“There is no need to participate in WBC” - Japanese media tycoon

Yomiuri group's top executive Tsuneo Watanabe

   Japanese biggest newspaper company Yomiuri’s president Tsuneo Watanabe hinted at defaulting 2013 World Baseball Classic.

   While the negotiation on the amount of the earnings shared between Japanese baseball association and the MLB and other US promoters remains at a deadlock, the Japanese media tycoon criticized the US baseball circle as “imperialistic”.

  Watanabe called for a get-tough approach and said: “there is no need to deal with the counterpart if they have any compromise. We should not make an offer to split the difference right from the beginning.”

   The MLB and US promoters refuse firmly a request from Japan to offer part of sponsorship deals and distributorship of items for the event.

Korean soccer club made an apology for the larky banner issue

Korea’s Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Football Club apologized to Japanese citizens on a statement released on its website one day after the troubled banner reading; “We celebrate Japanese earthquake hit” was displayed during the match with Japan’s Cerezo Osaka in South Korea.

   The statement said: “'We extend our sincere apology to Japanese people and football fans”. And it also revealed the team is now identifying who exactly conducted the act through CCTV footage
   Japan’s major broadcaster Fuji TV reported the team staff said they were considering a request for police investigation and a criminal complaint against people who were responsible for the act.
   South Korean media also criticized this act as “disgraced the whole nation”.

Korean supporters: Happy with quake and tsunami hit in Japan

   Japanese soccer player Ryuji Bando said with his regretful look: “felt very pathetic rather than regrettable” when he answered a question from media reporters having waited at the airport for the Cerezo Osaka team members, which played yesterday for AFC Champions league in South Korea.   

   The Cerezo Osaka’s striker did not comment on the match result but on Korean supporters’ harsh message for Japanese citizens and people worldwide sympathized with massive earthquakes and its aftermath of tsunamis hit on March.

   The supporters showed up the banner written in Japanese: “congratulate on the major earthquake”.

FujiTV captured the banner - "we celebrate Japan's quake damage"

    The message – they are very happy with the unmitigated earthquake and tsunami attack being hit in the northeastern Japan and killed more than 15,000 people – was seen during the soccer match.

   South Korean government and major media have given no response to this event so far.

                                                                              

  

                                                            
                     
                                   
                                                                                

Japanese celebrity's brave acts facing the reality

Japanese actor Taro Yamamoto is now facing the reality just after he protested against the government's optimistic reaction to radioactive exposure to children.

He revealed he was forced to pay a price for his brave acts as his management staffer gave him an email message that he lost his offered TV drama appearance.

Mr Yamamoto has ever joined demonstrations against anti-nuclear power generation and the authority's decision to set the yearly safety standard for children's radioactive exposure at 20 millisieverts.

"In Chernobyl accident, the peripheral residents were forced to evacuate if they were assumed to receive 5-millisievert radiation a year. But, the question is, the Education Ministry considers it as 'no problem' to expose children to 20-millisievert radioactivity. I can say it's murder. The answer is the government tries to sacrifice those children to save compensation for their evacuation", he remarked earlier.

Japanese entertainment news provider Cinema Today interviewed with Mr Yamamoto and he told the reporter that he knew power companies were one of the biggest media sponsors and took circumstances into account.

His supporters reacted to the revelation with strong anger at the sudden cancellation from the TV station and drama producer and sympathized with Yamamoto's hardships.

Despite his request to the supporters to refrain from radical action for the TV producers, Mr Yamamoto replies to their encouragement, saying, "Let's stop the destruction of Japan and break with nuclear power generation. Your strong sense of justice certainly allows us to realize the children's evacuation from radiation threat and removal from the 20-millisievert safety standard."

Voluntary Restraint Election Battle

While attention is still drawn to the terrible natural disasters and radiation threats, Japanese citizens go to the poll on Sunday to choose the local government leaders and representatives in the non-affected areas, including Tokyo gubernatorial election and other megalopolitan mayoral elections, several days after candidates' fierce battle with hesitant or inconspicuous campaign blitz in wake of a “voluntary restraint mood”.

