Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[matsuki]

Bwahahahaha!

She ain't too good at her job..."new erotic queen?" more like erotic jester. One look at her after reading that she wrote a book called "Tokyo Erotic Handbook" and I couldn't stop laughing!

[IparryU]

Never wrote that she was an "expert." You wrote that, not me. I only wrote that she has lived in Tokyo for 30 years. The fact that she is a popular professional writer about Japan and contemporary Japanese culture definitely gives her much more credence than the likes of you and all the other rocket scientist Challengers here. Both you and Greji "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-goat_sexual_intercourse]The Human&#8211] Dood" need to go and find your reading glasses. You two have obviously become severely impaired in the comprehension of your own native languages, and overall self awareness.

you shouldn't be mean to old peoples... you wont get their stuffs when they die...

so dont be an ass or you wont get his shit

[Thug4Life]

Bwahahahaha!

She ain't too good at her job..."new erotic queen?" more like erotic jester. One look at her after reading that she wrote a book called "Tokyo Erotic Handbook" and I couldn't stop laughing!

The subject of her popular book that she wrote eleven years ago is irrelevant. Ms. Liu Li-erh has simply stated the facts. She knows that the Japanese government has no solution nor resources to solve the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima. And, frankly, I seriously doubt that anyone does. If I were you, I would be packing instead of laughing. Whatever. If you stay there too long, it will be your life that will soon come to an end. Laugh now and forever rest in peace later. Whatever.

[Catoneinutica]

The Fukushima Narrative as it's being shaped inside Japan:

1. <100mSv/yr is "low level" radiation. It won't give you cancer. If you're worried, you're thinking too much.

2. You can "decontaminate" with a ShopVac or a pressure washer or even your bare hands (well, wear gloves, please)!

3. Burning radioactive stuff "purifies" it, and a gauze mask screens it out. Well, not completely, of course, but it helps!

4. What TEPCO calls "cold shutdown" really is cold shutdown.

5. When the foreign media discusses radiation in Japan, it's just engaging in that favorite pastime of cruel Westerners, the ones who wouldn't lest us join the League of Nations, Japan-bashing. Bash, bash, bash - that's all they do! Arrogant Westerners - think they're so smart. And those sleazy, opportunistic Samsungese and Brutal Chinese Communists - why, just look at the stuff buraku, er, thug4life is parroting.

6. Let's tacitly agree to put the expression "gross national cool" on hiatus.

7. Rebuild Japan! Renew Japan! Reform Japan? Chotto okashii. [whistles to J-nationalists squatting and smoking in front of the combini] Yo fellas - got an uncooperative one over here!

[Thug4Life]

Thank you Catoneinutica. It's good to know that not everyone here is delusional or being so easily deceived.

[Iraira]

Ms. Liu Li-erh has simply stated the facts

of which she is not qualified to offer as a fact.

Is China the only country that would let you in as long as you promised to try to be a putz to foreigners living in Japan? Pathetic. Shit, they let iHuman and McTojo into Japan, but not you....and you are dying in China, hoping that if you appease your masters, they will throw you a bone, even one filled with toxic chemicals. You know that if you tried to complain about your miserable life there what would happen to you....and sadly no one would care. Such a sad life.

[dimwit]

The Fukushima Narrative as it's being shaped inside Japan:

1. <100mSv/yr is "low level" radiation. It won't give you cancer. If you're worried, you're thinking too much.

2. You can "decontaminate" with a ShopVac or a pressure washer or even your bare hands (well, wear gloves, please)!

3. Burning radioactive stuff "purifies" it, and a gauze mask screens it out. Well, not completely, of course, but it helps!

4. What TEPCO calls "cold shutdown" really is cold shutdown.

5. When the foreign media discusses radiation in Japan, it's just engaging in that favorite pastime of cruel Westerners, the ones who wouldn't lest us join the League of Nations, Japan-bashing. Bash, bash, bash - that's all they do! Arrogant Westerners - think they're so smart. And those sleazy, opportunistic Samsungese and Brutal Chinese Communists - why, just look at the stuff buraku, er, thug4life is parroting.

6. Let's tacitly agree to put the expression "gross national cool" on hiatus.

7. Rebuild Japan! Renew Japan! Reform Japan? Chotto okashii. [whistles to J-nationalists squatting and smoking in front of the combini] Yo fellas - got an uncooperative one over here!

