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I think for Matsumoto, it was hard to speak out since he would be against the…
Posted in: Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
Two different pair of shoes! Joking about races and really being a racist who despises other…
Posted in: Can a person say something racist but not BE a racist?
WTF?
Posted in: The grave of Christ – Japanese town solves many of world’s mysteries
lol someone posted an article from the China Daily about this, where the guy was interviewed…
Posted in: Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
toshikoMay. 25, 2013 - 03:46AM JST Japanese brand cars are made-in-USA. There assembled in the USA.
Posted in: Nissan to recall 841,000 vehicles worldwide due to steering wheel glitch
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@Rick kisa
Spot-on man! Question: what is LDP's energy strategy n policy that guides PM's actions. People (and the rest of the world) are looking for sustainable energy policies and strategies that deliver safe, less costly, clean, environmentally friendly energy. From all accounts since the fukushima fall-out, nuke energy is not safe, clean and cheap! Less than one week in power and Abe, still living in the past, has said nothing but only talking about restarts and building new nuke plants, amazing how some of these so-called leaders behave when elected. Does Abe know that a campaign to save energy alone would be equivalent to building 2 expensive nuke reactors....?????
Posted in: Fireproofing said to be inadequate at many nuclear reactors
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I hope the local displaced people will be given a chance to speak their views on the issue......I conference participants will also visit the no.4 reactor, rumoured to be exploding anytime.
Posted in: Japan to host nuclear safety conference in Fukushima Pref
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I wish you could announce permanent closer of those nuke plants...
Posted in: All tsunami warnings lifted after M7.3 quake hits northeast Japan
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Can you imagine this nuke electricity thing was once sold as clean, sustainable, cheap, blah blah blah! Only one nuke site and the whole country is on its knees! how about if it were about 4 sites set ablaze by a terrorist gang? What would happen? where would people go to on this small island? Theres urgent need for leadership on this nuke energy thing
Posted in: TEPCO struggling to find somewhere to store contaminated water
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They get it wrong again. The major threats to Japanese nuke plants are four: earthquakes, typhoons, tsunami/floods and possible terrorism. In addition to ensuring the highest safety measures considering each of these individually, the best safety scenario mapping measures should consider when at least 3 catastrophes happen at the same time. The fukushima scandal did not only involve earthquake.
Posted in: New nuclear regulator to impose tighter safety standards
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See? It is only the people and not the politicians, who will save Japan and its people from going to waste! What the gvt is saying is something like 'you can do n say what you want, we shall force nuclear everything down your throats. After all in case of accident, we shall still tell you nobody is responsible!'. Why are politicians so adamant and behave as if they are the last human beings to live in Japan? why? why?
Posted in: Japan to complete 3 new reactors despite no-nuclear policy
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Don't be deceived and let down your guard! With governments changing every six months, it is the people such as those demonstrating outside noda's residence, NOT the politicians that will force quit of nuclear energy. At this rate, you will be surprised that the people can effect this even before 2030 if they so wish, even if governments change!!!!
Posted in: Gov't aims to abandon nuclear power by 2030s
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At this rate and if every company can do its part, soon the dirty, scary, unsafe, unsustainable nuclear energy will be a thing of the past, shunned by majority. Companies such as coca cola will be the partners of choice in sustainable development and their businesses will grow a thousand fold. No wonder coca cola is among the best brands in the world!!!
Posted in: Coca-Cola provides grants for solar generating facilities to schools in Fukushima town
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Any nuclear business should put security first ahead of profits, which is basics in business management and sustainability. Unfortunately, the japan elite think they will always do it their way by conniving with nuclear village and a few other pro-nuclear crooks. Before the issues related to the affected nuke plants such as continuing spew of dangerous radiation into the atmosphere and food chain, together with nuclear waste storage are resolved; before the people affected by the fukushima nuclear fallout are resettled and compensated; before a non-political nuclear safety and regulation body is set up; and before a bankable nuclear policy is put into place, the politicians go over-drive, devilishly eager to cash in on the hot summer months, to restart the Oi reactors, with a view of building on that to restart remaining others. The unusually hot summer months let the pro-nuke crooks down when it was clear Japan can do without the nuke plants! You can deceive the people most of the time but not all the time. If people can demonstrate weekly in hot months such as July and August, one does not need to be told the days for nuclear electricity are coming to a close...
