(hello from Tokyo~)

What a powerful piece of work. You should enter it in a competition and I bet you'll win a prize or something for it. The symbolism is distinctive and chilling - even to an usually art-blind person like me, lol - and if art like this doesn't convince people about nuclear energy, weapons, or anything related to the matter isn't just a hoax or an exaggeration produced by the media or activists, then I don't know what can.



Do you know what frustrates me the most? It's that although we could have withstood the earthquake, and the tsunami was bad enough as the sea walls proved mostly ineffective, the meltdown of the plant is the thing that could have been most easily avoided had the right precautions been taken beforehand. And now it's the thing that is endangering us most. The "experts" say that this was "unpredictable"? Well, what the bliddy hell are you experts here for then??



...Sorry about that little rage. But although it's been a year already, many people in the north still can't live peacefully and safely with the constant fear each measuring of the soil, food produce, water and other essentials brings lurking over them. Tokyo isn't too badly affected, but although the media doesn't spread paranoia as they tell us what's going on with the measuring, that in turn makes me wonder how much or what the government is withholding. PM Noda is clinging on far longer than I'd expected; although my expectations weren't too high in the first place, nor did I care so much when we've had, what, four new prime ministers in a year or so? ...Nuclear problems don't just go away either. If what the scientists say is right, then twenty years of wariness is an understatement. This could go on for generations - I'm a high school student, but thinking that my children and also possibly their children will be born into a world where battling the product of our own carelessness is the norm makes my heart wrench.



The sad truth is that Japan is a country which doesn't have it's own resources, no space to set up wind turbines or hydroelectric dams or yards and yards of solar panels, and for it's development had no choice but to rely on nuclear energy. But seriously? 30% of our electricity coming from nuclear plants? Chernobyl was marked mostly as an incident based on low maintenance, natural disasters can happen anywhere in the world. I, for one, am glad that Germany and Italy (and perhaps some other countries I missed while I was bombarded with end of term exams...) took this threat to our society to face. Now if France can... Sorry this comment is so long. Um, I really liked your artwork.