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Japan Was Just Added To List Of "Partially Dangerous" Places For Tourists To Visit In The World
Whether it is because of Abe's shift to a newly militaristic doctrine or simply its proximity to a more sabre-rattling China is unclear, but Britain's Foreign Office just added Japan to its list of "dangerous" or "partially dangerous" countries.
As ValueWalk's Vikas Shukla notes, the list of “high risk” countries includes Syria, Yemen, Tunisia,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Congo, Libya, Burundi, Chad, Central African
Republic, Guinea, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Niger,
Mauritania, and the Palestinian territories.
Japan among partially dangerous countries
Then there are 45 countries that are partially dangerous.
Surprisingly, Japan has been included in this list. Parts of Russia,
including areas of Chechnya and regions near the border with Ukraine,
are also deemed dangerous. Here’s the full list of 45 “partially
dangerous” countries.
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Burkina Faso
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Djibouti
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Haiti
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Republic of Congo
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Venezuela
- Western
- Sahara
If you have already booked tickets to any of these countries, you may want to reconsider it.
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What happened to the USA. From comments read here I understand Chicago, Detroit and New Orleans are not exactly safe either.
Seriously UK?
Londonistan is way the FUCK more dangerous than Japan.
Why aren't Detroit, Oakland, Memphis, Chicago, Stockton, Baltimore, Washington, DC, on the list?
Because they are VERY dangerous, not partially dangerous.
I'm sure everything is just fine over in Japan. This is an over-reaction to a very small amount of radiation that poses no immediate danger to human health.
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps the Brits acknowledge the health danger to all who travel there.
I understand.
That’s like
Somewhat pregnant
Slightly dead
More or less psychopathic
Kind of decapitated
Lightly destroyed
Military Intelligence
Moderate terrorist
Israel should be blinking blood red.
RIPS
Total nonsense! I've been to ten of these countries and never experienced any danger or felt threatened or unsafe in any way. Including countries like Armenia, Kosovo, Russia, or Cambodia in a list of partially unsafe places doesn't make any sense. Go there and see for yourself.
Dont take it the wrong way but visiting a new country and feeling safe may only be a reflection of your own naiveity. In a city like Caracas you only have 1 in 100.000 chance of being murdered on any given day. Pretty safe, yet works out for 50 people a day for a city of 5 million.
Also, your odds increase dramatically by not knowing the local customs, dangerous zones or following your GPS for the shortest route to the beach.
Fuck GE and TEPCO!
RIPS
Oh, I forgot one..
Barely nuked.
Ho Li Fuk Ishima
I've been to Japan several times and I can tell you there no place in Europe as safe as ANY street in ANY city at ANY time in Japan.
Not only that, but it's safer anywhere in Japan compared to walking out of ANY mall in the USA with a pair of Air Jordans under your arm.
True, tne Fuki hting but simply do not go north of Tokyo near that thing. Plus, scientific studies show a week in Beijing smog will kill you 482 times faster then the Fuki radiaiton.
PS: I made the last sentence up.
You made it up, but now it's on the internet so it must be true. I just tweeted it.
You forgot the moderate rebels.
Certainly parts of Fukushima Prefecture are dangerous to visit because of the radiation. (Should clear up in a millennium or so.) But you can't get in anyway, they are clearly marked and the cops will turn you back.
The rest of the country is one of the safest places on Earth.
It is not an over-reaction. Japan, since Fukushima, is full of radiation crazed zombies and giant sea monsters trampling whole cities.
It's even worse. All of their seafood has Gluten!
And dirty panties from vending machines.
"This is an over-reaction to a very small amount of radiation that poses no immediate danger to human health"
And today's keyword is 'immediate'.
List by Value Walk's.
Who are they kidding?
First, where's Brazil on the list?
Second, Georgia and Ecuador alongside Iraq?
C’mon!
More bullshit lists.
ValueWalk took the map from Statistica.
Notice that 'accurate' isn't one of their defining characteristics. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Offcie (FCO) does not have a catagory called 'partially dangerous'. They either have no restrictions, restricted for all but essential travel (full/partial geographical restrictions) and restricted for all travel (full/partial geographical restrictions). There are no restrictions for Japan EXCEPT for the Fukushima exclusion zone, which - by Japanese law - applies to everybody. The FCO only classifies Japan as restricted from all travel in the exclusion zone. The FCO didn't say Japan is 'partially dangerous', they only said there are parts of Japan where you should not travel to. Every country's foreign travel office would say the exact same thing - don't go to Japan to visit the Fukushima exclusion zone because it's against Japanese law. The FCO notes the risk of crime in the entertainment districts of Tokyo for foreign visitors, but has not gone as far as to issue travel restrictions based on that risk. You're just suppose to be aware of them.
