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This chapter “Volunteer Animal Rescue in the Exclusion Zone I” introduces major animal rescue operations in the exclusion zone initiated by grassroots animal protection groups and individual volunteers on their own. They engaged in the rescue work in order to fill the void left by the inadequate government animal rescue operations. Nevertheless, the governmental agencies not only denied them financial and logistic support, but also banned them from engaging in the animal rescue work. Thus, they risked their own lives in order to save the animals left behind in the zone by entering the zone in violation of the law and being exposed to a high level of radiation.
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
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Hoshi Hiroshi, Misuterareta inochi o sukue! (Save Lives That Were Abandoned!), Tokyo: Shakai-hihyōsha, 2012, 16, 94; Hoshi Hiroshi, Misuterareta inochi o sukue! Part 2 (Save Lives That Were Abandoned! Part 2), Tokyo: Shakai-hihyōsha, 2013, 160.
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Hoshi (2012), preface-1, 31–32.
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Ibid., 57
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Ibid., preface-1, 20–21, 68.
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Ibid., preface-1, 48.
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Ibid., 44–47.
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Ibid., preface-1, 20–21, 56, 66, 68.
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Ibid., 120–121.
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Ibid., 100–101; “Act on Welfare and Management of Animals (Act No. 105 of October 1, 1973),” https://www.env.go.jp/en/laws/nature/act_wm_animals.pdf, accessed September 23, 2016; “Act on Welfare and Management of Animals,” April 1, 2009, http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail/?id=61&vm=04&re=02.
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Hoshi (2012), 100–101, 105.
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Ibid., 100–103, 105.
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Ibid., 106–107; Hoshi (2013), 33, 92–95.
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Hoshi (2012), 74–75, 98.
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Ibid., 74–75, 98.
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Ibid., 114–116; “David Guttenfelder,” http://www.davidguttenfelder.com/about, accessed September 19, 2016.
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Ibid., 164–165.
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Hoshi (2012), preface-1, 94; Hoshi (2013), 101, 143.
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Hoshi (2013), 32.
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Hoshi (2012), 108–109.
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Ibid., 126; Hoshi (2013), 152, 159–160.
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Hoshi (2012), 104.
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Ibid., 110–111.
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Ibid., 104, 107.
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Ibid., preface-2, 165–167.
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Ibid., 161.
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Ibid., 161.
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Ibid., 161.
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Ibid., preface-2, Hoshi (2013), 33, 149–150.
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Hoshi (2013), 33.
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Hoshi (2012), 168–169.
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Ibid., 169–170.
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Ibid., 170–171.
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Ibid., 167–168.
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Hoshi (2013), 104.
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Ibid., 32, 159.
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Ibid., preface-1, 133, 141, 156–157, 159–160.
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Ibid., 156, 159–161.
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Ibid., 160; Hoshi Hiroshi, September 28, 2014, http://www.facebook.com/fukushimaanimal; “Fukushima Daiichi Genpatsu-jiko: Tsūko-kyokasho gizō, keikai-kuiki ni shin’nyū 2 yōgisha taiho” (Fukushima Daiiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident: 2 Suspects Arrested for Forging Traffic Permit and Entering the Warning Zone), Mainichi Shimbun, January 29, 2013.
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“Petition to Release Hiroshi Hoshi and Loe Hoshi, Fukushima Animal Rescuers,” March 16, 2013, http://www.vickiwongandhachi.com/4/post/2013/03/petitioning-fukushima-japan-chief-prosecutor-toru-sakaifree-hiroshi-hoshi-and-leo-hoshi-fukushima-animal-rescuers.html?fb_action_ids=442580152484944&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582; Anita Cruz, email to author, April 7, 2013.
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Hoshi Hiroshi, February 22, 2015, http://www.facebook.com/fukushimaanimal.
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Hoshi (2013), 158–159; Hoshi Hiroshi, March 10, 2016, http://www.facebook.com/fukushimaanimal.
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Hoshi (2013), 141–142.
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Itoh, M. (2018). Volunteer Animal Rescue in the Exclusion Zone I. 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_4
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