wasabizuki comments

Wow sweeping butterfly and winning the IM is great news! Those are the most gruesome. Keep it up!!!!

Seems to me the Korean j-gov wants to poison the Japanese people and scare them into buying more Korean goods. The image of made in Japan is sliding because most everything sold outside Japan isn't. It's developed with Japanese high-tech and manufactured with foreign middle-tech. It's about time Japan's innovative companies are allowed to use their alternative energy technologies, but of course the gov restricts that from happening, only 1%. What needs to go is the zaibatsu and chaebol of the rich, blood connected political families..

For the sake of the children and babies, Japanese citizens should petition to increase food supplies from Mexico and Canada if they don't want domestic produce.

Some people here talk with such arrogance and criticize Japan and its reliance and use of nuclear energy but look at the usa and it's histories of nuclear contamination. California's Rocketdyne laboratories nuclear disaster is rather recent in terms of radioactive lifetimes and a recent accident at San Onofre near San Diego has many californian's asking questions. We live in the nuclear age and until humankind matures and becomes responsible for their actions and inventions we are bound to repeat history in places the world over. To single out Japan is narrow minded.

@zichi: Are you a japanese scholar or engineering working in the energy sector? Sounds to me you are spreading "nuclear fear" and saying things that could have only been known hindsight, what, 20 years? Those reactors were built and designed by GE when seismology and topography were far less understood, when instruments during that era weren't available. You can say the same about every nuclear plant in the world. The RocketDyne nuclear disaster in Simi Valley is barely known by people who live in California and that 50 years ago and today people around the Calabasas area show an increased cancer rate (due to the burning of the nuclear waste and building debris from the explosion). Yet, the US continued to build nuclear reactors. The truth of the matter is, the people in power don't care about health concerns nor do they think in 50 year time horizons.

It isn't that Japan hasn't invested in clean and alternative energy. The government LIMITS the use of it in the industry BECAUSE they don't want other companies and corporations to take away from the pie. In truth, Japan has the most solar powered technology developed waiting to be used, and from what I have learned from the meetings I had with professors and innovators of Japan's academic institutions, the technology is already ready to deploy. Naysayers will say Japan's too cloudy, not enough sun, etc etc but they are talking out of their asses. The market consideration is that these products will end up being exported and will have to be manufactured outside of Japan (while protecting the technology from transferring to the host nation). Some may say it's too expensive or Japan charges too much, but in truth, it is leading-edge technology and the got have it now for cheap mentality, on top of the Western view that Japanese products are over-engineered, is the root of why Japan's products falter outside of its native soil. Responsible, mature Japanese companies don't live by the got have it now for cheap mentality - they build quality products with 50+year time horizons in mind.

I have to disagree that this belongs in international instead of national.

@Fadamar- you say his only tie to Japan is that his ancestors came from there. If you live in the US, that makes no difference. You're judged by the color of your skin and genetic make up - not nationality. This man was American, and interned because he was treated as a JAPANESE national or even worse yet, an American Traitor.. His story is only one of thousands - most japanese americans had very profitable crops and land that was irrigated by japanese techniques and work ethic, only to have them all stripped and taken away and NOT returned after the war.

This very much belongs in national. For those who are both japanese and american, by both nationality and ethnicity. Even today, japanese americans have to endure the shame and stigma in the US that the motherland Nation brought upon them. Your comment is insensitive to japanese americans and the strife they endured.

I have been mentioning that quite often here but it seems that most of the gaijin experts here cannot understand real Japanese news and just exist sucking up the partisan soundbites posted here.

I agree, the real news is masked by all the other crap in the media. Kan is suspicious, as is Softbank's son, and they are mere puppets of a deeper, darker organization than anyone realizes. The scheming is elaborate and timely, and is fueled by resentment toward the Japanese. Kan is no fool either, he's practiced his poker face.