The FCO likewise notes the risk to UK travelers of violence, crime and social unrest in Brazil, but has not issued travel restrictions for any part of the country. Thus, Statistica shows the arguably more dangerous Brazil as 'fully safe' vs. Japan 'partially dangerous' becasue of the exclusion zone. It's either a poor understanding of government-speak by Statistica or a ham-handed attempt to fit mislabeled 'statistics' into a simple color-coded chart. But, hey... it works for the Kardashian Krowd and CNN.
Newark?
Israel is partially dangerous? Partially?
No road rage in Japan. Lived there for years, was there this summer, brits know shit.
Ever hear the stories of criminals targeting tourists in Miami.
No mention of Fukishima [Fuk-u-shima] of course.
Well, no big deal, only 3 reactors melted down.
Fret not about how they are still free flowing ocean water into the cores [then back into the Pacific] to prevent them from progressing to the next and utterly catastrophic, stage.
The consensus here on zh is that radioactive cesium 137 flows that apparently will outlive me dont pose a problem to organic tissue or the food chain 'on a long enough time line.'
I dont argue with poly sci and econ majors over such matters anymore. its like asking religious nuts why they dont see a proest or minister when they have cancer if God is there and he listen to prayers from believers.
They actually are unable to grasp the question, so debate is unremitting folly.
In case people forget, Japan had 2 nuclear bombs dropped on them in 1945. They rebuilt. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are safe to live in, a lot safer than Detroit, Newark, or Baltimore.
Easy, Fukushima!
Bingo!
And that radiation is still going non-stop for nearly 5 years now. If it really is Fukushima why they are saying Japan is dangerous then by now or very soon then the entire West Coast of the U.S. as well as the Pacific Ocean will also be labeled as dangerous to be in.
And that shit is never going to stop and will only keep moving further east and building to higher levels by the day from the West Coast to the inland states over time.
When sea life starts beaching itself by the herd it is a subtle indication they have sought to live on the land instead of the water.
Of course they die a slow, terrible death on land.
When I was a kid America was doing open air nuclear bomb testing in Nevada. You could see the flash from the strip in Vegas. The fallout went all the way across the country and off into the Atlantic Ocean.
We built homemade radiation detectors in school fron tinfoil and baby food jars. Strontium 90 was in all cows milk and most mother's milk. We didn't panic. Yes, some people got cancer, but on average, we are outliving our parents.
There are a million things that will kill you before radiation.
Author never heard of Fukishima ?
Only partially radioactive.
Since it was reported that they burned radioactive waste all over Japan after the accident, everywhere is at risk!
Unnecessary to mention actual crime against persons in Japan is virtually nonexistant and the political system in Japan is completely stable, so what is this really all about? It seems the Brits know something about Fukushima they refuse to share with the rest of us serfs.
Thailand? Seriously?
Oh, come on, boys!
maniacal laughter
thailand very dangerous!
can get stds!
can bring home girl only to find out she have man-parts!
courting is the strategy used to determine authenticity of parts. try it sometime.
BARELY Added ? Who would go there and Eat Any of their Food When All they serve isl Fish and most Likely Radio Active~Lord AK
Recently China lifted its ban on importing various food items from Japan! This is my take on this "great" news. China imports radioactive food, processes it/cans it up, and then sells to the world. Think of it as Melamine poisoning, Part II.
My sons on his way there on biz , but he's a ky boy he will be just fine
jelly?
Bourbon
That's just wrong.
radiation....... _____________________________ <----flat line
A woman might get groped in Japan, they got some sick shit there.
An anime woman, maybe. Real ones? Not so much.
And you might get shot shopping for a new pair of sneakers at the mall. They've got their problems, you've got yours. Plus you're overweight or diabetic and in debt...
The above is absolute horseshit.
I am going to Japan in Dec and I hope that I get groped by some of the submissive females.
I'm surpirsed England w/ all those ragheads is not on their own list.
Fear of Japan is probably fed by fact that if you visit Tokyo (to name one megalopolis actually bigger than Triborough area and not some isolated hippie community), you will find out that it is possible to run a nation where streets are clean, public transport is pristine and on time (mostly), people are healthy and respectful, food is cheap/healthy/delicious, housing is cheap, wealth distribution is most equal in the world (it shows, virtually no homeless on streets), crime is low, cars look shiny (actually makes a difference compared to beat-up RAM vans on side walk), shops are open 24/7, and on and on and on. Media coverage abt Japan's deficit is scaremongering to cover up almost perfectly run society. If people of US/EU would see with their own eyes this is possible they would revolt instantly to their own dysfunctional governments. Only issue is you need to speak Japanese, that may actually be secret to keeping destructive Anglo-Sakson (financial) influence and other immigration issues that rest of Western world has to deal with out of the door. This realization is a serious threat to sitting governments which are screwing their own people all around the world.
