This was another of my posts that was mostly deleted yesterday.
Just wondering when the U.S. is going to apologize for laying two atomic bombs on them. I've issued one myself on behalf of my war criminal government here, but that hardly seems enough.
"Japan official regrets ‘town of death’ remark" September 10, 2011|Associated Press
TOKYO - Japan’s new trade minister apologized yesterday for calling the now-desolate area around the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant “a town of death,’’ a remark seen as insensitive to residents who had to evacuate because of radiation leaks.
Related: NY Times: Large Areas Of Japan To Be Declared Indefinitely Uninhabitable, Perhaps For Decades
So what would you call it, and is there no one in government or leadership that will speak the truth?
Yoshio Hachiro took office just a week ago as a new government replaced leaders seen as unable to move Japan past the triple disasters of six months ago. His comment came as he described his visit a day earlier to inspect damage and cheer workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
“Sorry to say, there was not a single soul in areas around the plant,’’ Hachiro told reporters. “Literally it was like a town of death.’’
Although the March 11 earthquake and tsunami left about 21,000 people dead and missing along Japan’s northeast coast, no deaths have been blamed on radiation.
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"Trade minister resigns over gaffe
TOKYO - Japan’s new trade minister resigned yesterday over a remark seen as insensitive to nuclear evacuees, dealing a blow to a government that took office eight days ago in the hopes it could better tackle the tsunami recovery. “A series of my remarks caused serious distrust among the people, especially the people of Fukushima,’’ Yoshio Hachiro said at a news conference (AP)."
That's the way people are feeling about government (and its mouthpieces) these days.
"Japan probes blog post of flight plans for Obama" September 11, 2011|By Martin Fackler, New York Times
TOKYO - Japanese officials moved to control diplomatic damage after an air traffic controller was questioned for posting secret US flight information on his blog, including the detailed flight plans of Air Force One last November.
The Transportation Ministry said yesterday that the controller, who works at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, could face charges of leaking national secrets. Japanese officials appeared embarrassed by the breach, which also included the flight data of a US military reconnaissance drone.
Tokyo is apparently worried that the incident could raise new doubts in Washington about Japan’s ability to handle delicate information, after a scandal four years ago over the leak of US naval radar secrets.
The newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda may apologize to President Obama for the breach during a meeting this month in New York....
How come Israel doesn't have to apologize to Turkey?
Noda, who took office eight days ago, is expected to explain the findings of the blogging investigation to Obama when he travels to Washington. Noda has said he wants to strengthen ties between the countries and has expressed strong support for the US-Japan security alliance.
That's really all AmeriKa cares about.
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Man, you guys are really fearing us bloggers, huh? What was it Gandhi said, first they ignore you, then they ridicule, then they fight, then we win? I think we have won already.
"Japan’s ex-PM feared worst in crisis" September 08, 2011|Associated Press
TOKYO - Japan’s former prime minister says he feared early in the March nuclear crisis that it might become many times worse than the Chernobyl disaster and threaten the nation’s survival.
Naoto Kan said he imagined “deserted scenes of Tokyo without a single man’’ and the need to evacuate tens of millions of people. “It was truly a spine-chilling thought,’’ Kan said in an interview with the Tokyo Shimbun daily published Tuesday.
Kan said those images flashed in his mind during the first week of the crisis, when information coming from the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant was sketchy and he was told that its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., was considering pulling out its staff. Tokyo Electric has since said that it never planned to withdraw from the plant.
It is still leaking; you just don't read about it much.
Kan, who resigned last week amid criticism about his administration’s handling of the disaster, said when he heard that cooling systems had failed at the nuclear plant soon after it was damaged by a March 11 tsunami, he understood the gravity of the situation.
“The power was totally lost, and there was no cooling capacity,’’ Kan said. “I knew what that meant. So I thought, ‘This is going to be a disaster.’ ’’
Kan said crisis management at the plant failed because the emergency plans had no scenario for a total power failure.
Authorities have since said that the cores of three of the six reactors melted down, spewing about one-sixth the radiation emitted by at Chernobyl.
After a series of hydrogen explosions, Kan said, he heard from the trade minister at the time, Banri Kaieda, that Tokyo Electric was considering pulling out staff from the nuclear plant.
Were they?
“Japan was facing the possibility of a collapse’’ at that time, he told the Mainichi newspaper yesterday. “I was under an enormous sense of crisis.’’
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Related: Japanese Jumble
The Lead Story From Japan
Just wondering when the U.S. is going to apologize for laying two atomic bombs on them. I've issued one myself on behalf of my war criminal government here, but that hardly seems enough.
