23.03.2021 One year later than planned and despite all the protests, the Summer Olympic Games have taken place: ten years after the catastrophe that shocked the country in March 2010 – the earthquake, the tsunami and the multiple nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima.

As the end of the Paralympics drew to a close, so did our two-year campaign “Tokyo 2020 – The Radioactive Olympics“. We have achieved a great deal together: we invoked the international Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government not to hold the baseball and softball games in the city of Fukushima as well as to stop the torch relay from running through the contaminated areas in Fukushima prefecture. Through this we were able to raise the international public profile of the dramatic situation of those still affected in Japan. We were also able to inform the German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischen Sportbund) of the consequences of Fukushima and the fate of the people living there. The survivors of the atom bombing on Hiroshima also protested at the IOC when President Bach rejected the request for a minute’s silence on Hiroshima Remembrance Day.

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23.03.2021 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government should abandon the torch relay in the contaminated areas of Fukushima Prefecture as well as the baseball and softball competitions in Fukushima City. This is the demand made by anti-nuclear organisations IPPNW, .ausgestrahlt and Sayonara Nukes Berlin, on the occasion of the torch relay starting on Thursday in Fukushima. Despite the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, which started over ten years ago and is still going on, the government continues to plan on holding competitions and the torch relay in Fukushima. Despite radioactivity along the torch route, local restrictions are only due to the Corona pandemic: There will be no reception ceremonies on the route and the number of spectators during the run will be kept to a minimum.

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In 2021, Japan is inviting athletes from around the world to take part in the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are hoping for the games to be fair and peaceful. At the same time, we are worried about plans to host baseball and softball competitions in Fukushima City, just 50 km away from the ruins of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. It was here, in 2011, that multiple nuclear meltdowns took place, spreading radioactivity across Japan and the Pacific Ocean – a catastrophe comparable only to the nuclear meltdown of Chernobyl.

If you are interested, please contact us at olympia2020[at]ippnw.de 

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Lausanne, 26th February 2020 About 1 in 15 children born in 2011 exposed to 100 Millisievert (mSv) will suffer from radio-induced cancer or other life threatening disease during lifetime under the Japanese radiation dose limits currently in force. In regions radiocontaminated by the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident these risks will last for hundredsof years. These regionsare uninhabitable according to the  usual radioprotection limit of 1 mSv/year. In 2020 the Fukushima NPP catastrophe is by no means  controlled.

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27.11.2019 The Summer Olympics in Tokyo are approaching. We have branded them the "Radioactive Olympic Games", because Japan is still suffering from radioactive contamination due to the multiple nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima nine years ago. We stand in solidarity with all those affected by radioactivity in Japan. The Olympic Movement needs to address their situation. We oppose this attempt to use the Olympics to portray a false normality in the affected regions. We demand that the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government refrain from holding the baseball and softball competitions in Fukushima City and the Olympic torch relay in radioactively contaminated areas. Support our demand with your signature.

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24.07.2019 A year before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima is not under control. In radiation protection suits, with the Olympic rings supplemented by a radioactivity symbol and a redesigned Olympic torch, the activists drew attention to the continuing danger posed by the damaged reactors in Fukushima. They stressed that the Olympic Games should not be used to divert attention from the fate of the inhabitants of the irradiated regions and the continuing radioactive threat.

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Tomorrow in one year, on March 26 2020, the Olympic torch relay will start in the radioactively contaminated Fukushima Prefecture. This is why tomorrow, a group of anti-nuclear oranizations in Germany, Switzerland, France and Japan will launch an international information campaign entitled „Tokyo 2020 - The Radioactive Olympics”. The campaign will focus on the ongoing radioactive contamination of parts of Japan due to the nuclear catastrope of Fukushima, which began eight years ago. 

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Become active and write a letter to your National Olympic Committee. The letter describes the thoughts behind our campaign and ends with an offer to enter a constructive dialogue and inform the athletes about the situation in Fukushima and ongoing health risks from radioactive contamination. Similar letters have been sent out to the International Olympic Committee and the German National Olympic Committee. We would welcome it, if you want to take this letter, adapt it to your needs, perhaps translate it and send it to your own National Olympic Committee.

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