The problem is the Buraku/toyRus is parroting is largely bullshit. Specifically;

1 Increased leukemia rates around (? -no location given) are spiking up (no source given).

2 Aneurysms are caused by radiation. Especially in places not particularly affected by radiation.

3 Radiation causes heart attacks rather than say stress of having to work in pretty unbareable conditions (not unlike those in say a Chinese coal mine -any statistics on the death rates there Tibet4life?)

What is revealing when looking at Bukkake4me's main source 'Fukushima Diary' is the total lack of any critical comments even in the more dubious arcticles. I've seen this dance before -it is the same boogie done by environmentists, peaceniks, and anti-nukes. Never criticize a true believer.

Catone, I think my problem with Tosadogs4butt is motive. When writing about Fukushima people seem to be motivated by one of three factors;

1 -they live here and honestly want to get disseminate useful information, that government officals often are reluctant to supply. This group include most FG members

2 -they are anti nukes and there interest is in swaying public opinion in other countries so they can go out of the streets again wearing their purple cotton-poly sweaters and size 42 day-glo orange spandex tight in public without being laughed at. These are the Arnies and Helens who are able to make a career out of it.

3 -they are Chinese or Korean and write largely because they hate Japan, and Fukushima gives them a sense of schadenfreude.

[matsuki]

The Japanese government has no solution nor resources to solve the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima.

Noone on here is disagreeing with you on this.

And, frankly, I seriously doubt that anyone does. If I were you, I would be packing instead of laughing. Whatever. If you stay there too long, it will be your life that will soon come to an end. Laugh now and forever rest in peace later. Whatever.

...it's this "the sky is falling" sensationalist crap with your racist comments. Yes, there are many big problems here, none of us are denying that...we're just not jumping ship like it's on fire. (not yet anyways)

[Coligny]

The Fukushima Narrative as it's being shaped inside Japan:

1. <100mSv/yr is "low level" radiation. It won't give you cancer. If you're worried, you're thinking too much.

2. You can "decontaminate" with a ShopVac or a pressure washer or even your bare hands (well, wear gloves, please)!

3. Burning radioactive stuff "purifies" it, and a gauze mask screens it out. Well, not completely, of course, but it helps!

4. What TEPCO calls "cold shutdown" really is cold shutdown.

5. When the foreign media discusses radiation in Japan, it's just engaging in that favorite pastime of cruel Westerners, the ones who wouldn't lest us join the League of Nations, Japan-bashing. Bash, bash, bash - that's all they do! Arrogant Westerners - think they're so smart. And those sleazy, opportunistic Samsungese and Brutal Chinese Communists - why, just look at the stuff buraku, er, thug4life is parroting.

6. Let's tacitly agree to put the expression "gross national cool" on hiatus.

7. Rebuild Japan! Renew Japan! Reform Japan? Chotto okashii. [whistles to J-nationalists squatting and smoking in front of the combini] Yo fellas - got an uncooperative one over here!

You forgot :
5a: Make fun of the French who got the fook out.
5b: Criticize the French Civil Rescuer Brigade (SC) and firemen for refusing to go in zone deemed to hazardous for their health.
5c: Turn down offer for a plane loaded with boric acid to stop the reaction [citation needed]
5d: But cry for help to the French to send their expert (EDF, AREVA and others)

Really few countries manage to so openly look like asses in front of the cams...

Well... except...

Libya under Kadafi
Iraq and Uncle Saddam
Israel (is ok, can trash them... Obama and Naboleon opened the floodgate)
Venezuela and Chavez...
And North Korea... (as in, we, superior Korean Race are not starving... but send a food anyway)

What a nice club to be in...

[matsuki]

You forgot :
5a: Make fun of the French who got the fook out.
5b: Criticize the French Civil Rescuer Brigade (SC) and firemen for refusing to go in zone deemed to hazardous for their health.
5c: Turn down offer for a plane loaded with boric acid to stop the reaction [citation needed]
5d: But cry for help to the French to send their expert (EDF, AREVA and others)

Really few countries manage to so openly look like asses in front of the cams...

Well... except...

Libya under Kadafi
Iraq and Uncle Saddam
Israel (is ok, can trash them... Obama and Naboleon opened the floodgate)
Venezuela and Chavez...
And North Korea... (as in, we, superior Korean Race are not starving... but send a food anyway)

What a nice club to be in...

...and all in denial about their membership

[Catoneinutica]

8. Massive radiation contamination of the Northern Hemisphere? We wouldn't know anything about that.

9. Movies like the one we made in 1954 notwithstanding, there's no correlation between radiation exposure and DNA mutation.

