JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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nandakandamanda
Friends felt it in Takamatsu. This was the second one this year, where there have been none in that area for something like 40 years.
One woman fell over in her kitchen, and a bloke fell off his 1st Fl balcony breaking his shoulder.
The Osaka weather bureau is telling people to be prepared for 'Shindo' 4 aftershocks.
Posted in: M5.4 quake jolts northern Hiroshima Pref, parts of Shimane
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nandakandamanda
Noticed in today's Sanyo Shinbun newspaper, p30, that the 787 Okayama flight had a second serious problem yesterday.
The main computer screens controlling all flight systems came up in fault mode. Everything was checked and seemed to be working so they rebooted the computer; as it showed normal this time, they flew off to Haneda two and half hours late.
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nandakandamanda
My earthquake detector (pc desk with spindly legs) is still gently rocking and trembling this morning... hope that was the main quake yesterday evening!
Posted in: M5.4 quake jolts northern Hiroshima Pref, parts of Shimane
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nandakandamanda
The east and north of Japan are on the North American Plate.
The south and west are on the Eurasian Plate.
I guess you wait and rattle your plate when your time comes... :nervous:
Posted in: M5.4 quake jolts northern Hiroshima Pref, parts of Shimane
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nandakandamanda
Grab bag is good. Needs to be right beside you as you may not be able to get into a closet.
Beds with a bedstead can actually hold the ceiling off you if it collapses, BTW. A row of such beds in a hospital in Kobe saved all the patients there. (Apologies to futon lovers...)
Posted in: M5.4 quake jolts northern Hiroshima Pref, parts of Shimane
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nandakandamanda
Checked several news sites, but no mention in Japanese anywhere of the boar eating cabbage!?
One article says the family were eating lunch at the kotatsu when the boar came in, but when the man kicked it it ran out of the front door...
Posted in: Wild boar enters home in Motegi; injures resident
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nandakandamanda
Shindo 3 here, my room rocking and rolling for a while. Actually felt tremors in my pc stand about two hours before it happened and wondered if it was a precursor to something.
Always keep a torch/flashlight and a whistle beside my bed, but maybe I'll add a bottle of water tonight!
Posted in: M5.4 quake jolts northern Hiroshima Pref, parts of Shimane
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nandakandamanda
Whoa!!! So maybe Mubarak wasn't doing the earlier killing after all.
Maybe they should let him go and arrest the field marshal instead.
Or are we going to see a similar pattern to the French revolution where the mob, baying for blood, took years to feel sated?
Posted in: 13 killed in clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square
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nandakandamanda
I wonder why they left the door open...
Posted in: Wild boar enters home in Motegi; injures resident
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nandakandamanda
Looks like lessons have to be learned, again, and again, and again... can't they ever err on the side of safety?
Posted in: Chevron takes blame for Brazil oil spill
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nandakandamanda
PS The same article mentioned in my previous post says that they were hoping to start removing water from the basement of No.3 for filtering, and that on the 14th of this month when they sent a robot inside they got an already very high reading of 1300 MS. This time, on the 19th, the reading was 1600 MS. There are worries that this might set back the year-end cold shutdown schedule.
Posted in: M5.3 quake hits eastern Japan; nuclear plant stable
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nandakandamanda
You really have to dig deep for some of this news, but here is a TBS article (in J) from yesterday saying that robots have found 1600 millisieverts per hour coming from under the flooring in the No.3 reactor at Fukushima.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/jnn?a=20111120-00000023-jnn-soci
Now that suggests that whatever source of very high radioactivity is being jiggled around by these aftershocks is absolutely free and unmonitored to do so.
Posted in: M5.3 quake hits eastern Japan; nuclear plant stable
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nandakandamanda
Foregone conclusion. Hypocrisy. 'Fair' simply means they followed due process. He's dead meat already.
The guy will get a 'fair' trial, if he's lucky, and be put to death. He might even prefer an unfair trial if it's quicker.
The world will have cleaner hands if they can say in either case, "We told you to make it fair!"
Now he will be saying his prayers with meaning.
Posted in: World powers urge fair trial for captured Gadhafi son
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nandakandamanda
Well, the article makes it sound very clearly like a murder.
Posted in: Police reopen investigation into Natalie Wood's death in 1981
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nandakandamanda
PS Maybe an out-of-control predator like Black Bass if you can find a way to make it palatable.
Posted in: With overfishing a big issue, what is the best fish to eat in terms of species that reproduce quickly, are still in good supply and are caught using methods that minimize bycatch and damage to the ocean floor?
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nandakandamanda
Of course there are large differences in perception.
To some people the fact that a species is on the brink of extinction is a matter solely for alarm.
To others it is an opportunity to raise prices (and profits) and have the customer enjoy eating something really rare... entirely guilt-free. I have observed this way of thinking openly expressed on countless occasions in this area of the world.
Posted in: With overfishing a big issue, what is the best fish to eat in terms of species that reproduce quickly, are still in good supply and are caught using methods that minimize bycatch and damage to the ocean floor?
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nandakandamanda
When you sign on to the GSDF, do you agree to do anything requested of you? Let's hope they do indeed use specialist troops and not just throw everyone in there, share and share alike.
Posted in: Gov't to use GSDF to help with decontamination work
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nandakandamanda
2 negatives already. Hmmm.... let's try it the other way around.
8,000 Japanese with no taste. 1.5 million US citizens with taste!
There, better?
Posted in: Last year, Japan exported 1.5 million vehicles to the United States, while U.S. automakers exported just 8,000. Why aren't U.S. makers selling more in Japan?
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nandakandamanda
This article is not about the game or who won, or congratulations.
It's about the booing of an opponent's national anthem, by 50,000 people in unison.
Natural? Spontaneous? Stress relief? Forced? Nationalistic? Religious? Innocently free of international norms and expectations on how to behave in public?
To tell the truth, the Japanese National Anthem is soul-crackingly slow. Needs a bit more zing to it....
Posted in: Japan national anthem booed in N Korea at World Cup qualifier
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nandakandamanda
Agreed with smithinjapan. Right decision, wrong reason. But what zichi says is true too...
BTW the idea of having reactors like this in the SW, i.e. in the best position to carry poison on the prevailing winds all over Japan sticks in my craw.
In an accident we would all be stuffed. No silver lining. In a sense, Fukushima was one of the best places to have an accident, if you are going to have one, since much of the lethal cargo blew NE out to sea.
Posted in: Edano says gov't won't allow Kyushu Electric to restart 2 reactors at Genkai plant