{"id":3686,"date":"2014-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/independent-science-independent-reporting-outlawed-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:16:29","slug":"independent-science-independent-reporting-outlawed-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/independent-science-independent-reporting-outlawed-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Science & Independent Reporting Outlawed in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bill is widely interpreted as a way of preventing sensitive information about Fukushima (among other topics) reaching the Japanese public and by extension
\n the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

The independent organisation Reporters Without Borders has downgraded Japan in its world press freedom index from 22nd place in 2012, to 53rd in 2013 and
\n to 59th in 2014, following the passing of the state secrets bill. Reporters without Borders say that Japan\u201chas been affected by a lack of transparency
\n and almost zero respect for access to information on subjects directly or indirectly related to Fukushima\u201d<\/p>\n

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All 23 districts of Tokyo contaminated with radiation, worse than at Chernobyl after the accident, and blood cells of children under ten are showing worrying changes; the WHO, the IAEA & the Japanese government cannot be trusted.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2014\/09\/25\/tokyo-contaminated-fit-habitation-doctor-says\/<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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In the USA, Europe and Japan, government radiation monitoring stations are being turned off when a major 'event' happens and or adjusting their equipment to not actually show up the radiation levels, plus manipulating the data so as not to alarm the public. In Japan, they have been caught out manipulating the data on the screens.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In December 2013, the Japanese parliament passed a bill whereby public officials and private citizens could face ten years in prison for divulging \u201cspecial state secrets\u201d, and journalists, five years, for seeking to obtain classified information. Why? Because here is a major media gag on anyone publishing or broadcasting on what is happening at Fukushima and the radiation spewing into the Pacific ocean and also the atmosphere. That the radiation levels have been rigged by Japan, the US & the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}