Daniel Neagari comments

@Jeremiah

"Sex sells"...

So Norah Jones has a new album?... take my money!!!

Water with residual tritium?

Are you being transparent saying that?

Well, yes. I haven't specified any amount of Tritium in drinkng water... and Tritium is a natural ocurring isotope

... So yes i am being clear "transparent"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057633/

@リッチ

Are you commenting well aware of who Matsumoto was and what his daughter and followers may give meaning to the reminds?

Or you are just mumbling what come out first in your mouth?

I understand the ruling of the court and probably if I had be the one to give a ruling I would have do so... but honestly making the ahses disappear for good would have been better.

The need to wear mask and protective gear in an area were hazzarous material is being handeled does not necesary mean that the resulting product (in this specific case, water with residual Tritium) is harmful.

Just thinking by 5 seconds, you sould understand that despite being in a radioactive hazzard area, the "protective gear" is minimum... just protective glasses, a mask and pair of cloath globes. The other items like a helmet and the blue garment are more for general head protection and identification.

It is clear that wide skin areas are unprotected, so there is very little concern forn contamination where the inspection is being held.

A food producing industry worker has far less skin area exposed than the people in the picture.

And the suggestion of drinking the water directly from the source... shows how little this persons knows about the whole process.

...Meanwhile, Japanese companies can lie and lie again about their cars' safety and fuel consumption and get off with just an official scolding. The Consumer Affairs Agency fails repeatedly to live up to its alleged aims. And, let's face it, why isn't th...

A clear example of how to make a comment with selective blindness combined with hate

@Desert Tortoise

I bet those people haven't even bothered to look what Tritium is.....

And their image must be something in the likes of brownish red glowing ooze or something.

I seem a couple of commentators (the usual ones) saying "13 years of incompetence" or that Japan is slow to clean up the accident site, and so on....

May I just remind you not about Chernovyll... but of the Three mile Island?

By the way I am not critisizing the efforts done in either cases, but just pointing out that when these type of accidents occur, cleaning up takes a LOT of time.

In the particular case of the Three mile Island, the incident happened in 1979... and just recently (june 2023) there was a news that the cleaning up effort entered a new phase.

https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2023/05/11/tmi-enters-new-phase-of-cleanup/

....and the Three mile Island accident was much smaller than Fukushima.

And about those anti nuclear comments... so what is the solution? More hidrocaborn generation? that is a problem not a solution, more Hydro power? Japan does not have more space to create dams, and that causes probelms, Geothermal? land and development cost are high, takes time too... it is an option but that means need to buy land from private owners. Wind also it is an option but Japan suffers from Typhoons season the cost for tubines that can take typhoons is high (not sure the damage rate), Photovoltaic, it is being done but space is the problem and production rate is a challange, Tidal power, it is an option and there are small scale projects in operatioin... but again space and typhoons.... A combination of all renewable energies? yes that is ideal and that is what the Japanese government is pushing for, but still not able to reach the goals, because time, money and space issues.

Being negative is easy, specially if just to have "fun"

I just got out of the elevator from my office in Kameido to go to a meating in Shinjuku, everything started to shake some tiles falled down. One old lady couldn't get up and she was in the middle of the street, so I helped her to get to the plaza in front of the station. Every sinlge building was waving and everything stoped.

I return to the office and everyone evacuated, so went to the designated meeting area where I met with everyone.

After waiting a while, the CEO gave the instruction that everyone go to their home (those who cannot, they could chose to stay at the office or go to a hotel).

Back then I was living in the next station of Kameido, I went back walking. Few cars and taxies on the streets.

Got to home and every single piece plate and glass were shattered, there was no gas (at that moment I didn't know how to reset the gas supply), so that night I decided to go to the izakaya I usually went... they were open and many patrons that I usually met were there so I spent a couple of hours drinking there. I lern then how to resent the gas supply.

By 20 hours, a lot of people were walking the Kuramaebashi doori, some for already a few hours and they had yet 10 km more to walk towards Funabashi.

So the izakaya owner decided to welcome some people, to give them something to drink and eat and rest.

All the patrons, including myself, help a little, like bringing a fresh tower, a glass of water and so on.

Although the earthquake and the aftermath was terrible, I have good memories of that night.

@Antiquesaving

Did you read my comment of you are just mad because the seasons?

I am nos discussing with you about how, why or for what end a "tourism tax" is implemented. That sort of tax exist is all that I am saying.

By the way, as you stated in your comment it is stll a proposal which as you fervantly pointing it has it holes. Specifically, how can you identify a japanese tourist from a none japanese tourist.. if the proposal is a go, I suspect there will be changes.

You keep saying "third world countries"... so Italiy, US and Spain are third wordl countries?? (did you know that term is derogatory also?).

...calm down, I am not fighting you... although you semm you wanna pick a fight though.

First, why we are commenting about what politicians do? is the person of the article a member of the diet or something?

Second, yes the "inequality" of how the law aplies to the powerful and to the none powerful is shocking... though not as shocking since you can see a kind of similar tune in EVERY COUNTRY in the world.

Third, stealing is bad and you should not do it. If you do it you should by punished for that.

@Antiquesaving

By the way I have not said at any moment that taxation is a good or bad idea... I am just stating that tourism tax do exist in other parts of the world. The reason for aplying them vary a lot.

Is it a bad or good idea, don't know. It is a way to gather founds, yes it is..

@virusrex

mmm, well as I must say I disagree with you. Censorship is none the less, before publishing or not. Kadokawa's decision may have been based on public opinon or otherwise but still it is a form of censorship.

The only way to fight miss information is pubilshing the correct information, not censoring it.

