Killing Whales Matters More Than Saving People: William Pesek – Bloomberg
Japan spent about 2.28 billion yen on whaling hunting expeditions from funds allocated for recovery from the earthquake and tsunami. It’s a drop in the proverbial bucket, given that the government plans to spend at least $300 billion rebuilding the Tohoku region via Killing Whales Matters More Than Saving People: William Pesek – Bloomberg. I [...]
Earthquake not a factor in Fukushima accident
The tsunami of 11 March was the ‘direct cause’ of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, concluded an official investigation report. It dismissed the idea that earthquake damage was a major factor in the accident. A safe emergency shutdown was achieved within seconds of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, said the Fukushima Nuclear [...]
Tsunami debris floats across the Pacific towards Midway
This stuff could be floating around for a long time, ebbing back and forth across the Pacific. Yuk. I’m reminded of the beginning of J.G. Ballard’s novel (and movie), “Empire of the Sun”, where the coffins float down the river, bump against ships, and break open … Anyone for a swim in Hawaii? Can’t find [...]
よくある質問Q&A：X 市公式ホームページ X-City Official Homepage
Alerted by EX-SKF blog, I found my city in a list of cities (published by AERA magazine, the list is replicated here – in Japanese only – with cities that have since withdrawn from the scheme highlighted in red) that had accepted a government request (back in April) to accept debris from the earthquake/tsunami area. [...]
Tepco tries to save face | The Japan Times Online
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Thursday defended its decision to withhold the results of its 2008 calculations that predicted tsunami higher than 10 meters could strike the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, saying it saw no point at the time in publicizing a projection based on a multitude of assumptions. Tepco spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said [...]
No livestock farmers apply for government help | The Japan Times Online
What the….? SENDAI — No livestock farmers in the four prefectures worst hit by the March disaster have applied for a government aid program to help them resume operating, apparently because the qualification terms make it impossible, local authorities said.Under the support program, the government offers subsidies to livestock farmers to remove tsunami debris and [...]
It wasn’t our fault! It wasn’t our fault!!! – Japan utility knew of tsunami threat: government – Yahoo! News
So the blame shifting continues. Does anyone really think this exculpates the regulatory agency? “OK, here’s the deal: you tell us what safety procedures you think you ought to implement, and we’ll mull them over and tell you to implement them. Or maybe we’ll just skip the mulling. Save time. I hate reading, anyway.” (“Despite [...]
死者・不明者 ２万３１９人 NHKニュース
警察庁によりますと、東日本大震災の死者と行方不明者の数は合わせて２万３１９人に上っています via 死者・不明者 ２万３１９人 NHKニュース. Death toll from March 11 earthquake and tsunami now at 20,319. I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions’ Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap’s free email course on going paperless [...]
Many Kesennuma evacuees fled tsunami by car : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE The Daily Yomiuri
”However, people probably jumped into their cars because they wanted to escape as quickly as possible.” No s**t, Sherlock! Ya think? Ya think they maybe knew a tsunami was on the cards soon after an earthquake like that? More examples of people taking their own initiative. The Kesennuma municipal government had called on its citizens to [...]
Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami | The Japan Times Online
Hindsight is always 20-20. “When I see the situation now…” The issue is that no-one thought at the time that shaving 25 meters off the bluff was a potential problem. Also, is it definite that this would have avoided a nuclear disaster? Admittedly, the nuclear disaster’s immediate cause was the tsunami flooding the compound and [...]
