Published: November 7th, 2011 at 4:59 pm ET
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Nov. 5 – “Princess Aiko, 9, the daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, was diagnosed with mycoplasmal pneumonia after being hospitalized for fever and coughing, the Imperial Household Agency said Friday,” reports Kyodo.
“When the princess will be discharged from the University of Tokyo Hospital has yet to be decided, although her fever has gone down and her symptoms are now stable.”
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Published: November 7th, 2011 at 4:59 pm ET
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Nine….she is nine and seemingly left wide open to exposure with no chance of escape. Walking into my living room and watching my nine year old step daughter watch the flinstones made me cry, how can anyone do this to a child, who would want to take the smile from a child’s face?
I guess when a nation becomes a technology/manufacturing giant and one of the worlds biggest exporters it is OK to treat your people like pewp? Looking back was it worth the trade?
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Those that are ignorant, or those that are evil.
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But, Akio, is serving Japan. What higher honor could be bestowed on someone than to serve their country?
Isn’t that what you’ve been told? That’s what I was told in America.
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Aiko, sorry.
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Yes, she will be married to somebody with a noble ancestry, thereby keeping the bloodline of the nobles ‘pure’. That is also ‘serving the country’.
Japanese princesses marrying foreigners or those not in their level is still an anathema. The only two instances of Japanese princesses (not ‘real’ princesses, but daughters of the Emperor’s relatives) occurred during earlier 20th century, when they were married to crown princes of the defunct Korean kingdom and the puppet state of Manchukuo respectively. They are the only Japanese ‘princesses’ marrying foreigners, ever.
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Radiation poisoning starts with the weakest individuals in society developing symptoms of suppressed immune systems. These cases will become far more widespread as the weeks roll on.
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“Radiation poisoning starts with the weakest individuals”…
Yay me, I would probably be one of the first ones to go.
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No mention of Hisahito, the Imperial heir, at all.
In fact not too many mention of him since the quake.
Wake me up when they talk about Hisahito.
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Prince Hisahito Marks Passage From Infancy to Childhood
Report By Sonjapearl on Nov-3-11
nice family picture
“At the Akasaka imperial estate Thursday, Japan’s future emperor took part in the Chakko-no-gi ceremony which marked his transition from infancy to childhood.
Prince Hisahito, who turned 5 years old last month, dressed in traditional Japanese attire as he went through the ancient ceremony. During the Chakko-no-gi, prayers are offered for good health and growth while the participant is dressed in a kosode (short-sleeved silk jacket) and hakama (culottes).
His parents – Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko – and his two older sisters, Princesses Mako and Kako, were present for the event.”
http://www.zimbio.com/Princess+Kiko/articles/1qODHLEySBn/Prince+Hisahito+Marks+Passage+Infancy+Childhood
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Well, apparently Hisahito is also getting radiation then…
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mycoplasma is the most common form of pneumonia of those over 18yrs, second most common in children up to 18yrs.
when people start getting conditions associated with a compromised immune system, then its worry time.
granted, the radiation is surely hurting their immunity, but mycoplasma is pretty typical.
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thank U for clarification on mycoplasma, the word sort of adds to the entire pneumonia thing in a bad way.
Even though it is typical do you think an increase in occurrence could be an indicator of something else?
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yes, i do.
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Mycoplasmal pneumonia is really bad stuff. There is no definitive cure for it. I had it 2 years ago. She will be dealing with the residual effects from it for more than a year. Once she has recovered from the acute infection it is important that she get in lots of cardiovascular exercise every day breathing in clean air. Even then it may still take her a year to recover.
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My wife is an RN and she echos the sentiment that mycoplasmal pneumonia is not good.
Time to say goodbye to Japan Imperial family! I wish you could take the rest of the people with you when you go. If I was governor of Texas I would invite you all to come here…you didn’t ask for this horror.
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Send all the children away from there and their families !
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Soon xdrfox will be saying this about the children of the West Coast. All that needs to happen is:
X – Building 4 falls
Y – One of the reactors hits ground water and explodes into a nuclear bomb the likes of what Chernobyl was going to do before the Russians stopped it.
Z – Enenews hits 20+ articles a day, over half of them of prominent people getting very bad sicknesses in Japan.
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I found myself with a sense of dejavu reading the developing fuxunews even though I had not dared to create any predictions – not having the foundation knowledge to start with even though having more than a familiarity with the details of nuclear physics.
