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Total dead Zero...

Lie.
160 child cancers already attributed to Fukushima Dai-ichi

Donald Trump threatens nuclear war on Twitter in order to distract from his obvious treason.

Trump threatens nuclear war...with words...which were mocking a tinpot dictator. That same dictator on the other hand who's country has kidnapped women from S.Korea and Japan and pressed them into harems for the military and senior officials of the government. That has fired missiles over Japan, and has Japan on edge enough that not only are they considering a full or partial rewrite of article 9 - that's the section that says they can't have a pro-active military, only self-defense. That they're also considering going nuclear as well, and people are supportive of it. But Trump's the problem...

The real question you should be asking is, why did it take the US media(and most of the western media) so long to do any stories on this in the first place. My guess? There's another journolist type organization deciding what "type" of media to present again. This stuff was all over Japanese media well latish 3ish days ago now, it was in the A section of the Mainichi Times print publication, right next to the article on Japan looking at full revoking article 9, or partially rewriting article 9 of their constitution to allow proactive military defense with the increasing of China in the Sea of Japan and N.Korea. It however isn't in the english online daily or the JP online daily, though the article 9 story is, but it was published early(10am) on the 30th.

The high levels are inside the containment.

In other words Yes folks, the fuel is indeed outside of the reactor core.

Let's, for a moment, consider what words were spoken inside the TEPCO media relations meeting;

• Engineering: Well the robots have indeed discovered evidence of fuel outside of the reactor.
• Media Relations: how can you be sure it's outside the reactor?
• E: Because we found an area where fuel shouldn't be, a grating melted all the way through and the ES1000 started malfunctioning because the radiation levels were so high. We had to abort before it got stuck in the containment building.
• M: Containment Building?
• E:Yes, were not sure how much containment was destroyed, but the evidence suggests we are close to locating a section of the melted core.
• M:Then all we have to do is reassure people it's in the containment. Susan get me some overalls, we need to do a press conference!
• E :-O
• M: turning back to E oh, great work, robot broke down - we'll run with that...

This is exactly the kind of slimy trick the Nuclear Industry PR would use to downplay evidence of fuel being outside of the reactor, maybe I've been napping however I've not seen the headline Evidence of Nuclear Fuel Found outside of Fukushima Reactor Core anywhere. I'm just supposed to be comfortable that it's inside the containment as if it's no big deal that it didn't melt *INSIDE* the reactor where it should be.

Why yes it is.

M: Susan, make sure the by-story runs that it is *inside* the containment, we need to make sure the fans have a counter argument. People, we're running with the robot broken down story and that we think it might have kinda possibly run into a tad bit of radio stuff,, we have to get on top of this before the mainstream get a hold of the news. Susan, where are those overalls!

to calm y'all down even further

This article from the Japanese daily contains the video feed from the robot. Above the hole you can see the base of the reactor pressure vessel. Your statement seems a trite summation considering the evidence discovered.

It's perfectly reasonable to be angry about the incompetence that led to this disaster, what's weird is trying to say it's no big deal. The international community who shares the coasts of the pacific ocean will suffer the consequences of this over a very long time. This is what a big deal is.

I don't see any justification for supporters of nuclear energy to play the same morally superior dogmatically skeptic attitude they have had over the last decade anymore, this is an INES7 scale accident. Information is available now, and people can read so what need is less downplaying so we can figure out the nature of the mess the nuclear industry has left us and where these 3 cores are.

Evidence of reactor fuel found outside of the Fukushima reactor is the information and the nuclear industry is very carefully avoiding any further criticism.

Japan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/world/asia/japan-moves-to-permit-greater-use-of-its-military.html

Japan's prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country's pacifist Constitution on Tuesday, freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.

The antiwar Constitution remains enough of a touchstone for many in Japan that the reinterpretation has spurred rare street protests, and even the self-immolation of a lone protester in Tokyo this week.

The Obama administration said Tuesday that it welcomed Japan's action, adding that it would aid the country's armed forces to "do more within the framework of our alliance."

This is all about China.
Even the source article brings up China.

