Severely malformed babies have been killed in Japan?

Can this be true????

Keiko Ichikawa, the author of "Letters from Fukushima", says why we hardly see malformed children in Japan and what will possibily happen hereafter, in the symposium on the accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant held in Odawara on 21st Aug 2011.

Can someone who speaks Japanese confirm the translation?

Nobody???

Come on. Someone must speak Japanese on ATS...

I can't watch the video at the moment I'm afraid. Perhaps you could give a little more info instead of just posting a video? Like maybe a quick summary? Links to other sites discussing this (if any)?

how could he give you a quick summery if he doesnt understand what theyre saying, its obviously something about killing malformed babies in japan though

reply to post by Frontkjemper


The title pretty much states it.

She asserts:



The precise translation is obviously rather important.

...i dont know if this is the same person but heres a site that says she's an author affiliated with chugai pharmaceutical and her subject area = biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology immunology and microbiology chemistry...

www.scopus.com...

reply to post by Wyn Hawks


I'm still waiting for someone to confirm the translation.

i can barely speak broken japanese but several of the sentences i knew the translation was correct
the one about being in india and people needing money was correct
the sentences before that though i believe she said "... what was it called again" which was left out
its pretty accurate from what i can tell

edit: yes the translation is correct.

I would not be surprised if it is not true and it something I will research.
rbrtj

reply to post by Celestica


Thanks for trying...

Any fluent speakers?

I'd like to know the precise translation of her claim.

Originally posted by loam
reply to post by Celestica

 

Thanks for trying...

Anyone fluent speakers?

I'd like to know the precise translation of her claim.

edit on 28-8-2011 by loam because: (no reason given)

well theres no such thing as a "precise" translation, but from what i can tell its very close. the words aren't being made up. i know mostly just nouns and pronouns and all the ones she is saying are being translated correctly.

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reply to post by loam


I can confirm that translation as being true to the Japanese. There are a few places it could have been phrased better, but I don't feel that any of the meaning has been lost.

that said:

I seriously have to disagree with what she's saying. First off, because you don't make it through a pregnancy in this country without going through several sonograms, and like anywhere else modern medicine is practiced, if the sonogram detects an abnormality, more intensive imaging is done. Thus the shock she feigns (after the birth, the hospital staff refusing to let the mother see the baby) doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Second, because she seems to be suggesting that because Japanese children with visible deformities aren't put on display (as in Indian slums decades ago, with a begging bowl) that they don't exist. I'd suggest that she visit any of the schools for the handicapped around the country for a tour (she can e-mail me, there's one around the corner from here).

reply to post by vox2442


Thank you!!!

So at least we know the translation is correct.

So her claim is pretty extreme. Have you heard of similar assertions? (I assume you're in Japan?)

reply to post by vox2442


i think she was taliking about the new,,,
on going genocide,,,
since Fukushima,,
its been 7 months,

of course these babies will be malformed,,
6 months in a radiation incubator,
thats a no brainer,,

your kids survived,,
this generation,,
will not,,
thats her, worry.

Originally posted by loam
Thank you!!!

So at least we know the translation is correct.

So her claim is pretty extreme. Have you heard of similar assertions? (I assume you're in Japan?)

I've been here for about a decade now. I've never heard of anything even remotely similar to what she's suggesting.

In the time I've been here, I've personally known a couple of dozen couples - friends and colleagues and co workers - who have been through pregnancies, some of them a few times. If what the person in the video is suggesting were true, I can think of at least two kids who wouldn't have made it out of the hospital.

Originally posted by BobAthome
reply to post by vox2442

 

i think she was taliking about the new,,,
on going genocide,,,
since Fukushima,,
its been 7 months,

of course these babies will be malformed,,
6 months in a radiation incubator,
thats a no brainer,,

your kids survived,,
this generation,,
will not,,
thats her, worry.

I assume English is your second language.

Try using the pause button on the video. Some of the English has an odd structure, but if you take it slow you'll get it. She's saying that because she thinks it happened in the past, that it must be happening now.

reply to post by vox2442


sorry my japanese,,past future,present,inflections,,
are rusty.

This is a common Practice in all Countries,
in many Places they can kill the "Baby" as long as the
Baby is unborn, this mean they can kill it until the last minute!

She related here contribution not exactly to F'Shima!

But i am looking for this Statistics as well
and i am in no doubt that we will see an sharp increase!

Ps: the western World is so perverse,
when the Baby is "malformed" or even just have a Down-Syndrome
the Health Insurance will not cover this,
(you has had the choice!)
the Insurances put a Pistol on the Womb of us!

reply to post by Human0815


Did you listen to the video? She's claiming that doctors are killing babies after they're born and recording them as stillborn- as though deformities are something that isn't detected before birth, and regardless of the fact that stillbirth statistics (including autopsy reports) must be reported by law.

Full text is at the link below, article 10 is pretty important to this discussion:

第十条 　死産届書、死産証書及び死胎検案書の様式は、厚生労働省令でこれを定める。

law.e-gov.go.jp...

That's the law. Records of all stillbirths, including causes, are kept. To do what she's suggesting (to somehow keep these babies from being entered into the statistics) would require scrubbing the prenatal medical records, forging the autopsy, and enduring the high likelihood of civil litigation, prison, and possible execution if a single parent ever caught on.

Sorry, can't see it.

reply to post by vox2442


it is against the law to report anything in a negative light regarding the "disaster".
if it is against the law to report it,
dont keep records.
its japan
u live there right?
u know that discussing this is illegal in your country right?