Japan has homeless. Tepco was using them to clean up their mess. It was a win-win situation. Tepco would get some garbage cleaned up, and so would Japan.
Japanese are pragmatic (US could learn, by making homeless clean up piling garbage bags on streets of NYC for example), every nation has homeless, though number and condition of them tells me how society treats their citizens. In total of 3 months in Tokyo, commuting daily to different locations (Tokyo Central/Shinjuku/Shibuya/Yokohama) I have seen, in total, 1 homeless person who was actually dressed okay (whether that matters). In NYC I encountered smudgy/drunk/smelly homeless people every time I change subway stops, daily. USA, USA, ...
It wasn't the "homeless." It was their untouchable caste that their mafia forced to clean up Fukashima w/o proper protective gear. If you don't know about the Burakumin you don't know anything about Japan.
There is all that, and the glow in the dark populace.
I emigrated from the US to Japan and agree enthusiastically with "MasterOfTheMult...." However, I am happy to see the rumors about Japan being a bad place to visit or live. Dont mind if others stay away.
Any place this wonderful should remain a secret or at least veiled from the masses. Kind of like naming Iceland for ice and Greenland for green to encourage people to bypass the wonderful country of Iceland which is much more pleasant than Greenland. Japan really is a wonderful country. Those who believe rumors and have weak thinking processes can and should stay away. Those who are seriously interested in working hard, minding other's around you, and giving up guns and drugs, should consider Japan. Japan is rather fine without the superior (guns and drugs and in your face F-U attitude) culture that others want to impose upon it, whether as visitors or as permanent residents.
"Kind of like naming Iceland for ice and Greenland for green"
So Japan wasn't named for Japs?
I agree totally! Japan is perhaps one of the best nations on the earth. I am also glad that immigrants there are more willing to blend in unlike USA - where they see it as their duty to segregate.
Bravo to you for leaving USA. We did too and have never looked back.
Yes a stretched spin. China is busy mending its economy (a formidable challenge), it has no time apart from some rhetoric to invest in violence abroad. Besides, it is stupid to do so in a more cohesive Society than themselves as well as Japan no loner matter economically to China.
Immigration to Japan is rising fast, as each time we go we see more and more immigrants running shops, restaurants and businesses. In fact, we know a few (former) Indians who have taken Japanese citizenship and are doing quite well. Naturalization now in Japan is not uncommon.
We lived in USA for 20 years and know what a shit hole it is. And that is one main reason why USA press loves to bash Japan and other non-white countries - they are jealous and racist.
We wanted to immigrate to Japan and had a chance but due to our children's education and language issues chose Singapore. Singapore is also excellent. Most countries are far more desirable than USA, and once Americanos get out of that asylum and see the world with their own eyes they will know that what they are fed with articles such as this clap trap rubbish are just that - RUBBISH!
No Mexico or Honduras or . . .
1. Russia is partially dangerous, and so is Ukraine? Fascinating.
2. When will Germany and Sweden become partially dangerous? Don't they have dangerous Muzzie ghettos?
So, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Honduras are 'fully' safe? BS.
They ARE dangerous Muzzie ghettos.
Partially?
Well, I guess I'll have to lower the wages on my toilet paper smuggling routes into Venezuela, the mules have been lying to me ;-)
May have to drink beer there cold. The horror.
False hysteria! No more exposure to radiation in Japan than we get everyday from WiFi and cell phones! (.)(.)
Glad to hear you are carrying a Geiger counter to feed us with that reassurance.
F yeah, don't you have the Geiger counter app on your Iphone? Sampsong does (I think my phone is a knockoff of Samsung.)
True dat. South Africa is no more dangerous than Aleppo, so quite safe overall.
UK has a deep seated fear of Ninja's.
My advice is to make eye contact and smile wherever you go.
Speaking pidgin Engrish vely vely srowry, almost yelling it, while spitting on the natives also increases galactic love and understanding of gaijin.
Make sure to eat your garlic first.
not a good idea for a woman in some countries
Yeah, not a good idea. The only people that smile in Russia are crazy people and Tourists.
