Today in Fukushima Radiation news...

[2MuchMark]

Today in Fukushima Radiation news...

Just One Man Remains in Fukushima Radiation Zone – He’s Feeding All the Animals Left Behind

Naoto Matsumura is adamant: “Animals and people are equal.”

That’s why the 55-year-old rice farmer returned to the Fukushima exclusion zone after being forced to evacuate. Despite warnings about high levels of radiation, he wanted to check on his family’s farm dogs.

In the wake of the devastating March, 2011 earthquake and subsequent melt-down of the nuclear reactor in their hometown, most people left their pets behind, expecting to return in a few days.

When Matsumura defied government orders and returned to Tomioka, he discovered his neighbor’s dogs still tied up, starving and begging for help. Touched by the suffering, he decided to stay behind and care for all the area’s abandoned animals— pets, as well as, ducks, pigs, ostriches, cattle and a pony.

One pooch he found had been locked in a barn for an entire year surviving only on the remains of dead cattle. Matsumura named him Kiseki or “Miracle.”

Every day for four years he’s been exposed to high levels of radiation. In fact, a University of Tokyo doctor said after an examination, his body contained the highest amount of radiation of any person in Japan. But, he also told Matsumura that he wouldn’t feel any symptoms for some 30-40 years.

So the animals and I are staying here,” he told a documentary filmmaker last year.
They welcome occasional visitors, like journalists and crews of international media— especially in March around the disaster’s anniversary. Supporters sometimes bring donated food and water for both him and his animals. He travels out of the zone, to speak about the hazards of nuclear energy, and to visit family.

Even in his beloved town ravaged by radiation, new life springs forth— a calf, some kittens — while the fifth generation farmer raises a new generation of animals born there.

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[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

That's so special. What a heart.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

That's so special. What a heart.

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[crockett]

No symptoms for 30 or 40 years.. Might as well stay, if he lives another 30 years he will still die older than most people..

[MiamiBoyz]

Good for him!

He will outlive 90% of the fat ass Americans who will be dead long before him due to their unhealthy fast food diet with type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

[seeandsee]

Originally Posted by MiamiBoyz

Good for him!

He will outlive 90% of the fat ass Americans who will be dead long before him due to their unhealthy fast food diet with type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

what ever,,,

[2MuchMark]

If I was him I'd stay behind to take care of the animals too, or at least rescue as many as I could. Poor doggies!

[MassMarketing]

Wow that is amazing. I love seeing unselfish people in the world.

[Captain Kawaii]

Ganbatte, ojiisan!

[RummyBoy]

Originally Posted by **********

If I was him I'd stay behind to take care of the animals too, or at least rescue as many as I could. Poor doggies!

Only if you were him?

The probability of you actually becoming him is so low that the chances of you taking care of the animals is miniscule to non-existent. So you're actually saying very clearly loosely translated: "I WILL NEVER FUCKING CARE ABOUT THESE ANIMALS... DIE BITCHES!"

Maybe the "DIE BITCHES!" at the end is an exaggeration but you get the point...

[PaperstreetWinston]

So touching. poor animals.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by RummyBoy

Only if you were him?

The probability of you actually becoming him is so low that the chances of you taking care of the animals is miniscule to non-existent. So you're actually saying very clearly loosely translated: "I WILL NEVER FUCKING CARE ABOUT THESE ANIMALS... DIE BITCHES!"

Maybe the "DIE BITCHES!" at the end is an exaggeration but you get the point...

I get your point, sure, but you didn't get mine. My point is, if I found animals, especially dogs and cats, (especially especially cats), abandoned and alone and starving and needing help, I would help them in an instant.

[Captain Kawaii]

Originally Posted by **********

I get your point, sure, but you didn't get mine. My point is, if I found animals, especially dogs and cats, (especially especially cats), abandoned and alone and starving and needing help, I would help them in an instant.

Yours is the only worthy point. The ojiisan is stepping in where others have failed. The costs/consequences will not effect him, he is already too old. He represents the true spirit of Japan. I admire him for that.

Even porn models in Japan always say before they begin work, "I will do my best."

[just a punk]

There are some real good people on this planet.