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A Revolt, the Quiet Japanese Way

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New revelations seeped out about the control Japan’s nuclear industry had over its regulators. In early 2006, five years before the apparently preventable meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC), an "independent" agency, began studying the enlargement of disaster-mitigation zones around nuclear power plants—from Japan’s standard 8-10 km to the International Atomic Energy Agency's standard of a 5-km “top priority zone” and a 30-km “priority zone.”

But the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), which is under the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), demanded the study be shelved, claiming in emails that were just released that the expansion ''could cause social unrest and increase popular anxiety.”

It worked. But if the expansion of the zones had been implemented, it could have prevented the chaos of the evacuations from the areas around the Fukushima plant—and the deaths that occurred during it.

Another revelation seeped out Saturday. In 2005, the IAEA proposed that emergency food regulations should be prepared for a zone with a radius of 300 km around nuclear power plants—a relatively large area on the narrow Japanese islands. But members of the NISA, the NSC, and the METI requested the removal of any reference to the “300 km.” They were worried about "negative publicity and other factors."

It worked again. However, the validity of the 300-km food regulation zone has been confirmed: "Radioactive cesium exceeded the safety standard in tea leaves from Shizuoka Prefecture, more than 300 km from the Fukushima plant," said Hideaki Tsuzuku, a director at the NSC, which is currently re-reviewing the guidelines.

Continuous revelations of how much Japan Inc. had conspired to accomplish its goals at the expense of the people have an impact: the people, known for their patience, have become impatient with the nuclear industry and its regulators—stirred up further by the daily drumbeat of the insidious spread of nuclear contamination:

- High levels of radioactive cesium were detected in condos built last July in Fukushima Prefecture. Turns out, the crushed stones in the concrete were radioactive. And, according to the METI, radioactive stones from the same quarry were used in over 80 other buildings, a street in front of a school, and an irrigation canal.

- ARCO, an independent French lab, tested children living 220 km from Fukushima Daiichi and found that 77% of them were contaminated with cesium 134 and cesium 137, probably from food.

- House dust collected from vacuum cleaners in the prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima was contaminated with high levels of radioactive cesium. Of the sample, 22% exceeded 8000 Bq/kg—thus, radioactive waste that, under Japanese regulations, cannot be put in the garbage.

- Water contaminated with radioactive cesium is still leaking into the sea at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, researchers said, further contributing to the contamination of fish, though TEPCO, the bailed-out utility that owns the plant, true to itself, believed that that wasn’t the case.

And so people are opposing the almighty nuclear industry at a local level. Every time a nuclear power plant shuts down for scheduled maintenance, people in the area come out against restarting it. Thus, of Japan’s 54 reactors, only two are still generating electricity. And both are scheduled to be off line by April. With harsh consequences for industry and manufacturers.

And another setback for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the sixth ineffectual prime minister in six years. Like his predecessors, he is stumbling down a steep slope in approval ratings. When they drop into the low twenties, he will be axed, and a new sacrificial lamb will be stuffed into that slot. For the fiasco that is sending Noda to replacement hell while the economic and fiscal fundamentals are falling apart, read.... Unpopularity Contest at the Edge of the Abyss.

Under pressure from Japan Inc., Noda suggested that some of the reactors should be restarted. And the arm-twisting with the resisting public got a little tougher on Friday, when METI Minister Yukio Edano predicted that Japan would face a power shortage this summer of 9.3%. Last summer, power shortages were largely limited to the Tokyo area and northwestern Japan. This summer, they would hit Kansai, the huge and highly industrialized Osaka area, where shortfalls could peak at 20%.

Industry and households would have to cut back drastically—a Third-World problem that will send more manufacturers overseas. So Edano, in his efforts to overcome local resistance, promised that stress tests would be conducted at all reactors before they would be restarted. But it remains doubtful that a new whitewash will re-inspire blind confidence in the nuclear industry.

