Thursday, August 18, 2011

Japan Finds Somalia's Starvation

Western media had been reporting the starvation in east Africa since this spring; nevertheless Japanese media seem to have been ignoring this issue until NHK, Japan's public broadcast company, reported Somalia's crisis on August 18th.
As soon as NHK carried this story, a lot of Japanese Twitter users started to tweet comments like "what can we do for Africa?" or "how can we donate to Africa?"
It is quite fortunate that many of us have a bit of an allowance to help other countries in need, even though some of the regions in Japan are still busy recovering from the recent disaster.

from Tokyo

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Tokyo Endures the Hottest Summer

It has been very hot this summer much more than usual in Tokyo, nevertheless air conditioner's is set 1 or 2 degrees higher than normal here and there including trains and stations. This circumstance forces us to become more patient than most summers.
Tokyo residents are forced to save up to 15% of electricity because of insufficient supply caused by the accident of Fukushima nuclear power station, which used to supply approximately 25% of electricity for Tokyo area. Needless to say it was destroyed by tsunami (also by our Prime Minister's misjudge).
Fortunately, however, the Japanese are naturally very loyal and very patient, hence most of us have succeeded to acquire a lot of skills to save electricity.
Evil politicians, who intended to enhance the public opinion to support nuclear power, appear to have failed. They might have underestimated the perseverance of the Japanese. No matter how severe the circumstances become, the Japanese foster their capacity to persevere such situation.
Some say that aborting nuclear power enhances global warming. It's true that burning fossil fuel produces CO2. However CO2 density of the earth is now minimum in these 600 million years. No matter how much we burn oil and gas, CO2 percentage will change little. It is hard to believe that such a small amount of change can affect global climate.
To begin with, the data which is said to prove global warming were fabricated by the agency of the U.K.. Intelligent people may know that it's just a fallacy which was created to weaken Arabian oil money and to enrich people who earn from nuclear industry or environmental industry.

from Tokyo