What ＂divine operation＂ has the Japanese government done to whitewash the evil of discharging pollutants into the sea？

　　The Japanese government announced on the 22nd that the nuclear sewage from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be discharged into the sea on August 24th, and the related preparations have entered the final stage. Over the years, the Japanese government has whitewashed the polluted water as "treated water" in order to force the plan of discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea, and has constantly "brainwashed" the Japanese people and the international community.

　　Looking for international organizations and experts as "amulets"

　　At the beginning of July, Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), released the IAEA’s comprehensive assessment report on the discharge of nuclear polluted water from Fukushima, Japan. Grossi said: Tokyo Electric Power Company’s plan to discharge nuclear polluted water into the sea meets international safety standards.

　　In fact, the Japanese government regarded the report as a reasonable "passport" for nuclear polluted water to be discharged into the sea long before the report was released. At the beginning of July, the Japanese Prime Minister said that after the report was released, the time for officially starting the sea discharge would be further confirmed according to the overall assessment. In other words, the Japanese government seems to have been "well-prepared" about the contents of the report.

　　After the publication of the IAEA report, the international community was in an uproar. South Korea’s "Korean National Daily" directly pointed out that when IAEA tested Japan’s sewage discharge plan into the sea, it compressed the original three analysis tests into one, and the analysis results issued were meaningless. South Korea’s Common Democratic Party said that the IAEA report had no scientific basis and was "full of empty talk". "They didn’t consider other alternatives except dumping nuclear sewage in the ocean at all. There is nothing in the report about the accumulation of nuclear energy substances in the human body and marine environmental pollution. "

　　Okada Chong, a media person who used to be a commentator in Kyodo News, mentioned that the IAEA report did not prove the legitimacy of discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea, but only evaluated the performance of the equipment for discharging the sea and the impact of radioactive substances contained in the "treated water" in the water storage tank on the environment. "The Japanese media also incarnated the government ‘ Cheerleading ’ Vigorously speculate and criticize the argument against nuclear pollution water discharging into the sea. "

　　In addition, the Japanese government has successively invited foreign scholars and international institutions to wash their own "detoxification action". In the first half of 2023, Japan invited a professor from Oxford University in England, saying that the nuclear polluted water had been cleaned up and its danger was exaggerated. At the beginning of June, the professor of pharmacy department of Chungbuk University in South Korea also followed "waving the flag and shouting" and made a statement that "nuclear pollution can be drunk". In early July, Grossi claimed in a media interview that he could "drink nuclear polluted water" and "swim in nuclear polluted water". Some mainstream media in Japan amplify the reports of such remarks, but turn a blind eye to the voices of opposition.

　　The president of the Korea Institute of Atomic Energy denied the relevant statement, especially stressing that nuclear polluted water should never be used as drinking water. "The average tritium concentration in Fukushima nuclear sewage is 620,000 Bekkerel per liter, while the benchmark for drinking water is 10,000 Bekkerel. Nuclear polluted water is far from reaching the drinking standard. "

　　Pushing "Fukushima nuclear food" on the international stage

　　Once the nuclear polluted water is discharged into the sea, food safety will inevitably cause concern to all parties. In this regard, the Japanese government began to pave the way for the nuclear pollution water discharge plan many years ago.

　　Before the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Japanese government made great efforts to publicize that food from Fukushima appeared on the table of the athletes’ village of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The head of Fukushima Prefecture, which is in charge of food supply for the Tokyo Olympics, said that the food list submitted to the organizing committee included peaches, tomatoes, cucumbers, rice, pork and chicken. The idea is to eliminate people’s worries about food safety in Fukushima by letting athletes from all over the world taste it.

　　However, this idea eventually came to nothing. Because many participating countries questioned Fukushima food, the canteen of Tokyo Olympic Village did not indicate the origin of ingredients. The Japanese government originally planned to introduce the ingredients of Fukushima disaster-stricken areas in the canteen, and the Tokyo News said that "the plan to promote Fukushima ingredients to the whole world eventually fell through."