But on the Japanese internet, there has been something ... lighter. And utterly cynical. It shows just how much trust the people have left in TEPCO and the government. Read: Nuclear Contamination As Seen By Japanese Humor (mostly pics).

 

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Mon, 03/19/2012 - 04:40 | 2268805 lolmao500
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Japan mad max...

http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/nightmarish-scenarios-...

Nightmarish scenarios of the coming financial collapse

 

The magazine then offers its darkly pessimistic scenarios of an economy in tatters, in which one out of four workers is unemployed, and for part-time workers, hourly compensation will plummet. Employers will not even reimburse them for their transportation.

With government revenues drying up, there will be mass layoffs of civil servants as well. Public works projects will come to a screeching halt, and as budgets for education, the arts and culture dry up, Japan’s national treasures will deteriorate and crumble.

The age from which workers begin collecting their old-age pensions may be pushed back to age 75.

Meanwhile, public services like fire and rescue, and refuse collection will vanish, leaving the cities resembling a war zone.

The national health insurance scheme will also face collapse, which means patients’ out-of-pocket costs will rise by 20% or more.

What else? Foreign companies will buy up Japanese firms for a song. The defense budget will be slashed, and Japan’s already weak diplomacy will become completely dysfunctional.

With declining value of the yen, consumers will face hyper-inflation. Imagine a humble bowl of ramen priced at 2,000 yen. And the consumption tax, which is set to rise to 10% by 2015, will go up yet another 15%.

It gets even worse: with collapse of the banking system, individual assets, including savings accounts, will be frozen. (Readers are advised to spread their assets between two or three institutions.) It might come to the point that people barter their gold jewelry and other valuables for food—as was done after the Pacific War.

A severe pinch on energy will see a living standard resembling that of North Korea, with no electric power for up to 12 hours a day, and TV stations signing off by 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, the police will have their hands full. Incidents of armed robbery and rape will soar. The clearance rate for all crimes, which is currently a low 31.4% nationwide, will fall further. With the prisons overcrowded, nonviolent offenders will be released; once on the outside, they will repeat their crimes.

With no budget for fuel, police patrols will drop off, with koban and police sub-stations mobbed by unruly crowds. As urban koban become unsafe places for cops to eat or sleep, they will be left unmanned. Driven to desperation, the strong will prey on the weak, with public safety plummeting. Once the sun sets, Japan’s towns and cities will be scary places indeed.

As bad as all these may seem, they could get even worse.

“If we slip even slightly,” Morinaga warns, “we can imagine a situation where Japan takes a direction similar to the 2-26 Incident (the bloody Feb 26, 1936 coup d’etat attempt by a radical army faction).”

Now imagine this in the US or Europe with millions of guns and hundreds of cultures and entitled people... it's gonna be epic.

Collapse of western civilization bitchez!

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 03:39 | 2268784 mkkby
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Huge population on a tiny island.  What could possibly go wrong?  Population growing massive worldwide...  guess what kids?

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 00:34 | 2268629 nah
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two way to the look at the world

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fuck you fuck me

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 23:26 | 2268519 CompassionateFascist
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Revenge of the Dolphins.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 22:34 | 2268407 xtop23
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I really feel for the Japanese people. They really are screwed. 

Take an extremely xenophobic society, mix in a massive amount of debt, add a splash of nuclear meltdown, and top it off with a birth death model that shows them falling off a population growth cliff.

Kyle Bass has a fantastic work up on Japan and it is truly a disaster in progress.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 21:23 | 2268242 AbruptlyKawaii
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FUCK TEPCO LDP DPJ METI AMAKUDARI

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 21:47 | 2268310 Vlad Tepid
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Articulate and coherent as ever...

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 19:10 | 2267985 luna_man
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"The revolt, the quiet Japanese Way"...

We have constrasting styles here in the USA!...For instance, "katrina"...You think those brothers and sisters, revolted quietly? I say NOT!...GW, is still shaking his head about that one.

