Japan Times Column: “As the public – possibly worldwide – sickens over time, the truth will leak out” about Fukushima Here is an excerpt Debito Arudou‘s latest piece for the Japan Times:
“Regardless, the awful truth is: ‘We Japanese don’t lie. We just don’t tell the truth.’”
“This is not sustainable. Post-Fukushima Japan must realize that public acceptance of lying got us into this radioactive mess in the first place.”
“For radiation has no media cycle. It lingers and poisons the land and food chain. Statistics may be obfuscated or suppressed as usual. But radiation’s half-life is longer than the typical attention span or sustainable degree of public outrage.”
“As the public — possibly worldwide — sickens over time, the truth will leak out.”