Abstract
This chapter “Other Animals Left Behind in the Exclusion Zone” considers a variety of animals—domesticated and wild—that lived in the exclusion zone, including chickens, pigs, and ostriches, as well as foxes, Japanese raccoon dogs (tanuki), and wild boars. This chapter also looks at local aquariums that sustained enormous damage. The scientific studies of the local wildlife, such as Japanese macaques and pale blue butterflies, have indicated adverse effects of the radiation on them.
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Hoshi Hiroshi, Misuterareta inochi o sukue! (Save Lives That Were Abandoned!), Tokyo: Shakai-hihyōsha, 2012, 24, 86–87, 150, 171.
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Ibid., 15, 87; Hoshi Hiroshi, Misuterareta inochi o sukue! Part 2 (Save Lives That Were Abandoned! Part 2), Tokyo: Shakai-hihyōsha, 2013, 86; Martin Fackler, email to author, January 9, 2012, Hoshi Hiroshi, https://www.facebook.com/messages/hoshi.hiroshifacebook, August 24, 2016.
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Hoshi (2012), 88–89, 96.
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Ibid., 25, 88–89; Hoshi (2013), 87.
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Hoshi (2012), 11, 84–85, 96, 121.
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Ibid., 92.
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Ibid., 90–91.
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Ibid., 27, 71.
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Hoshi (2013), 88; “Hibaku no jittai tsutaeru eiga ‘Fukushima ikimono no kiroku’” (Film “Fukushima: Record of Wildlife” Tells the Reality of Exposure to Radiation), Tokyo Shimbun, June 23, 2015, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2015062302000199.html.
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“Hibaku no jittai tsutaeru eiga ‘Fukushima ikimono no kiroku’”; “Yasei-dōbutsu genpatsu no eikyō saguku” (To Explore Effects of Radiation on Wildlife), Tokyo Shimbun, May 14, 2013, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2013051402000187.html.
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“Inue-neko kyūsai no wa” (Ring for Rescue of Dogs and Cats), April 22, 2016, http://inunekokyusainowa.la.coocan.jp/kyuenhonbu.html.
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Hoshi (2013), 85.
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“Fukushima Daiichi Genpatsu ni kitsune ka” (A Fox in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station?), Asahi Shimbun, December 28, 2015.
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“Post-Fukushima Lawsuit May Reshape the Politics of Animal Welfare in Japan,” September 8, 2014, http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/08/post-fukushima-lawsuit-may-reshape-the-politics-of-animal-welfare-in-japan/.
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Ibid.
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“Hibaku no jittai tsutaeru eiga ‘Fukushima ikimono no kiroku.’”
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Ibid.
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“Aquamarine Fukushima,” http://www.marine.fks.ed.jp/curator/no54.html, accessed October 2, 2016.
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Ibid.; Patrick Garratt, “Japan Earthquake: Fukushima Aquarium Damage,” March 31, 2011, http://www.aquarium.co.za/blog/entry/japan_earthquake_fukushima_aquarium_damage/.
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“Aquamarine Fukushima.”
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“Yasei-dōbutsu genpatsu no eikyō saguku.”
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“Reconstruction after the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan,” International Zoo News, Vol. 58, No. 4, 2011, 246–247.
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Ibid.
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“Mujin no machi, hakuchō mamoru ‘jijii-butai’ Fukushima ⋅ Ōkuma” (“Old Men’s Patrol Squad” That Protects Swans in Abandoned Town, Fukushima ⋅ Ōkuma), Asahi Shimbun, December 21, 2015.
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Ibid.
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Itoh, M. (2018). Other Animals Left Behind in the Exclusion Zone. In: Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70757-0_10
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