Followed the trail here: http://mainichi.jp/english/english/perspectives/news/20120402p2a00m0na002000c.html

And, yes, it is an editorial.

Okay. I read Mainichi nearly every day, I've yet to see this. Both the japanese and the english versions. Now it's possible during my last 3mo where out in the middle of asshole nowhere Canada with limited internet access that the story was posted. But I can't find it on their site.

The one article I did read that was about something like that came from one of the anti-nuke groups trying to string up more anti-nuke hysteria and that was back in February of this year. And it was in their perspectives section(aka editorials).

Very nice link. The camera appears to have a volume of around 60 liters so even if it isn't as portable as a point and shoot camera, is small enough to be easily deployed in the contaminated area. Maybe this research is related to this other news, that the japanese government will make a review of of the evacuation area in 3 municipalities in Fukushima

. . . is located here. It includes a bit more about the proposed construction, starting date, and other interesting bits.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111216p2a00m0na002000c.html

Really? So the 20 odd years that people have been blocking to shut down the old BWR's to replace them is hysteria? Right then. You might find it funny, but there's been an on-going series on mainichi(read japanese, or use a translator) about the problems and screw ups over the reactors and how environmentalism is as much as fault as the government.

The people who protested against safer designs are just as in fault as everyone else. As for Japan having enough to replace it with renewables? Not a chance, it's not feasible. TUoS, did a report on it not much than 4mo after people started clamoring to shut down all of their nuke plants. If they did, they'd need to come up with another 60% of their power from no where.

Getting nuked has given them a higher anti-nuke sentiment, but even Japan has been considering rescinding article 9, and building their own nukes for self-defense. Especially with China getting belligerent and declaring that they're the god-emperor's of the south-china sea.

I fully agree and can relate.

I just wanted to add that it was interesting timing for this announcement, as it came right after the first reactivation of a Japanese reactor since the Fukushima accident.

From Mainichi Daily News

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday the detection of radioactive xenon at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant, indicating recent nuclear fission, was not the result of a sustained nuclear chain reaction known as a criticality, as feared, but a case of "spontaneous" fission.

Do you believe any explanation from Tokyo Electric at this point? They have told enough lies about Fukushima that I now assume they are lying every time they open their mouths. Has this been verified by an independent 3rd party?

From Mainichi Daily News

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday the detection of radioactive xenon at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant, indicating recent nuclear fission, was not the result of a sustained nuclear chain reaction known as a criticality, as feared, but a case of "spontaneous" fission.

Another presumptuous statement from you . . . However, unlike you, I will not make a statement that presumptuously assumes you act this way outside of your pro-nuke shill mode, since I do not know you outside of that context

Besides, I am still convinced that this is just your coping mechanism for people calling you out. You have conveniently shifted the conversation from public monitoring of radiation to etiquette. Alright, what kind of etiquette is it to tell someone that this is "not something which is worth worrying about" when they have found a hot spot as close as Kashiwa with 57 microSV/Hr and the government now highly suspects it is fallout from Fukushima. Oh, and THAT spot would not have even been found if it were not for a regular citizen checking (You know . . . the type of person you think are wasting their money and time . . . ).

To be honest, I am not posting to win any politeness contests, and especially in the eyes of someone responsible for posts that I find immoral and inappropriate. I might hurt the egos of some thin skinned readers when I post, but at least I am not contributing to the downplay of a public health hazard. You get to live with that one.

..a tinfoil hat

Wear that hat while dumping the old glowing bottles in the basement.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111015p2a00m0na017000c.html

Slightly better article here with some extra info:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110721p2a00m0na006000c.html

Just a personal opinion, Yomiuri is okay. But it's pretty close to sensationalist journalism without the meat. In the future people would be better off using well just about anything else.

More details on the amounts/effects of China reducing rare earth exports:

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110705p2a00m0na017000c.html

You're talking about the US, right?