10. Thug4life's provocateur schtick is getting tired.

[Coligny]

8. Massive radiation contamination of the Northern Hemisphere? We wouldn't know anything about that.

And wait until them massive land debris reach them USA... is gunna get all a fantastic to listen to their usual save the earth speech...

9. Movies like the one we made in 1954 notwithstanding, there's no correlation between radiation exposure and DNA mutation.

for those is th3 fog like me, he wuz talking aboot godzilla

10. Thug4life's provocateur schtick is getting le tired.

So take a nap, then fire ze missile... Maybe one day T4L will realise that we are not buying the official party line, but that's not a reason to buy his party line either... He's as stoopid as a creationnist:
"scientist don't have answers, I do got one: GOD"

(magnet, YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT... according to Bill Oreilly anyway...)

Good movies to get drunk and depressed in front of the telly:
On Zee Beach:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/ 1959 version
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/ 2000 australian version

[Thug4Life]

[font="Arial Black"][SIZE="5"][color="Red"]"Pretty credible reports coming out, probably from hospital staff, that they're beyond capacity"[/color][/SIZE][/font]

[Thug4Life]

[font="Arial Black"][SIZE="3"]FULL 20-MINUTE INTERVIEW WITH YOICHI SHIMATSU[/SIZE][/font]

[Coligny]

[Catoneinutica]

From the NBR Japan Forum:
----------

Roger L. Reinoos said:

"they all recommended the baby be removed from the area if possible (at this
time it was very difficult for them to leave because of traffic jams, and
shortage of gasoline (which my brother-in-law thinks was deliberate
government policy to keep large numbers of people from evacuating))"

Your brother-in-law was quite correct. I live in Yamagata prefecture just
across the Miyagi border. A few days after 3/11, just when the local gas
station finally hooked up a generator and started pumping gas, I was part of
a long line of cars waiting to fill up their tanks to the brim, in order to
be able to flee if and when meltdown occurred (of course we weren't told it
had already occurred). As I finally neared the station, in front of my eyes
the head of our towns Somubu (general affairs section) ran toward the gas
station waving both hands and yelling "stop filling up the tanks!". After a
few minutes' confusion, gas pumping resumed, but only 2,000 yen worth per
car--about four gallons; enough to get to work but not enough to get to
Hokkaido. The next days were spent squandering these four gallons trying to
find stations that would sell us more, only to find to our amazement that
every gas station we ran across in Yamagata and Akita prefectures would only
sell us 2,000 yen worth of gas, no more, no less. Obviously not the product
of the movement of free markets, shall we say. Even more suspicious was the
fact that cellphone reception returned within 100 meters of crossing the
Miyagi-Yamagata border after our frequent runs to replenish our relatives'
supply of essential goods (my wife's family has several encampments on the
Sanriku coast between Kesennuma and Minami-Sanrikucho. Also, I must
sheepishly admit that I had a huge stash of gasoling socked away in my 6700
cc Ford-based RV's humongous gas tank, enabling me to be one of the few
townspeople capable of delivering goods into the disaster zone).

Obviously, somebody didn't want Miyagi people talking to each other too
much. A soba diner just on our side of the border quickly became infested
with dozens of internet refugees finding in our town the connections that
were magically missing only a few hundred yards away.

So, yes, Roger, the tsunami survivors were also forced to survive the
artificial rationing of oil and a communications blackout intended to
prevent an uncontrolled mass exit from the disaster zone. By and large, this
succeeded. It is amazing to me that this is even a matter of debate. The
primary theme of post-3/11 Japan has been the perpetuation of bureaucratic
control at any and all cost. I hate saying this again and again, but let's
all wake up and smell the coffee! Japan is by no means a democratic state.

I would like to ask a rude question of the people who insist of poo-pooing
the extent of this twin natural/man-made disaster and even more implausibly
try to justify the Japanese response--who is funding your research, my
friends?

Steve Yamaguchi

----------

-catone
-mods: I'm probably breaching 1128 kinds of netiquette here; I'd link to Mr. Yamaguchi's message if I could...

[dimwit]

There seems to be twin accusations here; that the government was deliberately trying to prevent people from buying up all the gasoline and that they were deliberately blocking internet access. As to the first accusation I think it is quite correct, they did restrict people the amount of gas people could buy, but I think this was done to aid the flow of relief supplies into the disaster area which was being made difficult because of all the panic gas hoarding. As to the deliberate shutting down of the internet, that sounds like baloney to me. I much more likely reason is that the boundary between between Yamagata and Miyagi lies on the land divide and that anything on the Miyagi side was probably connected up via Sendai, and the fact that a 9.0 point earthquake did quite a considerable amount of damage to the utility line network, which is one of the reasons for Fukushima disaster.

