福島県飯舘村に９２歳の高齢女性が住み続けている。東京に住んでいる３４歳の孫は原発事故後、３回見舞いに来た。彼女は祖母を自分の東京のアパートに移るように勧めたが、祖母は拒否。「自分は既に死につつあるのだから、放射能は自分には関係ない。（長年住み慣れた飯舘で死にたい）」
☆Life inside Japan’s dead zone
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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1136388--life-inside-japan-s-dead-zone
http://www.webcitation.org/65py6JtlV
Miki Kawamura used to visit her grandmother at the nursing home every month.
In the past year, the 34-year-old from Tokyo has only been three times.
As she enters the nursing home, she asks an employee for the Geiger counter reading.
It’s 0.12 microsievert per hour.
It’s close to the accepted level of 0.11 but Kawamura grimaces; she doesn’t want to be here.
But it’s her grandma’s 92nd birthday and she has brought gifts: a paper bag full of packs of instant noodles, fresh fruit and two books.
Kawamura tried to convince her grandmother to move in to her Tokyo apartment. “She refused. She said she was dying already. . . some radiation didn’t bother her.”
She spends an hour, chatting and having the lunch that she brought from Tokyo because she doesn’t trust locally grown food. Then it’s time to leave. It is a long drive home, about four hours, but nothing will make her stay overnight in Iitate.
“I’m terrified. I don’t know how much contamination is around here,” she says as she puts her face mask on and steps out.
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