Buon giorno!
The primary purpose of this blog is to provide information on Japan to the people outside of Japan, especially after the disaster up north on 2011/3/11.
Since late March or April, one Facebook community page that give daily updates on radiation levels in Tokyo is getting a lot of same questions from tourists and businesspeople. Looks like people who leave comments frequently are getting sick of answering this repeatedly asked question:
"Is Tokyo (if not, other cities beside Fukushima prefecture) safe?"
If your question is about radiation levels, the answer is YES, it's safe.
Details will be posted in the meantime. Well, the biggest reason is this: Fukushima prefecture is a part of Japan, but Japan is NOT Fukushima.
Other than specific updates, I might just jot down some of my crap that's in my mind, though I'm not sure if people out in the world want to read those, including what I've been thinking in the past two months.
As a citizen of Japan, I'm really thankful for all the international aids and donations for Tohoku (Northeast Japan), whatever political reasons are behind them. And as one concerned Japanese, I'm sick of inhuman and sluggish action of TEPCO and the Japanese government. At the same time, I understand the hardworking workers and engineers (including TEPCO employees) at the nuclear plant is doing their best to contain and secure the damaged reactors.
You might find some posts written in Japanese despite the fact the blog was primarily for people outside Japan. If you can read both languages, great. If not, just ignore it. Those will be related to national issues--pretty unnecessary for tourists. Furthermore, there are plenty of informative English language website on the web and Google Translate does a pretty good job at converting between English, French, German, Spanish, and other Latin-based languages (but not Japanese).
Hope you'll stick around. Ciao!
Glad you started this. I am wondering whether this article is correct: http://www.slate.com/id/2291272/pagenum/all/#p2 (P.S. I'm in U.S.--not Japan--right now but following this topic because of family in Ibaraki)
ReplyDeleteI'm following you! *grin* I'm looking forward to checking out Frank's posts.
ReplyDeleteSteven, the article you point to is correct in what it says.
Steven, that article was discussed on TRL Facebook page. Scroll down to April 19th and you get pretty much what you wanted to hear.
ReplyDeleteJill, thanks. I love your sense of humor.
Thanks for your answers. Appreciate the effort to convert messy Facebook information/discussions into usable format. An American friend of mine may do a study on risk perception from radiation-related (food) contamination in Japan. If it happens would you be willing or able to do (compensated) translation work?
ReplyDeleteSteven, excuse me for my late reply. If your friend is looking for an excellent interpreter, s/he should look for another person. If s/he doesn't mind, can you send the details to shaliangtj [a] gmail.com?
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