Author: Yoichi Shimatsu

Yoichi Shimatsu is a Japanese-American native of the West Coast of the United States, having grown up in Seattle and East Los Angeles. In the 1960’s he completed a graduate degree in Journalism from Berkeley.

On March 11, 2011, Yoichi was working and living in Northern Japan at the time of the earthquake and tsunami there, which resulted in the most severe environmental radiation release in World history, seemingly centered at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

In 2011 he was the only journalist to enter the 20-mile-across government-mandated Exclusion Zone around Fukushima. He went equipped with a video camera.

A 25-minute follow-up Youtube video, Tracking Fukushima’s Nuclear Weapons Sites, resulted in 2018, and is the anchor point of the retrospective offered here: a unique Travelogue in Northern Japan, where Yoichi is equipped with a hand-held Dosimeter (radiation meter). It is, arguably, the most significant video in World History: it unflinchingly examines the deeply disturbing question of whether the 3-11 event actually did represent an Extinction Level Event.

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