Japanese, will learn...NO SUCH THING AS QUIET REVOLT!...

WE TEAR STUFF UP!...even if it does no good!  (Squeaky wheel...)

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:45 | 2267929 Vlad Tepid
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Geothermal currently ranks as 0.1% of Japan's total energy output with geothermal potential ranked as 4th in the world after the massive countries of Russia, USA and Indonesia.  I see room for growth here and will be investing accordingly.  It's starting to get the attention of the Japanese as well.  One of their recent TV shows pointed out that the massive investment in geothermal that Iceland has made since the '08 crash has been with plants of Japanese design and construction.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 20:58 | 2268201 iamgogi
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The Japanese are broke and getting broker by the day. The only energy investment they can afford now is a $100 generator from Home Depot

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 21:29 | 2268257 Vlad Tepid
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Toshiba, Mitsui, Panasonic et al will ALWAYS make capital investments in Japan.  And those companies aren't going anywhere even if the Japanese government goes bankrupt. 

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 17:43 | 2267815 mendolover
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Anyone know what the chances are that the Lexus plant in Tahara, Aichi, Japan would be in a comtamination zone?  It's approx. 250 miles southwest of Fukishima.  I'm supposed to get one in July, but I'm telling the dealer I have a geiger counter and it better not register or I'm not taking the car.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:49 | 2267933 Vlad Tepid
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Aichi Prefecture is quite distant from even the farthest detected cesuim plume (the Shizuoka tea leaves), but as another responder said components are another thing.  Still the parts factories in the affected areas are not up and running again so the parts are likely not coming from anywhere with contamination.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 21:39 | 2268289 Vlad Tepid
Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:10 | 2267867 sangell
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 I wondered the same when I got my Miata in September. Dealer told me the Mazda plant was in Hiroshima! which is at the southern end of Honshu so not near Fukushima but who knows where all the components were manufactured.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:30 | 2267899 kaiserhoff
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I'm going to rent my next mistress in Chernobyl..., radiation tested and hot to trot;)

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 16:35 | 2267705 bankruptcylawyer
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thorium flouride liquid salt reactors, pebble bed reactors and other advanced design reactors were STOPPED by the greenies fear mongering . so instead of safer nuclear power, which the greenes SHOULD have demanded from the uranium mining industry,---what they got is an industry beholden to miners instead of to factory operators . 

 

it's just like big coal. you want better safer coal , stop using it. you want better safer uranium?? use thorium instead. 

no high pressure gas in the reactor , no possibility for a meltdown that puts scatters radioactive waste into the atmosphere or surrounding area. a liquid salt reactor is safer and in the unlikley event of a meltdown, the liquid salt gets extremely hot in ONE place until the reaction dies down of its own accord. uranium is far more fissile and fertile than thorium, which is ONLY fertile and must be kickstared by uranium ignition and is naturally going to shut down if it stops being maintained by the plant operators. 

SAFE nuclear power comes from thorium and its chain of radioactive elements which is much safer than uranium. and to boot---thorium is 4x and abundant in the crust ( and is sheerly abundant in monazite sand minerals ) ---AND---- thorium breeders use 99% more of the heat energy contained within the fissile chain of decay than does uranium fission in non-breeding ractors which leads to  far more highly radioactive waste which must be 'stored' in pools, rather than recycled into the reactor and 'burned' by neutrons to use the heat. 

and finally, thorium produces less than 5% of material useable for conventional nuclear bombs which uranium fission does.

