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Most gravely affected people are the ones already suffering by tsunami. Attention was diverted to this hopeless mismanagement. The reputation of Japan will remain the same: people with contempt rooted before the accident will see this incident as their contempt vindicated. Others will see this incident more objectively.
The corruptions between major industries and government is more well know in US because their resource rich energy sectors are much more influential in domestic and global stages. This shadowy collaboration has managed to evade serious criticisms in Japan up to now. No one was really surprised by the incompetence of the Tokyo electric company after series of mismanagements preceding this self-inflicted catastrophe. But we were just astounded by their magnitude of their incompetence.
Link of news about Fukushima.
TABLE 2: MATRIX OF DEFINITENESS/INDEFINITENESS * Knows specifically what is being referred to? Writer/speaker Reader/listener Definite: Can I use THE car? Yes Yes Indefinite: I saw A funny-looking dog today. Yes No Indefinite: I heard that you once wrote A book about ecology. No Yes Indefinite: I need to buy a new belt. No No* adapted from Brown, R., _A First Language_, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.
All sympathy go to the victims of the tsunami and earthquake: but Tokyo people may have unintentionally invited current mess: the meltdown of infrastructures. They were so proud of the city. But now their weakness was exposed and other will not remember it. One way or another this is the end of their era. Japan will likely become very different after this. This is opportunity for other parts of Japan.
The cause of the tsunami: Some one in Tokyo, unfortunately, its mayor deserves a pico-gram of sympathy. In a public interview he declared that the tsunami was a punishment from the God for greed; material, money and sex. He idolizes the past at age 79 forgot about many victims were older people. He is seamlessly running for his 4th term. Shintaro Ishihara is infamous for his racism and sexism, and proved himself a jerk once again.
He was re-elected but there were no serious contenders. The earth quake hindered any practical campaign. What kind of idiots voted for him?
>5. 東京一極集中で、世界一の便利な巨大都市を目指し、東京で日本の経済成長を牽引する解はあるか?
更に、この際東京圏のGDP比率が日本の5割を越えてもかまわないので、どうせなら効率よく東京一箇所に投資を集中させ、成長させて、
日本の経済全体を牽引させたらどうか、とか書いたら炎上しそうだなぁ・・・。
I saw this entry a month ago and speculated about the natural disasters; a big earth-quake would hit Tokyo for sure not so distant future. As every one knows now, the big one hit Tohoku, which is far, but devastated the east part of Japan. But this is not THE BIG one which will inevitably hit Tokyo near future. Imagine if the 50 percent of the GDP were concentrated in Tokyo as you dreamed, Japan would have faced complete disarray if not a meltdown.
At this moment of the unprecedented disaster, the western part of Japan remains completely peaceful. Japanese economy will recover because of geographical diversity which acts as national safety net. Of course, all the people, not only in the rest of Japan but also rest of the world as you noticed form your own email box, feel sympathy for those who affected and suffering. But, over-specialization, as you have notice in your own entries, often leads to extinction when its environment suddenly changes. So do you still advocate your wonderful Tokyo centric future dream enterprise for Japan?
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samtools view -Sb -T REF.fasta A1.sam > A1.bam &
would end the frustration.
Egypt is now rejuvenating with full of optimism and aspiration long after intellectual and mental hibernation to shepherd themselves toward their just society. Even several weeks ago, these people had more desperation and resignation to content themselves with the perpetual dysfunctional treadmill. Unassuming events one after another, or simply bread issues, led to Arab worlds to unexpected and uncharted territories which Arab intellectual have been dreaming about. It happened without direct external help aside from social media. This is fantastic. Can you believe, America and Israel are mostly just afterthought for these people. They care about their future and they have chance to change their life. Democratic process is easy as you can see that most of democratic advanced countries are facing financial crisis. But these Arabs people can be proud to be Arabs more than before.
Some people might attribute these revolutions to intensified solar magnetic activity. But these events will transform the way social movement works. In some sense these event may be extension of the Obama revolution which undoubtedly propelled by the social media. But Obama is more focused on domestic agenda.
How do these revolution affect Japan?
It is possible that the youth may revolt against the society. But they need to be more desperate to do so.
Japanese next revolution may come after a huge natural disaster like mega-typhoon or super earthquake, which completely devastate Tokyo. If it hit other city, Tokyo will not change.
But Egypt in the end does not inspire Japanese much since they have something Egyptian is longing for. Now what? It is very difficult find next Japanese revolution that ameliorate instead of deteriorate Japan. Nothing particularly exciting will likely happen in Japan next few years. After all Japanese may have to live in stable equilibrium at comfortable yet boring environment.