The Japanese Government says there is no need to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear power station, despite mounting pressure to move more people away from the crippled plant.
Compared with the chief executives of major U.S. or European companies, Shimizu earns a pittance. Tepco won’t give his salary, but total remuneration for the president and 20 other directors came to $8.9 million in fiscal 2009, the last period for which figures are available.
1954年には日本のマグロ漁船「第五福竜丸」が、アメリカの水爆実験に巻き込まれた。核兵器が世界を救うものなのかということについて疑問が起こり始める。そして核戦争に対する恐怖はアメリカ社会の隅々にまで広がっていく。亀のバート君が登場する子供向けの民間防衛フィルム『ダック＆カヴァー（Duck and Cover・さっと隠れて頭を覆え）』が子供たちに原爆への対処法を説明する。家庭用の核兵器用シェルターが売れていく。そして、いざというときは…。
The Atomic Cafe is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering collection of film clips taken from American propaganda films of the 1950s. The thrust of the production is to expose the misinformation (and downright lies) dispensed by the government concerning the atomic bomb. We are shown vignettes from such classic instructional films as Duck and Cover, wherein school children are assured that they will survive a nuclear attack simply by huddling together next to the schoolhouse wall. In another sequence, a pack of pigs are dressed in Army uniforms and left to die at "Ground Zero" during a nuclear test to see if human beings (who purportedly have the same skin consistency as pigs) could endure such an ordeal. Fascinating though it is, Atomic Cafe makes its basic point early in the proceedings, then tends to repeat that point over and over rather than expand upon it.
As dangerously high levels of radiation spread beyond the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, there are fears the race to contain the nuclear crisis has been lost and meltdown has already taken place.
待てば海路の日和あり
花を摘みとることはできても、春の訪れを止めることはできない