Just a very quick post as I have been receiving lots of very kind mails and messages checking that we are ok after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan yesterday. Being based in Tokyo, we were lucky, as it was the north of Japan that was really hit. The good news is that all family and friends are fine. The bad news is that it looks like the death toll is already over 1,000 and rising, there are still aftershocks and more tsunami warnings, and there are some issues with one of the nuclear power plants here. Tokyo is basically fine, it is the north that is feeling it. I just hope things will be ok...
Despite this, I am still very happy to be here! This experience has reaffirmed what an awesome country Japan is, filled with lots of great people and very well constructed buildings. And thanks to the techno community for reaching out, all your messages have been greatly appreciated. Glad to know you care! Thanks.
We are sending our love and thoughts up north, and to all those suffering.
thoughts with all of you
ReplyDeletei hope everything will be back to normal asap!
ReplyDeleteglad to know all is all right (well, relatively speaking)... i was just about to send an email, then thought i would check here first, to possibly save adding another email to your pile. thoughts are with you and yours, and glad you're safe.
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loads of kind thoughts to all of you. hope the nuclear situation won't get too bad. Japan already had enough of that shit in the past. take care !
ReplyDeletehope all is best.
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My thoughts are with all the peeps in Japan.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're okay. Take care.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're fine and thougths to Japan.
ReplyDeleteThoughts, good energy, and love to everyone there. This just makes us reunite even more and think as a global community. EF
ReplyDeletegood to hear you are doing ok!
ReplyDeleteI haven't really seen the news for a good while and only tonight have I seen the damage and total devastation over there in Japan. I just saw a woman stood there bewildered at what had happened to the place she lives in. She just looked shell shocked stood in the spot she was in. So so sad to see all those people suffering. Prayers going out to all affected.
ReplyDeleteGlad you ssg people are ok too.
Peace
Utterly horrific, devastating news. I'm so glad to hear you're ok, at least! My thoughts are with all the people of Japan right now and I hope that things return to some semblance of normality soon. Peace and Love.
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ReplyDeleteJapanese folk: stoic. Good luck, and godspeed!
ReplyDeletemy thoughts close to all of you there...
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just sorry what you have such a crap govrnment in terms of telling true to own population about nuclear power plant explosion. reminds me c.c.c.p., i from there so i know what i'am talking about - same fairytale - "radiation not sufficient enough, did not cause health problems". maybe its not the same like chernobyl, but c'mmon - power plant blown up to pieces. if i'll be you i'll would take very carefully that talking heads in the tv monitor says, all they say as far as i saw its a load of bollocks mate
ReplyDeleteUmmm who said it's blown up to pieces? Have you been watching Fox News?
ReplyDeletei agree, the regulatory bodies that are in charge of nuclear power plant operations, and the current meltodwn disaster aversion efforts, are using vague and possibly misleading ways of describing the situation. "there is currently no significant risk to human health". it is a very semantic game of PR. one important thing to remember is that they are doing this to avoid causing panic, which leads to riots. governments have used the same language since the inception of the nuclear era "it won't cause you significant harm!" which translates to "this may harm or kill you, just not right away." i don't like it either, but if this is what japan must do to avoid chaos and panic then i think it is justified on some level. there is also a TON of money behind nuclear energy for contractors and the government, so they wouldn't come out with public statements that antagonize themselves.
ReplyDelete@ Seth and Minde: which is, of course, something that no Western government would do. WMD, Iraq and Afghan 'progress', Abu Ghraib, Cyclone Katrina, the GFC, GMOs, climate change, Gaddafi, the military industrial complex generally... where do we begin? None of this is to absolve the Japanese government, but...
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