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Tokyoite experience unprecedented level of snowing from early this morning, causing more than 600 people to be carried into hospital due to the slipping pavements. As the European big chill damaged the region recently, now that Tokyo is suffering from the cold.   You might also like this post : http://thetokyoeye.blogspot.com/2012/02/another-set-of-photos-of-european-big.html Via: http://www.youtube.com/user/toshi9982911?feature=watch

Greater Tokyo Area dwarfs London Source(s): http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/tokyo-vs-england

Resembling a web formed extensively across Japan, the country's train-networks become world's great models, especially those in Asia. More than a half-century down the line since the age trains largely became widespread across the nation, some started to view such mandatory scenes in which grand-mass of people are rushing to get in trains to avoid being late as art-forms; while others find passions in what we can see through train-windows. The video uploaded on YouTube, called "XIAO GE ER" allows you to experience a dream-like train travel from Tokyo to sea-side areas via the video taken through train-windows. You also might like this: http://thetokyoeye.blogspot.com/2012/01/japanese-pop-cultures-manga-based.html Source(s): http://blog.mellowmonk.com/

South African government announced officially to abandon bidding for the Olympic Games 2020 due to the fact that the nation have to invest its all energy to poverty programs. Even though South Africa's current president, Zuma, already stated to give up holding another worldwide event than World-Cup games, which South Africa held in 2010, in May, secretary of sports's constant approach once changed Zuma's mindset. South Africa, however, gave up the bidding for the games again. For the future Olympic games, Tokyo, Madrid, Rome and Istanbul are bidding. According to a Olympic specialist, Madrid and Rome announced their candidacies from the same continent, Europe, so Tokyo still has some chances to win the competition despite the fact that Tokyo suffers from the harmful rumors rooted in the Fukushima nuclear disasters. Should Tokyo join the competition although there are a number of areas within the nation in need of financial aids? Source(s): http://news.goo.ne.jp/top...

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants being melt down, Fukushima citizens have suffered from unending harmful rumors across the nation. Recently, a number of Fukushima-registered cars' windows were broken, or sprayed "Go Home" continuously.  The victims ask Twitter users to re-tweet the cases in Japanese.  For this issue, Japanese Net-users posted: "Parking area is not a dream world." "Micky-Mouse did." "That's false." "Tokyoite did" Source(s): http://tabisuke.arukikata.co.jp/ds/r/203/r/20012/r/20283/6/DomesticSpot/4106/p/1/ http://read2ch.com/r/news/1313508145/

Hirobumi Ito On August 16th, Kiyoshi Ueda, Saitama's current prefectural governor stated that Saitama must not choose history text books that is heavily colored with traditional Japanese "anti-self-sentiment" mindsets, rooted in the Japanese Empire's wars of invasion against other Asian nations. He especially laid stress on the assassination of Hirobumi Ito, the first Japan's prime minister who was gunned down in Korea, that at least Saitama must choose text-books that doesn't hark back his assassination. Since Japan-South Korea relationship worsened than ever before due to various problems, including disputed islands, historical awareness, anti-K-POP-movements in Japan, and more, Ueda's statement may cause ripples not only on Japan, but also South Korea. "Japanese must be proud of themselves and their history," said strongly Ueda at the end of his press conference. Source(s): http://fxya.blog129.fc2.com/blog-entry-1528.html http://read2...

At 13:45, August 8, Japan's Radiation-Defense Project Team uncovered nuclear radiation level in the Upper House Member's Hall. A Greater-Tokyo's Map Greater-Tokyo's Radiation Level. Ibaraki: 210,000 Bq/m2 Tokyo: 240,000 Bq/m2 Chiba: 450,000 Bq/m2 Saitama: 920,000 Bq/m2 Reference: Chernobyl's Districts. The First District: 1,480,000 Bq/m2: No Trespassing. The Second District: 555,000 Bq/m2；Residents obligatorily move to other areas while the area is not allowed to be utilized as farmlands. The Third District: 185,000 Bq/m2; Heavily-polluted area. The Forth District: 37,000 Bq/m2; the district to block people from inessential pollution. Since March 11 in when the greatest earthquake and tsunami ever attacked Japan, the circumstance around the nation has worsened than ever before, including tax increase by financial deterioration, corporate downsizing, economic stagnation and cooped-up feelings. Not only does Japan rack with ...