The devastating earthquakes and tsunamis representing "divine punishment" for egoistic Japanese people and current society, incumbent Tokyo metropolitan Governor Shintaro Ishihara said just after the natural disasters were found to occur. But　reportedly, he keeps the edge on the Tokyo governor's race ahead of other candidates so far. He gained strong supports from most of the swing voters in each past election. But this time his earlier remark tainted more or less his popularity.

The Fukushima crisis has major impacts on the debate among election runners. In Hokkaido, Fukui, and other areas that have nuclear power plants, a clear decision and compromising attitude towards a desirable future of nuclear power plants will be certain to lead the election results.

Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has a nuclear power plant operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. During the local competition for governor, both incumbent and rival candidates were pledging the stronger safety measures and drastic overhaul of the nuclear power plant, the local newspaper Saga Shinbun reports.

The election results will live broadcast on special TV and radio programming on Sunday evening.

Decommissioning of reactors

TEPCO executive chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (left) and the vice-president Sakae Mutoh (right)

Tokyo Electric executive chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata revealed it was supposed to decommission the crippled first – fourth reactors in its Fukushima nuclear power plant, which is still plagued by a disaterous level of nuclear radiation despite the successive efforts to cool them down and resuscitate function of and power supply to their operation rooms.       
“There still remains a serious challenge of draining the highly radiated water swamped in the reactor buildings”, Katsumata said, showing their difficulties to break the deadlock. “The government offers us several possible suggestions to the solution, including the possibility of carry the water by tanker. I think it’s a difficult option to take, but I will take any possible solutions into consideration.”
During the two-hour press conference Wednesday afternoon, the electric firm managers have been bearing the brunt of a storm of harsh questions by reporters and journalists.
Mr Katsumata stressed there was no procrastination about countermeasures against the incidents, adding there occurred malfunction of the communication system that cut the connection to the Cabinet Office, when a journalist asked the chairman whether the initial reaction for the nuclear power plants found inoperative was delayed.
However, a little tumultuous moment came just after the chairman revealed he traveled in China with the top brass in the national media companies, whose travel expenses were partly treated by TEPCO’s account, while the headquarters was dealing with the accidents from the crippled reactors hit hard by the tsunamis.
Just after the news released that TEPCO’s president Masataka Shimizu, who had ever led its operation team, was hospitalized because he suddenly complained of dizziness and high blood pressure disease, the chairman Katsumata represented the press conference with other Tokyo Electric executives.

ATTENTION

The daily rolling blackout schedule for each TOKYO and TOHOKU electric power company's service area is offered at Google Crisis Response website.

The First Group

GROUP  A

TOCHIGI
Sakura  Ohdawara  NasuKarasuyama  NasuShiobara 
(Nasu-gun)Nakagawa  (Nasu-gun)Nasu Yaita  Oyama 
(Haga-gun)Masuko  (Haga-gun)Ichigai  (Haga-gun)Haga 
(Haga-gun)Mogi  Utsunomiya  Mo'oka  Tochigi 
Shimotsuke  (Shioya-gun)Takanesawa 
(Kawachi-gun)Kamimikawa


GROUP  B

GUNMA
Midori  Isesaki  Kiryu  (Sawa-gun)Tamamura  Maebashi 
Shibukawa  (Tone-gun)Showa


GROUP  C

SAITAMA
Saitama-Nishi-ku  Fujimino  Syama  Shigi  Tokorozawa 
Niiza  Kawagoe  Asaka  (Iruma-gun)Miyoshi  Iruma  Fujimi 
Wakoh  (Chihibu-gun)Minano  (Chichibu-gun)Ogano 
Chichibu  (Ohsato-gun)Yorii  (Chichibu-gun)HigashiChichibu 
(Chichibu-gun)Yokose  (Hiki-gun)Ogawa  (Hiki-gun)Tokigawa 

TOKYO
Tama-area  HigashiMurayama  Mitaka  Kodaira  Kiyose 
NishiTokyo  HigashiKurume  Musashino


