Q: How are you finding jobs?
A, C: Hello-Work (Government’s employment service centre) visits us. Nonetheless, working at a supermarket, which is the major employer for women, will prevent us from looking after our kids. Furthermore, we cannot tell until when we are here and where we are going.
A: Building temporary houses for Futaba Machi seems delayed.
Q: What do you want Government offices to do?
A: I want to live ordinarily, feeling secured.
C: Now we cannot watch TV programmes or sleep on our own decision.
Q: What do you want to know?
C: As I said a short time ago, I do not know when to leave, where to live or if I can go back to my hometown.
Q: How do you think of volunteers?
C: They are doing very good things to us. Cannot thank them enough.
Q: Do you have enough information on nuclear plants? Are you willing to gather information?
A: We shall see what we shall see. We cannot do anything against them…
Q: While Koriyama, Fukushima and Date are crucially contaminated and people should actually evacuate, some criticise residents there evacuating for being too cautious.
A: On the internet, on the contrary, some are criticising people who dry the washings outside.
B: On my temporary homing, I saw school kids going home. I was surprised – none of those kids were wearing a mask as if everything were normal.
Q: At least fatherless families (with small kids) and pregnant women should evacuate; however there will be cost/employment problems. Any opinion?
A: If my family were fatherless, I would evacuate. Soils in Koriyama have been polluted already.
C: As long as I do not need to be anxious about radiation…
Q: How do you think of dispersal for a kids-only group?
C: Impossible. Kids will definitely be nervous.
A: So will parents. We have to be certain about their health.
A, C: Both parents and kids will be worried if kids will go to an unknown place.
Q: What do you think of Risk Management Advisor Yamashita?
A: Simply amazing. Even though nuclear plants cannot operate any more, he goes around Fukushima and its neighbouring prefectures without wearing a mask.
I wore a mask even when going to Tokyo recently. People’s anxiety may have worn out. TV speaks more of Hamaoka plants, less Fukushima.
Q: Any idea towards those who cannot decide to evacuate? How do you expect relationships with them when you will have been back to your hometown?
C: People criticising us are probably indifferent to current events. Some people certainly have been exposed to radiation.
A: It will be difficult to force kids to wear a mask – the summer is soon coming.
Q: Are your kids happy with their new schools?
A: Initially, crying very often.
C: My son got used to the school after Golden Week (1-week holiday in the 1st week of May).
A: My son is anxious even when he is with his local friends. If they were separated, going to school might be impossible. Though he has been accepted by others, everything was initially hard.
C: Some kids still refuse to go to school every morning. Some parents lead their kids to school.
Q: Quakes still occur. How do kids react?
C: My son tries to protect himself, going under a table.
A: Some small kids sing and dance, as if they were trying to keep their balance.
Q: Should neighbours move together?
A, C: It is more important that kids be together. We would choose ways where this condition is possible. Without our kids feeling secured, we cannot work and kids cannot go to school.