[Yokohammer]

[quote="dimwit"]There seems to be twin accusations here]
Exactly. And thank you for your sanity.

Gas was rationed because the normal supply lines were completely fucked and fuel was needed primarily for search-and-rescue work as well as transporting vital supplies. The fact that the supply lines were fucked is not a myth or a coverup ... they were actually physically fucked. I'm here, I saw it.

People are already forgetting how severe the quake/tsunami damage was, and that's not good. Let's not forget that this was a natural disaster of a scale that was way beyond anything that just about anyone alive in this country has ever experienced.

Although communications were severely disrupted, both due to physical damage and simple overload (remember, many, many communications relay facilities were fucked too), I'm still amazed at how much communication was possible. The land lines, which are supposed to be the strongest link in a disaster, were completely useless, but the mobile phone network, as weakened as it was, held its own remarkably well and allowed sporadic mail communication and net access at the very least.

The only thing even close to conspiracy was all the BS surrounding Fukushima Dai-ichi, and much of that can simply be put down to incompetence and corporate face-saving, as grievous as that incompetence might have been.

There was no conspiracy regarding fuel or communication. Anyone who says there was needs a good slap.

[matsuki]

[quote="dimwit"]There seems to be twin accusations here]

Third one....that the J-gov is capable of pulling either of the first two off

[Coligny]

Third one....that the J-gov is capable of pulling either of the first two off

Fourth'ed

Gasoline supply was a bitch to restore. Mitsubishi and Nissan gave some EV (Leaf and Miev) to some municipality because the supply in electricity was more easily restored than the gasoline.
With the state of the roads, gasoline semis just could not go anywhere, and you don't want that kind of firebomb getting stranded, ending in a ravine or driving along fallen powerlines.

As for communication disruption... Guess what... all those idiots who put powerlines high on poles, also put the phone lines there... along with the DSL (on copper phone lines) or fiber optic links... You lose one... you lose everything...

I clearly remember NTT, AU and the other setting up ASAP satellite internet access booth and emergency keitai charging station in the shelters. 1 if you want communication blackout... you cut a wider area, totally... (and have to deal with panic and mouth to ear rumor of Koreans eating babies... which totally don't fly when internet is working -the case of 'daguerreotype or it didun't happen'). 2 I don't think the governement would even think aboot shutting down interweb access, or the phone system on purpose. Because if it was done it would have to be widespread... Ending up in a lot of head falling because the infrastructure was too fragile. And if exposed... could be way too much 'in your face' for the governement not to fall (not even including theft and disturbance of service from the phone companies...). Unlike invisibul radioactive food that don't even kill on the spot, for which you can get away with (for now)...

[matsuki]

As for communication disruption... Guess what... all those idiots who put powerlines high on poles, also put the phone lines there... along with the DSL (on copper phone lines) or fiber optic links... You lose one... you lose everything...

I keep thinking about this for when Tokyo gets rocked...how many deaths, problems, etc. will be caused by all the power lines/poles/etc. and will they be able to shoganai it away as they do now?

[dimwit]

Exactly. And thank you for your sanity.

Did you say sanity?

[Catoneinutica]

Exactly. And thank you for your sanity.

Gas was rationed because the normal supply lines were completely fucked and fuel was needed primarily for search-and-rescue work as well as transporting vital supplies. The fact that the supply lines were fucked is not a myth or a coverup ... they were actually physically fucked. I'm here, I saw it.

People are already forgetting how severe the quake/tsunami damage was, and that's not good. Let's not forget that this was a natural disaster of a scale that was way beyond anything that just about anyone alive in this country has ever experienced.

Although communications were severely disrupted, both due to physical damage and simple overload (remember, many, many communications relay facilities were fucked too), I'm still amazed at how much communication was possible. The land lines, which are supposed to be the strongest link in a disaster, were completely useless, but the mobile phone network, as weakened as it was, held its own remarkably well and allowed sporadic mail communication and net access at the very least.

The only thing even close to conspiracy was all the BS surrounding Fukushima Dai-ichi, and much of that can simply be put down to incompetence and corporate face-saving, as grievous as that incompetence might have been.

There was no conspiracy regarding fuel or communication. Anyone who says there was needs a good slap.