GROUP  D

CHIBA
(Awa-gun)Kyonan  Kamogawa  Tateyama  Kimitsu  Ichihara 
Yuzugaura  (Chohsei-gun)Chohnan  Chohsei-gun)Nagara 
MinamiBohsoh  Futtsu  Mohara  Kiasarazu  Yotsukaido 
Isumi  Sakura  (Sanbu-gun)Oh'amiShirasato  Chiba-Inage-ku 
Chiba-Midori-ku  Chiba-Hanamikawa-ku  Chiba-Wadaba-ku 
Chiba-Chuoh-ku  Chiba-Mihamaku  Funabashi 
(Chohsei-gun)Ichimiya  (Chohsei-gun)Chohsei  (Chohsei-gun)Chirako 
(Chohsei-gun)Mutsusawa  Tohgane  Yachimata  Yachiyo 
Kamagaya  Shirai


GROUP  E

KANAGAWA
Yokosuka  Yokohama-Isogo-ku  Yokohama-Sakae-ku 
Yokohama-Kanazawa-ku  Yokohama-Minatominami-ku 
Kamakura  Zushi  Fujisawa  Kawasaki-Kawasaki-ku 
(Aikoh-gun)Aikawa  (Aikoh-gun)Kiyoyaka  Ayase 
Isehara  Ebina  Chigasaki  Atsugi  (Kohza-gun)Samukawa 
Zama  Sagamihara-Chuoh-ku  Sagamihara-Minami-ku 
Yamato  Hiratsuka  Yokohama-Totsuka-ku  Yokohama-Izumi-ku 

SHIZUOKA
Gotenba  (Sunto-gun)Oyama

The Second Group

GROUP  A

TOCHIGI
(Shimotsuga-gun)Iwafune  (Shimotsuga-gun)Nogi 
Kanuma  Oyama  Tochigi


GROUP   B

SAITAMA
Sayama  Sakato  Kawagoe  Tsurugashima  Hidaka 
(Iruma-gun)Ogose  (Iruma-gun)Moroyama  Iruma  Hannoh 
(Hiki-gun)Tokigawa  Ha'nyu  Okegawa  Kazoh  kuki 
Kumagaya  Satte  Gyoda  Koh'nosu  Ageo  Kitamoto 
Saitama-Urawa-ku  Saitama-Iwatsuki-ku  Saitama-Minami-ku 
Saitama-Midori-ku  Koshigaya  Kasukabe  Kagaguchi 
(MinamiSaitama-gun)Miyashiro  (MinamiSaitama-gun)Shiraoka 
(KitaKatsushika-Gun)Sugito  Saitama-Ohmiya-ku 
Saitama-Chuoh-ku  Yoshikawa  Misatao  Sohka 
(KitaKatushika-gun)Matsubushi  Warabi


GROUP  C

CHIBA
Sakura  Narashino  Yachiyo  Ichiakwa  Matsudo  Funabashi 
Chiba-Hanamigawa-ku  Chiba-Wakaba-ku  Chiba-Mihama-ku


GROUP  D

TOKYO
Tama-area  Inagi  Komae  Mitaka  Koganei  Tama  Chohfu 
Fuchu  Musashino  Hino  Hachiohji  Akishima  Tachikawa  Machida 

KANAGAWA
Sagamihara-Chuoh-ku  Sagamihara-Midori-ku 
Kawasaki-Asao-ku  Chigasaki  (Kohza-gun)Samukara
Hiratsuka  Yokohama-Asahi-ku  Yokohama-Seya-ku 
Yokohama-Izumi-ku  Yokohama-Tsuzuki-ku 
Yokohama-Midori-ku  Ebina  Yamato


GROUP  E

YAMANASHI
Kohfu  (NishiYashiro-gun)IchikawaMisato  Chuoh 
Suita  MinamiAlps  (MinamKoma-gun)Fujikawa

SHIZUOKA
Mishima  Gotenba  Susono  Sunto-gunChosen 
Numazu  Atami  (Tagata-gun)Kannami 
(Sunto-gun)Shimizu

The Third Group

GROUP  A

TOCHIGI
Utsunomiya  (Shioya-gun)Shioya  (ShimoTsuga-gun)Mibu
Shimotsuke  Kanuma  (KamiTsuga-gun)Saiho  Tochigi  Nikko 
(ShimoTsuga-gun)Iwafune  (Kawachi-gun)KamiMikawa  Sano 
Oyama  Maoka  Ashikaga


