9.0 Earthquake Strikes Japan

Oops, sorry, typo. Slip of the toung, I meant something like a 140 km radius, I can't remember the number.

And, yeah, saying something like "it's what they deserve for helping the Germans" is horrible, besides if there are any strong believers about this, I think they got what they 'deserved' when they got nuked...twice.
On a less depressing note.

Nuclear energy powers a lot of Japans energy, Nuclear energy supplies around 30% of the energy Japan uses. Although this is no 54% that the French uses, it's still a good third of their energy that is about to go down the drain with a lot of lives. I am almost certain that I am a bit behind on the news but wasn't yesterdays news saying it was 48 hours away from another Chernobyl? I may be a bit under-stating bit I think this is exaggeration.

The economy is sky rocketing with the currency only going up which will spell disaster for Japan if they don't get outside help. Aspecially considering the position they are in from the credit crunch.
Don't quote me on any of these, it's just from the top of my head when I was watching the news.
 
I don't know If Japan is getting outside help from the United States to help stimulate their economy or not, it'd be a shame If they didn't. Judging from what I've heard the Nuclear Crisis has been averted in Fukushima and currently the Airports in Tokyo is checking for any radiation from the Power Plants.

Looks to me like everything South of Japan (including Tokyo, Osaka, etc) is alright, it's Northern Japan that has taken a huge toll from the Earthquake, Tsunami, and the Nuclear Power Plants exploding. So yeah no worries, Pokemon is still alive, so is the Anime/Manga Industry, as well as their video games.

As for the lack of looting in Japan in the midst of the crisis, thanks goes out to the Yakuza and the Japanese Culture. I guess for once a mafia can have a heart in the midst of a crisis sometimes I guess?
 
Wow, no need to be sillybags Leo33Wii and Sleeping Beauty. You guys are almost worse than Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck in terms of sheer ignorance and insanity. Why don't you guys shut your mouth and know your place for respecting the Japanese people. >_>

Bad enough some guy I know that plays Yu-Gi-Oh! came by while I was playing the Pokemon TCG, and he's like "Did you hear that the Creator of Pokemon died from the Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster last Friday?" and I'm like, "No he didn't." Then he goes, "Yes he did."

I tried to convince him that he was still alive but he wouldn't listen to me, heck everyone knows that it was a hoax created by someone on Twitter, even Ken Sugimori himself from Game Freak of Japan CONFIRMED that he was still alive as well as everyone who works for Game Freak in Japan. Tajiri also has his own page on Facebook and he posted on there that he is alive and well, If you still don't believe me check Anime News Network.

The guy that came up to me did hear that someone who worked for Pokemon died and it was actually the Head Writer of the original Anime Series of Pokemon named Takeshi Shudo but it wasn't due to the Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster on March 11, 2011 but due to a subarchnoid hemorrhage that occured 6 months ago. It wasn't Tajiri himself, If it was Water Pokemon Master and Serebii.net would've already posted the news of it by now.
 
Well, I heard off the news that radiation has seeped into farms near the reactors, blah what a terrible time they're in :/
 
Radiation doesn't seep. Radiation is a ray of ionized particles (just like light). Light doesn't seep either, does it? Radiation can beam, not seep.
 
It's very good to hear that the Nuclear Power Plants have been stabilized in Fukushima, Japan. The main concern right now is contamination of food and tap water from the radiation coming from the power plants.

I say we need to donate fresh and clean food and water to Japan as a relief effort. It's a good idea as we've already donated enough money to them to get back on their feet again.
 
Card Slinger J: I doubt that the earthquake and tsunami will have a huge impact on the manga/anime/video game industry economically. However, I have heard rumors of possibly censoring or limiting the appearances of disaster themed media; especially earthquakes and tsunami.

Japan will have a hard time coming back to where it was from this though. Its economy is already in recession and the population is currently going through a sharp decline. Less and less couples are considering having kids and even more people are focusing more so on jobs and their careers and less on finding a relationship. In fact, the death rate is higher then the birth rate for most of Japan. Not to mention, most laws and legislature is focused on protecting and sheltering the elderly. I can see the earthquake and tsunami having a more profound effect on this instead of the anime/manga industry.

