Japan Earthquake

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ah, nothing happened to the reactors ? wewww, good news :)
by Edano 10/10/2011 10:21:04 AM

damn. today's news round: ............................................. nothing !
by Edano 10/10/2011 10:44:39 AM

@Edano nope I only found the pipe cutting exercise on their site
by elainekirk 10/10/2011 10:45:22 AM

Health and Sports Day (体育の日, Taiiku no Hi?) Second Monday of October This national holiday was established in 1966 as a day on which to enjoy sports and cultivate a healthy mind and body. Originally held on October 10 to commemorate the anniversary of the opening ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, in 2000 it was changed to the second Monday of October in accordance with the Happy Monday System. en.wikipedia.org
by Edano 10/10/2011 10:48:48 AM

oh yes, it's really an official holiday. www.japanspecialist.co.uk
by Edano 10/10/2011 10:50:48 AM

@elainekirk that's a cool idea. they put changing holidays on mondays, so they cannot be weekend. very cool.
by Edano 10/10/2011 10:53:54 AM

i hope sir bob gets the literature nobel prize some day. i think the peace one he got already.
by Edano 10/10/2011 11:09:47 AM

@Edano I hope that means Monday? Or health and fitness day?
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 11:40:57 AM

Sounds like a good day to get the piles of links I have done into article or cataloged.
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 11:43:53 AM

Whilst Japanese children have to play in a radioactive environment European children are now banned from blowing up balloons and if under 14 yrs old cannot be given party whistles www.telegraph.co.uk
by elainekirk 10/10/2011 12:08:48 PM

Has anyone confirmed this story fukushima-diary.com that Mext "admitted that they have made a 'mistake' on the report about fall out in Fukushima"? I hate reports like that on fringe sites that give no confirmatory reference to their claim. It also bothers me how many folks just accept such unsupported reports prima facie. It does include an official looking document of radionuclide levels, but even that isn't sourced. It might as well be Delirium Network News sourced to a delirious dream.
by Ian 10/10/2011 12:12:48 PM

@Ian I have seen unsupported statements on that site. Sometimes there is an extenuating circumstance why there isn't documentation. I have seen a few where there was no reason for not having a source of proof. Have you asked them?
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 12:17:28 PM

@Elaine, they put a lead testing law into effect here a few years ago but the way it was worded would have made anyone selling second hand toys or craft made toys or clothing have to test the item before they could sell it. It would have effectively killed the charity shops and places that sell second hand baby gear. It also would have ended a large portion of the craft industry. They eventually amended the law.
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 12:21:58 PM

@lillymunster, I posted a query, asking for where Mext admitted such. Will be interesting to see if it gets approved. I've also seen other content on that site that imo downgrades the reliability of independent Fukushima reportage.
by Ian 10/10/2011 12:27:29 PM

@Ian the site was originally authored by someone in the area in Japan. They moved the site to another country after the original author had issues with the govt. or was worried about their rumor laws. I dont know to what extent he is currently involved in the site.
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 12:37:21 PM

The next report I clicked on that sited fukushima-diary.com is also totally unsourced. It attributes its claim to a "university staff teaching engineering." The author seems to have no idea how journalism is done.
by Ian 10/10/2011 12:38:35 PM

@elainekirk, I'm getting a "The requested URL /... is too large to process"
by Ian 10/10/2011 12:39:30 PM

@Ian try from here radioactivity.mext.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/10/2011 12:42:49 PM

@lillymunster, so for someone who was accused of spreading rumos, they show no sign of trying to verify that they're not. Is it really true that there are rumor laws in Japan that are shutting down journalism?
by Ian 10/10/2011 12:43:22 PM

@elainekirk, does one of the documents there have Mext saying they were wrong and radiation levels in the rain were actually 10x higher?
by Ian 10/10/2011 12:47:40 PM

@Ian the underlined figures are the altered ones 'I have to go out but there will be an explanation somewhere
by elainekirk 10/10/2011 12:49:43 PM

@elainekirk, possibly the claim can be verified, but at best the author does a good job of reducing facts to rumors.
by Ian 10/10/2011 1:03:55 PM

@Ian I have noticed lots of that kind of behavior from various people reporting on the issues around Fukushima. They don't understand concepts of journalism or what are considered good practices for blogging or social media reporting. I think it comes from this being some people's first time trying to report on something.

There is a person reporting on the issues with abandoned pets in the evac zone. They keep reporting rather scary sounding things but couldn't elaborate how they came upon this knowledge. It would usually be "someone who knows told me". I tried explaining and helping to get them to understand they need to back up statements better than "i said so". That they can protect someone's anonymity and still provide some sort of documentation.
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 1:09:28 PM

Hi@all, hi Ian, re rumor laws in Japan.
"The government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality."
www.examiner.com
by Liz 10/10/2011 1:22:52 PM

@Elaine, not sure if you saw this last night about Sellafield www.independent.co.uk
by lillymunster 10/10/2011 1:26:20 PM

Good morning good people! @lillymunster, I uploaded the June report of GoJ to IAEA to scribd. The update is protected, :( www.scribd.com
by Peter 10/10/2011 1:35:35 PM