AND thorium is recycled with less energetic slow neutrons instead of the 'fast' neutrons that many countries have attempted, and failed, to use to 'recycle' uranium. slow neutrons are more easily controlled, safer, less prone to meltdown scenarios, and more likely to stop being dangerous ( more likely to be absorbed by neutron poisons ) when they are used for fissing (burning with neutrons) thorium , than recycling (aka breeding) of uranium byproducts with faster more energetic neutrons.

and finally------thorium reactors could use EXISTING WASTE POOLS OF NUCLEAR WASTE AS THEIR FUEL THERBY JUMPSTARTING THEIR OWN CAPITAL INVESTMENT AS A PROFITABLE METHOD OF FINALLY DEALING WITH ALL THE NUCLEAR WASTE IN THE UNITED STATES. 10 BILLION WAS SPENT ON YUCCA MOUNTAIN. FOR THAT MONEY --AT LEAST 3 BETA TESTS OF THORIUM REACTORS COULD HAVE BEEN PERFECTED TO DEVELOP A STANDARD FOR A FULLY AND HIGHLY EFFICIENT THORIUM LIQUID SALT REACTOR DESIGN.

 

AND GUESS WHO IS BUILDING THEM NOW? THE CHINESE? AND THE INDIANS ARE SECOND.

you have one choice. coal or nuclear nuclear is better, then a second choice. go forward with thorium or go back to the dark ages of wwii and stay with uranium.  

the uranium mining and coal industries are banking on lobbying against liquid salt  thorium reactors. they have succeeded before. and now---we have a massive nuclear waste ticking time bomb sitting in and near 50 year old reactors that are not being maintained properly-----( take indian point for example just 30 miles north of manhattan) this is  much like japan. only americans aren't as willing to suffer a trusting government that fails them outright. 

THORIUM. 

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 22:31 | 2268398 Schmuck Raker
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Thorium's time has likely come. I HOPE SO.

 

Incidentally, I think bashing 'Greenies' or playing the blame game is counterproductive. Given the importance of the issues we are facing as a nation, and as a species, it's also irresponsible. Just my 2c. (+1 anyway)

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:44 | 2267925 kaiserhoff
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The pebble bed/billiard ball configuration could be safe and fairly local.  About 40% of energy produced is lost in transit from these massive megadeath reactors.

Designs are well along on fusion reactors which can work on heavy hydrogen and in some cases safely burn spent nuclear fuel, but it will take time before rational discussion can resume on the whole energy question.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 22:27 | 2268331 Reptil
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A pebble bed experimental reactor in germany went badly wrong. If even the germans can't manage it, I'd say the "safe" connotation is fantasy Winny the Pooh stuff.

Honestly they can't get it stable. Every plant has been abandoned, the failures hushed up: http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/the-demise-of-the-pebble-bed...

More information from another source:

 

1. The lack of a containment building is a necessity because cooling is by natural convection. Also, a containment building would hinder the modular design - that is - no additional reactors could be added onto the plant after initial construction. This modular capability is what is so appealing to utilities because it requires less investment from the beginning.

Frankly, this single point is enough to conclude that this reactor design is unsafe. The United States has criticized Soviet reactor designs for not having containment buildings. It is the last line of defense for containing a radiological release.

Furthermore, the lack of a containment building leaves the reactor(s) wide open to a terrorist attack.
2. The uranium is covered by a layer of graphite. The graphite is covered by several other layers of materials including a silicon carbide. The graphite could burn if defects in the fuel defeat the outer coverings. The industry acknowledges that there is approximately 1 defect per pebble associated with these layers. There are approximately 370,000 pebbles in a pebble bed reactor. One tennis ball sized pebble comes out the bottom of the reactor every 30 seconds. It can be returned to the top of the reactor for additional use.

The 1957 Windscale accident and the 1986 Chernobyl accident both involved burning graphite. The burning graphite dispersed radioactivity. At Chernobyl, the burning graphite released radiation for ten days.
3. Although the volume by "configuration for long term storage" is lower than current design, the actual amount of high level waste by weight is higher. The pebbles are less radioactive than conventional fuel assemblies and more pebbles are required to produce the needed heat inside the reactor. There will be many more truck and railroad transports needed to remove the wastes. This will increase the numbers of vehicle accidents and the odds of another radiological accident involving these vehicles traveling across the country.

