The Yoshida Testimony (2)

Table of Contents

Prologue

• The Interview for more than 28 hours

Chapter 1: Who is there to halt nuclear reactors?

• 1. Reality of the ‘Fukushima 50’ ‘I just ordered a temporary retreat but ...’
• 2. The hardest part to remember ‘All this could turn into a China syndrome’
• 3. Nobody came to help ‘I still hold a big grudge against them’

Chapter 2: Can residents be evacuated?

• 1. Fresh water or seawater? ‘Listen, we have run out of water’
• 2. Public relations: who cares? ‘A press release: do as you like’

Chapter 3: Can humans stop a crisis?

• 1. In went a ‘suicide squad’ ‘It all has to be done manually in the end’
• 2. ‘Limits of wisdom’ ‘We can only discuss it empirically’

Epilogue

• Water is there!

Investigations by Tomomi Miyazaki and Hideaki Kimura

Production by Morihiro Sakuma, Shinya Uemura, Masayuki Shirai and Madoka Kimura

Translations in English by Taku Tada and Roy K. Akagawa