: Motoko Oyadomari / Environmental Politics, Doctorial Fellow, East West Center

                  * Destruction of the Tropical rainforests and Japanese: Yoichi Kuroda /Coordinator, Japan Tropical Forest Action Network

                  * Role of Media in Promoting the Appreciation of Nature: Kenichi Mizuno/ Program Chief Director, Science Section, NHK

                  * Field Biology in Japan, U.K. and USA Hiroyoshi Higuchi / Director, The Research Center of the Wild Bird Society of Japan & Teruyo Oba / Research Fellow, Chiba Natural History Museum and Institute

                  * Issues in Nature Conservation in Japan-Administration, Citizens and Scientists: Masaaki Komaru / Division of Nature Conservation ,Environmental Agency

                  * A New Historical View Based on the Destruction of Nature: Akio Yoshie / History Associate Prof. University of Tokyo


                  II Relationships in Daily Life

                  * Work and Play : Hitoshi Imamura / Social Philosophy Prof. Tokyo Keizai Univ.

                  * Environmental Economic History in A Personal Context-New Year’s Dialogue Between the Old and the Young on Water Wheels: Takeshi Murata/ Economics Prof. Hitotsubashi Univ.

                  * New Trend in the Citizen Movements-The National Trust: Yukio Nishimura /Urban Planning Associate Prof. University of Tokyo

                  * Human Beings and Nature-People’s Attitudes Towards “Home Towns”: Yutaka Shinada / Urban Ecology Prof. Kokusai Budo Univ.

                  * ‘Personal Relationship’-People in the Land: Yuichi Inoue / Regional Study Lecturer, Nara Sangyo Univ.

                  * The Living System and Gender-On Compassionate Intelligence: Makoto Maruyama/ Lecturer Meiji Gakuin Univ.

                  * Beyond the Modern Age- Changes in Relationships: Toshihiko Hasegawa /Medical Doctor, Medical Anthropology


                  III. Nature/Cosmos and Mental/Physical Development

                  * The Loss of Mother Sea- Where are the Japanese Heading for ?: Hiroyuki Araki / Comparative Literature Emeritus Prof. Hiroshima Univ.

                  * Infant Experiences and Disorders in Adulthood: Hideo Suzuki / Medical Doctor

                  * Action Image and Mental Animation: Gosaku Naruse / Psychology Emeritus Prof. Kyushu Univ.

                  * Transcendent Imagination-‘ A vale of Soul-Making’: Satoko Akiyama / Psychology

                  * Landscape Architecture- Heaven/earth, Landscape and Human Beings: Kenji Iwata / Anthropology Emeritus Prof. The National Folk Museum

                   

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                  Vol.3 Towards Creative Relationship with the Earth   ( 1990 )

                    Dedicate the ‘ 90s to the Environment: James Gustave Speth / Lawyer,President, World Resources Institute

                  I. Creative Relationships with the Earth, in the Various Cultures

                  * Argentina- Social Development Through Environmental Action: Robin C. Moore / Landscape Design Prof. North Carolina State. Univ.

                  * Different Cultures & Similar Solutions- The Australian and Japanese Perspectives Roz Hansen & Lawrie Wilson / Planner The National Trust of Australia ( Victoria)

                  * On the Meaning of “Nature”: Calvin W. Stillman /Economics Prof. Emeritus of Rudgers Univ.

                  * American Environmental Movements and Cultural Origins of the Paradox:  Motoko Oyadomari / Environmental Politics Lecturer Chiba Univ.

                  * Imagining a North American Garden-Some Parallels & Differences in Canadian & American Cultures: Ramsay Cook / Canadian History Prof. York Univ.

                  * The Whiskey Ceremony- Humans & Environment in the U.K. & Japan and Past & Present: Lao G. Simmons / Geography Prof. Univ. of Durham

                  * While the Earth Endures -A Report on the Theological and Ethical Considerations of Responsible Land-Use in Scotland: Prof. C.H. Gimingham and The Rev. Ruth Page- A Working Party for the Society, Region and Technology Project, Church of Scotland

                  * Environmental and Energy Policies in Sweden: Tokutaro Ozawa / Science and Technology Royal Swedish Embassy


                  II. What we Should or Could do ?

                  * A Run on the Earth’s Bank: Hilary Ng’Weno/Journalist & Publisher The Weekly Review, Nairobi

                  * Japanese View of Nature and Beyond: Masahiro Sato/ Philosophy Prof. University of Osaka City

                  * International Environmental Problems and US & Japan Cultural Differences- The Need for Mutual Understanding: Alan S. Miller/ Director. The Center of Global-Change, Maryland Univ.

                  * Life and Energy in Rural Japan – The View of a North American: Michael W. Donneily / Politics Prof. Univ. of Tronto

                  * From Pollution Control to Environmental Management- Changes in the Japanese Energy Policy: Osamu Kobayashi / Director Environmental Bureau, Tokyo Electric Power CoLtd.

