Artist apologizes for Fukushima statue

[Taro Toporific]

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Criticism of the Fukushima City art installation of “Sun Child” statue wearing a radiation suit
sankei.com | 2018.8.12 (funky Google Translate)
...Amid criticism of the statue installed near JR Fukushima Station, a public apology and explanation was issued on the August 12th.
Created by the artist, Kenji Yanobe, the “Sun Child” statue is about 6.2 meters high and depicts a child with its protective helmet removed and a chest-mounted radiation dosimeter indicating "000."
At the statue’s unveiling ceremony held on May 3, Mayor Hiroshi Kibata said, “Contemporary art is abstractly expressed unlike science” and asked for understanding…
Blah, blah, blah…

UPDATE in English:
Fukushima residents complain over statue of child in radiation suit
Critics say artwork outside train station gives impression area is unfit for habitation
theguardian.com | Mon 13 Aug 2018
Residents of Fukushima have demanded the removal of a statue of a child in a protective suit from outside the city’s railway station, saying it gives the impression that...more...

[Russell]

It's a relief to see that this radiation suit is gender-neutral.

It even allows for breast feeding.

[Mike Oxlong]

It has a certain Soviet appeal.

[matsuki]

Add that to the list of "This is so fucked it has to be intentional."

[Taro Toporific]

Add that to the list of "This is so fucked it has to be intentional."

Well, the “Sun Child" statue by the artist Kenji Yanobe has got the boot from Fukushima city.

Fukushima to remove controversial statue of child in radiation protection suit
japantimes.co.jp | 2018/08/28
Fukushima Mayor Hiroshi Kohata announced a decision on Tuesday to remove a controversial statue of a child in a radiation protection suit that has drawn waves of criticism since it was unveiled early this month.
"It’s difficult to keep in place a divisive piece of work as a symbol of reconstruction," Kohata told a news conference.
The statue, titled “Sun Child,” was created by contemporary artist Kenji Yanobe in 2011 to appeal for reconstruction from the March 2011 ...
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azito-art.com/topics/double-vision...
...The yellow hazmat suit constantly reappears in Yanobe's work – radiation, atomic energy and its accompanying danger being one of his main topics for over a decade. 1997 he actually visited Chernobyl dressed in one of his suits.

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[Buraku]

British will lift the post-Fukushima import restrictions on Japanese food?

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/271 ... anese-food

[Buraku]

UK to lift import restrictions on food from Fukushima

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -fukushima

Radiation levels at Fukushima plant far worse than was thought

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14071742

[Coligny]

Radiation levels at Fukushima plant far worse than was thought

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14071742

Article from 2020

Really trying hard these days…

[Buraku]

some current news

Japan to lift evacuation orders in 2 Fukushima towns next week

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/027000c


Radioactive Monkey

Urban and Abandoned Exploration

[Buraku]

Situation around Europe's largest nuclear power plant is 'potentially dangerous,' watchdog warns

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russ ... -rcna83230


Introducing Fukushima

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fl5bb4

A drama about losing control in Japan’s nuclear emergency.


the drama doesn't seem to meet the BBC's normal Social Justice Diversity Multi-Cultural Standard...maybe they need more Transexuals islamic Black Jewish African Gay Lesbian Arab muslim or something?

[Coligny]

some current news

Japan to lift evacuation orders in 2 Fukushima towns next week

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/027000c


Radioactive Monkey

Urban and Abandoned Exploration

Urbex, nukular wasteland and monkeys…

I KNOW WHERE TO SPEND MY NEXT VACATIONS.

Need to finish the camo wrap on the Dailycrap furst…