Tokyo - Yoyogi Park
(Photos by EEE Reporter as usual)War on Radiation 3
There are some worries in Japan now.
Though the world has shown strong compassion to Japanese victims and evacuees of the 3/11 Disaster, they are turning inquisitive or alarming eyes to the Japanese Government. It is the delayed progress in handling the Fukushima nuclear reactor problem.
South Korea has already claimed that they should have been formally informed of the discharge of contaminated water from a tank in the Fukushima No.1 Plant to the North Pacific Ocean.
Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan asked opposition leader Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki to join the Kan Cabinet and assume the post of the minister in charge of disaster recovery. Lower House member of the LDP Mr. Tanigaki has reportedly turned down the offer.
As Mr. Kan's election district is in Tokyo and local voters do not much support the ruling liberal DPJ, he might not have many instruments and tools to mobilize in the recovery work in northeast prefectures of Honshu Island.
Without the 3/11 Great Earthquake/Tsunami, PM Mr. Kan would have to be by now forced to decide to step down or dissolve the Lower House of the Diet.
It is a very sensible situation, though no political fight now flames up in the Japanese politics. Majority of voters are determined to support the Kan Cabinet till the matter allows the people to take breath.
CHAPTER I: How He Died in the Nuclear Plant
A young worker in his early 20's was found dead almost 20 days after the 3/11 Earthquake/Tsunami of Northeast Japan.
The worker of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation, with one of his co-workers, had been missing since the occurrence of the 3/11 Disaster. The two were unfortunately found dead in the turbine building of the 4th reactor unit in the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant.
Immediately after the great earthquake on March 11, he called his family in his hometown in Aomori Prefecture 400 km north of the Fukushima Plant. He said that he was all right. It seems that he was making a phone call from the Central Control Room of the 4th reactor unit. He also suggested that some electric power supply worked in the plant (as a 14-mete-high deadly tsunami was yet to come). Then with another worker, he went out to check the turbine building only to encounter the great tsunami. The dead bodies of the two could not be confirmed for 20 days as electricity was stopped and all the plant workers were evacuated till an emergency recovery team returned 10 days later.
On the occasion, though in another turbine building, it was found that the floor of the turbine building was covered with contaminated water a feet high so as to damage the foot of recovery team members. And the radiation density in the water was, and is still, 1000 times or so stronger than ordinary water used in the reactor unit. And then it needed another 10 days to confirm and retrieve the dead bodies of the two young engineers of TEPCO in the different turbine building.
At the time the young worker called his home, the family could not use the telephone due to power failure caused by the great earthquake, but they could receive the call from their son. His mother said that she thanked Tokyo Electric Power Company since they gave him a good chance to work as an engineer for three years after his graduation from high school.
(Picture by Aljazeera; Fukushima No.1 Plant too close to the sea)http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/04/20114454422691143.html
CHAPTER II: The Greatest Earthquakes since 1900
No....Region....Date...Magnitude
1...Chile...5/23, 1960...9.5
2...Gulf of Alaska...3/28, 1964...9.2
3...Sumatra...12/26, 2004...9.1
4...Northeast Japan...3/11, 2011...9.0
4...Polustrov Kamchatka...11/5, 1962...9.0
They all happened on the rim of the Pacific Ocean, remarkably.
The only spot left blank is off California.
CHAPTER III: Foreign Victims
At least 19 foreigners from eight nations/regions died in the 3/11 Disaster of Japan.
But, it is estimated that there are more victims of 32 nations yet to be found.
CHAPTER IV: Broken Houses
Fully or severely destroyed houses and buildings have reached 55,000 in the number.
The number of partially destroyed houses and buildings has reached 140,000.
The 3/11 Disaster of Japan is estimated to inflict damages costing $300 billion.
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The Japanese people very much thank President Mr. Barack Obama and USS Ronald Reagan's crew for their great help in relief efforts for Japanese evacuees and in search for bodies of the victims.
So, Mr. Barack Obama has decided to run for the 2012 Presidential Election.
After the drastic decade beginning with the 2001 9/11 Terror and intensified by the 2008 Financial Crisis, the 2012 Election will probably be sailing over calm waters domestically for the U.S. The unemployment is gradually reducing; American consumption is recovering; and new energy can be a timely agenda. So, the incumbent candidate looks advantageous.
But, globally the wind of the Islamic movement for democracy might change its direction, influencing psychology of American voters in their choice of the new American president.
Mat 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Mat 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Mat 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.