Wednesday February 15, 2012

Apsara's past comments

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    Apsara

    no I don't. These kind of international exhibitions take years to plan and arrange. This was planned well before 3/11. Withdrawing sponsorship from an important international exhibition, would be a big "loss of face?"

    I agree- I used to work for a company that organises exhibitions of mainly Impressionist paintings, brought from museums in Europe and the US, in Japan, and we did start planning years in advance. I never heard of a sponsor withdrawing funding partway through- in any case, by this point usually almost everything has been paid for.

    One of the exhibitions I worked on was due to open in early April and had to cancel the first venue because the French museums involved were concerned about radiation- ironically the venue was Hiroshima. The second venue (I think it was Gifu) went ahead in June.

    For those surprised that the artworks were in Gunma, it's typical for any exhibition of artworks from overseas here to travel to at least 4 or 5 regional venues (ours usually went to places like Ishikawa, Gifu, Okinawa, Kumamoto) in addition to the Tokyo area- you would be surprised how many people a name like the Hermitage brings in even in the more rural areas. Bringing the works only to one venue like Tokyo will usually mean that the exhibition doesn't recoup its costs, at least 4 or 5 are necessary to make it worthwhile for the organisers.

    Posted in: Hermitage cuts short Japan exhibition tour due to radiation fears

  • 1

    Apsara

    The old name was Center-Gai,which the article does mention, although given how confusing the it is to read, I can understand you missing it.

    Posted in: Tokyo tourist draw shoots self in foot with bizarre name change

  • 0

    Apsara

    Cover up? I thought we had already heard something along these lines months ago, so how can it be a cover up?

    Posted in: Plutonium detected in soil outside Fukushima nuclear plant

  • 0

    Apsara

    The March 9th one they consider a foreshock. Of course they only knew it was once the big one hit!

    I got the yurekuru message on my phone last night saying a Shindo 6+ was about to happen in Fukushima so expected to feel something substantial in Tokyo, but only knew it had happened by the light swaying slightly. From the news footage it was a pretty minor shake even at the epicentre. The poster zichi seems to like any excuse to foretell doom and gloom though!

    Posted in: Strong quake rocks northeast Japan

  • 3

    Apsara

    Surprise, surprise. It went to fukushima. Only an idiot would go there for tourism. Why not just book a hotel in Chernobyl? Corruption.

    The prize has gone to a group of people, not a region.

    I went to the Hawaiians resort in Iwaki on a company thing a few years back and I really feel for the hundreds of people who work there who are most likely now out of a job. A bit of compassion wouldn't go astray.

    Posted in: Lady Gaga, Fukushima Hula Girls given Japan Tourism Agency awards

  • 1

    Apsara

    The CORRUPTED SCUM "judges" are the ONES responsible for handing out those joke sentences.

    The word "corrupted" suggests you think someone is bribing them to hand out lenient sentences to people who kill children, which is hard to imagine.

    Posted in: Man arrested for allegedly suffocating 9-month-old son

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    Apsara

    Where was the mother? Was he a single father?

    Yes, according to the NHK news yesterday, he was a single father.

    Can anyone point me to a case where someone was handed a suspended sentence for killing a child? That kind of thing seems to come up so often in the comments here, but I don't recall seeing any cases where that happened- are there really that many?

    Posted in: Man arrested for allegedly suffocating 9-month-old son

  • 0

    Apsara

    Big dud here in Tokyo

    Huh? It hadn't even started affecting Tokyo when you wrote that, it was still down off Shikoku. The river near where I live in west Tokyo just rose a metre in half an hour and is still rising. I don't think we're going to get our roofs blown off, but it's more than just a sprinkle of rain.

    Posted in: 1 dead, 2 missing, over 1 million urged to evacuate as typhoon nears

  • 0

    Apsara

    I wonder what's taking them so long...

    You aren't seriously suggesting it would be better for those men to commit suicide, are you? I'm hoping you aren't, because they are all someone's husband, father, son, brother, and a suicide in the family causes immense pain for those left behind- anyone who hasn't had that experience should consider themselves extremely lucky and should not be wishing that pain on others.

    Posted in: Body found in sea off Otaru identified as JR Hokkaido president

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    Apsara

    I live in west Tokyo and heard some creaking but didn't even feel it although I was home at the time. Some of the people I know felt it and some didn't. After March 11 and the first few weeks of aftershocks I can't think of a Shindo 3 as a "bad one"- during the March 11 earthquake I could hardly stay standing, there's just no comparison.