                  * 90’s is an International Environmental Decade-the Tokyo Conference on the Global Environment and Human Response: James Gustave Speth,

                  * Politics of the Greenhouse Effect-Roles of Citizens, NGOs, Academics, Government and Industries: Shohei Yonemoto / Science History, Mitsubishi Kasei Life Science Research Institute

                  * Global Environmental Problems and the Role of Japan: Hisao Sakimura / UNEP Representative inJapan

                  * Global Environmental Conservation and the Role of NGO: Tatsuno Hayashi / Medical Doctor Japan International Volunteer Center

                  * My Lecture on Ecology- Towards Changes in Excessive Consumption: Toshie Nakamura / Ecology Lecturer Shouei Nursery College

                  *One View of the Conception of Nature-the World of Kenji Miyazawa: Jinzaburo Takagi / Nuclear Chemistry Director The Nuclear Power Information Center

                  * A New Paterniity and new Science in Harmony with Nature-Possibilities of Japanese Culture: Hayao Kawai / Psychology Prof. Kyoto Univ.


                  III. The Earth from a Cosmic View

                  * The Nature’s Image in Haiku Poetry: Momoko Kuroda / haiku Poet

                  * The Sacred Land: Chief Sealthe /

                  * The Eternal Earth -The need for Rediscovery of the Earth and the Resurrection of Humanity: Yoshikazu Shirakawa / Photographer

                  * A Letter from France-Children’s Vision and Artists’ Vision: Susan Cerpzo / Artist

                  * Dream: Susumu Nemoto / Comic artist

                  * Our Beloved Earth, Our beloved Japan –Love and Compassion: Hiroko Kagawa /Poet

                                                     

                  Afterwords:        Miwako Kurosaka

                                                         ***

                                 Deep Appreciation to All Contributors

                   

                                          

                  miwakokurosen * Edith Cobb "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood" * 15:16 * comments(1) * trackbacks(0) * ログピに投稿する

                  Edith Cobb ' book ," The Ecology of Imagination In Childhood" ,

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                      This unique and unusual book grew out of Edith Cobb’s belief that in the imaginative experiences of childhood could be found the essential kernel of the highest forms of human thought. A distillation of the author’s lifelong search in literature, science, the observed behavior of children, autobiography, and the natural world, The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood seeks to explore the cosmic sense which lies at the root of human cultural evolution.

                     Not a book about the “gifted” or Special child, this is rather an attempt to formulate a theory of the significance of childhood imagination. It is the author’s notion that the genius of childhood is a common human possession and a biological condition common to people in all cultures. Its special qualities, however, are seldom retained throughout life except in the most highly creative individuals. The spontaneous and innately creative imagination of  childhood is seen as a spur to positive human evolution and as an important factor in mental, psychological, and psychophysical health. In mature form the quality promotes self-transcendence and is essential to the development of enlightened human compassion. In addition to validation from poetry and philosophy, as well as anthropology

                      And embryology, Edith Cobb supports her thesis with autobiographical examples as diverse as Plato, Paul Klee, Vladimir Nabokov, and Bernard Berenson-all of whom appear to relate their childhood sense of wonder to a cosmic sense that inspired their later work.

                     Drawing on materials from Vico to de Chardin, from Freud to Gesell, from Newton to Dubos, this book weaves a challenging and exciting set of hypotheses of the way in which the child’s perceptions are part of the whole story of the evolution of humanity in history. In seeking to preserve the creativity and spontaneity of the individual, The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood  has much to say to today’s young people looking for new relationships to the natural world. The book includes an introduction by Margaret Mead and a selected bibliography from the author’s collection of childhood autobiographies and biographies from the different countries, located at Teachers College, Columbia University.

                      Edith Cobb studied in Switzerland and England and received a special certificate in 1948 from the New York School of Social Work. For many years she combined a private search for the roots of genius in autobiographies of childhood experience with responsible volunteer work on community project. Upon receipt of her certificate, Edith Cobb began intensive observation of children, the study of projective methods, and a series of increasingly complex integration of biology, poetry, and psychocultural development, leading eventually to the present work. 

                                                 

                                         

                               

                     
                    miwakokurosen * Edith Cobb "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood" * 16:36 * comments(0) * trackbacks(0) * ログピに投稿する

                    The Invisible Bomb : (youtube)

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                                             " The Invisible Bomb "
                           
                           
                                    



                          ( Link )      http://ameblo.jp/yoshikorela/entry-10967753163.html      
                         (youtube)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNwEskAipg  

                         

                      The Invisible Bomb みえないばくだん えいご

                      Written by Yoshiko Oshiba
                      Illustrated by Hayato Kato

                      Making by Jyotaro, Himeko, Peaceful Friends

                      Music by Kensaku Tanigawa From an album "Nature Boy"
                      "Chiisana Kimagure 1.2.3" "witch's cat" "Musume no Kekkon"

                      From an album "Kensaku Tanigawa Solo Vol. 4"
                      "Neriri no Yugure" "Tetsuwan Atomu"

                      Film Editing by Yoshiko Oshiba

                      Translated by  Miwako Kurosaka
                      Cooperation by Moms to Save Children from radiation

                                       
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