No. The U.S. isn't involved with this discovery, and the U.S. had shut down it's production previously due to environmental problems (which raise costs to address properly) and cheaper imports. (bashing the U.S. isn't insightful, especially when the facts don't back it up)

  "Currently, China supplies around 95 percent of the worldâ(TM)s demand for rare earth minerals. "

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6563619,00.html

"China supplies more than 90 percent of the world's rare earth minerals and Japan is greatly dependent on the neighboring country for supplies of the strategically important resources..."

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/business/news/20110704p2g00m0bu038000c.html

The U.S. has mined rare earths from a remote California location in the past, but production had been stopped largely due to severe environmental issues.
Due to worldwide concerns following China cutting exports, operation is being resumed. When China cut year over year exports to 60% of the previous amount, Japan and others felt economically threatened. Rare earths are in high demand for many specialized applications including L.E.D.s (used for LCD backlighting) and the magnets in generators for wind power and those in motors for electric cars.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/214938/us_rare_earth_mine_resumes_active_mining.html

According to Tepco's own documents, reactor 1 experienced problems with its cooling system immediately after the earthquake and before the tsunami struck.

Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110517p2a00m0na008000c.html

So your (implicit) assertion that the reactor survived the earthquake is a myth. Granted, the problems would be much less severe than they are right now, but that is no excuse to allow facts fall off the wayside.

Here's a better writeup:

Mainichi Daily News: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110517p2a00m0na008000c.html
taz (German): http://taz.de/1/zukunft/umwelt/artikel/1/tepcos-verteidigung-broeckelt/

According to these articles, reactor no. 1 experienced some kind of problem (sudden drop of pressure) 10 minutes after the earthquake and well before the tsunami struck. The crew then had some troubles with the cooling system of said reactor but the articles are pretty vague in that regard. This is according to TEPCO's own reports.

Anyway, I've always maintained that the assertion that the earthquake did no damage in Fukushima (and therefore other nuclear plants are "safe") was nothing but a myth pushed by nuclear apologists in their own self-interest. It's nice to see some factual reporting backing up my thesis, by the nuke operator no less.

It seems that the quake itself damaged the #1 reactor, well before the tsunami took out the power system:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110515p2g00m0dm007000c.html

> Right, primary containment is intact, which means that the core is still protected. Leaks from water lines are not loss of primary containment, and water leaks are not as hazardous as you have been led to believe.

Dude, try looking at the defination of the verb "contain". It means "not let out". That's not what's happening here. The basement of unit 1 is full of radioactive water that leaked from the containment. Unit 2 is even worse. This water is leaking into the ground water and now several sewage treatment plants have radioactive sludge.

> No, the WHO did in fact state that. You should visit their website, its a fact.
They may have stated that, but they are wrong. 630,000 terabecquerels is not an "insignificant release of radiation"

In some spots the soil contamination exceeds Chernobyl evacuation levels: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110511p2a00m0na018000c.html

> Nonsense, neither WHO nor IAEA support your claim here. As the party making the affirmative assertion has the burden of proof, if you have a reliable source for all these claims I would be happy to retract my statement. I can find no evidence to support your assertions.

New York times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/asia/09japan.html?_r=1
Most people consider it a reliable source of information.

Uranium found in air samples:
http://enenews.com/uranium-234-detected-hawaii-southern-california-seattle

Things are worse than people realise. Units 1 and 2 are both leaking water from the pressure vessel and containment vessel. Also, the quake craked the site foundations. So the contaminated water is seeping into the groundwater.
http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-groundwater-contamination-worst-nuclear-history
They have found highly radioactive sludge in several sewage treatment plants. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110513p2a00m0na019000c.html

Everything that is wrong with politics and lobbying. Make lobbying illegal, dethrone corporate power.

I think this is a good year for some changes. It's not like there's anything else going on.
An old phrase comes to mind "When you need to get something done, ask a busy person"
We're not the only ones with these problems.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110419p2a00m0na012000c.html

Maybe we should demand the FCC fix a few things:

1) More diversity in news production and in local ownership of broadcast stations

2) Full interoperable license free open standards for other to tie in with if MS buys Skype

3) Do away with paid political ads on radio and tv. Stations can choose how much free time to give as public affairs programming time on a balanced basis. (If ya can't get politicians to cut off the contributions they get, limit how they cam spend it!)

