Coordinator+Translator: ANKEI Yuji (YPU)

This symposium aims at “making noise”concerning the nuclear disasters of Fukushima Daiichi. Since March 11, 2011, code of silence has prevailed in academic societies of Japan. The Ecological Society of Japan is no exception. What are we afraid of? When are we going to utter our opinions? As an introduction to the presentations by challenging scholars who dared to speak aloud, I will introduce some examples from Kenya, Taiwan, and Japan for such attempts to “buy the silence” of the scholars and of the community. We are attempting to awaken our social responsibility as scientists with people attending this symposium. Email y@ankei.jp

1.KATO Makoto (Kyoto Univ.): The Future of Biodiversity of the Japanese Archipelago and the Nuclear Power Pants: between hope and negative heritage

2.HIGUCHI Hiroyoshi (Tokyo Univ.): Effects of Nuclear Power Plant Disasters on the Life of Birds: Example of the Chernobyl disaster

3.IIDA Tetsunari (ISEP): Renewable Energy Resources: their present status and prospects after the catastrophe of Fukushima

4.SATO Masanori (Kagoshima Univ.): The Effects of Nuclear Power Plants to the Maritime Ecosystems with Special Reference to Radioactive Contamination

原発震災は1000年に一度の天災などではなかった。その後の生態学会内部は異様な沈黙につつまれている。何をおそれて黙り込んでいるのか。いま発言しなければいつするか。原発をめぐって「沈黙を金で買う」場面に何度か遭遇したことがある。ケニア・台湾・日本の事例を紹介しつつ、このシンポジウムでは、それでも沈黙しない勇気ある研究者たちがいることを内外に示したい。