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Apr.09.2011
The article, "Question Tomodachi's True Value" appeared on page 3 of the April 7th Asahi newspaper. According to the paper, the Japanese government officials are extremely dissatisfied with the way the U.S. handled in the face of the disaster. Tomodachi means friends, and the name of a...
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Apr.07.2011
“never let rain bother” by Miyazawa Kenji
translated by keiko amano
He was a fine educator who lived after his ideal life and wrote poems. Amenimomakezu is the title of the poem below. The literal translation of it is “Not to be defeated by also rain.” Ame (rain) nimo (also) makezu (not...
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Apr.07.2011
Welcome to April 2011's "Upheavals" issue.
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Gentle greetings to all our fellow sojourners...
In a season of tough shifts, we're making some changes at the site to provide a new perspective on evergreen subjects, and elsewhere on the Internet we're following history as it...
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Apr.06.2011
2:46pm, March 11, 2011. Tokyo, Japan.
I’d just finished a yoga class at my studio in downtown Tokyo and walked down the street to have lunch at Ootoya, a favorite cafe. I’d just placed my order when the building started to shake. I was on the second floor of a five-story concrete building built...
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Apr.06.2011
Thank goodness the leakage of high radiation water at last stopped. On high or low, I've learned that radiation rates depend on variables, but that leak from the pit near the Reactor two was way too high.
At Fukushima Daiichi, operators have been dumping their accumulated low radiation water...
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Apr.01.2011
Shortly after the Earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan, once I learned our friends in Japan were safe, I wrote a blog with a poem about our 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, loosely comparing the two events. Mistake! What really happened (from an op-ed):
The earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan...
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Apr.01.2011
I hope the spill into the ocean stop immediately. I feel sick thinking how it is making people all over the world feel. It is also so sad that the effort Japanese have been putting into recycling, caring for their health, and living longer could be nullify by this single event. I hope people...
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Mar.30.2011
The biggest room anywhere is the room for improvement. With this note, I feel privileged to list the following four items. (I wrote this post yesterday.)
1. Tokyo Shinbun reported yesterday the differences in two tsunami counter measures. Tepco operates Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant,...
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Mar.30.2011
In Japan’s most popular cultural genres known as manga (comic books) and anime (animation films and series), there’s a recurrent theme in which the country is routinely devastated.
Tokyo, home to more than 30 million people, is destroyed so often in the Japanese collective imagination there’s an...
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Mar.26.2011
Two girls working hard making their photo albums called Priclu (Print Club). They have no conflicts in doing this.
1. A while back, Edano, chief cabinet secretary, ordered the people in the radius between 20-30 kilometers to remain indoors. But criticisms arose, of course, because not all...
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