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Thread is about the various issues surrounding Japan in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. Don't bring the shit side of the internet to the thread, and post with the realization that this thread is very important, and very real, to your fellow members.
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just wanted to send my thanks to everyone posting in this thread. this has actually been my main source of information about what's happening (as well as my company's facebook page). i mean, i can easily follow a stream or something but here there are a bunch of people posting a wide variety of pics, stories, videos and websites from all over that i've been able to share with people here.
i live quite far away from the fukushima and the north, but the quake is still on everyone's mind here in the south, and foreigners especially are banding together to do stuff, from donating money at convenience stores (you can do anything at conbinis here) to giving blood to listing their place on couchsurfing for people to stay. i have donated $100 so far and i would encourage anyone else who wants to help to donate via their red cross site. i dunno.. it's just that japanese people are really the kindest and most humble people i've met in the world. i also teach in elementary school (and JHS and kindergarten) and the thought of these kids being up north when this all happens brings me to tears. i love these kids, and i can't imagine anyone having to lose their kids or family.
right now, on couch surfing, there are dozens of people listing their places as available to displaced victims of the quake/tsunami, but no one in japan knows wtf couch surfing is. i have bene trying to contact all the higher-ups i know to somehow get the word out that there is accomodation all over the country (and the world). if you are a part of couch surfing (or want to sign up) then you can join the group here if you are willing to host people: http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=39703 . even if you live in a different country and there is little chance of actually having someone go, the symbolic gesture would be nice (if you could accomodate/are willing).
so far there are like zero responses (because, again no one knows about couch surfing in japan, and further, very few people speak functional english), but any way you could get the word out about this or bolster this movement would be great. japanese people mainly use a social networking site called Mixi (http://mixi.jp/) so if you have a mixi account (and know japanese), then that would help, i think. or, contacting news outlets/website would also be an idea.
i guess here in japan there is a sense of helplessness. so many people want to help and their first instinct is to actually go to the affected areas to do what they can, but we are being advised (rightly) that that wouldn't be a good idea in the current situation. so we're just thinking of anything we can do to help.
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I tweeted it on various streams, hopefully it gets picked up by a few people.
Stay safe man
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I just happened upon this. Periodic videos are amazing and this video is no different. Really gives me a better view on how the reactor works.
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Note: Daini = Fukushima II, the problems with Fukushima I (Daichi) still continue
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
Japan Earthquake Update (15 March 2011, 03:35 CET)
Japanese authorities yesterday reported to the IAEA at 21:05 CET that the reactors Units 1, 2 and 3 of the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant are in cold shutdown status. This means that the pressure of the water coolant is at around atmospheric level and the temperature is below 100 degrees Celsius. Under these conditions, the reactors are considered to be safely under control.
Japanese authorities have also informed the IAEA that teams of experts from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plant´s operator, are working to restore cooling in the reactor Unit 4 and bring it to cold shutdown.
The IAEA continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities and is monitoring the situation as it evolves.
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Streaming from Foreign Correspondents' Club is starting now again.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/videonews-com-live
It's not press conference this time.
Edit: The peoples who stream are the members of Citizens' Nuclear Information Center(CNIC) which
works to create nuclear free world.( from their web site http://www.cnic.jp/english/)
I didn't know that. But their attitude is calm. No problem. It is still informative for me. Information on TV is too fragmentary.
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ex-gf facebook: lack of electric city and communication but friends and family are fine... im glad 
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EYYY, the couchsurfing thing made it onto timeout tokyo! good job guys!
TimeOutTokyo TimeOutTokyo
CouchSurfing have started a list of people in the area willing to offer accomodation to evacuees: http://bit.ly/hCUY0J
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On March 15 2011 15:30 chaoser wrote:EYYY, the couchsurfing thing made it onto timeout tokyo! good job guys! TimeOutTokyo TimeOutTokyo CouchSurfing have started a list of people in the area willing to offer accomodation to evacuees: http://bit.ly/hCUY0J
wow i am really amazed how fast that happened. i was looking on the side of the site in twitter and i saw like a dozen things about CS come up. the information age is truly amazing...
my friend said there is a similar group on mixi (the site japanese people actually use) and she has posted the link there. there is also a similar thing being set up there
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The people of Tohoku are asking the people of Tokyo, PLS stop your panic buying. It affects EVERYTHING up here.
-Twitter
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On March 15 2011 15:18 NB wrote:ex-gf facebook: lack of electric city and communication but friends and family are fine... im glad
glad to hear
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ugh i feel like everytime i look on cnn it says new explosion
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On March 15 2011 16:02 Zidane wrote:
ugh i feel like everytime i look on cnn it says new explosion
So sick of the mainstream news stations fear mongering for more attention and then being slow on the updates when things do get better. I just come to this thread for info now because it's up to date and I know the sensationalism has been filtered out.
