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Mussolini said "To remain healthy, a nation should wage war every 25 years." Is this the only way Japan can wage it's war to remain healthy? If Australia or New Zealand or Sea Shepard can manage to injure or kill a Japanese whaler will Japan have what it needs to elect its fascist politician as leader?

Hit and miss at the top. Can be passably warm or really freezing. Most time I have been up (5) it has been freezing. Better to have some very warm clothing with you.

Osakadaz

That is disturbing new, but posts contrary to the 'safe Japan", "safe Fukushima" continue to be posed here, so perhaps this ban is not totally effective?

@tmarieJUL.

To be honest, I don't think he did mean to kill her. I think he was just so proud of himself that when she rejected him, he flipped out, raped her and killed her.

hmm.... he shaved her head, right? If done while she was alive it's hard to imagine he expected to let her walk with a, "Don't tell anyone I raped you and shaved your hair off, okay?"

@marcels

all saying"ATSUI NE""

haha... : D

@Cleo

cleoJUN. 30, 2011 - 09:54AM JST

I don't even let my dog run around outside in the hottest part of the day, absolutely ludicrous to be holding sporting events in this weather.

Me too, I don't let my cat go out in this heat. Oh, wait, she won't go out anyway. My cat has more common sense?

Saw a program on NHK last night that showed California residents using 1/2 electricity of Japanese consumers while US consumers use about twice the electricity of J consumers. No penalties involved. California used a cash bonus to consumers who used less. Rod? The carrot was a successful strategy there.

True, it is a pile of brownish cinders from close up above 6th station, but for love of God don't do the night hike with the crowds only to get a glimpse of the sunrise (have done that). Have been up 3 other times as a day hike (and will go again) and the view above the clouds is breathtaking. Coming down is a bit of a struggle though.

NetNinjaJUN. 13, 2011 - 12:24PM JST I agree withAzninvasion. That edit / delete function would be invaluable.

Dittos...

greatlegs

Hey, I stood up after 15 mintues (got a shove from behind tho, does that count?).

Strangerinaastrangland

I think having tattoos also disqualifies you for donating blood in Japan, no matter how long ago you got them.

That's fair enough, Hepetitis B lives forever...

Wot? : 0 Who's AKB?

The age of every driver involved in an accident should be reported. Then yearly tests of every age group that show up in the reports should be required.

Zaphod

"But note that there is a huge difference between fuel melting in a container and in an open-air pool. If the spent fuel in No. 4 had melted, that would indeed have been catastrophic."

Yes and the fuel remains exposed to the environment except for the water covering the fuel rods which are often referred to in reports as 'spent fuel' but are actually the fuel from the reactor along with other spent fuel rods which are in the pool for cooling as their decay heat gradually decreases. The Japan Industrial Atomic Forum (JAIF) itself reported low water levels in the reactor four fuel pool in the days after the accident and said damage was suspected to the fuel rods.

The fuel still sits on top of the damaged reactor four building which TEPCO is attempting to reinforce so that it can withstand possible aftershocks in the coming months/weeks.

The reporter appears to have no understanding of the difference between a cooling pool and a nuclear reactor. The fears are that, in addition to the melted fuel in reactors 1, 2, and 3, the fuel in the cooling pool on the top of reactor 4 may have been exposed. This article says there is some doubt whether the fuel in that pool was exposed. In the same paragraph the write refers to the fuel in this pool and then goes on to say "cooling water in the reactor core" was feared to have been exposed as if the fuel in the cooling pool and the fuel in the reactor cores were the same thing. They are not.

Regardless of whether or not the fuel rods in the cooling pool (not reactor core - there was no fuel in the core of reactor 4, it is all in the cooling pool because the plant was shut down for maintenance) the fuel in reactors 1, 2, and 3 was exposed and did melt.

borscht, the avatar showed up! Thanks : )

borschtJUN. 13, 2011 - 04:53PM JST recherche88, When you add a comment, below the comment box you can see a "Japan Today supports Gravatar for user images." Click on it and it will take you to Gravatar's site where you will have to sign up (free) and then upload an image you want to use. Connect the image to the email address you use for JT comments and you're all set.

Thanks borschtjUn - have followed your instructions. Now waiting to see if my avatar shows up.

hmmm..... don't see anything under the 'comments' section to set an avatar. Can anyone help with how to do that?

The design is generally good, but I still keep getting those SPAM 'moderator' comments. Anyway to filter those out? : )

Yeah, just a few dozen homeless men to clean things up and absorb absorb a few Sieverts and all will be well.

Kudos to Gurukun. More like him please... (sorry nicelegs)

'the' pond? what pond?

saborichan I drove a cab for six years in the 70's. Never had thoughts like the ones put in the thought bubbles for this driver. I loved it. I got to meet people from every strata of society and go into their homes. Heard their thoughts and were asked for mine. It was great.

He must have been crazy about her.

Glad I don't have to ride the trains. No way to prove yourself innocent if accused. My sympathies for all the women who are groped, but don't want to be in the vicinity when it happens. Lots of hands on the trains, hard to prove yours wasn't the one.

Dangerous Visions is available on Kindle.

Peace Boat has been organizing extensively to help the tsunami victims in Fukushima. Among their efforts, besides collecting relief money, has been collecting, sorting, and delivering relief supplies and organizing and dispatching relief volunteers to the affected areas.

I read an analysis that projected a 30% chance of a major earthquake in Tokyo over the next 30 years.

Food from the area contains radioactive iodine above the legal limit but poses no risk to human health if eaten is small quantities but collecting the body of a loved one will.... : 0

sharpie,

Yes, why don't they put up those "Do It At Home" posters showing a person with a noose around his neck and standing on a stool?