Filipino and Japanese diplomatic source uncovered the fact that president Aquino and Murad Ibrahim , the head of Molo Islamic LIberation Front (MILF), an anti-government armed group, had dialogue in a hotel in Narita city, Japan for the first time. The dialogue lasted for an hour or two. They agreed to enter into peace talks while the Japanese government brokered the dialogue. Source(s): http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819499E2E7E2E3EA8DE2E7E2EAE0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2?n_cid=DSGGL001 http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/pfwsw085/3349544.html

On August 1st, 10,000sVr of radiation was measured in-between air-stack of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor building and Daini nuclear reactor building. Immediately after the detection of the radiation, the government sealed off the area. That result was unprecedentedly risky more than ever. Since the day tsunami took everything from the affected town and cities, the area within 20-kilometer radius of the plant has become mystery; nobody knows what is truly happening there. The Diet failed to swipe skeptical thoughts of people in general about the nuclear disaster due to the fact that they lately announced the true situation of the power-plants: melt-down of the reactor building and so forth. The current situation around Japan is big challenges: reconstruction of the affected areas, nuclear disasters, Yen appreciation, strained relations with China and South Korea, American financial disaster, and more. While the situation of the area...

Almost daily, Japanese media has covered Chinese bullet-train's accident in which more than approximately 300 people lost their lives, and claim against Chinese  Communist Party's cover-up operations which they try to decrease the number of the victims. While Japanese media enjoy the neighbor's sorrow, they refuse even to comment on a Japanese actor, Tarou Yamamoto (山本太郎） , who resigned his entertainment agency after the tsunami disaster in March to start his own anti-nuclear-power-plants activity. "What the Japanese government is doing is nothing other than giving up their own future," said Yamamoto in his speech in Ryukoku University (龍谷大学 ), Kyoto . Travelling around Japan, especially affected prefectures, he tries to let general people know what is truly happening in his home country as well as be the incentive to let them think of what they can do to reconstruct Japan without depending on nuclear powers. On the Internet, such as YouTube or his own Tw...

The largest earthquake and tsunami occurred in Tohoku area, Japan is still fresh in our minds; though an American system predicting quake-occurrences newly set Bousou peninsula (blue-colored are in the picture) locating in the south-east of Tokyo as the riskiest area of a massive quake-hit. According to the system, another earthquake could occur in the period between July 23 to August 2. As a prediction of the possible quake-attack, a cluster of bugs suddenly appeared in the Sky of Bousou Peninsula a couple of weeks ago; the news was spread on the Internet in an eye's blink. "This is a bulletin on the end of the world," posted a Japanese Net-user jokingly. If the predicted earthquake truly occurs, destroying the heart of Japan, Tokyo, the nation will loose its engine to sustain its economy, politics and so forth.  Source(s) http://hamusoku.com/archives/5400105.html http://hamusoku.com/archives/5353603.html

On May 13th, 2011, Tokyo Electronic Power Co, inc (TEPCO) admitted the fact that the nuclear-power plants numbered one to three are melt down; and this fact should have been common sense in the Japanese government as well as the company. If this fact had been uncovered earlier, people in Japan would have experienced a great panic ever before, causing economical and political disorder in the nation. A couple of days down the line, none of Japanese media report the news as a lead story; instead of that, their focus is on a suicide of a Japanese talent who took her life at the age of 24. Some of the specialists mentioned the fact that the situation of Fukushima could be worsened than that of Chernobyl. Some Japanese Net-uses jokingly posted a comment, reading "well, we just need to wait for a few MILLIONS of years to wait for the attenuation of the nuclear materials. As you can see on the world map, compared with the size of former Soviet Union in national territory, it obvious...

With the fact that the last major earthquake happened in the 11th, Japanese media call it as the "3/11," comparing with "9/11," and Japanese media reported the current status of tsunami-wrecked areas as dramatic as possible. Such over-earnest media circus went toward termination as days have advanced. Almost a couple of weeks down the line, the eastern-half of Japan is experiencing minor tremors of the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake, the Japanese government has failed integrating all incoming and outgoing information of damages being wrecked in the major quake, tsunamis and nuclear leakage in Fukushima, preventing the public to erase a skepticism toward the Diet. During a week after the quake, all Japanese televisions stopped broadcasting their regular programs; from a following week, however, they started their regulars - comedians behave as if nothing happened - all at once as though distracting audiences from realities in the face of hazardous nature of the radiologi...