GROUP  B

SAITAMA
Shigi  Niiza  Asaka  Wakoh  Saitama-Urawa-ku 
Saitama-Iwatsuki-ku  Saitama-Minuma-ku 
Saitama-Ohmiya-ku  Saitama-Chuo-ku Saitama-Kita-ku 
Saitama-Midori-ku  Kasukabe  (KitaKatsushika-gun)Sugito 
Saitama-Sakura-ku  Saitama-Nishi-ku  Hanyu  Okegawa 
Gyoda  Kohnosu  Ageo  (KitaAdachi-gun)Ina  Kitamoto 
Kumagaya  (Kodama-gun)Kamisato  (Kodama-gun)Kamikawa 
(Kodama-gun)Misato  Fukaya  (Ohsato-gun)Yorii 
HigashiMatuyama  (Hiki-gun)Namekawa  (Hiki-gun)Yoshimi 
(Hiki-gun)Ogawa  (Hiki-gun)Arashiyama  Honjyo  Iruma 
Hannoh  Tokorozawa

GUNMA
Isesaki  Ohta  (Oura-gun)Oh'izumi

TOKYO
Tama  Akiruno  Hamura  Akishima  (NishiTama-gun)Okutama 
(Nishitama-gun)Mizuho  (Nishitama-gun)Hinode  (Nishitama-gun)Hinohara 
Oume  Hachiohji  MusashiMurayama  Fussa  Kokubunji  Kunitachi 
Mitaka  Koganei  Kodaira  NishiTokyo  Chofu  HigashiMurayama 
HigashiYamato  Fuchu  Musashino  Tachikawa  Kiyose  HigashiKurume

YAMANASHI
(KitaTsuru-gun)Kosuge  (KitaTsuru-gun)Tanabayama


GROUP  C

CHIBA
Inzai  (Inba-gun)Shisui  Sakura  (Sanbu-gun)Shibayama  Narita 
Yachimata  Tomisato


GROUP  D

KANAGAWA
Kawasaki-Saiwai-ku  Kawasaki-Nakahara-ku 
Yokohama-MinatoKita-ku  Yokohama-Tsurumi 
Odawara  Hatano  (AshigaraShimo-gun)Yugawara 
(AshigaraKami-gun)Matsuda  MinamiAshigara  Yokosuka 
Kamakura  (Miura-gun)Hayama  Miura  Zushi 
Yokohama-Sakae-ku  Yokohama-Totsuka-ku 
Yokohama-MinatoMinami-ku

SHIZUOKA
Atami


GROUP  E

YAMANASHI
Nirasaki  Hokuto

SHIZUOKA
Numazu  Mishima  (Sunto-gun)Shimizu  (Sunto-gun)Chohsen

The Fourth Group

GROUP  A

TOCHIGI
(ShimoTsuga-gun)Iwafune  Sano  Ashikaga  Tochigi

GUNMA
Tatebayashi  (Oura-gun)Chiyoda  (Oura-gun)Itakura  (Oura-gun)Meiwa 
(Oura-gun)Oura  (Oura-gun)Oh'izumi  Midori  Isesaki  Kiryu  Ohta


GROUP  B

SAITAMA
Kawaguchi  Souka  Yashio  Saitama-Urawa-ku  Saitama-Sakura-ku 
Saitama-Nishi-ku  Toda  Saitama-Iwatsuki  Okegawa  Kazoh Kuki 
Satte  Ageo  (MinamiSaitama-gun)Miyashiro  (MinamiSaitama-gun)Shiraoka 
(KitaAdachi-gun)Ina  Hasuda  Warabi  Saitama-Midori-ku  Hatogaya 
Fujimino  Kumagaya  Kohnosu  Sakado  Fukaya  Kawagoe 
(Ohsato-gun)Yorii  (Chichibu-gun)Minano  (Chichibu-gun)Chohsei 
Tsurugashima  HigashiMatsuyama  Hidaka  (Iruma-gun)Ogose 
(Iruma-gun)Moroyama  (Hiki-gun)Tokigawa  (Hiki-gun)Namekawa 
(Hiki-gun)Yoshimi  (Hiki-gun)Ogawa  (Hiki-gun)Kawashima 
(Hiki-gun)Hatoyama  (Hiki-gun)Arashiyama  Fujimi


