Tag Archives: Censorship

‘Not in this town’: artwork about Britain’s ‘nuclear colonialism’ removed via The Guardian

Posted on 2021/07/17 by nfield

An Australian artist has accused a group of Conservative councillors of using “bullying strategies” to silence and censor her work after an installation she created to highlight Britain’s “identity as a colonial nuclear state” was removed from a park in … Continue reading →

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Don’t criticize government or TEPCO, guides in Fukushima told via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2020/09/24 by nfield

Tour guides are bristling at instructions not to criticize the central government or Tokyo Electric Power Co. when speaking to visitors at a recently opened memorial museum to the 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The instructions have … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima Fallout: The Atomic Bombing Coverup and the Reporter Who Exposed It to the World via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/09/07 by nfield

The following is a review of Lesely M.M. Blume’s new book about John Hersey, author of “Hiroshima”. By John Loretz In 1946, John Hersey wrote a magazine article that changed the world. On the 75thanniversary of the events he described … Continue reading →

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How an Article about the H-Bomb Landed Scientific American in the Middle of the Red Scare via Portside

Posted on 2020/08/31 by nfield

On April 1, 1950, the New York Times carried a sensational front-page headline, “U.S. Censors H-Bomb Data; 3,000 Magazine Copies Burnt.” The story’s lead sentence read: “Gerard Piel, editor of the Scientific American, attacked the censorship policies of the Atomic Energy Commission yesterday … Continue reading →

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RSF urges Japan to stop pressuring the media on Fukushima-related topics via (Reporters without Borders) Fairewinds Energy Education

Posted on 2020/04/10 by nfield

March 11, 2020 As Japan commemorates the 9th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the authorities to let journalists freely report on the topic. On Wednesday, March 11th, Japan will commemorate the 9th anniversary of the … Continue reading →

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RSF urges Japan to stop pressuring the media on Fukushima-related topics via RSF Reporters Without Borders

Posted on 2020/03/11 by nfield

[…] On Wednesday, March 11th, Japan will commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident, the worst atomic disaster after Chernobyl, caused by a tsunami and collectively resulting in 18,500 dead and missing, 160,000 evacuees and a continuous … Continue reading →

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Japan pushes to remove Fukushima references from UN exhibition via The Mainichi

Posted on 2020/03/03 by nfield

[…] The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations is slated to mount the exhibition during the review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty from April 27 to May 22. The ministry, which has supported the confederation’s three previous … Continue reading →

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Radiation levels in Fukushima zones higher in 2017 than 2016, and still above government target despite cleanup: Greenpeace Japan via Nuclear-News

Posted on 2018/03/01 by nfield

Look how the Japanese media are routinely censoring the news about the Fukushima situation. In the first article  about the Greenpeace recent report, a short article published in Australia, are clearly stated: 1. Fukushima still has radiation 100 times higher … Continue reading →

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Censorship? Self-censorship? 検閲? 自己検閲? via documenting ian

Posted on 2015/03/14 by norma field

配給会社都合により、急遽「A2-B-C」上映中止せざるを得なくなってしまいました。 The Japanese distributor of ‘A2-B-C’ (WEBSITE), my documentary about children living in Fukushima, is cancelling all domestic screenings of the film. They are also canceling the contract to distribute the film in Japan, despite there being more than two … Continue reading →

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Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear Speech via The Atlantic

Posted on 2012/03/27 by norma field

There is a particularly sensitive accusation reverberating through online discussion boards and social media in Japan: that Emperor Akihito’s speech on the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami was censored on TV for his comments about the nuclear … Continue reading →

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