A couple of drops of tear flowing down her cheeks, an old lady who survived the M9.0-earthquake in Tohoku, Japan second-guessed herself whether she should get alive or not in the situation in which she has nowhere to home, according to Nihon Television. Four days later, aftershocks of the major quake are still going on, making those who live in shelters nervous all the time. Not only did the quakes and tsunamis kill thousands of people, but want of medical sustenances have caused hundreds of death in shelters, especially those who need dialysis. For the quake-hit areas situates on northern-half of the planet, the cold temperature with snowing jeopardize the survives' lives as if to add insult to their injuries. Even worse, people in and around Tokyo - those who didn't get as worse damages as in Tohoku - tend to stock up a number of foods as emptying store-shelfs, leading the Japanese government to practice an announcement that not to stock them up in oder to save enough foo...

The 9.0-magnitude earthquake - the largest quake ever in Japan and fifth biggest in the world record that occurred on March 11th - wrecked enormous damages to Eastern-half of Japan, especially coastlines of Tohoku (North-East) area. As time advances, all the aspects of the damage wrecked by the quake, tsunamis and explosion of nuclear-power-plant have become uncovered. Originally, Tokyo announced the sum-total death is about 1,700, however, it surpassed ten-thousands. A day after the earthquake, tsunamis spread up in half; one of them rushed to coastal lines of Miyagi as well as swept away a whole town, destroying everything in its path, while the other half traveled across the pacific ocean, take a man's life who took pictures on Californian shore. Not only have tsunamis destroyed the areas; they sank the coastal lines under the sea water, causing the quake-hit areas unlivable. The catastrophe swept whole population of the citizens. A land-locked prefecture, like Iwate, has a...

Just after the earthquake centered in North-East part of Japan, tsunamis became the biggest threat to destroy not only maritime areas, but also inland areas. A whole village was sweat away by a tsunami, and hundreds of bodies were cast ashore on a riverbank. Not only are natural disasters capable enough to destroy people's everyday lives, man-made disasters applied destructive damage on especially those live in urban areas; soon after the first-shock stopped, people rushed to convenience-stores, super-markets and the like to get foods as much as possible. It had not taken much time until all food to be disappeared from those stores. Since Japanese self-sufficient ratio is less than forty-percent, it will need time to import another set of food from foreign countries. What if such powerful earthquake strike Tokyo? Above anything else, we need to eat, and such essential part is the Japan's failure. At least, Japanese government must make ready for the potential food shortage.

Along with the rest of the world, the advent of the Internet in Japan ignited Japanese's pent-up feeling to burst into the public, and it let us know the collapse of interpersonal relations. Unlike the previous days, in when the media outlets represented by televisions, newspapers and radios, had one-way communications to the public, people today enjoy to have their own media as having accounts in Facebook, You Tube, Blogger, and the rest of them to let Net users know who they are as well as share what they like with even people halfway around the earth. As with the positive aspects of the Internet, negative aspects are worldwide recognition; one of them is verbal abuses behind the barrier of anonymity. Most of such has the ring of denying people's integrity as human-beings, and it provokes another cycle of grudges on the line without showing any compassion. The abusive languages Japanese use is something nobody can imagine from general aspects of Japanese who often use poli...

Unlike the United States as well as West as a whole, discrimination in Japan runs deeper than it seems; however, people in general are ignorant about such discrimination going on in the nation due to the fact that Japanese media and the government has closed their eyes on the situations the weak has faced with. Since the beginning of the modern era, in which Age of Geographical Discovery has been begun, discrimination is mainly enacted based on races or ethnicities, and such took clear shape as tragedies, especially in and around the Western world; at the same time, such clear distinctions based on skin colors let people being ignorant about personalities each individual had. Those distinction provoking mass genocides and deep sorrow, however, has become less represented than it had been as time advances. Ultimately, with the birth of the first Black American president on the world's only super power dictated the advent of the new age, which is a result of efforts African America...

Does Tokyo need another cloud burster? Tokyo Sky Tree, which locates on Sumida-ku, Tokyo and is as known as the new Tokyo tower, is planed to open in spring 2012 with height of 634 meters (2,080ft). Contrary to a popular myth built up by older generations, the presence of the new tower allows us to have a glimpse into the deep-rooted Japanese thought built up by the dramatic postwar rise to catapult their nation into the second economic power in the world for a half century in the hope of the return of the Japanese glory days. Since 1958, the first Tokyo Tower locating on Minato-ku, Tokyo, which has height of 332.5 meters (820ft) had been the tallest construction in Japan before the Tokyo Sky Tree surpassed the height of it as well as roles as a broadcaster of the media outlets, including TVs and radios; and what's more the first tower represents and symbolizes the economic growth and the economic power of Japan after the end of the World War II. Across the ages, Tokyo Tower, h...