Japan has begun releasing water in the area where the Fukushima nuclear power plant is located, heavily hit by the 2011 tsunami, and several countries around the world have accused the Japanese government of releasing radioactive material into the ocean.
To refute the speculation, the country’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has decided to invite his cabinet to his office for a lunch of sashimi with shellfish caught in Fukushima prefecture and has distributed a video of the moment, a staging that It is reminiscent of the propaganda images of the bathroom of Manuel Fraga -then Minister of Tourism under the Franco regime- in Palomares after the fall of four thermonuclear bombs on the Almeria beach.
Together with Kishida, the Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Yasutoshi Nishimura, the Minister in charge of policies related to children, Masanobu Ogura, and the Minister of Finance, Shunichi Suzuki, participated in this meal.
Tokyo ensures that the discharge of water from Fukushima into the sea is safe for the environment and human health and the operation has the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
However, in recent weeks local fishermen have shown their indignation at this decision by the country’s government and countries like China suspended the import of Japanese seafood.
The plan devised by the government consists of pouring more than 1.3 million tons of water gradually to cool the cores of the reactors that melted after the tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of the country. For this, mainly rainwater and groundwater will be used. The process is long and is expected to take decades.