　　At this year’s Group of Seven (G7) Summit, Japan tried to use this international conference to promote "the charm of Japanese food culture". At the dinner party of G7 Summit and some social occasions, Japan provided Japanese wine produced by the time-honored company in Fukushima Prefecture, which was made of local rice and water in Fukushima Prefecture. In addition, Japan also provides processed foods produced in Fukushima Prefecture for international media centers where journalists from various countries gather, such as juice, carbonated drinks, drinks and snacks made from peaches produced in Fukushima.

　　In this regard, Cheng Haozhe, president of the Tokyo branch of Chosun Ilbo, South Korea, said that according to the results of the survey in 2022, 40% of Japanese people think that "even if the radioactive material content in Fukushima food is lower than the standard value, it is unacceptable" and "Fukushima food lacks sufficient information, and I don’t want to take risks". Cheng Haozhe said, isn’t it a typical troublesome behavior to serve important guests visiting Japan with food that Japanese people don’t want to touch? Even if politicians in various countries eat Fukushima food, it is impossible to change their impression of Fukushima immediately. Japan’s efforts to publicize it have the opposite effect.

　　At present, China, South Korea and other 11 countries and regions still adopt import restrictions on Fukushima food. South Korea’s Ministry of Marine and Fisheries said in early June that South Korea does not import Fukushima aquatic products, and "Japanese aquatic products that people are worried about will never be circulated in China".

　　Spare no effort to "buy" the Pacific island countries

　　The plan to discharge pollutants into the sea not only triggered opposition from neighboring countries of Japan, but also worried and questioned Pacific island countries that attached importance to marine resources. In order to win over and convince the Pacific island countries, Japan has recently frequently "shown kindness" to countries in the region. Since February this year, the Japanese government has strengthened its interaction with the Pacific island countries. In February and March, the Japanese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister held talks with the heads of Pacific island countries respectively to introduce the plan of discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea, and promised not to take the form of discharging the sea that would endanger the lives of the people of Pacific island countries and cause adverse effects. Regarding issues such as climate change and infrastructure construction that Pacific island countries attach great importance to, Japan directly indicated that it would participate by giving assistance.

　　In fact, in recent years, Japan has been providing support to Pacific island countries in terms of climate change, including free funds, loans and technical support. For example, in 2017, Japan provided Tonga with 2.1 billion yen (about 108 million yuan) for free to build a wind power generation system. In 2019, Japan provided 550 million yen (about 27.49 million yuan) of free assistance to the Marshall Islands to strengthen medical care. In 2021, Japan provided 1 billion yen (about 50 million yuan) of free assistance to Papua New Guinea to build power facilities. From 2010 to 2019, Japan helped build more than 360 schools in Pacific island countries. In addition, since 1997, Japan has hosted the Pacific Island Countries Summit every three years, especially in 2015 and 2018. The venue of the summit was chosen in Fukushima to tell the Pacific island countries that "Fukushima is closely related to their interests".

　　Obviously, as far as the problem of discharging pollutants into the sea is concerned, these countries have not bought it. The 18 members of the Pacific Island Forum expressed "serious concern" about Japan’s sewage discharge into the sea. Forum members have repeatedly called on Japan to postpone the plan of discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea. Betty Lacour, an anti-nuclear activist in the Republic of Marshall Islands, warned: "We are worried that Japan and other countries will use the so-called assistance to split our Pacific island countries and turn us into a political tool for their own interests." The British "Guardian" pointed out that once the sea discharge is implemented, 2.3 million fishermen living in Pacific islands will be affected.

　　Hard to wash white, public relations everywhere. Under these routines of the Japanese government in recent years, the international community and some people in Japan have not explicitly opposed the discharge of nuclear polluted water into the sea. However, under the global gaze, just like the Japanese citizen group "Don’t pollute the ocean again! The petition of the citizens’ meeting wrote, "The Japanese government’s strong push for the sea exclusion plan will lay a huge curse for the future." (Overseas network Wang Shanning)