As well, it's silly to suggest that a country can not have access to nuclear power. I am anti-nuclear and this past incident further cemented my viewpoint on it. However, I think it's silly to suggest that Japan should of gone non-nuclear while the rest of the world is still using nuclear power. Again, this a rumor, but I heard Japan has plans to build several new nuclear facilities; one of which will be in the same prefecture that I live in.

Anyways, I too am glad to see the situation is lessening. What Japan needs to focus on now is to begin the reconstruction effort of the Tohoku region including identifying the dead as well as continuing assisting and helping the victims of this tragedy in any way possible.

I have donated some of my paycheck and sent some supplies up north. I have tried to go there myself but my boss literally said "No", even if I took holiday time. I guess the government has issued a statement within Japan requesting professional aid instead of volunteer-based aid.
 
The way I see this, its the beginning of the 2012 theory. Some think it will start on December 21, 2012, but it will end on 2012. The tectonic plates are screwing up them selves and will kill us all. Volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis may be the source of 2012. Of course, this is just an idea and may be completely wrong
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This is utter nonsense. The tectonic plates are doing nothing that is abnormal at all. Actually, the fact that we are having earthquakes shows that they're behaving 100% normally. You're not a geologist, so don't start to predict the end of the world via tectonic plates, because I can assure you, any good geologist out there would tell you you're dead wrong.
 
LostVoice said:
As well, it's silly to suggest that a country can not have access to nuclear power. I am anti-nuclear and this past incident further cemented my viewpoint on it. However, I think it's silly to suggest that Japan should of gone non-nuclear while the rest of the world is still using nuclear power. Again, this a rumor, but I heard Japan has plans to build several new nuclear facilities; one of which will be in the same prefecture that I live in.
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You misunderstood me, I was only suggesting an alternative energy source over nuclear power. It's something that other countries around the world especially the United States and France should consider. By still using nuclear power in Japan that is still considered tempting fate as it did on 3/11.

Why build Nuclear Power Plants in areas that are prone to Natural Disasters and Earthquakes? That's almost like putting a bunch of Nuclear Power Plant's in the state of Florida in the U.S. only to get hit by a hurricane later on when all heck breaks loose, look what happened with Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico where it caused gas prices to be as high as it is today.

Then there was the BP Oil Spill, when are people going to learn from their mistakes or much rather correct them in the near future? We can't keep putting people's lives at risk over energy sources that have negative consequences especially in locations that doesn't seem ideal for it.
 
Japan uses nuclear energy primarily because it just doesn't have the resources to make any other system practical, or economical for that matter. Oceanic East Asia I would imagine is almost completely devoid of oil, and though Japan is heavily invested in other sources of energy (primarily solar/thermal/hydro/etc., it's fairly diverse), none of them match the consistency of nuclear energy, where a 24/7 unwavering, reliable source is nearly a necessity for survival, considering how densely urbanized/modernized Japan has become in the past few decades, as opposed to less-developed areas of the world where people aren't so reliant on such an enormous industrial/technological infrastructure to maintain domestic stability or quality of life (apparently nuclear energy comprises over a third of Japan's electrical energy sources, a far cry from even five years ago). Japan is in an unfortunate position because of that; throughout its modern history its economy has been hampered largely by the fact that it can't produce valuable exports like energy, because it just doesn't have the resources (most famously it had a desperate need of iron/steel going so far back as the Meiji Restoration; not to mention the world oil crisis in '73 was largely a factor in the awful inflation the country has today because, something that could've been avoided had Japan found and used petroleum domestically). So the usage of nuclear power plants is largely an unfortunate side-effect of its geography, there's nothing incredibly helpful they could've done to avoid it in the short term, though this nuclear crisis may spark greater investment into other energies in the future –– not just for Japan, but especially for the globe, considering how France and the U.S. reacted to this scenario for example.

Some relevant links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
 
It seems like things are getting back to normal in Japan, as normal as it gets anyway despite numerous cancellations especially those that effect our community for Pokemon here in America and other countries. For the areas that didn't get hit as bad such as Tokyo, Osaka, and the Southern region of Japan everything is fine from what I hear.

Their Nuclear Crisis is improving and it will take a few weeks to put in new cooling systems. I still don't think Japan should be relying anymore on Nuclear Energy but it doesn't seem like they have much of a choice
as Gary Walsh pointed out. No energy source on Earth is foolproof as most have their benefits but also their consequences as well.
 