GROUP  C

TOKYO
Tama-area  Kunitachi  Akishima  Hino  Hachiohji  Tachikawa


GROUP  D

KANAGAWA
Aikoh-gunKiyokawa  Isehara  Ebina  Atsugi  Zama 
Sagamihara-Chuoh-ku  Sagamihara-Minami-ku 
Sagamihara-Midori-ku  (Aikoh-gun)Aikawa 
Yokohama-Tsurumi-ku  Kawasaki-Saiwai-ku 
Kawasaki-Kawasaki-ku  Kawasaki-Nakahara-ku 
Kawasaki-Takatsu-ku  Odawara  Hatano 
(AshigaraShimo-gun)Hakone  (AshigaraKami-gun)Kaisei 
(AshigaraKami-gun)Yamakita  (AshigaraKami-gun)Matsuda  
(AshigaraKami-gun)Oh'i  (AshigaraKami-gun)Nakai 
MinamiAshigara

TOKYO
Tama-area  Machida  Inagi

SHIZUOKA
(Sunto-gun)Oyama


GROUP  E

YAMANASHI
Kohshu  Kai  Kohfu  Yamanashi  (NishiYashiro-gun)IchikawaMisato  Chuo 
(NakaKoma-gun)Showa  Suita  MinamiAlps

The Fifth Group

GROUP  A

TOCHIGIUtsunomiya  Nikko  Yaita  (Shioya-gun)Shioya  Sakura  NasuKarasuyama  Ohdawara 
(Nasu-gun)Nakagawa  (Haga-gun)Ichigai  (Haga-gun)Mogi  (Kawachi-gun)KamiMikawa
(Shioya-gun)Takanezawa  Kanuma


GROUP  B

GUNMAIsesaki  (Agatuma-gun)Kusatsu  (Agatsuma-gun)Nakanojyo 
(Agatsuma-gun)Naganohara  (Agatsuma-gun)Tsuagoi  Takasaki 
(Sawa-gun)Tamamura  Shibukawa  Maebashi  Annnaka 
(Kanra-gun)Shimonita  (Kanra-gun)Kanra  (Kanra-gun)MinamiMakimura 
(Tano-gun)Kanna  Fujioka  Tomioka

SAITAMA(Kodama-gun)Kamisato  (Kodama-gun)Kamikawa  Fukaya 
Chichibu  Honjyo  Misato  Souka  Hashio  Kumagaya  Gyoda 
Koshigaya  Kawaguchi  (Kodama-gun)Misato

TOKYOArakawa-ku  Adachi-ku

GROUP  C

CHIBAAbiko  Kamagaya  Matsudo  Kashiwa  Noda  Nagareyama 
Funabashi  Urayasu  Ichikawa

GROUP  D

KANAGAWAHiratsuka  (Naka-gun)Oh'iso  (Naka-gun)Ninomiya  Isehara 
Chigasaki  Atsugi  Hatano  Ebina  (Kohza-gun)Samukawa 
Yokohama-Aoba-ku  Yokohama-Tsuzuki-ku  Kawasaki-Miyamae-ku 
Kawasaki-Takatsu-ku  (Aiko-gun)Aikawa  Sagamihara-Chuo-ku 
Sagamihara-Minami-ku  Sagamihara-Midori-ku Yokohama-Isogo-ku 
Yokohama-Sakae-ku  Yokohama-Totsuka-ku 
Yokohama-MinatoMinami-ku  Yokohama-Izumi-ku 
Yokohama-Minami-ku  Kamakura  Fujisawa 
(Aiko-gun)Kiyokawa  Zama

TOKYOTama-area  Machida

YAMANASHIUenohara  (MinamiTsuru-gun)Dohshi


GROUP  E

YAMANASHIKohshu  Yamanashi  Ohtsuki  Tsuru  (MinamiTsuru-gun)Yamanakako 
(MinamiTsuru-gun)Nishikatsura  (MinamiTsuru-gun)Oshino 
(MinamiTsuru-gun)FujiKawaguchiko  (MinamiTsuru-gun)Narusawa 
FujiYoshida  (KitaTsuru-gun)Kosuge  (NishiYashiro-gun)IchikawaMisato 
(MinamiKoma-gun)Minobe  (MinamiKoma-gun)Nanbu 
(MinamiKoma-gun)Fujikawa  Uenhara

