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shiofuki
TEPCO names new management: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo and Edano.
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shiofuki
@tmarie
I don't need to 'win' as you put it. You stay, you're happy, you win. But you're not happy, are you, because you complain.
As for the rest of it, you seem so unaware of the country about you and so oblivious to the way the people in this country think (I mean, you are really in Japan, aren't you? I really do wonder whether you've ever actually been here.) that there isn't any point in discussion with you beyond Hello Kitty and AKB48. Do you turn your feet in when you walk and say 'kawaii' at everything from carry-around minature dogs with ribbons to fashion accessories shaped like turds? Are you from Iowa, by any chance?
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shiofuki
@tmarie
Perspective? Hmm. Protest in Japan needs to be huge to count for anything. I don't expect them to do it for reasons given. Tell you what, when they start up the plants again in Fukui, we'll talk again. Better duck or you'll have egg on your face.
So stay here. Please do. I sincerely hope the situation improves.
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shiofuki
Comparatively, very few do protest in any manner that could be considered protesting, and such people are immediately branded as criminals, gatecrashers and breachers of the peace.
Outraged? Really? Is that what they are? "I'm really outraged about this Fukushima business" "Me too. What shall we do about it?." "Let's do nothing and say nothing as usual." "Great idea! Here, try a piece of cucumber. It's from Iwate, you know..."
Real protesting would be something like the whole of Fukushima uprooting and moving into Tokyo where they block the streets and cause chaos until they get what they want. If the authorities dared to move against them, Tokyo would end up looking like Tiananmen, something the government would not want.
Oh, come off it! You wouldn't make jokes about it if it weren't true! You even admit you make such jokes, so you've blown your side of that debate already.
Perhaps you should. Are you going to?
By choice.
Are you serious? Can't you see that it is partly the cultural obligations that have gotten Japan into this situation in the first place.
No, I don't see it. You are a foreigner, a visitor here. It is not up to you, or me, to protest. We don't have the same rights here. In fact, to many Japanese we aren't even welcome here. Your protests are simply not heard. You see things through western eyes still. The Japanese do not protest, not because they aren't outspoken enough (although that trait is drummed out of them in school - deru kugi and all that), it is because they are brought up to obey. Why don't you see that? I'm curious: how long have you lived in Japan to be still so unaware of the way Japanese people think?
Well, yes, that is commendable, but inappropriate.
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shiofuki
I can explain it. It's to do with saving face. They got caught red-handed and now they say it was an 'accident' thus admitting partial responsibility. In order to maintain face, kizuna and wa and whatever else, the response is "We understand your plight. Please be more careful next time." and all is well again. Be aware of where you living. This is not your home country with your home country's ways.
Think about it, and about what has been going on for the last year and you'll see that the government doesn't want people to stop distributing food from Tohoku. In fact, they actively encouraged it. Remember the posters at Famima with bentos using Tohoku produce? If they prosecute, it might really make people think and then the government will have to face angry farmers and further crises in the region and elsewhere. This way it all just happens and nobody knows or complains. The fact is, you don't know what you're eating here anymore.
Again, this is Japan. The people were brought up not to question, but to believe, trust and follow no matter what. Who is shouting about it? A bunch of foreigners who don't really matter because they are not Japanese. Only a few Japanese are going against it, and they are being portrayed in a bad light. Most just obey. And as long as the mislabelling is allowed to continue unhindered, people will just carry on obeying, trusting and eating.
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shiofuki
Great post gyouza!
The deliberate mislabelling was wrong, but were these cumbers really contaminated? That needs to be established and it's a bit late for that now.
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shiofuki
Er, there was a sticker on it showing origin. isn't that what you wanted?
The way some people go on, you'd think that all foodtuffs in Japan coem from Fukushima! There's plenty more Japan out there that produces things you can eat, you know!
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shiofuki
@tmarie
As are the incessant, impotent whines and moans about a country's system that you will never change or be able to do anything about. Haven't you cottoned on to the way they think here yet?
The situation is a fact that you cannot change through any wishful thinking, so you either have to accept that or make a choice that leads you, and your family, elsewhere. Many people have left. If you want to stay then do so, suck it up and shut up!
But they don't, and that's the problem. If they did, radiation wouldn't be spreading in the way that it is. Having said that, some Japanese have left. Look at the guy who runs Fukushima Diary. He left.
