Kazuo Hizumi Promotion of Information Distribution Award was founded to recognize the efforts and throws light onto the media, journalists and private individuals engaged in the field of information communication whose activities are focused on the freedom of expression, the disclosure of information and people’s rights to know. The grand prize award for 2017 was decided to be awarded to Minna no Data Site Project. This project has been conducting measurements and accumulations of soil that have been contaminated by the effect of the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. It was recognized for the summarization and disclosure of scientific data accumulated from a wide-spread contaminated area of 17 prefectures and city in East Japan, in ways that were understand comprehensible to everybody.
The encouragement award was given to Mr.
Takashi Ozaki, a photographer who repeatedly gathered information about the members
of SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy.) The special award
went respectively, to Mr. Makoto Kimura, a city council member of the city of Toyonaka,
for his repeated disclosure of information pertaining to the Morimoto Gakuen
Scandal, and to Ms. Miyuki Ohara, who is the original proposer of “Kokkai
Ondoku” which is a means to read aloud the questions and answers in the Diet on
conspiracy that don’t quite bite evenly.
Recipients
Grand Prize Award : “Minna no Data Site activities
(co-representatives : Mr. Hidetake Ishimaru, Mr. Hiromi Abe, Ms. Shoko Onuma)
Encouragement Award : Information gathering
on SEALDs members (Mr. Takashi Ozaki)
Special Award : Investigation an information
disclosure pertaining to Morimoto Gakuen Scandal (Mr. Makoto Kimura)
Special Award : “Kokkai Ondoku” Activity (Ms.
Miyuki Ohara)
Awarding Ceremony
Date : Friday, December 15th
(18:30~)
Place : Hibiya Convention Hall
(1-4,
Hibiya Koen, Chiyoda-ku)
The Fifth Kazuo Hizumi Promotion of
Information Distribution Award : List of Recipients
Grand Prize Award ( given to 1 party, extra
prize 300,000 yen)
Activities of “Minna no Data
Site”(co-representative: Mr. Hidetake Ishimaru, Mr. Hiromi Abe, Ms. Shoko Ohnuma)
Reason for the Awarding
Minna no Data Site conducted a public
participation style project by involving the citizens to collect, measure and
accumulate the soil that are contaminated by radioactive substances caused by
the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, and plotting the
result data on the map for easy comprehension. This project was chosen for the
intelligible disclosure of scientific data constantly standing on the people’s
side. The contamination data accumulated and disclosed were derived from soil
collected by the hands of the citizens that were widely called upon, from a
widespread area of 17 prefectures and city.
