What Happened to Numayu'?

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde


I was not able to view "Numayu's Blog" the other night which I have been sharing the posts of by translating her messages into English. An error message showed up as, "The blog you are searching for cannot be found. The blog has been deleted or the URL might be incorrect." The URL for Numayu's blog is below (although the error message will show up in Japanese):

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kmasa924

And then, today, I received the following message through a Facebook message:

はじめまして。
ぬまゆさんのブログですが、最後のメッセージは

＞追 悼 ・・・。 わたくしは、明日の朝早く、 南相馬市の 海へ行きます。 お花を手向けに ・・・。 みなさま、 これまで、ありがとうございました。 みなさまの ご健康を お祈りし...

以上の文章を何とか見つけることができました。

ブログは削除されたのでしょうね、残念ですが。
とりあえず、ご連絡いたします。

Nice to meet you.

Regarding Numayu's Blog, the last message was:

>Remembrance・・・Early tomorrow morning, I am going to the ocean in Minamisoma. To take flowers・・・Thank you very much for everything. I wish you all good health・・・

I was somehow able to find that message above.

I think the blog was closed down, unfortunately.

Just to let you know. 

At least in Japanese, that sounds ambiguous, at the least. It could be taken as if she was planning to commit suicide by throwing herself into the ocean. Consequently, there is a lot of concern for her well being right now.

Among the Japanese internet community, there is a very large range in people's opinions of Numayu, Emiko Numauchi.

Some people say that, 

• "Numayu is insane and just is wanting to get as much attention as possible." 
• "If she thinks her symptoms are from radiation then why doesn't she go to see a doctor to get checked? I think she is just faking it." 
• "She is lying, because I live in her neighborhood, but no one else is getting such symptoms."etc.

There are also people that support her and encourage her. They want her to keep doing what she was doing.

However, all of these comments were made anonymously. It is impossible to verify where they really are coming from or whether they contain any truth. I really cannot think of a reason to weight anonymous comments over the comments where the owner's identity is known. Surely if someone really wanted to vouch their area was perfectly safe, they could come out and let us know who they were in a similar manner that Numayu did (and without the personal risk that Numayu faced with her coming out . . .).

It sounded like she was getting very nasty comments on her blog day after day. It is probably safe to say that she had made many enemies and had exposed herself to being ostracized by her neighbors by revealing her identity, which makes her disappearance from the web even more concerning.  

I will continue to try to gather information on the situation and will post any updates here.

Here is another blog (Fukushima diary) that has posted about Numayu's blog being shut down:
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/numayus-blog-shut-down/

Someone has actually put up a mirror of her site using the RSS feed:
http://numayu.blog.fc2.com/