Great post! The J-gov't sounds a lot like Kikukawa at Olympus: somewhat less malign and a lot more buffoonish than we first thought. Still sucks to be an Olympus shareholder, or a resident of Japan.

[legion]

There is no doubt the gov played down the risk, it's a simple calculation, if people panic there will be a lot of deaths and injuries in the chaos, if people stay home and sit quiet there will be some long term effects for some people, but on a utilitarian average it was probably the better option.

and as gaijin we can be happy people stayed calm, because guess who is the natural target when things go pear shaped.

[Greji]

The only thing even close to conspiracy was all the BS surrounding Fukushima Dai-ichi, and much of that can simply be put down to incompetence and corporate face-saving, as grievous as that incompetence might have been.

There was no conspiracy regarding fuel or communication. Anyone who says there was needs a good slap.

Hammer, You should really be ashamed of yourself. Do you realize that you are eroding Thug's whole reason for existance?
Tsk, tsk, tsk
(good post though)

[Coligny]

There is no doubt the gov played down the risk, it's a simple calculation, if people panic there will be a lot of deaths and injuries in the chaos, if people stay home and sit quiet there will be some long term effects for some people, but on a utilitarian average it was probably the better option.

Bitch please...






You downplay a threat to minimize involvment and costs created by the dispruption. Risks of panic, especially in Japan (unless you speak of TP penury) are a lie only to justify not giving a flying fuck...

[Thug4Life]

"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" : The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN

by Greg Palast
November 10, 2011

I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level.
Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant:
Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earth- quake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could "completely and utterly fail" during an earthquake.

"Utterly fail during an earthquake." And here in Japan was the quake and here is the utter failure.

The warning was in what the investigations team called The Notebook, which I'm not supposed to have. Good thing I've kept a copy anyway, because the file cabinets went down with my office building ....

WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER 1, FIFTY-SECOND FLOOR
NEW YORK, 1986

[This is an excerpt in FreePress.org from Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Fraudsters, to be released this Monday. Click here to get the videos and the book.]

Two senior nuclear plant engineers were spilling out their souls and files on our huge conference table, blowing away my government investigations team with the inside stuff about the construction of the Shoreham, New York, power station.

The meeting was secret. Very secret. Their courage could destroy their careers: No engineering firm wants to hire a snitch, even one who has saved thousands of lives. They could lose their jobs; they could lose everything. They did. That's what happens. Have a nice day.

On March 12 this year, as I watched Fukushima melt, I knew: the "SQ" had been faked. Anderson Cooper said it would all be OK. He'd flown to Japan, to suck up the radiation and official company bullshit. The horror show was not the fault of Tokyo Electric, he said, because the plant was built to withstand only an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale, and this was 9.0. Anderson must have been in the gym when they handed out the facts. The 9.0 shake was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away. It was barely a tenth of that power at Fukushima.

I was ready to vomit. Because I knew who had designed the plant, who had built it and whom Tokyo Electric Power was having rebuild it: Shaw Construction. The latest alias of Stone & Webster, the designated builder for every one of the four new nuclear plants that the Obama Administration has approved for billions in federal studies.

But I had The Notebook, the diaries of the earthquake inspector for the company. I'd squirreled it out sometime before the Trade Center went down. I shouldn't have done that. Too bad.

All field engineers keep a diary. Gordon Dick, a supervisor, wasn't sup- posed to show his to us. I asked him to show it to us and, reluctantly, he directed me to these notes about the "SQ" tests.

SQ is nuclear-speak for "Seismic Qualification." A seismically qualified nuclear plant won't melt down if you shake it. A "seismic event" can be an earthquake or a Christmas present from Al Qaeda. You can't run a nuclear reactor in the USA or Europe or Japan without certified SQ.

This much is clear from his notebook: This nuclear plant will melt down in an earthquake. The plant dismally failed to meet the Seismic I (shaking) standards required by U.S. and international rules.

Here's what we learned: Dick's subordinate at the nuclear plant, Robert Wiesel, conducted the standard seismic review. Wiesel flunked his company. No good. Dick then ordered Wiesel to change his report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, change it from failed to passed. Dick didn't want to make Wiesel do it, but Dick was under the gun himself, acting on direct command from corporate chiefs. From The Notebook:

Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. [He said,] "I believe these are bad results and I believe it's reportable," and then he took the volume of federal regulations from the shelf and went to section 50.55(e), which describes reportable deficiencies at a nuclear plant and [they] read the section together, with Wiesel pointing to the appropriate paragraphs that federal law clearly required [them and the company] to report the Category II, Seismic I deficiencies.

