Published: March 10th, 2012 at 9:49 am ET
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Title: One year on, Chiba Prefecture faces mountain of problems including incinerator ash
Source: The Mainichi Daily News
Date: March 9, 2012
Chiba Prefecture was overwhelmed with a wide variety of misfortunes and problems in the last year.
[...] hot spots or points of relatively intense radiation spewing from the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant were found in large numbers in northwestern Chiba Prefecture due to wind and rain shortly after the natural disasters and the nuclear crisis. An exodus of residents ensued, and the prefecture’s population suffered its first drop since the end of World War II.
Alarmed by the unexpected drop in the prefecture’s population, Gov. Kensaku Morita vows to quickly study measures, including creating a new entity within the prefectural government, to arrest the decline. [...]
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The most populous zone, in the northwest of the prefecture, is part of the Kantō region that extends into the urban agglomeration of Tokyo and Saitama. -Wikipedia
Published: March 10th, 2012 at 9:49 am ET
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The governor should not be surprised. If he were smart he would be one of the radiation emigres also.
Man since time immemorial has fled disaster zones. Ice ages, drought, fires, pestilence, war, hunger, volcanic and earthquake eruptions. Those are notable emigres events. Since Hiroshima in 1945 we have added nuclear radiation to the list.
The fleeing humans are survivors. The remaining humans are running out of time to live a full life.
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Does anyone know any Tokyo real estate agents that can give us a sense of how much property values are dropping in Tokyo?
That will be a great "yardstick" that we can use to track the effect of radiation moving south!
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Good idea, CaptD. That kind of information is widely available online. You don't need to know any agents. For example:
http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Japan/Price-History
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maybe this relates to it:
APRIL 16, 2011
…the property was quickly sold by handing over the keys….
A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan.
http://open.salon.com/blog/rwnutjob/2011/04/16/morgan_stanley_bails_on_tokyo_real_estate_others_follow
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Wake up Japanese parents!
Your children are depending upon you, not TEPCO to insure their future health!
Demand random testing which will keep the Gov't. from "cherry picking" children to test!
If even a few children are found to be highly exposed, then ALL CHILDREN should be tested!
If the Gov't. can spend BILLIONS of yen on decontamination then why can't they also provide testing for all children UNLESS THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE RESULTS!
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Demand INTERNAL radiation testing, and results in bq per kilogram. The best way is to WATCH THE SCREEN and printout as it happens. The test should only take a couple of minutes and should be seen on the screen. In the Soviet Union, they have chairs that children sit in for a few minutes. It tells them the internal radiation dose in bq/kg…. Instant results, and they know exactly what is causing it.
Any other kind of test is next to worthless.
Dosimeters are a start but tell you nothing about internal radiation from food, water, etc. Plus, you have to trust the person on the other end, doing the 'interpretation' of the results. If the government is doing it all, or utility contractors are in charge of testing, well, I leave it to you to figure that one out..
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One has to wonder what "measures" will be considered.
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re: "Alarmed by the unexpected drop in the prefecture's population, Gov. Kensaku Morita vows to quickly study measures, including creating a new entity within the prefectural government, to arrest the decline"
How exactly does he think this "new entity" will "arrest" the population decline? Will they somehow make it much more difficult for people to move? Increase the red tape? To hinder people who want to leave from doing so is beyond unethical.
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If they have the means and the intelligence to be aware of what we are aware of, why would they stay?
Out of loyalty to someone who has proven that they deserve no loyalty?
Out of a feeling of national pride? A pride in what? A cover up?
People will sacrifice if you level with them and ask for something extraordinary, in order to achieve some huge vision or goal.
But the lesson may be this…
Lie to people, coverup a major disaster, tell them they are safe, and you lose ALL credibility. Once that loss of trust happens, you lose the whole population, all except for those in complete denial, the mentally ill, the sick, the feeble and those who are completely isolated from the world and neighbors.
It will be interesting to see if they can restart any of these nuke plants, now that these nuke plants in Japan ALL lost their insurance carrier and no one else is stepping up to take their place.
It is legal to operate a nuke plant with NO insurance?
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How much did the population drop?
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Wouldn't be surprising if a grand exodus takes place over the next decade, or decades, depending.
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"…creating a new entity within the prefectural government, to arrest the decline."
Degradation of the tax base is serious news, obviously.
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Does that mean:
"Try to leave. Get arrested!" ???
One can hear the mayor intoning, "We have a very large population, at least 50% of whom are in jail, in custody, or under house arrest."
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"Government alarmed.." hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha
Government perplexed while they have bloody noses and stools, fatigue, nausea, metallic taste in mouth, swollen thyroid, aching joints, funny cough, etc…….
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