    Posted in: M6.2 earthquake hits northeast Japan; no tsunami warning

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    Apsara

    the amount of isotopes being collected at waste water treatment facilities in Tokyo every week,

    Can you provide links for this data as well? I'd be interested in looking at it.

    Posted in: Kan feared Tokyo would become uninhabitable due to nuclear crisis

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    Apsara

    What about the people in the mid Tohoko areas? Aren't those areas already "uninhabitable"? The comment comes across as a bit Tokyo-centric in his worldview. In other words, the people in the boonies are expendable. City dwellers are not.

    He is talking about the logistical difficulties of evacuating a major metropolis like Tokyo, should it be necessary. That doesn't mean he's ignoring the people in areas with less population density.

    Posted in: Kan feared Tokyo would become uninhabitable due to nuclear crisis

  • 1

    Apsara

    Took me a second, but I got Farmboy's allusion, and it was clever and had a point. Some people just can't understand, and I expect those people don't read past headlines, so they expected a eulogy.

    I don't think it was Farmboy's comment that people objected to in most cases. I'd also say most people got the allusion- you don't have to be super-intelligent to figure it out...

    Posted in: Rescue teams search for bodies after typhoon leaves 34 dead, 56 missing

  • 4

    Apsara

    I tried to lighten the mood too but got blasted for it. One does have to move on. I have and so have lots of others.

    There's a time and a place. A comment like yours right after a headline saying 27 people have died very recently comes across as insensitive and flippant, not as "lightening the mood". At the very least you could acknowledge that some people may still be suffering and with good reason before writing something like that. Of course you can move on, you weren't seriously affected by the typhoon (correct me if I'm wrong). Different story for people who lost their lives/loved ones/property.

    Posted in: Rescue teams search for bodies after typhoon leaves 34 dead, 56 missing

  • 0

    Apsara

    And yet NOTHING was found in the rice they harvested in fukushima? Come on J government.

    Did they actually say this? All the news I have seen says that the radiation detected in the rice was below the limit, not that nothing was found. I won't be eating it anyway of course!

    Posted in: Radioactive cesium detected in tea products in Saitama, Chiba

  • 0

    Apsara

    No, they are increasing frequency of routes, with less service.

    I'm sorry, I don't follow your reasoning at all. They are returning to something like their pre-March 11 timetable on a few lines, while continuing to attempt to conserve power in other ways- like I said, it's not as if they will have profited out of the whole situation. I agree with the above- always these pointless, negative comments.

    Posted in: JR East announces end to power-saving timetable

  • 2

    Apsara

    Umm, they aren't reducing the A/C to increase profits, they are doing it to conserve electricity. And how much revenue do you think they've lost since the earthquake? I really doubt it's been a money-making exercise for them.

    Posted in: JR East announces end to power-saving timetable

  • 1

    Apsara

    stop the spread of.....dangerous genetic mutations.

    Someone reads too many comic books...

    Posted in: Solitary holdout refuses to leave Fukushima nuclear zone

  • 2

    Apsara

    The utter chaos in Tokyo after the March 11 quake shows just how inadequate these drills are

    I walked 25km to get home on March 11 and I didn't see any of the utter chaos you are referring to. The trains were stopped, yes. I'm happy that they carry out safety checks even if I was severely inconvenienced. Generally after gathering outside their buildings for a while people started to walk calmly and purposefully in the direction of home- no screaming, no looting. I even saw pizza guys making deliveries in the evening.

    Sure there was a traffic jam, gridlock even, how could there not be with the number of cars that are in the centre every day? Any ideas on how that could be prevented? I still don't think it came even close to "utter chaos".

    I agree with the above two posters, a lot of the regular commenters here take any and every opportunity to bash anything that ever happens here. How about some more constructive comments for a change, people? It's getting really old reading basically the same comments by the same people day after day, so much so that I've mostly stopped reading them because I know exactly what I will see in the comments section.

    Posted in: Japan holds first national quake drill since tsunami

  • 3

    Apsara

    Is that really Tokyo? They usually do not let you on the little grass they have here. Also, those Pine trees are not native to Tokyo Parks.

    The large green areas across the busy road from the Imperial Palace have pine trees and you can sit on the grass. As for not usually being allowed on the grass, ever been to Yoyogi Park? Shinjuku Gyoen? Koganei Koen? Showa Kinen Koen? Komazawa Koen, Nogawa Koen and many others have large expanses of grass you can sit on, all free other than Shinjuku Gyoen as mentioned.

    Posted in: Afternoon delight

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