4) Bring back stations committing to a maximum number of commercial minutes per hour. They pick the number on the license renewal/application. If a competing applicant has a lower number, they may risk loss of the license. No more 18 minutes of ads in an hour show. No more infomercials.

...I think straight execution after the accident of all management...

Is that any way to treat former government employees?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110419p2a00m0na012000c.html

Maybe the game could use a few modern twists and get people prepared for things they haven't given enough thought to. Got some radio-iodine in the milk? The half-life is short. Why not process it into powdered milk and store it until there's no longer a problem? Could farmers or the department of agriculture use cloud seeding to cause pollution to be dumped in a lower impact area like over the ocean? Could some keep hay in reserve to feed the cows with in case the pasture areas get contaminated for a little while? If farmers got more behind product testing, wouldn't they be less likely to have competitors cheating with melamine?

If animals are fed diets that promote higher acidity and nastier strains of pathogens, crowding promotes spread of pathogens, and heavy use of antibiotics has made resistant pathogens more common, shouldn't the "good" farmers be pushing for more transparency leading to public outcry that helps push desirable reforms?

Does the pubic have an accurate picture of potential dangers? Can a game help make life better?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110505p2g00m0dm005000c.html

Should farmers have plans to evacuate their cows under bad conditions? Should information have been withheld to keep them and others more calm? Could they have been keep calm while being fully informed?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110504p2a00m0na005000c.html
earlier report
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110504004563.htm

What can farmers and others do to deal with soil problems?

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110422004322.htm
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T110412005529.htm
pdf on dealing with salt in soil
http://www.fao.org/ag/tsunami/docs/saltwater-guide.pdf

Is farming and other industry impacting farming regulated by the right people?
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/68-elite-bureaucrats-land-power-company-jobs-over-50-yrs

Maybe the game could use a few modern twists and get people prepared for things they haven't given enough thought to. Got some radio-iodine in the milk? The half-life is short. Why not process it into powdered milk and store it until there's no longer a problem? Could farmers or the department of agriculture use cloud seeding to cause pollution to be dumped in a lower impact area like over the ocean? Could some keep hay in reserve to feed the cows with in case the pasture areas get contaminated for a little while? If farmers got more behind product testing, wouldn't they be less likely to have competitors cheating with melamine?

If animals are fed diets that promote higher acidity and nastier strains of pathogens, crowding promotes spread of pathogens, and heavy use of antibiotics has made resistant pathogens more common, shouldn't the "good" farmers be pushing for more transparency leading to public outcry that helps push desirable reforms?

Does the pubic have an accurate picture of potential dangers? Can a game help make life better?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110505p2g00m0dm005000c.html

Should farmers have plans to evacuate their cows under bad conditions? Should information have been withheld to keep them and others more calm? Could they have been keep calm while being fully informed?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110504p2a00m0na005000c.html
earlier report
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110504004563.htm

What can farmers and others do to deal with soil problems?

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110422004322.htm
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T110412005529.htm
pdf on dealing with salt in soil
http://www.fao.org/ag/tsunami/docs/saltwater-guide.pdf

Is farming and other industry impacting farming regulated by the right people?
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/68-elite-bureaucrats-land-power-company-jobs-over-50-yrs

Their not involving people as much as they could goes beyond the foreign media and bloggers not being let into press conferences.

"Japan nuclear commission fails to send experts to Fukushima

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has failed to send designated experts to Fukushima Prefecture to look into the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant even though a national disaster-preparedness plan requires it to do so, many of the experts said Saturday.

A commission spokesperson said problems following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami such as blackouts had discouraged it from sending any experts to Fukushima Prefecture, but many of the specialists and government officials questioned the claim.

The commission designates 40 nuclear accident experts including university professors and senior officials of relevant institutions as well as five others as members of its panel on emergency technical advice.

