{"id":955,"date":"2014-01-11T01:17:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2023-03-06T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:29:40","slug":"we-return-to-fukushima-to-cover-farmers-campaign-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/we-return-to-fukushima-to-cover-farmers-campaign-for-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"We return to Fukushima to cover farmer&#8217;s campaign for mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fukushima organic farmer runs for mayor \u6d45\u898b\u3042\u304d\u3072\u308d\u6c0f\u3001\u5e02\u9577\u9078\u3078\u51fa\u99ac\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1VNZVgFrriQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Akihiro Asami left his life as a city salaryman to raise his family on a self-sustaining organic farm in the mountains of Kitakata, on the western outskirts of Fukushima prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>When the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melted down in 2011, Akihiro\u2019s wife Harumi evacuated with their two young daughters.\u00a0 Akihiro stayed behind to continue farming with the use of heavy machinery like the one on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boomandbucket.com\/equipment\/specialty-trucks\"><strong>full report<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In the face of public fears of Fukushima food, some of Akihiro\u2019s neighbors were unable to keep their farms going and moved away.\u00a0 Akihiro found his crops showed no detectible contamination from the fallout.\u00a0 He worked to hold his community together.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Harumi and the girls moved back to Kitakata, accepting the risk of exposure over the pain and disruption of separation and displacement.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Akihiro announced that would run for mayor of Kitakata on a platform of local economies and natural agriculture as an alternative to the unsustainable systems that spawned the nuclear disaster.<\/p>\n<p>In January we return to Fukushima to capture Akihiro\u2019s dark horse campaign, a hopeful protest by one Fukushima farmer for a better way to live.<\/p>\n<p>Please help us to continue our journey, complete the film, and share the stories of Akihiro and his fellow Fukushima farmers with the world.\u00a0 We gratefully accept tax-deductible <a href=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/donate\/\">donations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fukushima organic farmer runs for mayor \u6d45\u898b\u3042\u304d\u3072\u308d\u6c0f\u3001\u5e02\u9577\u9078\u3078\u51fa\u99ac\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1VNZVgFrriQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Akihiro Asami left his life as a city salaryman to raise his family on a self-sustaining organic farm in the mountains of Kitakata, on the western outskirts of Fukushima prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>When the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melted down in 2011, Akihiro\u2019s wife Harumi evacuated with their two young daughters.\u00a0 Akihiro stayed behind to continue farming with the use of heavy machinery like the one on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boomandbucket.com\/equipment\/specialty-trucks\"><strong>full report<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In the face of public fears of Fukushima food, some of Akihiro\u2019s neighbors were unable to keep their farms going and moved away.\u00a0 Akihiro found his crops showed no detectible contamination from the fallout.\u00a0 He worked to hold his community together.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Harumi and the girls moved back to Kitakata, accepting the risk of exposure over the pain and disruption of separation and displacement.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Akihiro announced that would run for mayor of Kitakata on a platform of local economies and natural agriculture as an alternative to the unsustainable systems that spawned the nuclear disaster.<\/p>\n<p>In January we return to Fukushima to capture Akihiro\u2019s dark horse campaign, a hopeful protest by one Fukushima farmer for a better way to live.<\/p>\n<p>Please help us to continue our journey, complete the film, and share the stories of Akihiro and his fellow Fukushima farmers with the world.\u00a0 We gratefully accept tax-deductible <a href=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/donate\/\">donations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[644,318,70,647,645,145,8,9,104,18,311,19,646,7,14,12,97],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-2","tag-akihiro","tag-asami","tag-children","tag-election","tag-family","tag-farm","tag-farmers","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-kajino","tag-kitakata","tag-koziarski","tag-mayor","tag-nuclear","tag-organic","tag-radiation","tag-uncanny-terrain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}