News About Japan

Over and over again…media repeat themselves telling us almost same story about nuclear crisis in Japan. It is bad, it doesn’t look like its going to get better soon. Definitely, situation is very difficult and almost three weeks after tsunami slammed Fukushima nuclear power plant facilities, TEPCO is sill unable to take control under damaged [...]

Japanese prime minister expressed today his concern about the ability of Fukushima crew to stabilize damaged reactors. I am surprised that he noticed this fact so late. From quite a long time situation in Fukushima nuclear plant in not only unstable, but dangerous. Fukushima workers are constantly fighting with fires, facing explosions, radiation trying to [...]

Aid is coming to Japan from United States and Israel. American army together with Japanese Self Defence Force members are carrying supplies to places which need quick help, like to island Oshima, where people were cut off from rest of the world two weeks and staying in shelter located in school, had to drink purified [...]

It is hard time for Japan now, no doubts about that. People who survived earthquake and tsunami and lost all earthly possessions, often families too…they still have power to work together and help each other. I have seen it many times being in Japan and it always made me smile. In small communities especially, people [...]

I mentioned in one of my articles that 25 people died in shelters in tsunami zone. These people were old and died because they had lost their medications, their relatives who could take care of them. I found out that is some regions of Northeast Japan amount of citizen older than 65 years is more [...]

I know that politicians can say things absolutely silly, out of place or very rude.      But I would rather think that such a way is more typical for Western politicians than Japanese ones. I was astonished finding remark of Tokyo Gov. Ishihara about earthquake and tsunami as “divine punishment cause by egoism of Japanese people” [...]