Posted on 09/02/2005 9:21:28 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
From the major Japanese TV network TBS, here is a short video clip from a segment of their evening news, broadcast coast-to-coast in Japan.
Probably seen by nearly 10-30 million people over there.
Cut, paste, and view in your browser (Windows Media format, 300k):
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20050903-00000016-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k
And a slower link:
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20050903-00000016-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm56k
(Or just hit the link above)
Refugee is not the correct word just as the U. S. & Civil War was incorrect. The media grabs onto these buzz words, thinking they are so clever, when in effect they mislead thousands. The people of New Orleans are now homeless people due to flooding and other effects of hurricane Katrina. The South never wanted to take over the North.
Oh, that's right. I was going to right 'people who have taken refuge'. There. That fixed it.
This is what the world sees...people sleeping in cots, wandering around, talking, a few signs held aloft that meant nothing to me, a lot of the people seem to be a great deal overweight, but the children are clean, one woman says the predicable 'George Bush isn't doing his job' ... and I don't understand Japanese!
Stop beating yourself up, reasonable people all over the world know GWB isn't in control of the weather, the Left will blame him if there's a single vote in it. What this video shows more than anything is how patient and reasonable people are under stress, if this is the best the MSM can produce to discredit the US, you can stop worrying! PS. What did it look like four days after the Kobe earthquake, does anyone remember?
Only that I placed the clip because I have seen nothing but similar clips, namely from NHK, JNN, etc. etc. where the Mayor and the Governor are mysteriously absent, and critism abounds on President Bush. It is not just one video, just as it is not one country. And millions are taught to believe what they see. That is the impact I am reporting here.
Japanese TV showed the immense damage, and the search for life. It also showed Japanese binding together in cho nai kai and other, de-facto small neighborhood groups to get water, food, assistance, heating, clear roads, remove dangerous wire and otherwise cope with a fatalist but non-complaining tone until more help could come (which was slow from their government too).
For the life of me, I don't recall any footage of Japanese quake disaster survivors shooting up in the air w/AK 47s at arriving SDF helicopters trying to toss them food, or tossing their crack viles in dank restrooms down in Nagata Ward in Kobe.
I saw the same thing on the local news.
"For the life of me, I don't recall any footage of Japanese quake disaster survivors shooting up in the air w/AK 47s at arriving SDF helicopters trying to toss them food, or tossing their crack viles in dank restrooms down in Nagata Ward in Kobe."
Could that be because Japan doesn't have the same cultural/ethnic divisions? (And we also know, don't we, that if that clown Kerry was in the WH nothing like this would have happened, would it? sarc.)
"president Bush is not doing his job correctly" I want to slap her!!!
On the other hand I do recall the newsreels of Japanese soldiers in China tossing Chinese babies speared on pitchforks into the back of a stake truck.
More proof that doing recreational drugs isn't good for you. You end up believing that the President of the United States causes hurricanes.
I'm glad you posted that because I've seen nothing but negative posts from where I live in Okinawa.
" but also interviews certain refugees who would not make very good spokespeople for America "
If the anane dramas , etc...and other crap shows on Japanese TV aren't a good enough reason NOT to watch tv , the " news " for the sheeple is another .
make that INANE !
Japan Emergency Team starts disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina
The Japan Emergency Team announces commencement of Disaster Relief Operations in conjunction with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans, Louisana area with nearly 100,000 in shelters.
The Japan Emergency Team is preparing a team to be sent on site in its 71st Disaster Relief Team since 1989.
The team will be assisting on site in bringing in disaster relief supplies, assisting in the Disaster Shelters, providing assistance with location missing and has already been requested my family members to help locate missing Japanese in the area.
Supplies Needed
The team is requesting the following:
1. Donations of Tickets and Relief Supplies space from Airlines 2. Airline Mileage Donations for Disaster Team Members 3. GSM Cellphones for use on site.4. Satellite Telephones 5. Laptop Computers6. Tents7. Sleeping Bags8. Bottled Water/Canned Food
Supplies may be sent to:
Operation Katrina Box 65 Tokyo, Japan 106-8691 (Please put 1,000 Yen in each box for handling)
Donations
Donations may be made to Postal Furikae Account 00140 2 64932 or online at www.jhelp.com
Contacts
Tel: (Inside Japan) 0570 000 911
The Japan Emergency Team is Japan`s only non-government related Disaster Relief Team and Asia`s pioneering such operation.
Begun in 1989 when a group of 38 Students from Chuo University in Tokyo met with US President Ronald Reagan and subsequently traveled to assist on site at the San Francisco Earthquake it became the first overseas disaster response in Japanese history.
Japan`s government disaster team is modeled after the team and was set up following subsequent meetings with the Japan Emergency Team which enjoys very close cooperative relations with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies.
Following the San Francisco Earthquake response The Japan Emergency Team has been to nearly every disaster in the world.
Currently the team is in Iraq and the Niigata area of Japan where there was a terrible earthquake.
Japan Emerency Team
http://www.jhelp.comSeptember 3, 2005
It appears to still be a student group from what I can see on their website.
Looking through the world media, the good news is that the magnitude of this disaster is finally starting to sink in.
4:30 a.m. Pacific Saturday.
Yes, I saw those. That happened 65 years ago, didn't it? And I believe their leaders were hung for it at Sugamo Prison. What's the point?
Yeah, but Japan is a nation while the US no longer is.
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