NPO launches digital archives on Fukushima nuclear disaster

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Source: Kyodo

A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization has launched a digital archive of public documents on the 2011 nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, so people can examine whether administrative bodies have pursued appropriate policies since the disaster started.

There are currently over 3,000 documents organized by Access-Info Clearinghouse Japan on file, totaling some 60,000 pages obtained from central government offices and local-level authorities through freedom-of-information requests or from the home pages of each administrative body.

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“It is necessary to create conditions to allow people to access these documents even 20 or 30 years later to ensure effective follow-up on radioactivity impact, which must have a late onset, and examine policies over the disaster as it will take a long time to put it under control,” she added.

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The NPO has worked toward enhancing the information disclosure system to secure people’s right to know. Recently, it filed a lawsuit to seek the disclosure of a government report examining its policymaking process for Japan’s support in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq in 2003, which was based on the belief that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

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The URL of the archives, which is available without charge and only in Japanese, is www.archives311.org.

Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/31/national/npo-launches-digital-archives-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/

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1. "As only portions of some documents were disclosed, the NPO has posted them on the archives as they"

As only portions of some documents were disclosed, the NPO has posted them on the archives as they are.

Have to wonder what they're still hiding.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Exactly bananas. They are proven liars. nt

[BeanMusical]

3. "Have to wonder what they're still hiding."

Plenty. Thanks for your post bananas. Recced.