SHIZUOKAItoh  Izunokuni  Izu  Shimoda  (Kamo-gun)Kawazu  (Kamo-gun)Matsuzaki 
(Kamo-gun)NishiIzu  (Kamo-gun)HigashiIzu  (Kamo-gun)MinamiIzu 
Mishima  Numazu  (Tagata-gun)Kannami  Atami  Fujinomiya  Fuji

Carefully watch the media coverage, even despite their unwillingness to follow "Yellow Journalism"

  After the revelation of radiation leakage from the nuclear reactors, crippled by the tsunami hits, at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electronic Power Co., the more attention of media and people were shifting to radioactive contamination of agricultural products produced and harvested in the peripheral areas from the troubled plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Northeastern Japan, as well as ones to human health.

  Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on March 21st the government had confirmed the fact spinach and milk found to have been contaminated with radiation, stressing the intake will do very little damage to the human body. The World Health Organization on the same day also announced the radiated food was safe enough to eat and drink at that moment.

  However, the two news media reported the story with precisely opposite interpretation. AFP wrote as the WTO’s earlier statement put it.

(http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110321/hl_afp/japanquakeaccidentnuclearfoodwho_20110321154307)

Meanwhile, Reuters’ reported it from extremely negative perspectives, quoting the WTO’s spokesman Peter Cordingley’s comments in a phone interview.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72K4B520110321)

  I asked the organization which was right or wrong by email. The reply said the WTO considered the radiation contaminated food had no influence on the human body in the short-term future in reference with reference to the current information, attaching a URL at CNN’s website.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72K4B520110321)

This teaches you the fact there is no exception as many say: we need to double-check the media coverage. The more complex, confused and shocking situation was caused by the biggest earthquakes and tsunamis in history that hit as hard across Japan as led to the 20,000 or above missing or dead and paralyzed its capital function and business center in the metropolitan Tokyo business district, the more cautious you have to become about how the media cover stories on these events.

To be a savior of Japan - Three Hyper Rescue members speak out their hardship in the water spray operation

Members of Hyper Rescue squad held a press conference earlier to explain how hard it was to fight "an invisible enemy".
40 members of the Hyper Rescue squad of Tokyo Fire Department early on Saturday joined the successive water spray mission to weaken radiation level of the crippled 3rd reactor at Fukushima No1 nuclear power plant.
Their efforts were they came closer to the reactor and injected water into the temporary storage pool for spent nuclear fuel at a distance of 50km.
There were so much rubble scattered around the site that their vehecles couldn't run through and they had to extend seven 50-meter hoses manually at great cost of intensified radiation exposure, they revealed.
General Captain Yukio Takayama said, "The strong support from our teammates could lead to success in the mission".
The mission was an extremely tough duty. But they were confident they could achieve the goal to a certain degree with a fulfilling sense of relief, they said .
Division Chief Yasuo Sato revealed when he emailed to his wife the message "I leave for the site", she replied to him with one passage, "I hope you will be the savior of the nation".
Captain Toyohiko Tomioka told reporters on the verge of tears that all the rescue team members did their best, maintaining high morale.
And "I'd like to deeply apologize for exposing the team to such a danger and extend my appreciation to their family", he added.

TEPCO's Fukushima office released the photo of the reactors, NHK broadcast

                                The 3rd reactor building (on the left) and the 4th (on the right) of Fukushima
                                No1 nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. released    Courtesy: NHK 

The picture taken on 15th presents the devastating building of the 3rd reactor with the frames exposed after the explosion by inner saturated hydrogen. And the hole of the 4th reactor building (the center of the right building) can been found. The white smoke on the left of the pic is now drawing international attentions.

HISTORY PROVES IT!

Aftershocks still afflicting evacuees near the epicenter throughout the day, many of them are still fighting hunger, thirst, chill and fear and facing the reality that they lost their loved ones.
Facing inconvenience due to electric power outage and poorer access to fuel and food, citizens in and around the Tokyo metropolitan district are sharing difficulties with other quake casualties and struggling to regain their normal life.
Praying for the victims and thinking over what they can for them, people unaffected by the disruptive event are inspiring themselves and aspiring to join forces with rescue efforts for the victims and restruction efforts for their mother country. 
All the Japanese are all now battling.
And they are confident their never-give-up attitude and never-say-die spirits will lead them to winning the battle, because their history has proved it to be absolutely right!