{"id":77446,"date":"2011-03-18T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=77446"},"modified":"2011-03-18T17:47:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T13:47:27","slug":"video-japans-animated-film-on-nuclear-boy-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/18\/video-japans-animated-film-on-nuclear-boy-fukushima.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Japan&#8217;s Animated Film on &#8216;Nuclear Boy&#8217; Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to deal with the physical and emotional toll of the massive earthquake and tsunami, a new video has been created depicting \u201cNuclear Boy\u201d Fukushima, which has gotten hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, reports The Wall Street Journal on its <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/japanrealtime\/2011\/03\/18\/japan-tries-humor-with-nuclear-boy-fukushima\/?mod=google_news_blog\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Japan RealTime blog<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Much attention has been diverted from the tough situation of the hundreds of thousands left homeless, hungry, cold and ill in the northeast of the country to concentrate on the mounting fears for the Fukushima nuclear complex. But in a sign that people here are finding the best ways they can to cope with the ordeal, humor of Japan\u2019s cute but often earthy nature is beginning to resurface on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>In this YouTube animated video (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZUzBvxdnCFM\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the original in Japanese<\/span><\/strong><\/a>), now seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers, the Fukushima plant is portrayed as a cartoon Genpatsu-kun, or \u201cNuclear Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sakN2hSVxA?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The bathroom humor may not translate easily, but in a well-meaning, gentle attempt to explain the situation to a young child, \u201cNuclear Boy\u201d is portrayed as having a very bad stomachache and passing gas but still trying to \u201chold it in.\u201d All to a soundtrack of exclamations and banjo music.<\/p>\n<p>With explanations of how the situation compared with cartoon versions of \u201cThree-Mile Island Boy\u201d and \u201cChernobyl\u201d \u2014 \u201cThat was one giant accident\u2026diarrhea\u2026it went all over the place\u201d \u2014 the cartoon also praises the heroics of Nuclear Boy\u2019s \u201cdoctors,\u201d meaning the emergency team trying to cool Fukushima\u2019s reactors, as they try to give him \u201cmedicine\u201d (seawater and boric acid).<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon goes on to offer prayers that peace will return to the people of Fukushima prefecture soon: \u201cThat\u2019s the least we can do for receiving Nuclear Boy\u2019s energy for all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to deal with the physical and emotional toll of the massive earthquake and tsunami, a new video has been created&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}