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JAPAN WON'T LET PASSENGERS OFF PLANES FROM MEXICO (UNTIL DRS/NURSES CHECK EACH PERSON UPON LANDING)
Nikkei News, Japan (in Japanese) ^
| 27 April 2009
| Nikkei News
Posted on 04/26/2009 10:48:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Nikkei news announces urgent measures by Japan Ministry of Health and Welfare, starting with the next aircraft arriving on 29 April, (there are two direct flights a week from Mexico to Japan), passengers will not be allowed off the aircraft and on to Japanese soil, until a team of 3-6 Japanese doctors and nurses, who have entered the landed craft, check each passenger, survey the group in total, interview, use thermographic testing imagery equipment, etc. to look for Mexican Swine Flu symptoms; passengers will be monitored for 10 days after entering Japan as well. Passengers coming in from California, which may have had some people orgininating in Mexico, will also undergoe strict surveillance. Signs are already being constructed at Narita Airport, Japan, and people walking into immigration queues are first being checked with instrumentation to find those with fever or otherwise sick.
Japanese government checklist, "Phase 4-A" and "Phase 4-B", and how to handle Japanese or foreigners discovered in Japan with this bug.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brillant; flu; influenza; japan; mexicanflu; mexicanswineflu; mexico; narita
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View from East Asia.
Photo at airport today in Japan; medical personal at door of craft once people are let off. (Note one man operating thermal body detection equipment on left--which looks like a video camera, in addition to him holding other technical equipment in his right hand; colleague across from him with mask on). Each alighting airline passenger at Narita from Mexico in this picture (and on other flights) is being screened. Lying about one's condition is punishable by six months in jail and or up to $50,000 fine. Japan seems to be attempting ZERO TOLERANCE against allowing this pandemic strain into the country.
To: AmericanInTokyo
Good for them. I take it that you are living there. Well, you should be safer than being at home right now.
To: AmericanInTokyo
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:51:16 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Considering the population density, I don’t blame them one bit. Even without it, I wouldn’t blame them.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:51:17 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(America doesn't have a president. It has a usurper.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Don’t they know that this is racist? /s
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:53:08 PM PDT
by
frankiep
(Ron Paul was right)
To: AmericanInTokyo
But boy howdy, WE can’t do ANYthing but wring our hands and golf.
I’m glad Japan’s handling this the smart way!
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:54:18 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Life is but a big granola bar.)
To: Southack
Very smart indeed. Wish our government would do the same and keep politics out of it!!
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:55:49 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
(Wonder if our founding fathers would even recognize the USA?!)
To: TheThinker
With most Japanese, (and their government) if it is a toss up between perhaps offffffffending someone on the one hand, and risking one's life through exposure to a horrid and confusing disease on the other, benevelence and political correctness are shitcanned, and basically normative common sense and self preservation kicks in. There is no hand-wringing and internal debate over it on national talk shows with liberal talking heads discussing and arguing and paralyzing critical action for a full week as to what we ought to do, to "respect immigrants rights". They just DO IT.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:57:45 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
To: frankiep
maybe we need that little kid .gif right about now. ;-)
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:59:39 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
To: frankiep
/sarc
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:01:04 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
To: AmericanInTokyo
it might work for a short time with only two flights a week, but eventually it will get through. There’s no hiding from this unless you’re in antarctica.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:01:22 PM PDT
by
balch3
To: AmericanInTokyo
"Passengers coming in from California...."
...which is a subsidiary of Mexico. Bless the Japanese. They are doing the right thing, and they may end up saving us all from another 1918-19 style pandemic.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:02:24 PM PDT
by
ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Stay safe AIT. At least Japan has zero tolerance on bleeding hearts, unlike here in Obama-land.
To: balch3
I challenge that assumption.
And my textbook of proof is how Japan handled SARS (also how South Korea handled was also excellent), the very low SARS diffusion rate, back in the early 2000s.
Japan was able to keep it at an extremely low level and very controlled. Japanese people to begin with are incredibly sanitary about washing hands, etc. as well; nobody needs to educate them constantly such as with the "lavamos sus manos" stickers one sees in filthy bathrooms of Mexican restaurants in the USA for the illegal alien employees. This global thing will scare the daylights out of the Japanese and they will step up to the plate. I have no reason to believe less of them.
Table 1 SARS Probable Cases by Country (June 12, 2003) Country Cumulative Cases Deaths Current Cases Australia 5 0 0 Canada 238 32 65 China 5,328 343 528 Hong Kong 1,755 291 87 Japan 0 0 0 South Korea 3 0 0 Taiwan 688 81 260 Mongolia 9 0 0 Philippines 14 2 12 Singapore 206 31 5 Thailand 9 2 1 United States 70 0 34 Vietnam 63 5 0 Other 57 3 4 World Total 8,445 790 996 Source: World Health Organization.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:09:06 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
To: AmericanInTokyo
This morning I saw thermal cameras in use in Japanese airports on TV. I wonder how well it works?
Also, what are U.S. military bases in Japan doing? Or rather what is Japan doing to them. ;)
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:14:21 PM PDT
by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
To: lainie
I am sure the US military in Japan is tip top shape on this kind of thing. My impression is they would have screening. However it is a long way from Guadalajara to Yokosuka; nevertheless their medical authorities will indeed be on the lookout for any irregulatiries.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:19:44 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Good post AiT, too bad some of that Japanese spine and no-nonsense approach to public safety isn’t seen here in the U.S. of A.
Stay safe.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:22:23 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
To: Brad's Gramma
But boy howdy,
LOL, thank you for that Gramma, I had not heard that phrase since MY Grandmother used it (she went to be with the Lord in '71), you wouldn't perhaps know the origins of that saying?
Have yourself a great week! :)
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:23:54 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
To: balch3
it might work for a short time with only two flights a week, but eventually it will get through. Theres no hiding from this unless youre in antarctica.
Well ask yourself this: would you prefer to be in a room with 1 infected person, or perhaps a dozen?
The Japanese have clearly opted for the former.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:25:15 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
To: mkjessup
you wouldn't perhaps know the origins of that saying?Boy Howdy, I sure don't! :) :)
I can ask the older brother who will, of course, give me a smart aleck answer. Ha!
Bless you...YOU have a great week too!
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:25:22 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Life is but a big granola bar.)
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