Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Other Western Artists are Minor in Japan | Marketing Japan
A Japanese professor of English was lamenting to me that Japanese young people these days are not interested in going abroad to study English. (He thinks this presages the end of Japanese civilization.) Today, I read a post that I think goes some way to explaining this phenomenon. For better or worse, I think the [...]
Japan retired nuclear workers ready for duty – Yahoo! News
“Skilled Veterans Corps”. Good name. It took a politician to call them (publicly) a “suicide corps”. Way to go, Hosono! Diplomatic, eh? This article has more details than the one Mike Rogers linked to yesterday. More than 160 engineers, including many former atomic plant workers, aged 60 or older say they want to set up [...]
Japan advisor says nuclear threat receding
Some good news, kind of, I guess, although I’m always suspicious when politicians make statements regarding technical or scientific situations. I’d rather hear it directly from NISA, or even TEPCO. The government could not say the situation had been completely stabilised at the plant, but after studying the possibility of severe deterioration Tokyo was comfortable [...]
Used minicars too dear for survivors : Business : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
Kojiro Sekine / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Rising demand for used minivehicles in areas hit by the March 11 earthquake has increased sales prices nationwide, adding another financial burden to disaster victims struggling to rebuild their lives. One reason for the popularity of minivehicles is the ease with which procedures to register them can be [...]
Guerrilla Hoarding – Wendy McElroy – Mises Daily
A timely article on the libertarian site Mises.org on hoarding. Although it is not directly related, and makes no reference to, the Japanese disaster, it is a pertinent topic. After the Japanese disaster in March, it soon became apparent that there was a) a dire need for certain goods, and b) that there was a [...]
Marketing Japan: Japan Disaster’s True Ground Zero – Not Nuclear Power Plants
This is a shout-out for Marketing Japan, a blog written by Tokyo resident Mike Rogers. Marketing is Mike’s business, hence the blog title, but since March 11 he has been boldly blogging about the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster focusing on the media reporting and contrasting it with facts about life in Tokyo and surrounding areas. His blog [...]
“18 days later” – Casey Research
Doug Casey’s economics and investment website has a very good summary of the Fukushima situation. Mouse-tip to Marketing Japan for the link. The final sentence sounds optimistic, but I suspect there are still more things that could go wrong that are not on the radar yet. What about that plutonium, for instance? Twelve days ago, [...]
“Don’t panic!” “What else is there to do?”
The video below was taken March 15 and concerns the lack of information and news about a third explosion at Fukushima (see the Wikipedia timeline). The young man in the video is frightened and concerned, as are many people in Japan, not only the foreigners. I do not blame him (some do, even those also living [...]
