2011/03/23

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.

2011/03/20

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.

2011/03/16

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.

2011/03/15

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!