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- Who: , who was a parliamentary spokesman for the cabinet office at the time.
- What: He drank a glass of water that had been collected from under the No. 5 and 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and then decontaminated.
- When: The event took place in November 2011, following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused the nuclear disaster.
- Why: Sonoda's action was intended to show that the water, after treatment, was safe to drink and to alleviate public concern about the plant's clean-up progress.
- Context: The water had been treated to remove radioactive caesium, but Sonoda acknowledged that drinking it did not confirm the overall safety and that public data was the best way to address concerns.
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