Disposal of Cattle in the Exclusion Zone

Itoh, Mayumi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70757-0_8

Mayumi Itoh⁴

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This chapter “Disposal of Cattle in the Exclusion Zone” analyzes the policy of the Japanese government on cattle in the exclusion zone. The government not only abandoned livestock animals but also ordered the cattle ranchers to dispose of their animals. Several ranchers refused to comply with the order and kept their cattle alive, bitterly splitting the ranchers’ community. Scientific studies of the surviving cattle thus far are inconclusive regarding the effects of low-level, long-term radiation on their health.

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Notes

1.
Kitada Naotoshi (director), Zone: Sonzai shinakatta inochi (“Zone: Lives That Were Ignored”), (film documentary), Tokyo: Analog Digital Guard-Japan, 2013.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Ibid.; Hoshi Hiroshi, Misuterareta inochi o sukue! Part 2 (Save Lives That Were Abandoned! Part 2), Tokyo: Shakai-hihyōsha, 2013, 131–132.
4.
Ibid., 71, 83.
5.
Ibid., 70–71, 131–132; Hoshi Hiroshi, https://www.facebook.com/messages/hoshi.hiroshifacebook, August 24, 2016.
6.
“Ushi no tamenimo makenai” (Vow to Fight for the Sake of Cows), Tokyo Shimbun, January 19, 2016, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2016011902000157.html.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Hoshi Hiroshi, Misuterareta inochi o sukue! (Save Lives That Were Abandoned!), Tokyo: Shakai-hihyōsha, 2012, 26.
9.
Ibid., 78–79, 82–83.
10.
Ibid., 78–79, 82–83.
11.
Ibid., 78–79, 82–83.
12.
Hoshi (2013), 77.
13.
Hoshi (2012), 80–81.
14.
Ibid., 118–119.
15.
Ibid., 12–17; Hoshi (2013), 79.
16.
Hoshi (2013), 80; Society for Animal Refugee & Environment Post Nuclear Disaster, http://www.liffn.jp/livestock/, accessed September 13, 2016.
17.
Hoshi (2013), 77.
18.
Ibid., 72–74, 77; Hoshi (2016).
19.
Hoshi (2013), 72, 77, 158.
20.
Ibid., 60; Hoshi (2016); “Hibaku-ushi ‘mitsuzukeru’ kenkyūsha-tachi no shūnen” (Scientists Determined to “Continue to Watch” Radioactive Cattle), Tokyo Shimbun, May 17, 2016, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2016051702000188.html.
21.
Hoshi (2013), 71, 74, 83.
22.
Ibid., 72–73, 77–79.
23.
Ibid., 74, 81.
24.
Hoshi (2012), 78–79.
25.
Hoshi (2016); Martin Fackler, “Defying Japan, Rancher Saves Fukushima’s Radioactive Cows,” New York Times, January 12, 2014.
26.
Fackler; “Fukushima de kangaeru” (Thoughts in Fukushima), Tokyo Shimbun, February 27, 2016.
27.
Hoshi (2013), 60–61.
28.
Hoshi (2016).
29.
Hoshi (2013), 60–61.
30.
Fackler.
31.
“Hibaku eikyō sekai ni tsutaeru kyū-keikai-kuiki de ikiru ushi-tachi” (Cattle That Live in Former Warning Zone Tell the World of the Effects of Exposure to Radiation), Tokyo Shimbun, May 26, 2015.
32.
Ibid.; Kitada.
33.
“Hibaku eikyō sekai ni tsutaeru”; Hoshi (2013), 68–69, 101.
34.
“Hibaku eikyō sekai ni tsutaeru.”
35.
“Hibaku eikyō sekai ni tsutaeru”; “Hibaku-ushi ‘mitsuzukeru’ kenkyūsha-tachi no shūnen”; “Ushi o kenshin” (Medical Examination of Cattle), Tokyo Shimbun, December 23, 2014, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2014122302000185.html.
36.
“Ushi no satsu-shobun o kyohi-shita chikusanka ga sekai-hatsu no jikken de akirakani shita hibaku no eikyō” (Effects of Exposure to Radiation that Ranchers Who Rejected Disposal of Cattle Revealed for the First Time to the World), Sankei Shimbun, February 21, 2016.
37.
Ibid.
38.
“Ushi o kenshin.”
39.
Ibid.
40.
“Fukushima de kangaeru.”
41.
Society for Animal Refugee & Environment Post Nuclear Disaster, http://www.liffn.jp/livestock/, accessed September 13, 2016.
42.
Ibid.; “Hibaku-ushi ‘mitsuzukeru’ kenkyūsha-tachi no shūnen.”
43.
Ibid. (both); “Ushi ga oshiete kureru-mono” (What the Cattle Teach Us), Tokyo Shimbun, July 8, 2014, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2014070802000193.html.
44.
Ibid. (all).
45.
Ibid. (all).
46.
“Fukushima de kangaeru.”
47.
“Fukuhsima no kōjōsen-gan gaibu-hibaku tono kanren mirarezu” (No Correlations Found between Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima and Exposure to Radiation), Asahi Shimbun, September 9, 2016, http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ995GBKJ99ULBJ00G.html?iref=comtop_list_api_n01.
48.
“Fukuhsima no kōjōsen-gan kodomo kikin” (Found for Children with Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima), Asahi Shimbun, September 9, 2016, http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ9956Y7J99UGTB01H.html?iref=comtop_list_nat_n05; Hirokawa Ryūichi, “Watashi no hansei: Hirokawa Ryūichi” (My Life So Far: Hirokawa Ryūichi), No. 1, Asahi Shimbun, September 20, 2016.
49.
Hirokawa Ryūichi, “Watashi no hansei: Hirokawa Ryūichi” (My Life So Far: Hirokawa Ryūichi), No. 5, Asahi Shimbun, September 27, 2016.
50.
“18-sai ika no kōjōsen-gan kei 145-nin ni” (The Number of Children under Age 18 [in Fukushima] with Thyroid Cancer Increased to 145), Asahi Shimbun, December 27, 2016.
51.
“Fukushima de kangaeru”; “Post-Fukushima Lawsuit May Reshape Politics of Animal Welfare in Japan,” September 8, 2014, http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/08/post-fukushima-lawsuit-may-reshape-the-politics-of-animal-welfare-in-japan/.
52.
“Ushi ga oshiete kureru-mono”; “Post-Fukushima Lawsuit…”
53.
“Hibaku-ushi ‘mitsuzukeru’ kenkyūsha-tachi no shūnen.”
54.
“Moto-kaishain no josei Ōkuma-machi ni hōbokujō” (Former Female Company Worker Created a Ranch in Ōkuma Township), Tokyo Shimbun, April 26, 2016, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2016042602000197.html.
55.
“Ōkuma-machi hōboku-gyū no sonogo” (Update on the Cattle Ranch in Ōkuma Township), Tokyo Shimbun, September 13, 2016, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2016091302000168.html; “Gyūho demo mae e susumu: Ōkuma-machi hōboku-gyū no sonogo” (Making a Slow Progress: Update on the Cattle Ranch in Ōkuma Township), Tokyo Shimbun, December 13, 2016, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2016121302000182.html.
56.
“Ōkuma-machi hōboku-gyū no sonogo.”

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Itoh, M. (2018). Disposal of Cattle in the Exclusion Zone. In: Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70757-0_8

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