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  • Cover Up - New Report Shreds Japan's Carefully Constructed Fukushima Scenario

    11/03/2011 10:15:51 AM PDT · by bananaman22 · 12 replies
    oilprice.com ^ | 02/11/2011 | John C.K. Daly
    Japan’s six reactor Fukushima Daichi nuclear complex has inadvertently become the world’s bell-weather poster child for the inherent risks of nuclear power ever since the 11 March Tohoku offshore earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered a devastating tsunami that effectively destroyed the complex. Ever since, specialists have wrangled about how damaging the consequences of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami actually were, not only for the facility but the rest of the world. The Fukushima Daichi complex was one of the 25 largest nuclear power stations in the world and the Fukushima I reactor was the first GE designed...
  • The costly fallout of tatemae and Japan's culture of deceit

    11/02/2011 6:25:30 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies
    Japan Times ^ | 11/01/11 | DEBITO ARUDOU
    The costly fallout of tatemae and Japan's culture of deceit By DEBITO ARUDOU There is an axiom in Japanese: uso mo hōben — "lying is also a means to an end." It sums up the general attitude in Japan of tolerance of — even justification for — not telling the truth. First — defining "telling the truth" as divulging the truth (not a lie), the whole truth (full disclosure) and nothing but the truth (uncompounded with lies) — consider how lies are deployed in everyday personal interactions. Let's start with good old tatemae (charitably translated as "pretense"). By basically saying...