The disaster plan requires the commission to dispatch members of the panel to a location near an accident site.
(follow link for the whole story)

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110417p2g00m0dm009000c.html

They're looking into "the flow of retiring ministry officials to senior positions at the country's electric companies"

It seems like Japan isn't the only country that needs to prevent regulators from later taking jobs with the companies they were supposed to be tough with. They shouldn't be allowed to be paid lobbyists either.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110419p2a00m0na012000c.html

To a great extent democracies depend on the media to put corporations and government in the spotlight for the public good. Reporters shouldn't be going to work for those they are reporting on.

But KSBY the NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo county in California, home of the Diablo Canyon 2-unit power plant, has over the years had several of the newscasters hired by the utility P.G.& E. as PR people (including the one currently seen). KSBY is the only full power English speaking station in the county. Their reporting is very brief and lacks technical depth. They don't seem to do things like research NRC reports, mostly going . Although run by the same utility company, when the NTSB was starting hearings about the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, all it got was a 20 second mention (Charlie Sheen got over 3 minutes the same day).
No details of the streamed hearings or mention anything from the related documents documents (on the NTSB site) was broadcast. They say the plants says it can handle a tsunami, but didn't mention that three of the plants radiation monitors were taken out by "heavy rain". There is talk about more earthquake studies, but no mention of a local tsunami in 1812. Nice people at the station, but should they be allowed to work for things like the power plant? Are they doing all that's needed in "Americas' Happiest City"? (in fairness, smaller market t.v. has a lot of other competition for a slice of a fairly small pie. No doubt resources are limited. They let a well liked newscaster go to cut costs.)

"On December 21, 1812, one of the largest earthquakes in California history completely destroyed the first Mission along with most of Santa Barbara. With an estimated magnitude of 7.2, and a hypothesized epicenter near Santa Cruz Island, the quake also produced a tsunami which carried water all the way to modern-day Anapamu Street, and carried a ship a half-mile up Refugio Canyon."
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_Santa_Barbara,_California
LA Times article on tsunami (pdf)
http://www.usc.edu/

Their not involving people as much as they could goes beyond the foreign media and bloggers not being let into press conferences.

"Japan nuclear commission fails to send experts to Fukushima

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has failed to send designated experts to Fukushima Prefecture to look into the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant even though a national disaster-preparedness plan requires it to do so, many of the experts said Saturday.

A commission spokesperson said problems following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami such as blackouts had discouraged it from sending any experts to Fukushima Prefecture, but many of the specialists and government officials questioned the claim.

The commission designates 40 nuclear accident experts including university professors and senior officials of relevant institutions as well as five others as members of its panel on emergency technical advice.

The disaster plan requires the commission to dispatch members of the panel to a location near an accident site.
(follow link for the whole story)

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110417p2g00m0dm009000c.html

They're looking into "the flow of retiring ministry officials to senior positions at the country's electric companies"

It seems like Japan isn't the only country that needs to prevent regulators from later taking jobs with the companies they were supposed to be tough with. They shouldn't be allowed to be paid lobbyists either.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110419p2a00m0na012000c.html

To a great extent democracies depend on the media to put corporations and government in the spotlight for the public good. Reporters shouldn't be going to work for those they are reporting on.

But KSBY the NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo county in California, home of the Diablo Canyon 2-unit power plant, has over the years had several of the newscasters hired by the utility P.G.& E. as PR people (including the one currently seen). KSBY is the only full power English speaking station in the county. Their reporting is very brief and lacks technical depth. They don't seem to do things like research NRC reports, mostly going . Although run by the same utility company, when the NTSB was starting hearings about the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, all it got was a 20 second mention (Charlie Sheen got over 3 minutes the same day).
No details of the streamed hearings or mention anything from the related documents documents (on the NTSB site) was broadcast. They say the plants says it can handle a tsunami, but didn't mention that three of the plants radiation monitors were taken out by "heavy rain". There is talk about more earthquake studies, but no mention of a local tsunami in 1812. Nice people at the station, but should they be allowed to work for things like the power plant? Are they doing all that's needed in "Americas' Happiest City"? (in fairness, smaller market t.v. has a lot of other competition for a slice of a fairly small pie. No doubt resources are limited. They let a well liked newscaster go to cut costs.)

