Published: February 24th, 2012 at 10:03 am ET
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Title: Overwork death recognized for worker at Fukushima plant |
Source: Kyodo News
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Date: 22:48, 24 February 2012
Overwork death recognized for worker at Fukushima plant … Subscription Required
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Title: Death at Fukushima plant ruled from overwork
Source: NHK
Date: Friday, February 24, 2012 22:00 +0900 (JST)
Japanese labor authorities have ruled that a man’s death at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was due to his having to carry out demanding work while wearing stress-creating protective gear. [...]
He was sent to the Fukushima plant in May to do piping work in a nuclear waste processing facility.
He died a day after he began work, saying he felt ill. [...]
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h/t Enformable
Published: February 24th, 2012 at 10:03 am ET
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Since I couldn't read the original (subscription only) article, I took a look at some of the (freely available) comments at the site. One that caught my eye was an OpEd piece that bashed the Japanese government and praised American involvement in the 3/11 crisis. My spin antennae went up, so I looked into the author's background.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/10/119821.html
http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/k/bruce-klingner
Here is what I found:
"Bruce Klingner is the Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center. Klingner joined Heritage in 2007 after 20 years in the intelligence community working at the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency."
"His articles have appeared in The Financial Times, The Washington Times, USA Today, Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Korea Herald, Korea Times, Seoul Shinmun, Kukmin Daily, Far Eastern Economic Review, Nikkei Weekly, The Asia Times, the Korea and World Affairs journal, International Journal of Korean Studies, the Korea Policy Review journal, and Yale Politic. His comments and analysis have appeared in CNN, CNN International, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox News TV, C-Span TV, BBC TV, SBS (Korea) TV, KBS (Korea) TV, NHK (Japan) TV, Arirang (Japan) TV, Al Jazeerra TV, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Fortune, Newsweek, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, National Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, Defense News, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan Times, Mainichi Shimbun, Kyodo News, Sekai Nippo, Sankei Daily."
Perhaps this helps explain how msm works.
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@aigeezer: again, you took the wind right-out of their sails. I'm impressed…
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Hello aigeezer –
Thank you for sniffing that one out! Those imature children at the heritage foundation and cia seem to think it is their birthright to dictate what society thinks and is allowed to know.
If the 'rule of law' ever became an occupying force in reality, your gaze of critical thinking would make an especially effective attorney general, me thinks.
Love the way your mind works.
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Me too aigeezer. Posted your very Sharp Eye at HP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-disaster_n_1240907.html#comments
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I'm of two minds about this:
Poor old/young worker
(I don't have a subscription)
just got too hot/cold
(the official depiction)
or was pre-diagnosed
(we can't find the contractor)
or was never told
(might have been Yakuza)
how to work near reactors.
(did his radsuit fit?)
There's lots of health factors
(can't pin this on us)
that caused his demise.
(we're quite suspicious)
We'll pay compensation
(of his associations)
to his closest relations
(it's probably his fault)
IF it's the right body -
(don't mention the "vault")
the case is on hold.
(where we keep bodys cold).
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Brutally funny and brilliant, of course, or-well! The Yakuza line pushed me over the edge.
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Enformable has the story. Don't know if it's the full Kyodo version.
The 60 year old plumbers' family has been granted compensation.
No idea just when his death happened.
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Suicide by self-induced heart attack? Maybe he was depressed and worked himself to death? Either way, it couldn't possibly be anything to do with nuke puke, cos that's not permitted.
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