G'day mate, I'm Terumi Kataoka, and I'm a fair dinkum Aussie!

I was an exchange student to Brisbane a long time ago, so Australia is my second home country, actually.

As a Christian, I would like to send a message to the Christians in Australia.

March 11th, the earthquake happend, and about 12hrs later that, two mothers and their children, they evacuated to our church.

One of the mothers was a leader of anti- nuclear power activities in Fukushima prefecture. So she knew how dangerous it would be in a short time, so that's why she evacuated from Fukushima city.

Then, about a day later, she left Aizuwakamatsu, our city, our church, because she said 100km awy from that plant was not safe enough, so she said she was about to evacuate to Nagoya, which is about 300km away.

The following day, I sent my youngest son to Mie prefecture, which is about 300km away, and then that next day I took my nephew there, so we were all out of 300km away.

But, my panic started then. I realised that I had left my church behind.

There were so many people, my loved ones, but I abandoned them to save my son's life.

The panic was long and then I really felt like the disciples who left jesus on the cross.

But with my family's support, and the church members, I recovered myself.

Then, I'm back to Aizuwakamatsu city, and I met so many mothers who are in trouble with the fear of radiation.

So I started Aizu Radiation Information Centre.

We were so busy, the last ten months, and still it's going on.

We lost many things : the beauty of Fukushima city. We have rich nature, rich harvest, very nice places, so many tourists were visiting Aizuwakamatsu city. But we lost them.

But, on the other hand, in the last ten months, I've met so many people who have supported me, who prayed for us, and then still it's going on.

I met a group from Australia today, and their speach was so impressive and they encouraged me a lot.

That's the only way we can unite, and also save children from the radiation.

We have so many asks to the government, but they don't listen. They're doing something that we don't want.

So the only way is to unite people with people who are against nuclear power.

Thankyou very much.