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By Akio Matsumura
Yastel Yamada is 73 years old. He seems a little tired after weeks on the road in the United States. He is trying to save Japan.
Yastel Yamada is center.
One of the first people… Continue reading
Take Action at Fukushima: An Open Letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Live from the New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the live stream of the symposium now If you use social media, the hash tag is #FukuNYC. Please spread the word. Follow @AkioMatsumura and @chrisjcote or like the Facebook page for updates. The full text of Akio’s speech is… Continue reading
Former Chairman of Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Reactors Should Be Phased Out
Live from the New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the live stream of the symposium now If you use social media, the hash tag is #FukuNYC. Please spread the word. Follow @AkioMatsumura and @chrisjcote or like the Facebook page for updates. The full text of Akio’s speech is… Continue reading
What Did the World Learn from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident?
Live from the New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the live stream of the symposium now If you use social media, the hash tag is #FukuNYC. Please spread the word. Follow @AkioMatsumura and @chrisjcote or like the Facebook page for updates. The full text of Akio’s speech is… Continue reading
Day Two: Watch the Fukushima Nuclear Symposium #FukuNYC
Live from the New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the live stream of the symposium now If you use social media, the hash tag is #FukuNYC. Please spread the word. Follow @AkioMatsumura and @chrisjcote or like the Facebook page for updates. The full text of Akio’s speech is… Continue reading
Event Announcement: The Medical and Ecological Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Live from the New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the live stream of the symposium now If you use social media, the hash tag is #FukuNYC. Please spread the word. Follow @AkioMatsumura and @chrisjcote or like the Facebook page for updates. The full text of Akio’s speech is… Continue reading
Fading Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Akio Matsumura
That indelible black and white image of an ever-expanding mushroom cloud still sits in many homes and offices and still haunts many minds. It conveys a sense of awe in the face of tremendous power. There are fewer iconic images that depict the sometimes barely tangible fallout of this power: the vanquished bodies of loved ones, the slow onset of cancer, the… Continue reading
Sacrificing Our Children: Nuclear Accidents Challenge Priorities of United Nations
by Akio Matsumura
This article is now available in German.
Japan’s Lack of Concern for Fukushima’s Children
The children of Fukushima need greater medical attention and assistance. After the Chernobyl accident, concerns grew in that region as to whether higher rates of cancer, especially in the thyroid gland, would be found in children… Continue reading
The Hydrangea Revolution and Japan’s Unheard Voices
This article is now available in German.
“The splitting of the atom has changed everything, except man’s way of thinking, and so we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe.” – Albert Einstein
By Akio Matsumura
Who is leading us toward nuclear catastrophe? Government and political leaders, profit-minded business leaders… Continue reading
Nuclear Risk in Japan – The Need for Independent Assessment
Read this post in Japanese and German.
Dear Akio Matsumura,
Gordon Thompson, executive director, the Institute of Resource and Security Studies
I write in response to your blog post of 11 June 2012, titled “What is the United States Government Waiting for?” Your… Continue reading
What Is the United States Government Waiting for?
Prime Minister Noda and President Obama
By Akio Matsumura
Read in Japanese, German, French and Russian.
We continue to post the opinions of many international scientists on the potential global catastrophe that would result from the collapse of Reactor 4 at Fukushima Dai-ichi. The message now is simple and clear—Japan’s government will not
On the Cesium Road
by Toshio Nishi. Originally published in the Hoover Digest. Read in Japanese and German.
Japanese feel angry and ignored, prisoners of both radiation and bureaucracy.
For more than a year, I have been hoping that the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company would find the courage to bear the unbearable and repair the breathtaking… Continue reading
Fukushima Daiichi: It May Be too Late Unless the Military Steps in
by Akio Matsumura
This article is available inJapanese and German.
The highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plants present a clear threat to the people of Japan and the world. Reactor 4 and the nearby common spent fuel pool contain over 11,000 highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies, many of which are exposed to… Continue reading
U.S. Senator Concerned with Reactor 4 Urges U.S. to Help
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden
Read the senator’s letter in German.
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a senior member of the Committee on Energy and Natural resources, recently toured the Fukushima power plant site. Among his concerns was the exposed spent fuel assemblies at Reactor 4. Watch him on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown… Continue reading
Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident
Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata
[*Ed: This page was updated on 4/5/12 to reflect corrected calculations]
By Akio Matsumura
This article is available in Japanese and German and Russian.
Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of… Continue reading
What Others Say
President Gorbachev
“A spiritual beginning must be the basis of any initiative. Akio has always faithfully acted upon this conviction. His devotion to it has made it possible for him not only to overcome numerous obstacles and problems but also help others.”
John C. Whitehead, Deputy Sec. of State & Co-Chair, Goldman Sachs
“He is the most completely selfless, dedicated person I have ever known. Failure is a word he does not know. It is only for him a challenge to move forward again.”
Anuradha Vittachi, Co-Founder OneWorld Network
Akio's modesty is key to his achievements. He does not try to control the outcome of his conferences: the delegates are genuinely free to discuss what they want, and how. This openness is, I believe, the key to his success.
Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School
Akio Matsumura is in the truest sense of the phrase “a citizen of the world”. He has no ideological agenda beyond the betterment of the human condition. A remarkable and admirable person.
Jim Paredes, Musician
Akio Matsumura was one of the first global citizens I met many years back in a forum in Moscow. His genuine concern and compassion for all people inspired me to see my own connection to the rest of humanity. Evolution will move forward for the better because of people like him.
Glenn Olds, US Ambassador to UN
“He has the spirit of a saint, the skill of a mediator, the mind of one inspired by an awesome Creator, and Cosmic friend, and the imaginative courage of a genuine, one of a kind, historic initiator. His sense of urgency is grounded in the dramatic and traumatic struggle of our time which is as much spiritual as it is political.”
Brad Morse, UNDP Administrator
“I have a powerful position of the UN, a staff of 4,000 and a huge office, but Akio does not have any of this. However he can bring President Gorbachev and Mother Teresa together at a meeting, which I cannot do.”
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