Improvisation, frustration mark Japan's nuclear crisis at 4 weeks

[jpak]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/08/japan.nuclear.crisis/?hpt=C2

Beneath the cherry blossoms of Shiba Park, more than 2,000 people lined up for a Sunday afternoon march calling for Japan's nuclear power stations to be shut down.

A week before, a similar protest -- though in a chilly drizzle, not on a warm, sunny day -- drew about 250.

And a month of frustration, desperation and anger boiled over at Tokyo Electric Power Company's headquarters Friday as officials from towns around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant demanded to know when the crisis that has besieged their farming communities would end.

"The nuclear plant situation needs to be resolved as soon as possible. If not, we farmers will die," one of the officials, Iwao Suzuki, told the utility's executives.

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[kristopher]

1. One of the joys of Japan

Is sitting beneath the cherry blossoms with friends and family sharing a day of relaxation, companionship and the simple pleasures of song, food and drink. You sit on a straw mat on the ground, frequently leaning back to enjoy the contrast of the delicate pink blossoms framed in what is arguably the nicest, bluest skies of the year, while the dieing petal drift down and around your 'clan'.

The brevity, beauty and softness of the blossoms existence has always conjured imagery of bittersweet loss that accompanies too early and tragic death; and when that feeling, from a song or a story is present in the midst of a brief blizzard of falling blossoms it is the rare person that fails to connect to a fundamental sense of identification with humanity as a whole...

To think of that experience, now polluted with and replaced by the image of death itself drifting from the sky like the blossoms, is nearly too much to bear...

[FBaggins]

2. Right... because "relaxation, companionship and the simple pleasures of song, food and drink"

is exactly what they would be enjoying if it weren't for those reactors.

Never mind the earthquake and tsunami. They didn't "polute" anything.

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[GliderGuider]

4. I think you are missing the point.

And I suspect it's deliberate. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[PamW]

5. Touchy, touchy...

And I suspect it's deliberate. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Touchy, touchy...and 2 deleted posts in a row.

Evidently the truth is hitting too close to home.

PamW

[GliderGuider]

6. the thing about deleted posts

is that you have to be johnny-on-the-spot to have any idea who posted them, and why they were deleted. In this case you obviously were a johnny-come-lately.

[CRH]

7. Though passing brevity, the state is timeless, visiting understated simplistic elegant beauty, ...

in search of shibumi.

Your first two paragraphs, will fall on deaf ears, for many.