Smiling has different meanings in different cultures. Americans go around grinning like a stoner who just smoked a bongful.
I was in Armenia 2 years ago...the safest place on Earth...that list is partially BS...go walk in Watts being white
if i were a brit i would avoid japan. they hate pasty brits and their uncivilized, hooligan nature. they prey on japanese women, regularly getting busted for looking over the wall at the woman's side at the local onsen and bath house and popping hardons when bathing with naked japanese men.
any american city with a population over 50000 is as dangerous as any third world shithole.
2006 I flew a red eye from SD to Newark for an interview - no sleep. After the interview I checked into the Hilton at Penn Station and crashed and woke up at 10pm. The hotel bar was closed so I walked through the station to the closest bar for a beer and food. I was the only white person there. 1.30am I started to walk back to the hotel on the street and a black cop pulls over next to me, winds the passenger window down and says, "What the fuck do you think you're doing? Are you fucking crazy? Get in the car." I guess he figured Newark was also a partially dangerous area.
We lived in NJ for 20 years. Believe me, Newark is a real nightmare. In fact, most of USA is a hell hole. Japan on the other hand is great. We go there often. Fukushima is overblown in USA press. It is part of their "West is best, White is right" policy I guess.
Iraq is very safe now. In fact safer than Japan.
It seems.
Visit the USA and get shot by the police. No extra charge for the service.
Youtube search....10cc Jamaica.....its a great song I think u will like and it fits the article
Just listened to 10CC's greatest hits two days ago. Fantastic band but maybe a bit too clever for their own good. From the Wall street Shuffle: "Bet you'd sell your mother... You can buy another."
With four nuclear power plants melting down simultaneously and the radiation drifting all over the island as well as constantly leaking in the Pacific poisoning the seafood, I can't imagine why Japan would be given a slightly hazardous status. I always thought everyone loves to eat and breathe in radioactive isotopes? Olympic Games are coming up. Athletes worldwide will be exposed to the radiation. An honorable bow out would be in order. A starved Blue Whale recently washed up on a Oregon beach. Lots of Pacific sea life dying now.
http://www.enenews.com
I saw 2 American tourists taking a walk downtown in broad daylight this summer. Typical rich Americans, she was wearing a large solid gold bracelet and a fancy gold watch. You know real gold when you see it. I should have asked them for some spare change. Damn.
News flash: there is no safe country.
Almost as interesting is who *isn't* on this list: Indonesia, where churches are burned by mobs of angry Islamists, where passenger planes have a significant failure rate of reaching their destination, where embassy and hotel bombings are all too common, and where polluted smog from endless slash-and-burn deforestization fills the air of its neighbors.
Yeah, watch out for those Japanese, what a hotspot of extremist conflict.
Russia is safer than USA
2 points for Putin bootlicker
Look at the game tape, Rachel.
Depends on what parts.
Parts of Honduras, South Africa and Venezuela are absolutely not safe.
living in central tokyo i walk more than take public transit.
the contention that japan is dangerous is quite simply absurd.
Are you carrying a Geiger counter?
I think I know what they mean:
There are no rubbish bins in public places here in Japan.
When I went to work this morning, I slipped on a banana peel and nearly broke my neck!
Sigh. I'm disappointed at these ZH comments. Has no one seen the new Godzilla movie? The British know that since radiation has been leaking into the Pacific it's only a matter of time before some sort of monster comes crawling out to terrorize Japan. This of course always wakes up Godzilla who then destroys most of Tokyo while battling the monster and eventually killing it. The Brits are to be commended for getting out in front of this one and keeping their people safe.
Hmmm... Does godzilla have a thyroid?
Thread winner.
The Brits were once adventurous travelers, now they are just a bunch of pussies.
lucky usa with all of its friendly niggers and muchachos is safe
hey lets visit a safe no go zone in paris!
All places where USSA has an active destablization campaign happening.
+10,000,000.
Overheard at a WW1 trench:
-Sir, is it dangerous to take a peek over the trench?
-Partially.
I'd say that is great news to have Japan listed as "dangerous" : it will keep fearmongering libertarians and other rednecks out of Japan who would ruin it for the rest of us...
Tyler, more bad news about Japan, please.
This is clearly related to the Fukushima Nightmare.
USSA is safe as a house on fire where the local pigs will shoot you dead for an imaginmary traffic violation. Cute!
No way. I'm taking my annual Tejikistan winter vacation and that's aol there is to it.
North Korea is marked as safe and Japan isn't? I think somebody messed up with the Photoshop color fill.
Note that Iraq and Afghanistan are red. Mission accomplished?