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Ingenious! Is grass on playgrounds a Japanese invention?Taro Toporific wrote:..The Tokyo metropolitan government has decided to turf the schoolyards of all the capital's primary and middle schools over the next 10 years...
IkemenTommy wrote:I wonder if it will be [color="Lime"]real grass[/color] or astro-turf.
I wondered the same thing. But there's a photo in the article of real grass, so I assume it's the real thing..IkemenTommy wrote:I wonder if it will be [color="Lime"]real grass[/color] or astro-turf.
GuyJean wrote:...tthere's a photo in the article of real grass, so I assume it's the real thing...
Taro Toporific wrote:Japanese science must have genetically engineered some kind of supergrass that withstand the traffic of hundreds of kids playing on the typical Japanese schoolyard, which is the size of the parking area under a love hotel.
Who said the kids would actually be allowed to play on it? I'm sure, in those areas, 'fun' would be restricted..Blah Pete wrote:The grass isn't goint to last long with all the kids trampling on it year round..
Taro Toporific wrote:[floatr][/floatr]
Schools in Tokyo ban use of playground sandboxes over radiation fears
The Mainichi Daily News | 2011aug30
A number of schools in Tokyo are banning the use of playground sandboxes or replacing their sand due to radiation fears even though the capital is more than 200 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
While there is no government-set standard over the radiation levels in sandboxes, there are reports that levels of radiation exceeding standards set voluntarily by local municipalities have been detected in sandboxes at schools in Tokyo. Local governments and school officials are intensifying their calls on the central government to draw up a safety standard at an early date.
In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and other organizations...more...:glow:
The grass isn't goint to last long with all the kids trampling on it year round. The kiddie baseball teams tend to play year round during rain and snow which will kill the grass. I predict a big mud hole within a year due to mismanagement.
Artificial turf would be the best for schools but it won't help the heat problem.
IparryU wrote:she went back to the racist card so i just gave up and let her bitch for the next hour... japanese are sooooooo good at debates it is not funny
Dreamy_Peach wrote:Each playground will be attended to by at least one 50 year old man per 7.5 square metre section of grass with baton and megaphone to ensure that people do not play on the grass.
james wrote:further reinforcing a prevalent stereotype here that once there's grass on the field you can no longer play ball.
james wrote:further reinforcing a prevalent stereotype here that once there's grass on the field you can no longer play ball.
IparryU wrote:had a fight with my wife about this shit yesterday... I told her it is Japan and that's how things are always done.... she got mad and started saying that comment was racist... so i asked her what has japan done for the 3/11 aftermath... she couldn't come up with one thing.
so i told her:
1. USA was issuing iodine at the embassy and New Sanno to USofA passport holders
2. US gunjin helped out with the fukashima stuffs (citation)
3. Japan is having FG scientists come over to evaluate people/location for radiation levels
4. This whole 3/11 shit can be a big step for japan cause it will open up many jobs in the medical field, construction, charity (good for reducing taxes), and motivation for the nipponjin to fight for a better political system so politicians actually... do something.
she went back to the racist card so i just gave up and let her bitch for the next hour... japanese are sooooooo good at debates it is not funny
chokonen888 wrote:Even funnier because, despite what hey believe, Japanese are not a "race." Whether the country is filled with spineless and hive mind clones is up for debate though.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:They are a race if they believe they are a race.
IparryU wrote:waaaaayyyyy too much self-brainwashing shit having to take place to do that...
that is how japanese become... nipponjin
:bowdown::nihonjin:
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Race is a social construct that can and does change over time. A group of people are a race if they believe themselves to be one or if another group classifies them as one.
...In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
Hijinx wrote:In J-grass-planting tradition, they'll put the grass in and then finish it off with a layer ofsandconcrete on top.
Taro Toporific wrote: Schools in Tokyo ban use of playground sandboxes over radiation fears
The Mainichi Daily News | 2011aug30, now expunged from the site for old age
In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and other organizations.
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