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On March 15 2011 14:12 GG_NO_RE wrote:just wanted to send my thanks to everyone posting in this thread. this has actually been my main source of information about what's happening (as well as my company's facebook page). i mean, i can easily follow a stream or something but here there are a bunch of people posting a wide variety of pics, stories, videos and websites from all over that i've been able to share with people here. i live quite far away from the fukushima and the north, but the quake is still on everyone's mind here in the south, and foreigners especially are banding together to do stuff, from donating money at convenience stores (you can do anything at conbinis here) to giving blood to listing their place on couchsurfing for people to stay. i have donated $100 so far and i would encourage anyone else who wants to help to donate via their red cross site. i dunno.. it's just that japanese people are really the kindest and most humble people i've met in the world. i also teach in elementary school (and JHS and kindergarten) and the thought of these kids being up north when this all happens brings me to tears. i love these kids, and i can't imagine anyone having to lose their kids or family. right now, on couch surfing, there are dozens of people listing their places as available to displaced victims of the quake/tsunami, but no one in japan knows wtf couch surfing is. i have bene trying to contact all the higher-ups i know to somehow get the word out that there is accomodation all over the country (and the world). if you are a part of couch surfing (or want to sign up) then you can join the group here if you are willing to host people: http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=39703 . even if you live in a different country and there is little chance of actually having someone go, the symbolic gesture would be nice (if you could accomodate/are willing). so far there are like zero responses (because, again no one knows about couch surfing in japan, and further, very few people speak functional english), but any way you could get the word out about this or bolster this movement would be great. japanese people mainly use a social networking site called Mixi (http://mixi.jp/) so if you have a mixi account (and know japanese), then that would help, i think. or, contacting news outlets/website would also be an idea. i guess here in japan there is a sense of helplessness. so many people want to help and their first instinct is to actually go to the affected areas to do what they can, but we are being advised (rightly) that that wouldn't be a good idea in the current situation. so we're just thinking of anything we can do to help.
Hey great post, you're an impressive teacher to be touched that much by those kids, you have my respect.
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On March 15 2011 14:12 GG_NO_RE wrote:right now, on couch surfing, there are dozens of people listing their places as available to displaced victims of the quake/tsunami, but no one in japan knows wtf couch surfing is. i have bene trying to contact all the higher-ups i know to somehow get the word out that there is accomodation all over the country (and the world). if you are a part of couch surfing (or want to sign up) then you can join the group here if you are willing to host people: http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=39703 . even if you live in a different country and there is little chance of actually having someone go, the symbolic gesture would be nice (if you could accomodate/are willing).
Also I know that Walt Disney World Japan is housing and providing food/water to those without places to stay currently. Though I don't know if they are currently at housing capacity or their food/water supplies. I work for Disney and happened to read an article saying that. If I can find the article again i'll be sure to post it with more information.
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Russian Federation1894 Posts
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DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: Keep Pouring Seawater Into Daiichi No. 1, 2, 3 Reactors
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7:31
DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: Unconfirmed If Used Nuclear Fuel In No. 4 Reactor Covered In Water
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7:33
DJ: Japan Econ Min Yosano: No Reason To Close Japan Stock Markets -Kyodo
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7:35
DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: Radiation Emission Likely To Continue Unless Reactor Problems Fixed
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7:35
DJ: Japan Econ Min Yosano: Govt Has Option To Purchase Stocks -Kyodo
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7:43
DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: Not Yet Confirmed If No. 4 Reactor Container Damaged
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DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: Need To Stay Alert To Possibility Of Hydrogen Blast At No. 2 Reactor
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7:52
DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: No. 5 Reactor Could Face Same Trouble As No. 4 Reactor
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7:57
DJ: Japan Nuclear Agency: Mulling Pouring Water Into No. 4 Reactor
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Russian Federation1894 Posts
DJMN: IAEA:Radioactivity-Releasing Fire At Fukushima Plant Now Put Out
VIENNA (Dow Jones)--The United Nation's nuclear watchdog said early Tuesday that the Japanese authorities have informed it that a fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which had caused the release of radioactivity into the atmosphere, has now been put out.
"Japanese authorities have confirmed that the fire was extinguished on March 15 at 0200 UTC," the International Atomic and Energy Agency said in an update of its page on social network site Facebook.
Earlier in the morning, the IAEA had said in a statement that radioactivity was being released directly into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after a spent fuel storage pond caught fire.
"Dose rates of up to 400 millisievert per hour have been reported at the site. The Japanese authorities are saying that there is a possibility that the fire was caused by a hydrogen explosion," the IAEA said in the statement.
The fuel storage pond fire is located at the plant's fourth reactor, and is the latest of a string of serious security incidents at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the wake of the Japanese earthquake.
In the night to Tuesday, the plant was also shaken by an explosion at the second reactor, the IAEA said. A similar blast previously occurred at reactor number one.
"The explosion occurred at around 0620 on March 15, local Japan time," the IAEA said, without providing further details as to the cause and exact nature of the explosion.
The IAEA said it remains in close contact with the Japanese authorities and is seeking further information on the latest developments.
-By Flemming E. Hansen, Dow Jones Newswires; +43 1 513 69 22 10; flemming.hansen@dowjones.com
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 15, 2011 04:17 ET (08:17 GMT)
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