"Japan official regrets ‘town of death’ remark" September 10, 2011|Associated Press
TOKYO - Japan’s new trade minister apologized yesterday for calling the now-desolate area around the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant “a town of death,’’ a remark seen as insensitive to residents who had to evacuate because of radiation leaks.
Related: NY Times: Large Areas Of Japan To Be Declared Indefinitely Uninhabitable, Perhaps For Decades
So what would you call it, and is there no one in government or leadership that will speak the truth?
Yoshio Hachiro took office just a week ago as a new government replaced leaders seen as unable to move Japan past the triple disasters of six months ago. His comment came as he described his visit a day earlier to inspect damage and cheer workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
“Sorry to say, there was not a single soul in areas around the plant,’’ Hachiro told reporters. “Literally it was like a town of death.’’
Although the March 11 earthquake and tsunami left about 21,000 people dead and missing along Japan’s northeast coast, no deaths have been blamed on radiation.
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"Trade minister resigns over gaffe
TOKYO - Japan’s new trade minister resigned yesterday over a remark seen as insensitive to nuclear evacuees, dealing a blow to a government that took office eight days ago in the hopes it could better tackle the tsunami recovery. “A series of my remarks caused serious distrust among the people, especially the people of Fukushima,’’ Yoshio Hachiro said at a news conference (AP)."
That's the way people are feeling about government (and its mouthpieces) these days.
"Japan probes blog post of flight plans for Obama" September 11, 2011|By Martin Fackler, New York Times
TOKYO - Japanese officials moved to control diplomatic damage after an air traffic controller was questioned for posting secret US flight information on his blog, including the detailed flight plans of Air Force One last November.
The Transportation Ministry said yesterday that the controller, who works at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, could face charges of leaking national secrets. Japanese officials appeared embarrassed by the breach, which also included the flight data of a US military reconnaissance drone.
Tokyo is apparently worried that the incident could raise new doubts in Washington about Japan’s ability to handle delicate information, after a scandal four years ago over the leak of US naval radar secrets.
The newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda may apologize to President Obama for the breach during a meeting this month in New York....
How come Israel doesn't have to apologize to Turkey?
Noda, who took office eight days ago, is expected to explain the findings of the blogging investigation to Obama when he travels to Washington. Noda has said he wants to strengthen ties between the countries and has expressed strong support for the US-Japan security alliance.
That's really all AmeriKa cares about.
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Man, you guys are really fearing us bloggers, huh? What was it Gandhi said, first they ignore you, then they ridicule, then they fight, then we win? I think we have won already.
"Japan’s ex-PM feared worst in crisis" September 08, 2011|Associated Press
TOKYO - Japan’s former prime minister says he feared early in the March nuclear crisis that it might become many times worse than the Chernobyl disaster and threaten the nation’s survival.
Naoto Kan said he imagined “deserted scenes of Tokyo without a single man’’ and the need to evacuate tens of millions of people. “It was truly a spine-chilling thought,’’ Kan said in an interview with the Tokyo Shimbun daily published Tuesday.
Kan said those images flashed in his mind during the first week of the crisis, when information coming from the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant was sketchy and he was told that its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., was considering pulling out its staff. Tokyo Electric has since said that it never planned to withdraw from the plant.
It is still leaking; you just don't read about it much.
Kan, who resigned last week amid criticism about his administration’s handling of the disaster, said when he heard that cooling systems had failed at the nuclear plant soon after it was damaged by a March 11 tsunami, he understood the gravity of the situation.
“The power was totally lost, and there was no cooling capacity,’’ Kan said. “I knew what that meant. So I thought, ‘This is going to be a disaster.’ ’’
Kan said crisis management at the plant failed because the emergency plans had no scenario for a total power failure.
Authorities have since said that the cores of three of the six reactors melted down, spewing about one-sixth the radiation emitted by at Chernobyl.
After a series of hydrogen explosions, Kan said, he heard from the trade minister at the time, Banri Kaieda, that Tokyo Electric was considering pulling out staff from the nuclear plant.
Were they?
“Japan was facing the possibility of a collapse’’ at that time, he told the Mainichi newspaper yesterday. “I was under an enormous sense of crisis.’’
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Related: Japanese Jumble
The Lead Story From Japan
Now back to what had originally led this post:
"Japan marks 6 months since earthquake, tsunami
TOKYO (AP) — Half a year later, there are physical signs of progress. Much of the debris has been cleared away or at least organized into big piles....
I'm really getting bothered by the insulting s***-shoveling.
The supply chain problems that led to critical parts shortages for Japan's auto and electronics makers are nearly resolved. Industrial production has almost recovered to pre-quake levels.
Business getting back to normal is not exactly my focus, sorry.
