Tokyo...
A Novel on Fukushima Daiichi
No great novels emerged from the 9/11 Terror and the 2008 Financial Crisis.
There is a Japanese author who is from Koriyama City, 75 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On March 27, 2011, ten days after the 3/11 Tsunami Disaster and the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, he met a high school girl in a public reading in Tokyo. She asked him for an autograph. So he asked her where she was from. She said, "Soma City." The moment a voice started to whisper in his head, "Go! Go to Soma City near Fukushima Daiichi. You must receive radiation doses. Or at least go and watch it!" So, Hideo Furukawa said to the high-school girl from Soma City, "I think I will go to Soma. And I will observe it." She replied, "Please go and see Soma."
The Fukushima-born author, Hideo Furukawa, visited Soma City. Then, he wrote a novel titled "Uma-tachiyo, Soredemo Hikari-wa Muku-de (Horses! Yet, Light is Innocent!)."
Soma City is well known for its traditional field festival featuring horses. A notable samurai lord started a military training using horses and troopers around 940 or about 1060 years ago in the region now called Soma City, almost immediately north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant area. So, it is natural that Furukawa especially checked a state of horses in Soma City after the occurrence of the Fukshima Daiichi accident. But what he saw was horses under heavy stress. They lost weight and hairs.
After returning to Tokyo, he wrote the novel "Uma-tachiyo, Soredemo Hikari-wa Muku-de (Horses! Yet, Light is Innocent!)." A white horse galloped through deserted roads littered with broken cars and through an abandoned primary school, while avoiding people wearing white protective suits. The horse finally reached a cow barn to encounter a cow left alone. The white horse let her out of the barn. The two animals then peacefully grazed on the bank of a river.
After publishing the novel, he went to Canada for some symposium. Then somebody asked him, "Do you hate Tokyo Electric Power Company?" The Fukushima-born author Hideo Furukawa replied, "No, I don't."
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The other day in a train running near the Tokyo Station, I wondered what year 2012 would be.
Then I saw a kind of Death leaning onto a man. So, I wondered if I would die in 2012, namely this year, due to, say, some act of nature such as a big earthquake. But, the God replied I would not.
So, I checked Chernobyl condition for some of my work...
Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Luk 1:12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
Luk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.