Posted in: Public pressure forces gov't to consider phasing out nuclear power
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@Yubaru
It is obvious you seem not to know the governance of IAEA...It is only you who expects anything constructive from there.....
Posted in: Nagasaki marks A-bomb anniversary with call for nuclear-free Japan
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The real news in the video is what has been left out
Posted in: Kan slams TEPCO over nuclear crisis video footage
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The problem is that the nuclear village profit-minded crooks, some politicians and nuke electricity supporters may not have been affected in any way by the fukushima disaster and the nuclear bombs. So, words from nuclear bomb survivors just fall on deaf ears.
Posted in: Nagasaki marks A-bomb anniversary with call for nuclear-free Japan
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if noda thinks all is well and safe, then why not sign a safety and comfort contract with the people such that if anything goes wrong, he is hanged or locked up together with his nuclear village crooks, operators, hangers-on and cheer leaders? I think the problem in this whole japan mess is accountability. Apparently, any bribed politician can now come from nowhere without any knowledge of how NPPs work and declare openly on television that the reactors are safe...and goes away with it when things go wrong..You cannot guarantee safety when all NPPS are sitting on unpredictable immense life-threatening earthquakes. You only need to look at the kanto 1923 earthquake to know that even without a tsunami, theres no NPP that could withstand such earthquake. something is terribly wrong, and I doubt peaceful demos are enough....
Posted in: Massive anti-nuclear power rally held in Tokyo
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My worry is the earthquake in Niigata, where there are nuclear plants knowingly built on faulty lines and with poor safety and security record.
Posted in: Quakes jolt Nagano, Niigata prefectures
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So what? No impact I must say! Summer will soon end and Japan is relatively coping well without your nuke electricty! At least it is not in the interest of the people!
Posted in: No. 3 nuclear reactor at Oi plant back to full capacity
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Star-vikingJUL. 02, 2012 - 07:13AM JST
Are yu from the grave? Rick kisa does not need to tell you that numerous hotsports are in Tokyo and the Fukushima nuclear radiation still goes on. Recently there was unprecedented spike of radiation at the plant due to faulty everthing!
VespertoJUL. 02, 2012 - 10:17AM JST
It is not only Rick Kisa talking about germany. This is common knowledge and if Japan wants to learn, it can do so. Somebody mentioned that wind energy requires a lot of land, which is laughable. Netherlands depends on wind energy yet it is a very small country. How about turning the waste land near Fukushima into a renewable energy park by building wind mills?
Posted in: Anti-Oi protest
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I think the main problem with nuclear restarts is accountability. All pro-nuke opinion leaders know that when things go bad, it will be a matter of announcing that nobody knew that such an accident will happen.....and everything will be back to normal the next day. The dead and mimed due to the accident will be forgotten as efforts will be shifted to restarts or building new nuclear reactors.
The situation would be different if say opinion leaders who declare restarts sign a letter of confort with the people such that in case of problems, they are held accountable, locked up or punished. This way, these people will think twice before blindly declaring safety and restarts. A politician losing the next election partly because he ordered restarts is not good enough punishment if you consider the effects of a nuclear fallout due to a hurried careless restarts. It is clear that Japan's earthquakes would not make it best location for nuclear plants, and if there was a will, Japan would be ahead with renewables.
Posted in: Tens of thousands protest Japan nuclear restart
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Watch out for Diarrhoea! I hear that if a man/boy does sex with a woman twice his age or more, you will develop incurable diarrhoea until specialist doctors intervene!
Posted in: More women in their 40s dating younger men
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@JaneM Jun. 27, 2012 - 03:23PM JST
This is a case where people do not think before writing. What is clear is that we did not have such hot spots before Fukushima. You seem to be the only person who does not know that the plants at Fukushima still spew radio active material into the atmosphere! Also Rick Kisa has not said that hot spots are because of Fukushima. S/he only worries, as everybody does, about the uncleared backlog of radiation that still lingers and which is common knowledge. Your comment clearly seems misplaced and uninformed.
Posted in: No. 3 reactor at Oi expected to reactivated on July 1
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Wrong. Japan is rich in renewable energy resources if there is will and leadership to develop these resources. People are realizing too late that after all Noda is in bed with the nuclear village and is no a lesser evil than his predecessor.
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