But beyond the surface is anxiety and frustration among survivors facing an uncertain future. They are growing increasingly impatient with a government they describe as too slow and without direction....
I'm really getting bothered by the insulting s***-shoveling.
The supply chain problems that led to critical parts shortages for Japan's auto and electronics makers are nearly resolved. Industrial production has almost recovered to pre-quake levels.
Business getting back to normal is not exactly my focus, sorry.
But beyond the surface is anxiety and frustration among survivors facing an uncertain future. They are growing increasingly impatient with a government they describe as too slow and without direction....
The scale of the disaster, the national government's slow response and quarrels among residents have delayed the rebuilding process.
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant are still struggling to meet a goal of bringing it to a cold shutdown by early next year.
"We are barely keeping the reactors under control and the situation is still difficult," Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Yoshinori Moriyama said in Tokyo....
Meaning more meltdowns can occur any time.
That's what my printed paper carried for coverage.
The rest:
Meaning more meltdowns can occur any time.
That's what my printed paper carried for coverage.
The rest:
Masayuki Komatsu, a fisherman in Kesennuma, wants to restart his abalone farming business.
That's where Blogger savaged the post; the above articles were all lost, as was the lower half of this piece.
But he worries about radiation in the sea from the still-leaking Fukushima plant and isn’t sure if his products will be safe enough to sell. He said officials are not providing adequate radiation information for local fisherman.
“I wonder if the government considers our horrible circumstances and the radiation concerns of people in my business,’’ said Komatsu, who also lost his home....
In Fukushima city, dozens of citizens rallied Sunday outside a government-backed international conference at which scientists agreed that the radiation danger from the nuclear plant was far less than Chernobyl. The protesters accused conference organizers of trying to underestimate the risk for children.
No one believes government scientists anymore.
Citizens also demonstrated in major cities like Tokyo and Osaka, where thousands of anti-nuclear protesters demanded that the country give up nuclear power. Activists circled the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry holding banners saying, “Nuclear power? Goodbye.’’
Never saw any of this in print!
Criticism of the government’s handling of the disaster and nuclear crisis led former Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign. Former Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda took over nine days ago, becoming Japan’s sixth new prime minister in five years.
He spent much of Saturday visiting Miyage and Iwate prefectures, promising more funding to speed up recovery efforts and trying to shore up confidence in his administration.
But the trip was overshadowed later in the day by his first big political embarrassment. Noda’s new trade minister Yoshio Hachiro resigned, caving into intense pressure after calling the area around the nuclear plant “a town of death,’’ a comment seen as insensitive to nuclear evacuees.
Public support for the new government started out strong, with an approval rating of 62.8 percent in a Kyodo News poll released last Saturday. Hachiro’s resignation will likely translate into a drop and new doubts about Noda’s ability to lead.
Regardless of politics, what’s clear is that the road ahead will be long....
Yeah, I am kinda sick of the ole politics.
Sorry.
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That's where Blogger savaged the post; the above articles were all lost, as was the lower half of this piece.
But he worries about radiation in the sea from the still-leaking Fukushima plant and isn’t sure if his products will be safe enough to sell. He said officials are not providing adequate radiation information for local fisherman.
“I wonder if the government considers our horrible circumstances and the radiation concerns of people in my business,’’ said Komatsu, who also lost his home....
In Fukushima city, dozens of citizens rallied Sunday outside a government-backed international conference at which scientists agreed that the radiation danger from the nuclear plant was far less than Chernobyl. The protesters accused conference organizers of trying to underestimate the risk for children.
No one believes government scientists anymore.
Citizens also demonstrated in major cities like Tokyo and Osaka, where thousands of anti-nuclear protesters demanded that the country give up nuclear power. Activists circled the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry holding banners saying, “Nuclear power? Goodbye.’’
Never saw any of this in print!
Criticism of the government’s handling of the disaster and nuclear crisis led former Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign. Former Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda took over nine days ago, becoming Japan’s sixth new prime minister in five years.
He spent much of Saturday visiting Miyage and Iwate prefectures, promising more funding to speed up recovery efforts and trying to shore up confidence in his administration.
But the trip was overshadowed later in the day by his first big political embarrassment. Noda’s new trade minister Yoshio Hachiro resigned, caving into intense pressure after calling the area around the nuclear plant “a town of death,’’ a comment seen as insensitive to nuclear evacuees.
Public support for the new government started out strong, with an approval rating of 62.8 percent in a Kyodo News poll released last Saturday. Hachiro’s resignation will likely translate into a drop and new doubts about Noda’s ability to lead.
Regardless of politics, what’s clear is that the road ahead will be long....
Yeah, I am kinda sick of the ole politics.
Sorry.
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