French reporter Antonio Pagnotta is still excited when he is interviewed to remember the protagonist of the novel Le dernier homme de Fukushima (the last man of Fukushima). He has been carrying out photo portfolios for Mediapart for 9 months from the most contaminated sites in Fukushima. He has now compiled in a book the anecdotes and comments of Naoto Matsumura, who has known and left only in the prohibited area for humanos.La broadcaster
France Info has interviewed Pagnota on 11 April on the occasion of the second anniversary of the start of the disaster. Here's a summary of what the journalist said.
You have to understand that Matsumura is a normal man. He's a farmer, he loves his trade, he's raised the buildings with his own hands. The nuclear tsunami has also hit him in the early morning of 11 March 2011. High radiation rates will remain, like all other parts of the environment, until it is ordered to evacuate within a month.
Once the military is released, he will go to Iwaki, seeking refuge for the family. Arriving at her father's sister's house, she will feel a panic in her aunt's face, as Naoto, 53, and her parents, are radiated as possible contaminants.
He then went to the shelter of refugees and overflowed the water. Shock realizes that Matsumura has the best way to go home, for his honor... and because livestock is hambriento.La
adherence of Japanese labourers to land is greater. The graves of the family, the friends, everything is in the country. In time, Matsumura will rationalize his decision by saying that he has returned home to fight TEPCO. A new world begins.
Pagnotta will get contact with the isolated man. As all roads are rigorously monitored by the police, the journalist will enter the forbidden area along the tracks of the train. At the exit of a tunnel, a man appears by surprise, still far from the place of the quotation. “I’m Matsumura.” How do you believe? But it's true. She has travelled 10 kilometres on foot to accompany the journalist. The journalist has advanced to protect him, because he is convinced of this.
The following days Pagnotta will pass through a world that seems to have returned to the 18th century. Going back in time, yes, but full of traces of the 21st century. A supermarché dans la zone interdite de Fukushima. In the hypermarket that was given to the evacuation the meats have been rotting, the dummies are on the ground, everything that is corrupt has been damaged, the rest is in place, waiting for those who love...Tomioka's hypermarket is the symbol of prosperity developed jointly with
nuclear energy and interrupted by atomic cataclysm.
Man lives in full isolation. There is hardly any noise, no carriages, no TVs, no radios. A sea of
silence Matsumuraz began to smile, like a madman, through the media. After two years of resistance, Pagnotta says that the Japanese express respect for him, they consider him wise because in part he has saved the dignity of his people and of all of Japan.

Eating cesium by inhalation

The magazine of the web Vice has hung the documentary Alone in the Zone on the Internet on the second anniversary of the biggest catastrophe in the world. Ivan Kovac and Jeffrey Jousane, with 15,500 inhabitants, have today visited Naoto Matsumura in the Tomioca desert. Collecting the images, they let him talk.
He still remembers the feeling that day that he realized he was completely alone. He's been used to it ever since. He has regained his desire for joke. He's played in front of the camera with two ostriches he looks after. He's been educated. Lying on one of them, he told the story of the frustrated evacuation and how he had come back. I couldn't leave the animals alone, somebody has to feed them.
The Kusia of Naoto is living in TEPCO. The day after the explosions he saw him get rid of the house. Asked if everything was going well, the cousin said yes, that everything had been fixed in two days. He ran away with his family, lying to Nato.
This is how TEPCO workers are washed their heads. It's like religion. They are convinced that power plants are safe. When reactor 4 broke out, Naoto asked what it was and that it needed a missile launched by North Korea, a power plant could not explode.
After the evacuation, more than 1,000 cows died in the vicinity of villages tied to the stables, hundreds of thousands of chickens. Naoto governs a lot of things besides what he already had. It calmly gives them the straits and other food left to them by the peasants of the neighborhood. He has raised fences so that cows can circulate freely.
Will it not allow the government to kill these animals? Yes, if they were to feed someone, but as they are, they do not harm anyone. Humans and animals are the same for this Xintoid peasant.
When he returned from the flight, most of the animals had died, not all. In his stable he had finally found cow and calf, bone and bark, wanting to drink calves, and his mother had no milk and despised with kicks over and over again. In the handkerchief, Naoto offered his finger to the little boy, in the guise of teta, as comfort. Too late. Thousands of people died in the
alrededores.En report journalists have also interviewed another evacuated farmer from the region, Hasegawa Kenji, and Dr. Nihei Masahi, director of the U.S. Radiological Analysis Clinic. They are clearly told that radiation damages cells, but that it is more risky to assimilate to food than to receive radioactivity from the skin. You have to move away from contaminated food.
Naoto lives surrounded by cesium, breathing, eating and drinking radioactivity. At first he worried that within 5 to 10 years he might have cancer. Now no longer. He was researched at the University of Tokyo, “tucked into a tube like the incinerator”, to end up saying the doctor who was Japan’s champion in radiation, but who won’t get sick before 30 years. By then it is muerto.Cuando
Matsumura was a child, here the nature was prosperous, the fish in the streams, the plants in the mountains, the jars everywhere. “That’s over,” he says in the farewell. “No one knows how long it will take to recover. I have no choice but to die in Tomioka. I’m 30 years ahead.” And behind him he bitten the ostrich.