Remember we are visitors here and are treated as such. We don't belong and never will. It's sad that the Japanese culture has emburdened its citizens with attitudes of total acceptance and apathy but that is their culture and this is their country. It isn't ours. The few who make the comments you refer to have broken the programming, and left.
Yes, I agree, this is sad, and it is a cause for concern, but only a minority is concerned. The rest just follow. If you can't follow, like the rest of the sheep, you have no business being in contemporary Japan. Maybe in the future that will change, but they've left it all a little late, wouldn't you say?
Pubic???!!! What have nether regions got to do with any of this?
As for being apathetic, there comes a time when you know that shouting about things here does nothing. You can shout and shriek and rant all you like, but you won't change a thing.
Why do I live in Japan? Because I couldn't face packing and now that I have it's Golden Week and I have to wait until it's over to get a flight home.
Enjoy your cucumbers!
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shiofuki
@smithinjapan
Of course not! I can't stand cucumbers!
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shiofuki
@tmarie
Here we go again! TEPCO and taxes, la-de-da! It always comes back to that doesn't it? Isn't this off-topic?
So why do you stay? Seriously. People can see what's going on and where Japan is heading, and you do have the option to be somewhere else unless you've renounced your native citizenship. So I do wonder why people stay.
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shiofuki
All this looks like a massive over-reaction to me. It's just a couple of lousy cucumbers! And how many are you going to eat anyway? Probably not enough to make any difference. There is no evidence provided that the cumbers were contaminated in any way. They might have been grown right on the border with Niigata for all we know. The main thing here, and the only thing, is: did they taste good?
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shiofuki
People, the government wants to restart the reactors. Period. They've tried the suffering approach, i.e. you won't have air conditioners on this summer because we can't afford the power (state schools don't have air conditioning in the classrooms because it's 'character building' (read expensive) and they manage) and people have ganbarued, to the government's annoyance. They've tried the emotionally charged blackmail of kizuna, but that didn't work because finally some Japanese have grown a pair of testicles, and continue to oppose, debate and protest. The message is clear f you want to listen to it - no nukes! So now the government is just doing what it wanted to do all along, and and start up the reactors. It's only a matter of time before they start overtures to getting Fukushima back online. You know it's coming. Having said that, Fukushima was a freak accident that is unlikely to be repeated in our lifetimes, so...
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shiofuki
How dod this photo make it out of the plant in the first place? I thought the order of the day was to cover things up and smile for thr crowd. If there ever was a reason to worry and run, then that picture gives you all you'd ever need. I suppose people are just so used to hearing about one issue after another with Fukushima these days, that the seriousness doesn't really hit home anymore.
That black rubber tube all teh stuff is in doesn't look very reliable even where it isn't damaged. Is it a temporary covering or was it always like that?
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shiofuki
@almostthat "But, seriously, "asked" them to take a 20% pay cut??? What if they said "No! Shove it where it hurts! Sort out this mess yerselves. we're off!""
Yeah, you'd think wouldn't you, but this is JAPAN, and they'll say 'Hai. Wakarimashita', no matter what they really feel, roughtly translating as, 'I've bent over backwards to do my best for the company all these years, of course I'm now willing to bend over forwards for you too, as long as you aren't too inconvenienced'
"Don't employees have mortgages to pay, family to support, mouths to feed?"
Come, come now...where's your kizuna? Share the pain!
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shiofuki
I want to know how this stuff is just 'leaking' after a whole year of possible measures to stop this. Is it a euphonium for 'deliberate dumping'?
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shiofuki
How long do smelt live? Well, until they are caught for eating I suppose. We are talking about food-fishing here, I believe.
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shiofuki
They're sexy! Like those ballet shoe things. I'm getting all sorts of ideas!
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shiofuki
'Manna' wa? Can we have a poster campaign with cute animals drinking sensibly, please?
The woman was not killed by a beer glass, but by a woman using a beer glass as a weapon.
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shiofuki
Anyone else smelt a rat in all this?
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shiofuki
So why do you stay? Seriously. Why do people who can see where Japan is going, and the problems that will cause in the future, continue to live in Japan and moan and moan and moan? Japan is the last place where a whining foreigner will make anything different.
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