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More than 7,000 electrified fences not installed properly: survey

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Following an incident on July 19 in which an electrified fence killed two men and seriously injured five other people in Nishi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries conducted an inspection of 100,000 electrified fences installed nationwide and found that more than 7,000 had been installed improperly and were a safety risk.

According to the ministry, 7,100 electrified fences did not comply with safety regulations. Among the infringements were an absence of danger signs, too great an electrical current, and no system to cut off the flow of electricity if a short circuit occurs, Fuji TV reported.

In most of those cases, the fences had been installed by private individuals.

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Following an incident on July 19 in which an electrified fence killed two men and seriously injured five other people in Nishi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, the Ministryl of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries conducted an inspection of 100,000 electrified fences installed nationwide and found that more than 7,000 had been installed improperly and were a safety risk.

July 19th two unfortunate deaths, August 21st a report published by a JAPANESE government agency stating that 100,000 ONE HUNDRED FREAKING THOUSAND fences were inspected.........

How can this be? Is it even possible? Japanese, government agency, in less than one month?

I'm surprised they even knew where all the fences were, let alone be able to inspect that many AND publish a report about it in such a short time.

Has to be a record of some sort here.

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the rare result when engineers are not held back by a bureaucracy out of their depth, you get fast results.

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did not comply with safety regulations

There are regulations for putting one of these up? Perhaps if people knew that rather than telling everyone they are wrong

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the rare result when engineers are not held back by a bureaucracy out of their depth, you get fast results.

Sorry but I don't share your optimism. From my own experience I have never heard of or know of any Japanese government agency, to move this quickly. As is typical here, it usually takes at least one month or more just to get a meeting together to decide who is going to do what and even longer just to decide who is going to lead the "investigation" or planned action.

Something is fishy, to me, about the results. 100,000 fences is no simple task, and just getting the data together for a country of this size takes time.

I get the funny feeling that this information has been around for a while and the ministry dusted off an old study and passed it off as being a "proper inspection".

Either that, or someone just picked a number out of their butt and decided it "sounded" right.

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"100,000"

Why am I shocked by this number?

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maybe a case of problem - reaction - solution.

Now the government can allocate huge amount of money to fix the problems....

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According to the ministry, 7,100 electrified fences did not comply with safety regulations.

Sounds like typical mickey mouse jobs. "I wonder why the government has been overlooking laypeople's electrified fences so far" is what I'd like to say. But strangely enough, they apparently haven't had to ask licensed electricians to install the electrified fences so far.

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so, 235 fences were inspected each day 236x30 days =7100 that is hard to believe AND wright a report and track and locate these fences, and the owners. come on do you think were that gullible !?!?

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The network of JA cooperatives certainly reaches into most agricultural nooks and crannies around the country--I think it's entirely conceivable (though I'll concede, unlikely) that on order from the Ministry they had workers fan out to farms everywhere to do check of electric fencing.

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so, 235 fences were inspected each day 236x30 days =7100 that is hard to believe AND wright a report and track and locate these fences, and the owners. come on do you think were that gullible !?!?

Your numbers are way off, the total number inspected is 100,000, with 7,000 being not up to specs

If they had 30 days, which is impossible to believe they did it that fast, but for discussion purpose, they had to inspect 3,333 fences per day for 30 days to get to 100,000. Oh and that doesnt leave time for any reports either.

Do they think people are that gullible? (Quick answer.....YES!)

The network of JA cooperatives certainly reaches into most agricultural nooks and crannies around the country--I think it's entirely conceivable (though I'll concede, unlikely) that on order from the Ministry they had workers fan out to farms everywhere to do check of electric fencing.

JA is not the Ministry, but even using this for the discussion, just getting them to cooperate would take at least a month.

Start to finish? Plus vetting and publishing? WOW....Please buy my beach from property Mr Minister!

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There is a need in communities all over Japan to work together and "communicate" among its citizens without the "pretense" of concern and that "others" must take responsibility for themselves without taking responsibility for themselves.

It is NOT "teisai" or "mikake" (appearance) is good or "jibunn no kennri" (my rights) but "ningenn to shite no sekinin", the (responsibility as a human being).

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100,000 is a small number in a hierarchical organization. Honcho #1 sends the request to his division (10 people), each of them send it to their underlings (100) who then "farm" it out to their groups (1000). The next level down gives us 10,000 people with just 100 fences in their neighborhood to check and the inspection doesn't take that long. The reports go upstream in standardized format (invented by Hollerith over 130 years ago) and the top guy turns in his report in about a month. I know of one organization that checks weights and waists of over 3 Million people four times a year using the same techniques.

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