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warnerbro
“Tokyo 2020 will be the Games of excellence, staged in the world’s most forward-thinking city and will feature world-class infrastructure and technology,” added Takeda."
But you'll be housed and play in a new Olympic Village built of radioactive concrete. You'll dine on contaminated food because the government doesn't want to check more than a minute fraction to avoid insulting farmers upon whom the government, through its negligence, permitted nuclear waste to be dumped. World class my @rse. This is a government that is willing to send children back to areas 4 times more heavily contaminated than the mandatory evacuation level in the Soviet Union, because it is too expensive to evacuate them. This is a government that has a legal civilian exposure rate of 1 mSv/year but is ignoring that and forcing people to move into areas with 20 times higher radioactivity. And yet it has enough money to hold the Olympics?
Posted in: Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid a symbol of recovery: Noda
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warnerbro
If his mother had low income and was unable to work, then she should qualify. He may or may not have a moral obligation to get her off public assistance, but he has no legal one. Nonbinding laws are laws that have no enforcement provisions or laws the government chooses to ignore. One example is the law that says Japanese citizens shall not be exposed to more than 1 mSv/year of radiation.
Posted in: Comedian apologizes for not helping mother get off welfare
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warnerbro
This is merely another way for Ishihara to funnel public money to his wealthy friends. Like his bank that poured uncollectable loans funded by taxpayers to right wing gangsters. He might get a bit more support if he would cease to truck nuclear waste into the city and burn it, releasing radioactive gases and particulates for citizens to breathe, and then throwing the ashes into Tokyo Bay, fast becoming a nuclear waste dump.
Posted in: Ishihara disappointed at low home support for Tokyo Olympic bid
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warnerbro
TEPCO has consistently provided low estimates and then raised them quietly later. basroil "brought to you as a public service by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy" perhaps? They found strontium in Yokohama. They refused to look for plutonium anywhere outside Fukushima Prefecture but they did find it there.
Tonight (May the 25th) Furutachi at Hōdō Station did a piece on the #4 fuel pond. They have firmed up the underbelly to some extent but some people in the field believe it's still quite a dangerous situation and call for removal of the fuel to be expedited.
Posted in: Fukushima radiation higher than first estimated, TEPCO admits
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warnerbro
Jacques Rogge may well be throwing a dagger at the antinuclear movement. So he's worried about nuclear power but not about radioactive concrete that will be used in any new construction? No concerns about food that is tested for contamination by blokes who sell the food for a living?
Posted in: IOC chief: Japan must solve power shortage to host Games
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warnerbro
zichi, the problem with Fukushima Prefecture's monitoring is that Dr. Damashita and friends are only looking at thyroid exposure because that's where they "believe" the problem lies.
Posted in: WHO releases mixed Fukushima radiation report
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warnerbro
The 100 mSv level is nothing but an ephemeral line in the sand, mates. The largest study on radiation exposure to date says: "...a formal dose-threshold analysis indicated no threshold; i.e., zero dose was the best estimate of the threshold." http://www.rrjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.1667/RR2629.1
100 mSv is simply a political tool. There's always some risk, the only question is how much we would have people take.
Posted in: WHO releases mixed Fukushima radiation report
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warnerbro
"The survey meter went from 0.06 microsievert/hour or so to 0.612 microsievert/hour in about 2 and a half minutes." http://ex-skf.blogspot.jp/2012/05/one-day-after-disaster-debris-standoff.html http://portirland.blogspot.jp/2012/05/0612svh.html
Levels rising that much in such a short period of time would seem to indicate that the government is lying about the extent of radioactive contamination in that material.
Posted in: Demonstrators block delivery of tsunami debris in Kitakyushu
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warnerbro
Upgrading a North Korean rocket launch site? This must mean they are covering the surrounding area with crash pads.
