Yogan Baum

I am the author of ebook serial The Voice of FUKUSHIMA – A Cry from the Heart. Part 1 titled Groundzero 01: Earthquake is available to the public as a free download at Smashwords at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/619746.

“A Cry From The Heart” is what I need to share with all of you who care about the future. Wake up! Fukushima is only the tip of the iceberg ...

It’s been more than 30 years since I came to Japan and settled down in Yotsukura, a sleepy little village of recently laid-up fishermen twenty miles south from the terminally ruined Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Life changed dramatically on and after March 11, 2011.

We were spared in many ways: the earthquake did not break us, the tsunami stopped short of our street, and the triple meltdown of the ruined Dai-ichi nuclear power plant miraculously came to a halt somewhere below the crippled plant.

Life changed all the more as it went on as if nothing had happened. This, the second catastrophe, is the real one, I now think.

Not to go mad I began to write down what I saw. What my wife of thirty years and I had to go through since March 2011, just like countless fellow humans here.

Writing it down I began to understand about this mess. I’ll try to tell the sad story of defeat as it unfolds in one man’s, one family’s struggle. I tell it to honor those who suffer in silence. The old. The children. The uninformed. The victims.

Fukushima 3/11 is the chronicle of a manmade disaster. A disaster that was mercifully not the absolute catastrophe it could have been. A disaster unfolding over the decades. Chapter one: Chernobyl. Chapter two: Fukushima. Chapter three: Please select from a list of more than four hundred nuclear power plants. There is one near you, you may be sure …

Life is precious. It is fragile. We have to treasure it if we want to survive.

Just like the earthquake was only a prelude to trouble, Ground Zero 01: Earthquake is only a prolog to a chain reaction of fateful traumatic events in the weeks, months and years to come which will be covered in the upcoming releases of this ebook serial.

My upcoming releases are:
Ground Zero 02: Tsunami and Worse
Ground Zero 03: Home but Home no More