Men operating a bicycle crank pump refuel cars at the site of a gas station in the tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Thursday.
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko talk with evacuees from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at Tokyo Budokan, currently an evacuation shelter, on Wednesday. The emperor and empress spent an hour at the shelter to encourage the some 300 evacuees, mainly from Fukushima Prefecture.
Five-year-old Ami Matsuya is tested for possible radiation exposure at an evacuation center in Koriayama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Soccer team fans hold banners ahead of a charity match between Japan’s national team and J-League select team at Nagai stadium in Osaka on Tuesday.
Takeshi Yokoyama, 70, and his wife Umeko, 64, walk under a ship that rests on top of where their house used to be in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Ik kreeg eventjes terug een mailtje doorgestuurd van een erg betrouwbare bron.
Ik las het helaas te laat om met de groep mee te doen, maar ik kan natuurlijk ook op andere dagen elke 12:00 uur de tekst zeggen. Heb gelezen dat meer mensen dat willen blijven doen, dus kan het wel blijven werken.
Ben wel benieuwd naar wat het nu al gedaan heeft..
2 mensen leggen uit:
peachy871:
"That is really unfair to call them flyjin. Everyone would have various reasons for leaving...not everyone is equipped to experience a massive disaster and still be able to cope; families at home may be begging them to come home...not easy to resist those pleas, especially if one is still quite young and fresh from leaving the nest anyway; perhaps some of those folks who left were on the verge of heading back home and took this as a sign that it is high time; some might have their homes in Japan totally destroyed and just do not have any way to find new housing or anywhere else to go but home...moving ahead and rebuilding a life is daunting enough for a native Japanese, but being from another country and without friends, family or some kind of support in Japan, starting all over with no foreseeable income might just be more than daunting. Everyone has got a story, but in Japan, many are very quick to judge without any background knowledge whatsoever...especially a lot of posters on here."
horrified:
"...the fact that gaijin is the single biggest identifying label on these people it is obvious they are not actually integrated or integral to the society they were in. Loyalty is a two way street. Oh by the way what about the Japanese that fled Japan or high tailed it to western Japan? >
QFT. Bears repeating and repeating. I guess everyone's experience here is different. I've been here for 15 years, and I hightailed it out with my family on the 16th of March (for 2 weeks -- after finding replacements/making calls, etc.)
We didn't believe the BS the government was spewing out then, and we still don't now. In fact, most of our neighbors don't believe them either. Even though we live in Tohoku, we never ended up getting a blast of radiation like Ibaraki or Chiba, even. Anyone who claims it was all apparent from 'all known experts and the like' that it was safe in Tokyo is full of it themselves. There was plenty of conflicting opinions in the field and the government was clearly holding back information. I vowed to protect my family and would rather play it safe than sorry.
I came back 2 weeks later -- exactly as I said I would -- to hear several self-righteous ex-pats call me a flyjin. One to my face. What an insult after the years of my life I poured into this place and the people here. Tohoku is not famous for it's bright and friendly people. Although I have many friends here, it has not been an easy ride! I paid my dues financially and emotionally, and I still am. All of that and I am still a GAIJIN. Yeah, that's right -- an OUTSIDER. Never fully allowed a proper say in anything important, and always hitting brick walls with the business community here. So why is it a surprise that I would take my family out when a nuclear plant that I could never get the chance to vote against blows up.
Reality check, people."
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/t
There was a woman living in Osaka who left, leaving her children at daycare and school, in a complete panic... She "forgot" her children completely, and gave no notification to anyone that she was leaving. Of course, once back in the UK, she contacted her (rightfully panicked) husband and told him to send the kids ASAP.
They are now involved in a divorce and she is trying to get the children by saying that he has kidnapped them.
I was flooded with messages from people telling me to get out of Japan as quickly as possible. Screw my home, screw my husband, screw my life... Just take my kid and get out. I rolled my eyes at it, but others took it seriously and really ran off... Regardless of where they were.
It has all died down now, but I don't find myself feeling very forgiving toward those who ran screaming or those who ran groaning about inconveniences after the quake. And especially not those who looked to get their minutes of fame by giving idiotic interviews about how they felt their lives were in danger... When they lived in Shimane or the like.
I was contacted by the BBC and actually declined to give an interview because other than a bit of rocking daily life was not affected for me. I should have given it as they person they found instead was hysterical and packing to leave the country - from Kobe.
It just showed how much they considered Japan "home", and how quick they are to abandon it at the slightest hint of trouble.
People have flowed back to an extent now, but for a brief period of time I felt very very much like a special minority. I also made a ton of money taking on translation jobs for all those companies whose translators quit with no notice and fled. I hope all of those contracted workers never find a decent position again. Seriously, you don't just hop on a plane and leave your company in a bind because you are scared of... something that isn't even close to you.
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TOKYO —
Japan switched off its last working nuclear reactor on Saturday, leaving the country without atomic-generated electricity just over a year after the world’s worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century.
Technicians closed down the No. 3 unit at Tomari in Hokkaido at 11:03 p.m.
Hokkaido Electric Power, which runs the plant, suspended power generation for mandatory maintenance and is scheduled to bring the reactor to cold shutdown some time on Monday, said company spokesman Hisatoshi Kibayashi.
The shuttering marks the first time since the 1970s that resource-poor and energy-hungry Japan has been without nuclear power, a technology that had provided a third of its electricity until meltdowns at Fukushima.
With the four reactors at Fukushima crippled by the natural disaster public suspicion of nuclear power grew, so much so that no reactor shut for routine safety checks has since been allowed to restart.
“A new era in Japan with no nuclear power has begun,” said Gyoshu Otsu, a 56-year-old monk who joined a protest against nuclear power in front of the industry ministry in Tokyo which supervises the nation’s power utilities.
Protest organizer Masao Kimura said: “It’s a symbolic day today. Now we can prove that we will be able to live without nuclear power.”
But Hiroomi Makino, the pro-nuclear mayor of Tomari, which hosts the reactor, said: “I would like the company to resume operation as I believe that they will give the highest priority to safety.”
As the reactor shuts down, Japan’s entire stable of 54 reactors will be offline, despite increasingly urgent calls from the power industry and bodies like the OECD, who fear dire consequences for the world’s third largest economy.
Last month, Kansai Electric Power, which supplies mid-western Japan, including the commercial hubs of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, said a hot summer could see supply fall nearly 20% short of demand.
Kyushu Electric Power, covering an area further west, as well as Hokkaido Electric Power also said they will struggle as air conditioning gets cranked up in Japan’s sweltering summer.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s government has given the green light to restarting reactors at the Oi nuclear plant, run by Kansai Electric, but regulators still have to convince those living near the plant.
In order to be fired up again, reactors must now pass International Atomic Energy Agency-approved stress tests and get the consent of their host communities—it is this last hurdle that is proving hardest to overcome.
Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of nuclear policy, told reporters: “Situations surrounding electric power are severe, but we can’t sacrifice safety. We want to face the reality firmly.”
Critics of nuclear power say Japan has managed thus far with its ever dwindling pool of reactors and need not look back.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said the country should concentrate on ramping up renewables and boosting energy efficiency.
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