YongYang comments

Am sure the children will be pleased they don’t have to throw 180, 200, or more pitches a day! Young arms need rest, young minds need relaxation! Far too militarised in its approach and execution. The marching and rigid disciplinary nonsense. Here’s to more change in the system!

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/12/62bc917294f4-focus-baseball-high-school-pitch-limits-tip-of-japans-injury-iceberg.html

@WillyB That simply isn't true. The Gates Foundation was not kicked out of India in 2017 when the Steemit article was published, and as of NOW the Gates Foundation continues to work in India.

The foundation is one of the largest private foundations, with offices all over the world. In India, the organization is primarily focused on the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar regions, where they are working to reduce poverty and improve access to health.

WTF??? Seriously? NO. Thats time has GONE! Stop internal movement. Stop domestic vacationers. NOW.

RIP. Thanks for all the laughs over the years.

NOW, Japan, START TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!

@Cricky, useful to open up airways, perhaps. Yet, as the vast majority of us here say: Stupidity knows no bounds in the US of A.

Yes, it works. As does mass testing, it works. So GET ON WITH IT JAPAN

@Digs: Well, perhaps look at Taiwan, Hong Kong, for an answer to your question to UK.

How about the self-employed? Hello? Hellooooooo....

THUD!

Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place), such a lovely face... plenty of room at the Hotel Osaka Corona.

@Zichi, leaflet, booklet? It’s the 21st Century. Keep it green, use the screen. Agreed that there is a distinct lack of info, total nearly. But we need paper for essentials, not leaflets.

To think, that could be me, carrying my lifeless child through a rubble strewn city, that could be any one of us who has a child, a niece or nephew, a neighbor... left to run to try and save a life. The mind-boggles at how we collapse into barbarity, into this destruction. Syria truly is a failing for all of humanity. An indelible stain.

@Speed, not sure if you are trolling or not, but 6 year olds are not mature enough to be left on their own. Children under 12 are rarely mature enough to be left alone for a long period of time. In many countries/states:

Parents can be prosecuted if they leave a child unsupervised ‘in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health’.

@rcch “shame on Japan”, why? The govt, yes, but Japan, as a whole? What are you on about. People are seriously ill, people have died, they don’t deserve to be under any “shame” umbrella popped up by you or anyone. Here’s to someone or organization taking over who knows what they are doing ASAP.

Am looking forward to the press interviews of both these people with one with their nose sticking out from over their mask.

Radiation 101: Background radiation is NATURAL. Radioactive isotopes spewed from the internal workings of a fission reactor are MAN MADE. Massive deadly difference.

Fantastic! The Japanese having to follow another organisations manual for a change! Manual says, “No”.

To paraphrase AlexBecu, "Lol misinformed runs high among here”, these stats are demonstrative of a govt whose policies are failing, badly. Three arrows missed, pension fund lost, finances generated by selling bonds to the BOJ merry-go-round... the economy, "it’s a mess stupid!". Interesting to learn about the CIA and the LDP, did not know that!

With results like this, you HAVE to ask, how does the LDP keep getting voted in? The answer, no one but those who win vote. The rest of those with the right simply disenfranchise themselves.

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/japan/

Jake who? Exactly. We already know these things, and as with other places, we know of faults, issues, problems and things that need resolving. Japan, like other nations, countries and kingdoms is not perfect.

As for the “poverty” angle that some people are woefully under playing: The OECD places Japan just below the U.S.A., which has a 17.3% poverty measure, statistics indicate that U.S.A. has been cutting down on poverty, by a 0.7% decrease since 1985. There are lots of poor people in Japan, way over 1 to 1.5 million people. Way over. Japan has some of the worst wealth inequality and highest rates of child poverty in the developed world, according to a Unicef report released in April 2016 that ranked Japan 34th out of 41 industrialised countries.

Take those rose tinted glasses off.

Simple: If you are disgusted by this, act. Don’t buy Japan.Inc. If you feel all cultures have “ the right" to express themselves no matter the point in our development morally, ethically, scientifically as a species, leave it be, but apply that logic across the board.

The Nankai Trough is of particular concern, as are any coastal areas around Japan, notably the Pacific. This is a really interesting article, as not just the size of the earthquake needs to be considered, but the duration and place. Have your grab bags and emergency kits ready, could be today, right now, or you may never need them. Who knows.

https://www.livescience.com/31440-small-earthquakes-tsunamis.html

This is now so far into the realm of farce that any sense that a legal process would be followed and that justice would be served has been washed away in the tears of laughter shed at Japan’s expense. Do NOT get caught up in Japan’s injustice system, it is inept, incompetent and insane.

And without doubt the kids weren’t wearing seatbelts. It’s going to happen, and when it does, it’ll be too late; even after decades of telling the Japanese, “Hey, get kids to wear seatbelts. You teach them to swim. Teach them to belt up."

@Zich, it’s the case for many. “Workers” gang pressed into doing the dangerous jobs at the Clean Up Site. Plus, they are not “gypsies”, day works, the employed, the homeless, people.

Just Google something along the lines of: yakuza taking Fukushima workers' money

@ the "but it’s higher in New York, London etc" crowd, BUT, you’re not saying what isotope, kind of radiation, that is very misleading. It’s like the banana troll that people roll out. As above, if it’s Caesium 137, Strontium 90, and other by-products of fission, of which there are higher levels in Kanto, Tohoku.... then it is a problem.

@BigYen, you mean donuts, not wheelies. But yes, plenty of opportunities that should have been acted on. The Elite Police Unit refused REFUSED to attend until far into the day’s events.

Got to hate cancer, an awful disease. I wish you all the strength and more for this fight. x Go kick its butt Rikako!

Yeah, well, Japan’s track record for using funds isn’t so shiny, remember the March 11 disaster funds that ended up helping the... whaling industry! Yep, stay tuned and keep an eye on where these taxes go.

That guy, leaning over into the clerk’s workspace? No. So rude. She knows what she’s doing.

First, here’s to everyone being found safe. Secondly, to better ensure the safety of these service men and women, something needs to change, either back to how it was or a more safety secure future. Too many accidents happening for it just to be “These things happens”.

@baruyu, the majority of people in Chiba didn’t vote to stop the Narita expansion. QED. @sensei258, close, but no cigar. No period/full stop.