Hi, I am Shinichi Yamada, a Japanese living in NZ.

It is a scientific fact that the Nankai Trough Earthquake is going to occur soon. The Ikata nuclear power plant is located on the top of the Median Tectonic Line and within the strong earthquake fault zone in the Nankai Trough Earthquake. I think that with 99% probability the active reactor in Ikata is going to be destroyed by the earthquake. Once the active reator becomes out of control, all people in the world will lose safe water and safe foods for the next several million years.

Our main objective is to survive the Nankai Trough Earthquake. However, the fundamental cause of the present desperate situation is that the nuclear group has dictatorial power in Japan. To solve the fundamental problem we need to seek for the way to realize the true democracy.

All major political parties support nuclear power and major media never report the dangers of the nuclear plants in the event of the Nankai Trough Earthquake. The government won all trials in higher courts with regards to the threat of nuclear disasters because they can change the judges. It resulted in the nuclear power plants on the top of the Median Tectonic Line and on the top of the three tectonic plate boundaries.

In Japan, electric power companies are monopolies that govern each region. They are allowed by “law” to recover their costs by adding them to electricity bills. Tokyo Electric Power Company, the company that caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, has no worries about bankruptcy and is now working hard to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. Meanwhile, as a result of the nuclear accident, 160,000 evacuees who lost their jobs and homes and were forced to leave their hometowns were evicted from their temporary housing in 2017 and told to return to the contaminated areas.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has not been able to immobilise high-level radioactive waste for about 50 years since it began testing spent nuclear fuel reprocessing in the 1970s. The reprocessing plant in Rokkasho has used 15 trillion yen (150 billion dollars) for the last 30 years and could not immobilise the high-level radioactive waste. Money equivalent to the national budget has been spent on the reprocessing plants that cannot reprocess. As shown in Immobilisation of high level radioactive waste, reprocessing (immobilising high-level radioactive waste) is not technically difficult. The nuclear policy in Japan exists to feed the parasite group.

Democracy is a system that was originally designed to prevent such privatization of the nation by a small group, but in Japan it is clearly not functioning. Sherlock Holmes states, “When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” In this case we don’t need the famous detective.

The process of counting election votes must be fair and transparent. At each polling station, the ballots must be counted under the supervision of local residents, with the ballots projected onto a screen. Then, only the resulting figures must be sent to the central office to compute the sum of the votes in the nation. This process is fundamentally important to realize democracy.

We should stop feeding the parasite. All people know and understand the philosophy of democracy. We have to implement democracy to save our lives.