Creating even more nuclear waste without a final depository plan is unconscianable.
4. The industry acknowledges that "fuel pebble manufacturing defects are the most significant source of fission product release." Recent history shows that some companies have falsified fuel quality. In fact, there have been instances of fuel sabotage and tampering over the last few decades. Germany and Japan have shut down plants or refused fuel shipments once the problems were discovered. The industry can't produce "defect-free" fuel and therefore it is a certainty that a pebble bed reactor will experience an accident. The industry acknowledges that there is approximately 1 defect per pebble associated with these layers.

 

5. There was a pebble bed reactor accident at Hamm-Uentrop West Germany nine days after the Chernobyl accident. On May 4 1986, a pebble became lodged in a feeder tube. Operators subsequently caused damage to the fuel during attempts to free the pebble. Radiation was released to the environs. The West German government closed down the research program because they found the reactor design unsafe.


Sun, 03/18/2012 - 23:36 | 2268537 lincolnsteffens
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Reptil,

Thanks for taking the time to provide some insight into some basic flaws that continue to plague the nuclear industry. It truly is criminally psychotic to have an industry that has infinitely dangerous waste products without the ability to permanently dispose or store the ever growing dangerous pile of waste.

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 08:27 | 2268995 Reptil
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don't mention it please, I've learned a LOT here on ZH myself ;-)

IMO it (nuclear industry) is a weird religion, with scientists as a priesthood; it's indeed (becoming) psychotic as safety issues and the waste problem are ignored. Scientists involved often hold on to their theoretical models, forgetting this is largely still an experimental science.

That is nothing new, it has been like that since it started: Please look at this short interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7rcjSnxZs

It's no different anywhere, take for example France, where contamination has been swept under the rug, and "privatisation" (mind you without market competition) has caused a further erosion of safety procedures. It was called the "democratic energy source" there, free energy for all, which was the sole promise and reason it was introduced there. They've been replacing the workforce of skilled workers, with unskilled seasonal workers (immigrants without any education in the field) because the french workers were becoming vocal in their critique. In french: "R.A.S. Rien a signaler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnQG-DJW7lk

This is going on everywhere, only countries like Germany seem to have some control over their planning and industry, it's is what you get when an industry is paid for, no matter what results they produce, and politics comingle with corporate interests. This was standard modus operandi in the cold war period, but now has been replaced by something simular (nuclear "renaissance"?) In that it's indeed not very different from everything else at the moment, unravelling of rule of law, power trumps logic and reason. The issue is current and pressing, and inescapable, even for ppl. that have hedged themselves well in other ways: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/must-watch-video-on-unsafe-americ...

I don't believe in "incompetence" as the sole factor anymore. (incompetence to invest in the right things as well) They're willingly destroying our biotope.
I'm baffled by this; what is the reason? I can only deduce it to depopulation and the ultimate control to keep emerging awareness of humanity under a boot.

I've looked into Thorium reactors, there are some problems, but also advantages with those, I don't know enough yet, so I'm not commenting.
However, with all kinds of promising technologies that are not persued it's just one of the many. For me the idea that we have no choice to accept just one is incorrect.

cheers

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 08:33 | 2269023 Ghordius
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excellent posts, though I firmly believe it's simple greed. keep' em coming

do look into Thorium reactors, the Indians and the Chinese will go far with them

and don't miss the real good thingies, like the Toshiba 4S micro-reactor that consumes waste from the behemoths

