The yen price on FX might be considered as a convenient indicator of economic success or failure.
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I remember stuff like this after the Kobe quake some years ago. For all you hear about the organization and modernity of Japanese society, you really see some things sorely lacking. These people should be checked out and/or evacuated from the area. What kind of instruction is that to say to simply “stay indoors”? For how long?
Thankfully it is the safest form of energy.
Otherwise this would be really bad.
I thought Minamisoma was wiped out by the tsunami.
I saw somewhere where they were needing Americans to go over to help in that area. Not sure if they were referring to those with nuclear knowledge but if so... I know a few right here that have quite a lot of knowledge they could share with the Japanese.
In fact, I’m sure the Japanese people will be relieved to hear that the crisis is really “not even close to a Three Mile Island” and has been over-hyped from the beginning.
http://radiation.monkut.webfactional.com/shower/tracker/city/6/
The current level in the city is about 2 micro (one one-millionth) Grays per hour. A flight from New York to Tokyo is about 200 micro Grays.
People need to get outside start getting their lives back on track.
Great point - the Japanese are great at lining up orderly and waiting their turn like sheep but not so much on out-of-the-box thinking.
Police officers have also been searching for bodies in decimated towns inland, but in some cases their efforts have been complicated or even stymied by dangerous levels of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant 140 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.
People who live within 12 miles (20 kilometers) have been forced to leave, though residents are growing increasingly frustrated and have been sneaking back to check on their homes. Government officials warned Friday that there are no plans to lift the evacuation order anytime soon.
“I don’t think the evacuation zones make any sense,” said Tadayuki Matsumoto, a 46-year-old construction worker who lives in a zone 15 miles (25 kilometers) away where residents have been advised to stay indoors. “They don’t seem to have thought it out and are making things up as they go along.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/25000-us-and-japanese-soldiers-search-by-air-and-sea-for-bodies-of-tsunami-victims/2011/04/01/AFeGPOEC_story.html
It is awful. I would just leave and never come back.
‘’Residents affected by the disaster don’t even know whether they should stay or evacuate,’’ he said
Well the gov. did say to leave after all...so they best leave. I sometimes wonder what makes people “wonder” what they should do when it’s pretty clear what they should do.
When I was a kid I asked my brother, who was in High School and therefore all-knowing to a little kid, what would happen if one of the Nuke plants were to blow up? (I don't think I knew the term meltdown or any of that). We lived within 20 miles of three plants. My brother said to me, all seriously, “Well, you lean over, put your head between your legs and kiss your a** goodbye”.
I hope it hasn't got to that stage yet.
It just seems remarkable that after all the strategic mistakes and fall from grace of our country, there are still people, from a very successful country, who look up to us and our government and think that maybe we do some things better than they do.
Yes, I suppose it might.
...although there might be some sociopolitical parallels with New Orleans and the BP disaster here.
...or, indeed, some polico-socialogical parallels, whichever sounds better, anyway.