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Rebuilding Japan: Less Than 3 Months After The Tsumani (Impressive Pics)

by Thomas
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Despite the ongoing problems at Fukushima, it looks like the rest of the affected areas in Japan have been getting on with it, and are making some remarkable progress less than 3 months after the quake/tsunami. The first pictures below show scenes a few days after the tsunami; the second ones were all taken at the same locations in the past week or two...







  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Wow... that is extremely impressive! We could use a few ambassadors of self respect over here in the New-Orleans area. And I mean that as a cultural statement, and not necessarily a political one.
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    wow! great to know that everything is getting better there.

    Good news!
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Amazing.

    Humans can be powerful as hell when they have to.

    Thanks Thomas.
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    this is very impressive..i hadn't seen this pics before
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Impressive amount of work that's been done.

      One thing bothers me - the info about the nuclear plants simply dried up. I've seen two news clips where experts said they believe full meltdown occurred in three reactors. However, there are no sites with info that I can find where anything new has been posted since March.

      No info about continuing danger or anything to do with the nuclear reactor status. Hard to believe it was a crisis in March - and now is unimportant.

      Has anyone seen info about that?
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      • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
        Kay, this guy explains what happened really well. It was much, much worse than what the government was saying. Japan finally admitted about two weeks ago that all three reactors had a meltdown!


        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        Impressive amount of work that's been done.

        One thing bothers me - the info about the nuclear plants simply dried up. I've seen two news clips where experts said they believe full meltdown occurred in three reactors. However, there are no sites with info that I can find where anything new has been posted since March.

        No info about continuing danger or anything to do with the nuclear reactor status. Hard to believe it was a crisis in March - and now is unimportant.

        Has anyone seen info about that?
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          Thanks, Tim - that was exactly the fellow I saw on the TV interview.

          What was surprising was the absence of online info except from the monitoring service IAEA (?) which is a rather cryptic monthly report.

          When you consider the outcry 2-3 months ago it's hard to understand how there's is no big new value to it now. Unless you hear this fellow - you'd think the problem has been magically solved.

          I guess in our news environment today - if you can't film it, it doesn't exist.

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          • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
            They are too busy talking about weiners I guess.

            There was also a story a couple weeks ago where Germany decided to phase out all of their reactors in response to this accident. Didn't hear much about that one either.

            Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

            Thanks, Tim - that was exactly the fellow I saw on the TV interview.

            What was surprising was the absence of online info except from the monitoring service IAEA (?) which is a rather cryptic monthly report.

            When you consider the outcry 2-3 months ago it's hard to understand how there's is no big new value to it now. Unless you hear this fellow - you'd think the problem has been magically solved.

            I guess in our news environment today - if you can't film it, it doesn't exist.


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          • Profile picture of the author Kurt
            Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

            Thanks, Tim - that was exactly the fellow I saw on the TV interview.

            What was surprising was the absence of online info except from the monitoring service IAEA (?) which is a rather cryptic monthly report.

            When you consider the outcry 2-3 months ago it's hard to understand how there's is no big new value to it now. Unless you hear this fellow - you'd think the problem has been magically solved.

            I guess in our news environment today - if you can't film it, it doesn't exist.

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            That guy, Kaku, is one of the most respected physics experts on the planet. He's up there with Steven Hawkins, etc and isn't some guy they just picked up off the street.
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            • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
              I was in Phuket 3-4 months after the Tsunami and it was as if nothing much has happened except for a few buildings with blown out windows and debris. The Thailand tourism board heavily subsidized the tours and it costed us less than $200 per person for a 5 day trip inclusive of flight from Hong Kong and stay at a 4 star resort.

              I believe the Japanese tourism is doing the same thing at the moment.
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              • Profile picture of the author Kay King
                That guy, Kaku, is one of the most respected physics experts on the planet. He's up there with Steven Hawkins, etc and isn't some guy they just picked up off the street.
                Exactly - so why isn't what he says considered newsworthy? Why isn't it repeated and talked about on blogs and on cable news? He's saying it's worse than we were told - and I'd think that would be big news.
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                • Profile picture of the author Kurt
                  Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

                  Exactly - so why isn't what he says considered newsworthy? Why isn't it repeated and talked about on blogs and on cable news? He's saying it's worse than we were told - and I'd think that would be big news.
                  It is newsworthy and I don't understand why it isn't being discussed more. It isn't a media "censorship" thing, at least directly, or else CNN wouldn't have discussed it at all.

                  My only guess is it's the mass-ADD people have and the public has lost interest in the subject because the issue is more than a week old, and are more interested in a certain congressman's twitter pics and/or Snookie.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Roaddog
                    Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

                    It is newsworthy and I don't understand why it isn't being discussed more. It isn't a media "censorship" thing, at least directly, or else CNN wouldn't have discussed it at all.

                    My only guess is it's the mass-ADD people have and the public has lost interest in the subject because the issue is more than a week old, and are more interested in a certain congressman's twitter pics and/or Snookie.

                    I say we throw Snookie and her ilk into the nuclear meltdown, along with the ceo's of Monsanto, the heads of the medical corporations and a few others.
                    Roast a couple of wieners over the ashes...
                    A ancient sacrifice for the eco system, win/win.


                    The pictures of the Japanese having 'cleaned' up already, doesn't surprise me. They are for the most part, mono cultural, and have one of the most efficient cultures on earth.

                    In all my time in and out of Japan, I may have seen a train late once....and that may have been the clock.
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  • Profile picture of the author vbox
    japs been dealing with earthquakes since hundreds of years ago I guess it's pretty much intuitive to build upon racks like this. god bless those buried ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author Liam Murray
    Wow that's great, our road's here in Scotland are not even fixed yet from the Snow last winter!
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Interesting. Japan is cleaning up after a catastrophe and here in the states people are trashing places until they look like before pictures. No pride in this berg - at least not where I am right now.

    Kay - the environment is so messed up right now that they wouldn't know where to start telling us about toxicity. Seriously. Why do you think SO many people have so many terrible diseases. It's not because earth is in its normal state. There is only so much they can do about the pollution from the melt downs, so they are just dealing with it like everything else.

    There is alot more clean up going on around the planet than some people realize. We're inside of the 6th great extinction and it is human caused. Many countries are already implementing regulations, restoration efforts, etc to stop it. The G8 and G20 are meeting in September to discuss scientific research results to see if we can do thing. We have to. People think we're okay because there are so many of us - but we're the dominating species and in ecosystem death, the predominating species are often wiped out or close to it.

    I'm not half as scared of that radiation as I am of Monsanto and their freakazoid corn and soy that they are planting all over hell and back and stuffing into animal and human food in alarming rates. Most countries are banning GMO's but it's proliferating here. Too many top dogs still in bed with anything attached to money.

    I'm expecting after those meetings in September we will be hearing plenty about all levels of clean up and restoration.
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTT
    just wow.... that is very impressive indeed. I wish I would work as hard as this on my IM business lol.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Kay - the environment is so messed up right now that they wouldn't know where to start telling us about toxicity. Seriously. Why do you think SO many people have so many terrible diseases. It's not because earth is in its normal state. There is only so much they can do about the pollution from the melt downs, so they are just dealing with it like everything else.
      But we are supposed to believe there is no global warming cause by our own toxic behaviors? I think in the future this will be known as the period of time when people were so focused on trivia/facebook/twitter/etc they didn't notice the economic and environmental tipping points slipping by.

      Maybe extinction happens when we earn it? If so, I'd think our bank account is growing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam J Wagner
    All countries can learn a lot from how the Japanese people have handled themselves through that horrible disaster.
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