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 17:28 | 2267796 Fred Hayek
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Thank you for bringing up the issue, BL. At the link below is a fantastic video by a guy explaining the tremendous value of LFTR's using Thorium. I encourage anyone interested in seeing if there's an energy alternative to our present ones to at least watch the first 5 minutes. When you understand what a fantastic technology it is, how immensely better it is than the pressurized nuclear power plants we have now and how preferable it is to coal or the unfortunately impractical but more green power sources (wind and solar), you'll wonder why it isn't being pursued with all the economic might of this nation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 16:59 | 2267740 Gunga
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 That would be terrible if the Indian Point reactor just 30 miles north of Manhattan melted down and took Wall Street with it.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:36 | 2267910 kaiserhoff
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Yes, and it would be even worse if North Anna didn't go down with it and take out DC.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 16:27 | 2267692 q99x2
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Texas recently hired TEPCO to build several new plants. They are always welcome to build them here.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 15:52 | 2267617 apberusdisvet
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What this article fails to mention is the ongoing radiation  (far above acceptable levels) that is affecting not only Japan, the Pacific, the S China Sea, but also the west coast of the N. American continent, including Alaska.  Within a generation, the incidence of cancer will be off the charts in these areas.  Fits in nicely with the NWO plan to de-populate the planet.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 20:15 | 2268101 blindman
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Highest radiation in LA yet
Posted on March 18, 2012 by maxkeiser
http://maxkeiser.com/2012/03/18/highest-radiation-in-la-yet/

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 17:48 | 2267825 Ag1761
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Coming to the West Coast soon

 

http://www.asrltd.com/japan/plume.php

 

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 15:41 | 2267591 seventree
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"Stress test" has become the greatest comedy punchline since 'military intelligence."

Whenever I hear it I know somebody is lying.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 15:52 | 2267616 hidingfromhelis
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Would it reassure you if they used folks with PHD's in economics to do the stress tests?  That always helps me feel better.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 14:47 | 2267467 AmericanFUPAcabra
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Things went from bad to worse to worst for japan in the last few years. 7 years ago traveling to japan was extremely expensive... power shortages in the months/years to come will kill tourism. It used to be 800-1,000 usd would last you about a week in tokyo if you wanted to see sights, enjoy eating out but still kind of be frugal, staying in tiny love hotels... cant imagine what staying there during a power shortage would be like, add inflation. i wonder how many japanese will move out of the country for good in the coming years to avoid another lost decade

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 15:37 | 2267584 JamesBond
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Love Hotels in Japan charge by the hour; quite expensive.

I should know  :)

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 15:34 | 2267573 DoChenRollingBearing
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A lot of Japanese are very smart, hard-working and just decent all around people.

Such Japanese should be welcomed as immigrants to our country (USA), they would be a termendous asset.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 20:19 | 2268112 xela2200
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They will be welcomed until we have too many of them and then we will hate them like the other groups. Don't believe me? Ask any Asian American.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 17:20 | 2267781 847328_3527
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DoChen, I read the wealthier Japanese are moving to China to get away from the radiation...I don't know why the MSM does not report it more.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 18:42 | 2267924 Vlad Tepid
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Probably because they're not.  I read plenty of vernacular MSM and blog stuff from Japan and I've never heard of "wealthy Japanese moving to China."  China, which was a beautiful country 100 years ago is a cesspool of purple rivers, three-eyed pigs, and "London" fog blanketing the country.

In answer to the top post of how many Japanese will emigrate - zero.  Right or wrong, no Japanese I've ever heard of says that there is a better country out there than Japan, aside from your rare artist type with a cigarello and beret.

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 22:25 | 2268354 Reptil
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India, not China. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/28/japan-to-assist-india-build-24-green...

But there as well, they bring their "industry": http://www.deccanherald.com/content/203514/japan-build-16-nuclear-reacto...

And the Aussie NWO is right on top of it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16021428

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-11/india/30504414_1_...

Great, sell it to some place where the people are unaware (or corrupt) - Cananda is exporting it's asbestos so it can be used in cheap housing in India, Monsanto their faultering rice GMO, so why the fuck not join the feeding frenzy and perform a little post colonial fuck-an-emerging-nation?

Nuclear non-proliferation treaties (Pakistan vs. India Nuclear war?) my ass. http://www.cfr.org/india/us-india-nuclear-deal/p9663

D E P O P U L A T I O N

 

Sun, 03/18/2012 - 14:31 | 2267426 non_anon
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roll of the dice, snake eyes!

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