@Antiquesaving

Counter point

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240306-the-new-costs-of-travel-that-tourists-should-know

The thing is, yes desinformaton is bad should be try to eliminated it. But that means to begin censorship, that will eventually end up in some sort of radicalitation or open the way for corruption to dictate what is worng and what is right

 Pulling out of print a book that can objectively be proved to lie and have a negative effect in how society treats a vulnerable population is not regretful, it is quite positive.

By that stand then there should be a plethora of books that should be unshelfed and taken out of publication.

Why so many people are angry about this? It is a failry common practice...

Places like Greece and Venice have this kind of taxation at city level... and I've heard (though I am not sure if its real) that New Zeland also have a tourist tax.

Why so many here are "discussing" about the content of a book?

Is a book, if that book is good or bad is another thing. That Kadokawa pulled off its publications is regretful, though.

About the theme of the book, if you are interested you read it, if not leave it. The same as to what the personas that decide what to do with their body.

Do this elsewhere in the OECD and you're fined a hefty percentage of company earnings. These practices and the piss-poor penalties prevent Japanese companies from knowing how to compete in global markets.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Just saying....

 France's and the USA's robots.

errr.. sorry to burst your bubble... but radioactive stuff is radioactive. Robots (or any equipment) at that time were not able to operate in those conditions.... but you must know that... robots and electrical machinery are as much as sensitive to radiation as humans are.

Yes special shielding can be use to protect the robots, but that meant at the time more weight that the motors (to move the robots) could not stand... so you needed a bigger heavier robot that could not enter the areas with high radiactivity, in this case because there was no way to fit a big bot in a small whole.

So the reason at the time for not using the French and USA robots was because there would be useless under those conditioins.

The water problem was another matter, the technical teams that was assesing the damange notice the water problem after assesing the disaster area, unfortunately in the real world and util this moment there is no system or machinery that can detect instantly everything everywhere under the conditions that the Fukushima reactor was at that time.

Whaaaaat?

This cannot be true, but if it in France were (form some commentators here) the people and procedures there are near to perfection.

Like, high security plans in a bag, which the porter put in to the overhead compartment, instead of haveing them "sticked" to the porter himself?

As someone already said... this must be a trap set in the style of Ocean's 11 or Lupin...

They will discover the extent of the ongoing leaks and unfortunate incidents that TEPCO has been experiencing all this time. Negligent errors such as leaving the radioactive waste faucet open need to be addressed and managed effectively.

You mean those leaks that were made public by TEPCO?, those same leaks and incidents that TEPCO has kept informing and making public to everyone know about it, even the IAEA? So Mr. Grossi will find out what the IAEA already knows?

Is that some sort of time travel shenanigans?

In 1965, I drove to Raleigh, NC to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baez perform in a local coffee shop. My admission ticket couldn't have cost more than $5. Popular culture has certainly evolved over the past 60 years.

Considering inflation and everything, USD 5 in 1960s is about USD 52 today. Also, a ticket for a concert of The Beatles in NYC 1964 was about USD 10 (about USD 104 today).

Add to it cost of venue that most certanly is a bigger, cost for setting the stage light and sound, everything is either bigger or didn't exist for than what was for Dylan or The Beatles,

The ticket cost are not that different from 60 years ago to now.... but I suppose selective memory is an issue here (by the way the first concert I went by myself was in 1991. I may be still younger compare to those who went to see Dylan for USD 5)

I don't remember if it was here... but people were realy negative when the news about SLIM landing "failed", and saying that Japanese technology is obsolete, outdated, wrong and so on.

But then just the other day the lunar lander IM-1 from a joint venture of NASA and a private company, also landed and tiped of uncorrectly.

Landing technology something remotely is difficult, both landers perhaps didn't success 100% but, they certainly didn't fail, more over it were succesful at least in 70 % (for the japanese prove)

A new wave of dead fish ARE coming"... if you are going to criticize at least get you grammar right, unless you are saying that one single dead fish is a "wave".

Oops... I think I am the wrong one... Sorry. My eagerness in trying to refute went ahead of my grammar...

As other commentators had said, saying that this method is unacceptable and what not is quite easy, but nobody (certainly noone commenting here) is able to provide an "accetable" solution to this problem.

Just think, what is the other option? Keep collecting the contaminated water in tanks? That is not a solution, it just increase the risk and truly is unacceptable.

indigoToday  08:50 am JST

a new wave of dead fish is coming.

"A new wave of dead fish ARE coming"... if you are going to criticize at least get you grammar right, unless you are saying that one single dead fish is a "wave".

Heat escapes from your body, not just out your head and neck. 

You are right... but most of body heat escapes from the head. On a cold day (like today) go out with a hat feel the diference.

I don't think the doctor ment to that "only" cover your head and neck to keep warm... more like specially keep warm you head and neck.

One thing I don't understand, is why Japan's shelters are so whimsy.... why tents aren't used???

Again... why only Islam? Why not all Abrahamic religioins? Why not all human made religions (all)?

As a person suffering from depression... wires on the brain does not seem very welcoming, wires fail, rust, broke, do electrolisis under certain conditions, and so on. Although it may be a better option than, Elon's crazy chip on the brain idea.

...Also, the brain does not feel pain

This crazy clown will finish to sink Argentina..

Well.... Argentina has had a lot of clowns during the last 30 years or so, from the left, centre left, centre right and populist (those are the worst kind of clowns)

So a right wing clown... may be as bad as the former, or may be will be the cure for Argentina. KInd of fight fire with fire, or "send a maniac to catch a maniac" sort of thing

El RataToday  01:53 pm JST

Stubborn grampas do it again. No one over the age of 60 has business behind the wheel, period.

... but then El Rata woke up one day and realize he has more time in his past than in the future before reaching 60.