Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan.
PLoS One. 2022 Aug 29;17(8):e0273684. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273684. eCollection 2022.
This study aimed to identify concerns related to returning to the Nagadoro district of Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in 2023 among its residents as it is designated as a difficult-to-return zone after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. The following four concerns were extracted from the interviews and qualitative analysis: "Difficulties in restarting/continuing farming," which represent the difficulties in making a living from agriculture due to the absence of family members and neighbors, and the insufficient radiation decontamination; "Discriminatory treatment of products and residents from villagers," which suggests the presence of discriminations that residents of Nagadoro district are eccentrics and its agricultural products should not be treated together with those of other districts in the Village due to the recognition that the district is severely polluted by radiation; "Shift of the responsibility of returning home from the country to residents by scapegoating," which is characterized by the shift of responsibility from the government to the residents, including harsh social criticism of the residents of Nagadoro district for not returning even though the evacuation order has been lifted, when it should have been the government's responsibility to recover the district to a habitable state; "Loss of options for continued evacuation," which is the loss or weakening of the position of residents of the Nagadoro district who continue to evacuate, and of administrative compensation, resulting from the legal change that they are no longer "evacuees" after the evacuation order is lifted. The findings of this study will provide a foundation for the support of residents of the Nagadoro district after lifting the evacuation order scheduled for the spring of 2023. The findings may be transferable to the residents of other difficult-to-return zones expected to be lifted after the Nagadoro district and to also a radiation disaster-affected place in the future.
本研究旨在 2023 年识别日本福岛县 Iitate 村的长野原地区居民返回该地区的相关担忧，因为该地区在福岛第一核电站事故后被指定为难以返回区。从访谈和定性分析中提取了以下四个关注点：“重启/继续务农的困难”，这代表了由于家庭成员和邻居的缺失，以及辐射去污不足，从农业中谋生的困难；“村民对 Nagadoro 区产品和居民的歧视性待遇”，这表明存在歧视，由于认识到该地区受到辐射的严重污染，Nagadoro 区的居民是怪人，其农产品不应与该村其他地区的产品一起对待；“通过将责任归咎于居民来将回家的责任从国家转移”，其特点是将责任从政府转移到居民身上，包括对 Nagadoro 区居民的强烈社会批评，因为尽管已经解除了疏散命令，但他们仍未返回，而恢复该地区到可居住状态本应是政府的责任；“继续疏散的选择丧失”，这是由于法律的变化，即疏散命令解除后，Nagadoro 区的居民不再是“疏散人员”，他们继续疏散的居民和行政补偿的选择丧失或削弱。本研究的结果将为 2023 年春季解除疏散命令后对 Nagadoro 区居民的支持提供基础。这些发现可能适用于预计在 Nagadoro 区之后解除的其他难以返回区的居民，以及未来的辐射灾害受灾地区的居民。
