Tokyo officials paying for bloggers to come to Japan and show it's safe -

needs a bump

And this
We have been in a heap of trouble since March 17th of 2011, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between. Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever since. Cesium-137 at the Fukushima Daiichi site is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl. The most preliminary reports of soil contamination are starting to come in from the USGS, who has been reluctant to share this information. Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado, so far have the highest radioactive particle contamination out of the entire US. Every single city tested across the country showed contamination from Fukushima. What is even more alarming about the numbers coming in, is that they are from samples taken April 5th, of last year.

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karma pin sheep wtf is going on !!!!

Doom on my birthday.

It's safe enough in Tokyo. I was there in March for two weeks. It was my first visit there since the quake last year and you see subtle signs of the changes since that quake but for the most part it seemed no different than my prior visit.

I spoke to many there and while there is concern about more quakes for the most part folks I spoke with didn't seem too concerned about Fukushima and felt the situation there was under control. Matter of fact, they seemed somewhat amused about all my questions and said folks here are somewhat over-hyping the situation. I dunno where the truth lies, but I hope the country makes it through these tough times as they really are wonderful people there.

your gonads didn't shrink to the size of raisins?

They're breeding more "Atom-Boys" !

You do realize the Bad Stuff.. is not hanging in a purple mist that you can see .. like some friggin people I know.

When the bloggers end up with nosebleeds and their hair starts falling out......

...they will wise up REAL FAST.


You can't cover this kind of disaster up.....just ask the Russians.

Its the perfect ploy... By the time the radiation kills them, no one will make the correlation.

Its the perfect ploy... By the time the radiation kills them, no one will make the correlation.


And in the meantime, captain silent-but-deadly will stay just that while all these sheep see all the pretty sights.

So unethical it makes my blood boil!!!

It is so sad how naive most people are.

It is interesting that you seem to take their obliviousness as a reliable indicator of safety....

Not sure what to say about that...

Some people seem to expect the affected people to glow or something, or for bodybags to already be lining the streets

shrug, people don't think things through very well. It's unfortunate that as a result, industries like this can get away with slow murder.

"Tokyo officials paying for bloggers to come to Japan and show it's safe"

Is it worth your life?

More realistically, he/she has been feeling a little flu-y and tired lately, but "it's totally unrelated."

Especially if it's a young female... they're the most at risk.

If they throw in Reon Kadena and Meisa Kuroki for a night I might consider it.

well if this dumbass says its safe...

didnt u bugout to alaska?

warmer than normal?

CP due for an invite...?

Ping Pong, Ping Pong, Ping Pong

You are the Winner of a new Mitsubishi Toaster!

The Flight New York-Tokyo-New York
is giving you the same Dosis like 85 Days here in Tokyo!

You cant cover this up, young Padawans.

Sorry, cosmic radiation is not the same as fallout. It does not get lodged in your lungs. It does not bioaccumulate in your food and get lodged in your thyroid, heart, bones, etc. Fission products are very dangerous. We have not evolved to handle them in our environment on the surface of the earth.

Comparing airplane radiation to fallout is a spectacularly weak argument. You say you protested after Chernobyl? With an argument like that? Oh yeah, I bet you did.

Ofcourse it is safe for now!

Radiation is a slow process to cook up.

..was Japan ever a big tourist destination?...

I think it did ok.
Tokyo was this exciting, ultra-modern seeming city (very expensive though), and everyone wanted to try authentic Japanese sushi (which would now be about the worst thing you could do if you went there). Fukushima was likewise famous for its peaches, which you wouldn't want to try now. (Except maybe Atom-Boy...lots of peaches for him at discount rates I'm sure.)

I find they're a very artistic people and I hope many will relocate elsewhere and preserve their culture.

atom-boy

wonkish

Wow. You would think they would be able to find plenty of shills in the world's largest metropolitan area.

Let me be the first to wish you..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (early) for
2013...
The Japanese are just trying to get it right...
They learned from US.

But most people in Tokyo do not speak English.

And they did...the government has already spent quite a lot of money on that, actually. That's not even includign private corporations like TEPCO doing their own PR and so on.

But don't forget, their primary target is Japanese people. Yes, they are rightly worried about tourism and exports, but their whole country can easily be thrown into turmoil if population wakes up. Already, the population has demanded that every nuclear plant stay offline...right now there is no nuclear power in Japan!

Imagine if they insisted on ZERO radiological contamination in their food and water! As if it was their basic right not to eat TEPCO's nuclear waste or something! Well, it would be a nightmare for the national government...

So, you see, inside resources are mostly directed toward that. And then , English-speaking Japanese would probably be directed at trying to keep businesses invested in Japan, not individual people... (And they haven't been very successful with that...businessmen are experts in BS so they can smell it pretty fast). Plus, the fact that Obama, Harper and Cameron have all agreed to help sweep this under the carpet (not to threaten their own nuclear industries, which they each siphon from), means less of the Japanese national government's efforts need to be put out there for us anglophones.

Anyway, sure, there's a few English-speaking shills from Japan targeting us "Joe Blow"s, but it would be so much easier to get naive English speakers suckered in by showing them good hospitality and filling their minds with misleading half-truths, then sending them off to propagate their message, in the the hippest, most viral way...

It's all a pretty savvy PR plan...

Unfortunately this is because they're terrified that people will discover that behind the PR curtain, virtually nothing is being done about the current level of contamination across Japan or about stabilizing the wreckages at Fukushima Dai-ichi, as they are continually bombarded by earthquake after earthquake.

i need a vacay and a Geiger counter and some walking around money...