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Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture
I went to Koriyama City of Fukushima Prefecture today. Koriyama City is a biggest city of commerce in Fukushima Prefecture and it's located 55 kilometer away from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. 20 kilometer circled area and some other dense radiation area are prohibited trespassing. Koriyama is not especially picked up as warning area, [...]
Shame on you, dear president !
"Immunity from compensation to victims could be considerable" This is a comment remarked by Tokyo electricity company's president, Masataka Shimizu. Of course, this news put huge fire on the hearts of good-natured citizens of Japan. Lords of comments against this idea are on the website of Yohoo Japan by contributors. Yet the accident is [...]
Sony at Crisis on Internet
Today's news was shocking for Japanese economy again. Sony's playstation customer information leaked onto internet and it seems about 77 million user information at maximum. This affects world wide internet users and Sony might lose trustful relationship with their playstation fans. Japanese top companies recently face unbelievable [...]
A castle of my mind
Today I came back home after 2 week tour. On the way home, I stopped over at an old castle place where I used to play in my childhood. To my big surprise, the castle is not in the same shape as I have known since I was a child. Of course all because of the earthquake, heavy damage was brought to this castle, too. Seeing this scenery, [...]
Please Resign
Masataka Shimizu, President of Tokyo Electricity Company, today attended at parliament of Japan for interviews about nuclear power plant status in Fukushima. There are still many pros and cons on his decision or attitude toward the settlement of nuclear accident. I think today's biggest concern for evacuating people staying in camps is his [...]
City Magazine, PIA, to end its history
In Japan, there has been a very useful city information magazine called PIA. This PIA magazine covers mainly over the big cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, etc., and the wide range of information from gourmet restaurants to entertainment events of movies or music concerts have always been the must information for enjoying city life especially [...]
Lament for Japanese Politics
Japan is still on the way to recovery and the action taken by officials looks like groping the light to step out. This crisis is probably the most serious ever since the 2nd world war. Criticizing politicians or officials is not always right in timing in that sense, however, I'm sad that I must lament over the lack of abilities of [...]
Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor of South Soma City as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people
Time magazine of the USA selected Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minami Soma City or South Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture of Japan, as one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. Usually we Japanese should be pleased with this kind of news, however, not easy for our joy as the reason for this selection was, of course, the earth [...]
Why is Gold value rising high ?
This is just my trifle thought with a little bad feeling about today's economy. Recently Gold price is endlessly rising higher, and of course it records highest value ever each day in London, NY or in the world financial metropolis. I wouldn't say how I think of this phenomena, but we shoudl be careful about this unusual currency [...]
Ex-Candies Yoshiko Tanaka died yesterday
A very sad news reached me just when I was about to go to bed yesterday. Yoshiko Tanaka, who was a member of Candies, died of breast cancer yesterday. Although I was not such a fan of Candies back in 1970's when they were enjoying the popularity boom in Japan, the 3 members of Candies created huge sensation then in Japan and they were [...]
