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This chapter “Horses Left Behind in the Exclusion Zone” examines the fate of about 370 horses in the Sōma region in Fukushima prefecture, 20 miles north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. They were raised for Sōma Nomaoi (lit., “wild horse chase”), 1000-year-old classic cavalry races involving Shinto rituals, which are collectively designated as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan. The Sōma horses were swept away by the massive tsunami and then exposed to radiation.
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- 1.
“Nomaoi no uma sukuitai, shien no mōshide zokuzoku” (Offers of Support Nomaoi Horses Pour in), Asahi Shimbun, May 14, 2011; “Hibaku no uma o kau” (Raising Radioactive Horses), Tokyo Shimbun, June 14, 2016, http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/feature/tohokujisin/fukushima_report/list/CK2016061402000166.html
- 2.
“Sōma-Nomaoi” http://odaka-kanko.jp/c-event/index02.html, accessed July 28, 2016.
- 3.
Ibid.; Ozaki Yukio, The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan, trans. by Hara Fujiko, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001; “Sōma-ke 33-daime tōshu ‘Sōma-ke no kyōsoba-zukuri o najo-no-kō de sasaeta Asō-zaimu-shō no imōto” (Finance Minister Asō’s Younger Sister, Who Supported Her Husband, 33rd Head of the Sōma Clan, to Raise Race Horses”), January 23, 2015. https://dot.asahi.com/wa/2015012300049.html.
- 4.
“Sōma-Nomaoi.”
- 5.
“Hibaku no uma o kau”; “Sōma nomaoi Mamore! Uma o keikai-kuiki-gai ni idō” (Protecting Sōma Nomaoi! Transporting Horses Outside the Warning Zone), ANN News, May 2, 2011; “Sōma-ke 33-daime tōshu…”
- 6.
“Hibaku no uma o kau.”
- 7.
Ibid.
- 8.
“Hisai-uma ni sukui no teo: Fukushima ⋅ Minami-Sōma kara hinan no uma 4-tō” (To Help Horses in Disaster Area: Four Horses Rescued from Fukushima ⋅ Minami-Sōma), Chūnichi Shimbun, April 13, 2011.
- 9.
Ibid.
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Nomaoi no uma sukuitai, shien no mōshide zokuzoku.”
- 12.
Ibid.
- 13.
Ibid.
- 14.
Ibid.
- 15.
“Sōma Nomaoi sen-nen no rekishi ni, chinkon to fukkō no pēji” (Sōma-Nomaoi Adds a Page of Mourning and Restoration to its One Thousand-Year History), Asahi Shimbun, July 23, 2011.
- 16.
Ibid.
- 17.
“Fukushima no Sōma-Nomaoi, kotoshi wa reinen-dōri shinki-sōdatsusen mo fukkatsu” (Sōma-Nomaoi in Fukushima Is Held as Previously, Cavalry Race to Catch Holy Flag Is Resumed), Asahi Shimbun, February 11, 2012.
- 18.
“‘Nomaoi’ no uma-tachi, kokyō ⋅ Fukushima ni hinan-saki kara modoru” (“Nomaoi” Horses That Had Been Evacuated Returned Home to Fukushima), Asahi Shimbun, April 15, 2012.
- 19.
“Hibaku no uma o kau.”
- 20.
Ibid.
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Itoh, M. (2018). Horses 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_9
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