The Horror of Fukushima

In Japan we call the survivors of the atomic bombs the Heba Kusha But if you add another Chinese character most of our letters are taken from Chinese mind you. The word becomes one that means someone exposed to radiation and I know my suffering doesn't compare to those who suffered Hiroshima and Nagasaki And I would not pretend to have suffered the same as them but sometimes with the way we are treated by the rest of Japan it is still incredibly painful for me. Of my 130 horses I watched 90 of them die over the course of the next five years Sometimes it was two or three a night. Slowly it slowed down until only one a day then once a month until it was only the survivors left