Japan Tries to Ease Fury of Parents Near Plant

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/world/asia/28japan.html?_r=1&ref=world

On Friday, May 27th, Japan’s education minister said that he would lower the radiation exposure limit for school children whose schools are near the nuclear plants. He also said the government would pay to have schools remove the topsoil that has been affected by the radiation. The education minister has been trying to ease the fury of parents living in Fukushima, where the amount of radiation exposure for the children has been equal to those who work in the actual nuclear power plants. This has been 20 times the previous limit for radiation exposure that the children were revealed to. This issue was further exasperated at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

This has made it hard for the Japanese government to determine whether they will lower nuclear activity or have to pay expensive clean ups throughout the cities affected by the radiation. This was heightened last Wednesday when parents demanded the government to decontaminate the schools and then formed a group protest outside the Japanese Education Ministry in Tokyo. In April, earlier this year, an adviser Prime Minister Naoto Kan resigned over the government radiation limits. He claimed that he couldn't be a part of a group that exposed children to these dangerous doses of radiation. While there are some efforts being taken by the government, many claim that their needs to be more cleanups throughout the cities.

The CBT that best relates to this article is Sin: Mankind is totally depraved and his sinful nature is seen throughout history. Law and government were established to restrain this depravity in the governors as well as the governed. The government was established to set these kinds of laws to protect the children. Yet, the government can't even seem to follow their own rules and in doing so its severely affected the children in the worst possible ways. It's time for either the government to step up or be replaced or reformed. The lives of the next generation shouldn't be hindered because careless decisions.