Posted in: N Korea upgrading rocket launch site
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warnerbro
Good on them. There is plenty of room to keep the debris where it is. It is being stored and rent being paid to owners of the land that would sit empty and unused without it. It has the potential to create many jobs in the Tohoku area. It could be disintegrated or burnt and used as building material to repair the Tohoku seawalls that weren't high enough. However, burning the material will only concentrate and release radiation into the air. JaneM tell me why Kobe had almost the same amount of debris in a much smaller, almost completely urban area in 1995 but was able to dispose of all of it locally. Why after the Kobe quake did nobody once mention the possibility of moving debris from this densely populated city to other parts of Japan? The Tohoku debris is only slightly more voluminous than that caused by the Hanshin quake and furthermore, spread along a much, much wider, primarily rural area. Nevertheless the government concocts this ridiculous plan to ship it hither and yon, all the way down to Okinawa? This policy would be absurd even if the debris weren't radioactive.
Posted in: Demonstrators block delivery of tsunami debris in Kitakyushu
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warnerbro
It's nice that they are actually putting safety on the docket, but it is hardly an auspicious start. The wind was nothing to write home about, actually. If that's all it takes to stop the elevators, then they've got a very tall problem on their hands.
Posted in: Tokyo Sky Tree elevators halted due to strong winds on opening day
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warnerbro
In the Tokyo area last summer there were planned blackouts that the government finally admitted were unnecessary. There were common-sense measures like turning off the lights on vending machines in the daytime. At my own workplace I made a number of suggestions for electricity conservation and was told, "You don't understand. "We're just trying to achieve our target, not save as much as is comfortably feasible." Silly me, I thought there was an energy crisis, from all the tosh from the government. There was no crisis and there is no crisis. Any shortages will be manufactured by the industry and Keidanren. The only thing the government and the power industry are concerned about is that people feel the need for nuclear energy. With the taxpayers pouring subsidies into the works, the industry is far too profitable to put to rest now.
Posted in: Hosono fails to convince Kansai leaders on restart of Oi reactors
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warnerbro
They charge someone with abandoning a body so they can hold the suspect while they try to make him or her confess. As long as they can place someone at the scene, they can use that charge.
Posted in: Chiba woman stabbed to death at home
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warnerbro
I'm afraid Jimizo is correct, but the irony that Japan, a nation that has incurred enormous public debt to maintain the illusion of prosperity and to keep the same bureaucratic and political pirates in power, would propose to do this is amazing.
By the way, whatever German workers do at lunch time, they are more productive per hour worked than Japanese workers.
Posted in: Japan ready to help in euro crisis at G8 talks
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warnerbro
Of course he's guilty. He's a Japanese politician. Get off the subway at Nagata cho and point in any direction. You will finger a guilty politician. Who gets prosecuted and who doesn't is a political decision that the prosecutors make on behalf of the rest of the bureaucracy. Japanese prosecutors fabricate evidence like politicians take and give bribes. It's standard operating procedure and, like politicians, only a small fraction are stupid or unlucky enough to get caught or run afoul of the bureaucracy to the extent they make themselves targets for prosecution.
Posted in: Prosecutors appeal Ozawa's acquittal to Tokyo High Court
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warnerbro
He's busy indeed. I'm just glad I'm not on his menu.
Posted in: Putin to skip G8 summit in U.S. next week
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warnerbro
Apologies, Mr. Takizaki's cat impressions so excited me that I misspelt his name.
Posted in: Japanese comedian barred from Olympic run for Cambodia
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warnerbro
"Kuniaki Takizaki, a TV star renowned for his quirky cat impressions." Ah yes, contemporary Japanese performing arts, worthy of a great and venerable civilisation. My mind runs over with the vastness of them: wearing a pink sweater, being a fat bloke and wearing a dress, wearing large glasses, wearing odd hats with or without glasses, and, are you ready for this mates, gasp! actually eating before a camera are just a few of the talents that have been mastered by some of Japan's finest performing artists. And Mr. Tanizaki's cat impressions!
I see no reason to give him special treatment. He should probably spend some time in Cambodia. But then he wouldn't be able to grace Japan's airways with his cat impressions.
Posted in: Japanese comedian barred from Olympic run for Cambodia
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warnerbro
Boycotts harm a whole host of people with their hands in the Olympic till.
Posted in: Boycotts only harm athletes, says IOC chief
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warnerbro
He "fell." Just like Itami Jūzō jumped? This is a murder case. I hope the cops pick up on that eventually.
Posted in: Man falls to death from roof after being assaulted by former bosses