Well, we did say there were going to be cases of illness from this calamity, and here they come.
I don’t want to think about the future, but we are here as witnesses and that is a kind of duty in the absence, abdication, of responsibility of those who should be managing the public response.
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Folks, World Wars just around the corner now.
….Radiation is inevitable around the world now.
…Add in Countries financial bankruptcies and you have the ingredients for Nuclear Wars.
Nowhere to go and hide so just buy a year or two’s worth of Orville Redenbacker “Low Fat” Popcorn….cause you dont want abuse your body with “junk food”.
Party like tis 1999
red red wine
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Better have a generator for the microwave, cause when the missiles start flying in the middle east they will have to frack Oklahoma to death to get enough oil and gas for the power plants.
Wait till those little frackers grease up the Madras fault and you can watch the Mississippi run backwards…
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“”Wait till those little frackers grease up the Madras fault and you can watch the Mississippi run backwards”"
,,, very kool
and wait till that fracking heats up Yellowstone’s Caldren…mooohaaahhhaaaa
THE BIG KABOOMSKY
Party like its 1999
red red wine
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Hey, anyone remember this from July?
‘Japan’s Crown Prince and Princess Taking Their 9-Year-Old Daughter to High-Radiation Summer Retreat’
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/japans-crown-prince-and-princess-taking.html
Also, the Imperial family gets their food from a farm in a highly-radioactive part of Tochigi prefecture. See here (red circle):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SQNMVTL5Emk/TinAEPw7S5I/AAAAAAAAB4k/R3NL09Xr2aw/s1600/Hayakawamap.JPG
Is her current pneumonia sickness just a coincidence? Or did that trip and continuously eating radioactive food from Tochigi weaken her immune system? Or perhaps her lungs now have hot particles in them. Maybe we’ll never know…
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>Hey, anyone remember this from July?
Yes…
>Is her current pneumonia sickness just a coincidence?
No..
>Or did that trip and continuously eating radioactive food from Tochigi weaken her immune system? Or perhaps her lungs now have hot particles in them.
Bingo…the Pharaoh’s first-born….
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thanks digilert i was looking for similar info…nice find
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Good stuff
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Oh no! That is just too sad! A hapless child sacrificed in a Canute-like gesture of defiance on the alter of Pride and Greed.
Please Japan, ask the World for Help. Please! Please!
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Thanks for the great map, Digilert.
I happen to love maps, and I believe that map is amazing how it shows how the radiation essentially follows the wind and is blocked by the terrain, often settling in the lower ground, rarely breaching the mountains, except when it does crest mountain tops and settle on the other side. It will be grotesquely interesting to see if the radiation spreads west from Kitikata to Nigata.
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Imperial Family has been to Nasu in Tochigi pref for rest, which radiation level is quite high. My friends on Twitter were warning about that… At this moment, Nasu is not the place for rest but for exposure. Why government didn’t recommend them to go to Kyoto for rest?
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hi anne tokyo
thats where the imperial organic farm is…..i can understand the older members of the family standing with the people but confused that the same principle would apply to the young prince…he means so much to so many that he should be protected better i feel… but i would also like to see 300,000 children with their fanmilies relocated from the affected parts of fukushima too!! most depressing news, even for a republican!! hope he gets to see the dalai lama!
peace
http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/shisetsu/goyotei.html
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Hi arclight and Digilert, what you are writing is exactly right. Government is using them for a propaganda. If Imperial family moves, temporarily or long-term, people may worry about Tokyo. I saw a boy in Fukushima said earlier, he wishes to have another big explosion in Fukushima, then people might tell kids in Fukushima to run away. So sad.
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Don’t have to hope for another explosion. Just look at the image at 1min. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8GAL_XcVI RUN!
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how can that be a Milky video? There is not one single confused looking cat or the ever present “BS” button. Other than none of the funny surprises great video by Mr. Gundersen no matter how frightening some of the facts are.
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Hello AnnT,
We will continue to pray for you all in japan.
Hopefully, those who can help others leave the country will begin to do so starting with your sacred families and children. The soonest they can do so is best.
Many more healing prayers from here in Colorado.
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All of you are so nice, thanks for your consideration for a boy in Fukushima. Government has a budget to buy 10,000 tickets for non-Japanese tourists to visit Japan to write about trip in Japan, but no single coin to save kids from exposure.