"On December 21, 1812, one of the largest earthquakes in California history completely destroyed the first Mission along with most of Santa Barbara. With an estimated magnitude of 7.2, and a hypothesized epicenter near Santa Cruz Island, the quake also produced a tsunami which carried water all the way to modern-day Anapamu Street, and carried a ship a half-mile up Refugio Canyon."
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_Santa_Barbara,_California
LA Times article on tsunami (pdf)
http://www.usc.edu/

http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/news/20110319ddm012040016000c.html

By the way, one of my elementary school teacher's name was same as your nick. Happen to be from Kumamoto?

Someone took a picture of her underwear and posted it on Google Streetview...

Here's the original article.

From the original article in the Mainichi Shinbun, "It seems that someone posted the picture of her underwear on the internet.[...] She said, "If it had been an exterior view of the apartment that's understandable, but that a photo of my underwear drying on the veranda should appear is strange no matter how you look at it."

Again, this isn't just a case of something weird showing up on Streetview, according to the woman in question. Her paranoia is a little more understandable considering that she claims someone took a picture of her underwear and went to the trouble of posting it where she would likely find it. Being concerned about harassment or stalking isn't completely unreasonable.

Some other details that were left out of the English article include that the woman in question is from Fukuoka City in Fukuoka, that she's in her twenties, that she was fired from the hospital were she was working, that she lived alone at the time of the incident, that she found the photo this Spring, that she filed suit in November in Fukuoka District Court and that opening arguments were heard on December 15th. As of December 15th, Google was hurrying to verify the facts of the case.

There was a 2channel thread about the story that referred to it as "MyPantyView," but unfortunately Slashdot's Japanese counterparts had no comment on the matter.

We need to check those numbers again, because many skeletons are still collecting pension from a closet

We need to check those numbers again, because many skeletons are still collecting pension from a closet

I'm a bit late to this story (read it yesterday), but here's a link to the Mainichi Daily News which has an article on the same subject. I did not read the IT World article so I don't know how much overlap there is.

Mainichi news article.

What kind of work is useful to experiment on in microgravity?

Don't know how useful it is, but Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki has demonstrated that soap bubbles retain their color in space, answering a scientific question from her daughter.

Again, how useful this is will depend on the person.

I'll just keep reading other english/japanese dailies like MDN which have better content. Or any of the local papers which you can google out, not to mention actual commentary about what's going on. I think the last time I read Nikkei related was in 2001.

Not according to this fellow, who won an Ig Nobel award for his work with bacteria from panda poop, who need to process quite a lot of cellulose in their diet. Hydrogen is the biofuel these bacteria produce.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091124p2a00m0na009000c.html

No pictures? How can they not show us any pictures of this?

Ask and you shall receive: picture index.

If you look at the third row from the top, the middle picture, that is the steering system they are talking about. I know it doesn't look like a joystick but the caption says it is of the Toyota FT-EV II, the same one mentioned in the article.

Three men are currently being tried in Japanese court because they uploaded a few too many anime episodes on Share, and one of them's looking at what will probably be 18 months in jail (link in Japanese), if the prosecutors get their way.

That will be one bland, inedible hunk of meat. Fat is where the flavor and tenderness comes from. Why do you think T-bones, delmnicos and strip steaks taste so good? They have ribbons of fat in them. Same goes for pot roasts. Loads of fat, loads of flavor. This is the same reason most pork nowadays is so bland. We've bred out most of the fat in pigs (except for the bacon portion).

Flavor also comes from the bones. Marrow provides the flavor and is used when making stock.

If we're going to manufacture meat from non-animals, I want my fat and bones. It goes along with my high fat, high sugar, high cholesterol way of eating. I want flavor! If I wanted blandness, I'd eat tofu.

If nothing else, PETA is getting better looking representatives when at events.

How come the Japanese article gets cool yet visually helpful images like this and the English version only has this?

How come the Japanese article gets cool yet visually helpful images like this and the English version only has this?

Japan wants to fly paper plane from International Space Station to earth:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080118p2a00m0na025000c.html

You do not want to get cavity searched in Japan!!!!

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20071115p2g00m0dm016000c.html