Wiesel then expressed his concern that he was afraid that if he [Wiesel] reported the deficiencies, he would be fired, but that if he didn't report the deficiencies, he would be breaking a federal law. . . . The law is clear. It is a crime not to report a safety failure. I could imagine Wiesel standing there with that big, thick rule book in his hands, The Law. It must have been heavy. So was his paycheck. He weighed the choices: Break the law, possibly a jail-time crime, or keep his job.

What did Wiesel do? What would you do?

Why the hell would his company make this man walk the line? Why did they put the gun to his head, to make him conceal mortal danger? It was the money. It's always the money. Fixing the seismic problem would have cost the plant's owner half a billion dollars easy. A guy from corporate told Dick, "Bob is a good man. He'll do what's right. Don't worry about Bob."

That is, they thought Bob would save his job and career rather than rat out the company to the feds.

But I think we should all worry about Bob. The company he worked for, Stone & Webster Engineering, built or designed about a third of the nuclear plants in the United States.

From the fifty-second floor we could look at the Statue of Liberty. She didn't look back.

[Thug4Life]

[Thug4Life]

Tokyo schools check for Fukushima fallout

Mark Willacy reported this story on Monday, November 14, 2011 08:17:00

Audio Link

TONY EASTLEY: With nuclear fallout fears from the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns spreading, local councils in Tokyo have begun checking schools and parks for radioactive contamination.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has also announced spot checks of fresh and processed foods.

The ABC's North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy went along to one school in his Tokyo neighbourhood to report on the search for radioactive hot spots.

(Sound of Japanese children playing)

MARK WILLACY: In the playground of the Meguro Honcho Nursery School it's a celebration of dirt. The kids roll in it, scoop it into buckets - one even samples a mouthful of it.

But there are fears something could be lurking in the dirt here and that's radioactive caesium spewed out by the oozing Fukushima reactors.

As the kids play, a few metres away in a corner of the yard the principal Michiko Ikeda is hovering over a Geiger counter and writing down readings.

(Michiko Ikeda speaking Japanese)

"There is no solution here," says principal Ikeda. "We cannot say this is absolutely safe. Parents are worried about radiation, our staff too. By taking these radiation measurements, we want to show that we care for the children," she says.

Hovering over principal Ikeda as she wields her Geiger counter is Hiroshi Sato, from the local Meguro council.

(Hiroshi Sato speaking Japanese)

"Recently it because clear that radiation came further south than we thought, all the way to Tokyo," he tells me. "So we are now checking dozens of schools in the Meguro area," he says.

(Sound of Japanese protesters)

"Women, protect our children" chant these protesters and the vast majority of these demonstrators are women. Surrounded by police they march through Tokyo, right past the headquarters of TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant.

These demonstrations are becoming more common in Tokyo as is the sight of people wielding Geiger counters.

Back at the Meguro Honcho Nursery School the playground has been given the all clear but principal Michiko Ikeda says the search for radioactive hot spots will go on.

(Michiko Ikeda speaking Japanese)

"I still worry when it rains," she tells me. "I worry about it a lot. After it rains we wash all the outside equipment and toys and we clean out the drains to reduce the radiation level," she says.

(Sound of Japanese children playing)

But here in the playground the kids are oblivious to all this - all they want to do is to continue to delight in the dirt.

This is Mark Willacy at the Meguro Honcho Nursery School in Tokyo for AM.

Audio Link

With all of this now happening, it is very doubtful that Japan will ever sign the Hague treaty for internationally abducted children. After millions of Jap kids die from various illnesses brought on by the increasing levels of radiation, Japan will need even more brats than they do now! But even as they send out undercover teams ala North Korea to kidnap superior Chinese children, they will still never have enough to cover the lowest birthrate in the developed world. Permanent retirees, unemployment and social welfare payments will skyrocket. Also because the radiation will never go away and continue to increase, more and more international and domestic firms will depart Japan once and for all. Tax revenues will rapidly decline and when the debt to GDP rate goes up to about 450% or so within the next few short years, the world's first epic debt default will occur soon afterwards. Finally, all things "Japanese" will cease to exist forever and ever. Amen.

[matsuki]

But even as they send out undercover teams ala North Korea to kidnap superior Chinese children, they will still never have enough to cover the lowest birthrate in the developed world.

LOL, either you really just suck at trolling or you're Chinese and have some sort of ant-Japanese chip on your shoulder (and still suck at trolling)

First member on my ignore list ever.