I hope you guys realize that even with the near nuclear disaster Japan had, nuclear energy is STILL infinitely better, and safer, and cleaner than most other viable options.
 
carlitos, what are you saying?! thousands of people are dead/dying and all u can think about is states?!

like brokenice says,

~Chill
 
Dude we a fully aware of what's going on in Japan, why can't we enjoy ourselves even though Japan is suffering? It's not like we're heartless scumbags. We are already doing so much in their relief efforts as it is, it's not like we are going to go on hiatus and give up on our anti-drug of playing Pokemon.

Just because we continue playing doesn't mean that we don't care...
 
Card Slinger J said:
LostVoice said:
As well, it's silly to suggest that a country can not have access to nuclear power. I am anti-nuclear and this past incident further cemented my viewpoint on it. However, I think it's silly to suggest that Japan should of gone non-nuclear while the rest of the world is still using nuclear power. Again, this a rumor, but I heard Japan has plans to build several new nuclear facilities; one of which will be in the same prefecture that I live in.
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You misunderstood me, I was only suggesting an alternative energy source over nuclear power. It's something that other countries around the world especially the United States and France should consider. By still using nuclear power in Japan that is still considered tempting fate as it did on 3/11.

Why build Nuclear Power Plants in areas that are prone to Natural Disasters and Earthquakes? That's almost like putting a bunch of Nuclear Power Plant's in the state of Florida in the U.S. only to get hit by a hurricane later on when all heck breaks loose, look what happened with Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico where it caused gas prices to be as high as it is today.

Then there was the BP Oil Spill, when are people going to learn from their mistakes or much rather correct them in the near future? We can't keep putting people's lives at risk over energy sources that have negative consequences especially in locations that doesn't seem ideal for it.
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The smart choice would be to halt nuclear energy production in Japan but I doubt it will happen. Japan is already pretty anti-nuclear. It just seems odd to me (not saying that you said this. This comes from other comments/thoughts I have read) that Japan shouldn't of had nuclear power in the first place. I wasn't attacking your rhetoric or anything.

DarkraiK.O: who were you addressing that to? You should lighten up.

It seems for the most part, the nuclear scare is over. It is still a threat but a newspaper I said quoted a man in saying the thread is mostly over; now starts the clean up process.

In another note, two American English teachers, who were apart of my program, are among the dead. Granted, there are tens of thousands Japanese dead but it still hurts the program when its employees dies. The girl was confirmed via news (Yahoo, Cnn, etc). The other is not confirmed via news outlets but I received a email from the California consulate. So while it has yet to be fully confirmed, I'll take it as truth.
 
I overheard on the News that there was a Breach in one of the Nuclear Power Plants at Fukushima that got messed up, so I take it they aren't out of the woods just yet are they? :/
 
The smart choice would be to halt nuclear energy production in Japan but I doubt it will happen.
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And what dare I ask would the replace it with? Wind and solar power are not viable as of now, and coal and oil should never be considered an option due to the atrocious amount of pollution they cause. Nuclear energy seems their best bet. One very rare natural disaster causing power plant failure should be no reason for them to stop using them.
 
DarthPika said:
The smart choice would be to halt nuclear energy production in Japan but I doubt it will happen.
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And what dare I ask would the replace it with? Wind and solar power are not viable as of now, and coal and oil should never be considered an option due to the atrocious amount of pollution they cause. Nuclear energy seems their best bet. One very rare natural disaster causing power plant failure should be no reason for them to stop using them.
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As of right now, there aren't any viable energy sources to compete with nuclear energy. That being said, nuclear energy is a very dangerous double-edged sword energy source that, IMO, should be halted not just in Japan but world wide.

But of course, this will never happen since we lack the technology and means to discover a alternate energy source that is as efficient and reliable as nuclear energy. Also note that not once did I blame or even suggest that Japan should be blamed for this nuclear accident. Not have I ever suggested that Japan shouldn't have access to nuclear energy.

As of right now, nuclear energy is our best bet but I hope this nuclear accident will open the eyes of the scientific community and lawmakers in trying to discover a alternate power source.
 
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