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Where is Obama’s humanitarian bone ???
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in our collective *****
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Agreed.
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“a boy in Fukushima…wishes to have another big explosion in Fukushima, then people might tell kids in Fukushima to run away.”
Profoundly disturbing. I hope that boy knows that he’s been heard, and knows that more and more people in his global village are listening. At least that.
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Hi Ann. I think the Japanese Imperial family was under pressure to act as if things were ‘normal’ as usual, regardless of high radiation levels. If they had changed their plans, perhaps it would have caused an ‘image problem’ with the common people.
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As ever, “face”.
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” I saw a boy in Fukushima said earlier, he wishes to have another big explosion in Fukushima, then people might tell kids in Fukushima to run away. So sad.”
wow anne that hit me on a profound level… was going to reply in some meaningful way…but you took the wind out of my sails there! thanks for posting that powerful observation
Domo arigato!
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Radiation effects, doesn’t discriminate between the wealthy and poor.
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Dear Windsor: One would think that very salient fact (radiation does not discriminate) would have some effect on the worldview of the richest in their lack of appropriate, humane, public empowering response to the Fukushima cataclysm that their profiteering has caused. However, never underestimate the endless fascination the wealthiest (not in any material need themselves) have for money over sane, in the present, action. Their psychosis over money and power will blot out all sanity. The billionaire humans are the most aberrant of all humans and must be subdued, to put it mildly.
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“Imperial Family”…Crown prince and princess?- Emperor?…So if they are subject to radiation poisoning just like any other common person, it sorta makes you wonder about the whole idea of this “royalty” thing.
There is no “royalty”. Am I to bow to another man or woman? Why? ’cause they say god said so?
Bullshit.
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I think what you’re missing, NoVictim, is that even the royalty are tools of the State. It’s not that we bow down to royalty, but that we, humans, bow down to the State.
An important, but subtle, difference. No disrespect, by the way, because I totally agree with you about bowing down to others. I wonder if you’ve ever heard Bob Marley talk about taking on the powers that be, and, while I’m bastardizing the quote, Bob says, “What makes that person so special? Weren’t they a baby just like me.” If you ask me, his point was that we are all the same, no better, no worse, and basically no more intelligent than anyone else.
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The mycoplasma pneumonia rate is way up in Japan:
http://idsc.nih.go.jp/idwr/kanja/weeklygraph/18myco-e.html
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Dear Bobby: Is that a trebling (300% increase) of the rate? Please correct me if I’m wrong. Wow!
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Yes it is.
Yablokov on Chernobyl:
Children in the contaminated territories
currently have more bronchial asthma and
chronic bronchitis owing to irreversible
structural lung changes. In the contaminated
territories there is a marked increase in the incidence
of both acute pneumonia and chronic
broncopulmonary pathology, expressed as bronchial
asthma and chronic bronchitis.
The children of the liquidators developed bronchitis and pneumonia too, even if they lived far from Chernobyl.
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http://idsc.nih.go.jp/idwr/kanja/weeklygraph/index-e.html
That will give U a list of other ailments they track, some of those are up dramatically as well.
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I feel that the idea that no radiation was detected in Seattle is probably BS mixed in with the information conveyed by Mr. Gundersen that is not BS.
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50/50 that it could be another fake-news.
to keep the troubled parents under control.
remember that the world had seen the blasting reactors and that they said:everything easy
radiation doesn’t moves like the map shows.
the radiation dust is too light to went out in a flowing “blobing” like liquid.
it is the strucktur of a surface that hold the dust on a place or not.
of curse there was some high-toxic clouds running out from the plant, but all the rest of radio-stuff comes and goes kreuz und quer .
and:if i think to long about what could be the trigger for the quake….it looks like 2011er version of a 9-11.
why should the goverment don’t help the people?
only if the gov had done it and want to bring the folks in these situation.
in 1-3 years the life in the sea will going down,worlwide.
so japans gov take a choice.
waiting so long and have then a hungry folk,that will rebells against the gov…or kill the sealife now,kill the most fishermens…before they go workless.
i will hope for the little girl that the news was a hoax and she is doing fine.
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This still bothers me, I keep coming back to this and wondering why they would put anyone in harms way, especially a child. This really gets my effin goat bad, as I listen to my two step daughters try to kill each other over the TV remote.
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