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Unknown Facts around the 3/11 Disaster (Des faits inconnus autour de la catastrophe de 3 / 11)
The total cash all the Japanese enterprises have inside reached almost $900 billion.
Probably, they have not many promising investment targets in these years. But, they can invest into the 3/11 Disaster hit northeast Japan. That is why experts in the world do not have a gloom and doom forecast about Japan's recovery efforts.
Yet, the matter is more psychological and spiritual since the 3/11 Disaster includes a great nuclear accident of Fukushima Daiichi.
SECTION I: Lucky Dragon 5
Decades ago, when the U.S. Army was busy testing its nuclear weapons in the South Pacific Ocean, some Japanese ships and fishing industry were hard hit. One of them is a half wooden fishing boat named "Daigo Fukuryu-Maru" (Lucky Dragon 5).
Daigo Fukuryū Maru encountered the fallout from the U.S. Castle Bravo nuclear test on the Bikini Atoll, near the Marshall Islands, on March 1, 1954. The boat, along with its 23 fishermen aboard, as well as their catch of fish, were contaminated. They returned to Yaizu, Japan on March 14. The crew members, suffering from nausea, headache, burns, pains in the eyes, bleeding from the gums, etc., were diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome and admitted to two Tokyo hospitals. On September 23, chief radio operator Mr. Aikichi Kuboyama, 40, died — the first Japanese victim of a hydrogen bomb. He left these words: "I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru
The American Government paid some compensation which was not sufficient to cover damage of the Japanese fishing industry. But, the American Government also paid strong attention to whether this accident would lead the Japanese society to anti-American behaviors while the Cold War was going on with the Soviet Union.
Concurrently, the U.S. was at the time fostering pro-American politicians in the Japanese politics who mostly came to belong to the LDP. What's more, the U.S. started to sell nuclear electricity generation systems to Japan, thus trying to remove anti-American movement linked with Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bomb attacks. The pro-American Japanese politicians started to hoist a phrase "use of atomic energy for peace." Then, they started to allocate national budget for introduction of nuclear power generation technology from the U.S.
In April 1954, the first nuclear development budget was approved in the Japanese parliament (called the Diet). It was Mr. Yashuhiro Nakasone, prime minister of Japan between 1982 and 1987, that pushed this 250 million-yen nuclear energy promotion law into enforcement.
Since then, the Japanese industry imported the American nuclear technology, developed its own systems, and built many nuclear power plants.
But, the start of this industry in Japan was accompanied by the Daigo Fukuryu-Maru tragedy in 1954 as warning.
Maybe it is better to put an end to this industry with the Fukushima Daiichi accident of 2011.
Japan has already enough plutonium to make so many nuclear bombs in case. It is time to change the paradigm, though North Korea, Russia, and China still rely on its nuclear arsenal to expand their influence.
SECTION II: Tohoku University
Tohuku University is located in the city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in the Tohoku Region; accordingly it was somewhat influenced by the M9.0 earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011.
There were 1,500 foreign students in the university, but 1200 left Japan after the 3/11 Disaster in which even the Sendai Airport was covered by seawater of the tsunami and the Sendai Station of the Shinkansen express railway was partially damaged. (Shinkansen express trains that were running through the affected area at the time of the M9.0 earthquake all stopped in safety, without damage to passengers, the train body, and tracks.)
The Tohoku region has many makers, subcontractors, factories and R&D centers of high-tech enterprises of Japan. High quality of parts and components are produced in this region and provided for not only domestic big makers, such as Toyota and Sony, but also makers all over the world.
Tohoku University is the most important research & development infrastructure in the Tohoku region in northeast part of Honsyu Island.
Now, 90% of the foreign students who returned to their home countries in the wake of the 3/11 Disaster has come back to the university. No professors or assistant professors quit their posts in Tohoku University.
The president of the university said in a newspaper interview that scientists and researchers might feel emptiness facing the great disaster that made their study and work look senseless and powerless but they have to make efforts to produce something useful if not so creative.
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/
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It is estimated that as many as 400,000 cars were lost in the 3/11 Disaster of Japan.
Some cars violently washed and carried by the big tsunami caught fire while floating on the seawater and gathering at the foot of hills, expanding damage and casualties among earthquake hit communities.
The more advanced the civilization is, the greater damage it suffers would be.
The more sophisticated a person is, the greater damage he or she suffers would be.
So, being wild might be a key to survival even under a great tornado.
Yet, it would be really hurting a big city is sometimes for good natured citizens and workers, even in the era of Christ Jesus, wouldn't it be?
(Forgotten singers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQt8015t_jU&feature=related)
Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.