Officials are considering introducing daylight saving time todeal with severe power shortages that could last for months.
Japan has resisted daylight saving time for nearly 60 years. Russia recently dropped daylight savings.
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Illegal immigrants turn themselves in to get away from Nuclear Disaster
A 48 year old illegal immigrant from China, has turned himself in to Japanese authorities. His reason, to escape the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Lin Jian Ming has been illegally living in Japan since June , 2000.
Foreigners leaving Japan skyrocket
Japanese immigration officials say more than 161,000 foreigners have left Japan, via the Narita airport, between March 11 and March 22.
Compare that to the same time last year, of only 20,000, and that’s an increase of eight times.
Also, the number of foreigners coming into Japan, through Narita, has dropped by 60%.
Radiation levels 10 MILLION times normal at Fukushima Daiichi!!!
TEPCo said radiation 10 million times the normal level was detected in water that leaked into Reactor 2’s turbine housing unit!
Workers were struggling to pump out water, but had to evacuate because of the high radiation levels.
Japanese Police being sent in to evacuate more people, Radiation levels too high at Fukushima Daiichi!
Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yuki, announced that national police are being sent in to 20-30km evacuation/disaster zones.
Edano said that radiation levels are so high at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that work must be halted until the contamination can be removed. Soil samples around the area show rapidly increasing radiation contamination.
Japanese government will now evacuate those who want to voluntarily evacuate, but don’t have the means to do so. The national police will try to contact people who are still in the zones that have been designated “stay indoors” zones. All options open.
Medical teams from around the world are now being sent into the zones.
Japanese government expects more “difficulties”. Japanese government admitting that financing for any recovery from the nuclear disaster will be a problem.
Local governments in Japan lost all documentation in Tsunami, computers no help
The coastal towns along the north east coast of Honshu, lost all official documentation regarding their cities, and residents.
Not only “hard copies”, but everything stored on computers. All computers were destroyed by Mother Earth. Basically you would’ve had to store everything of importance inside a old fashioned bank safe.
So much for high tech.
Reports now say Japan tsunami was more than 20 meters high
NHK reporting that after analysis of the range of destruction by the March 11 tsunami, plus the fact that most 10 meter tall sea walls failed, the tsunami must have been more than 20 meters high.
Here in the U.S. that’s 65.5 feet. To help understand how high that is, the average wooden telephone pole sticks out of the ground 30-40 feet high. So the tsunami was as high as two wooden telephone poles.
Retail stores cutting back on power, shoppers in the dark
In Japan, in order to cut back on the usage of electricity, many retail stores are cutting back on operating hours, and on lighting.
Japanese consumers have less time to shop, and in some stores, are shopping in the dark. Stores are keeping most of their lights turned off.
Consumers say they don’t mind, especially because they know it’s due to the triple whammy of disasters that have struck their country.
Trash collection also stopped due to March 11 quake/tsunami
Even in the areas that are on the periphery of the natural disaster areas, in north east Honshu, trash collection has come to a near stand still.
Temporary trash dumps have been set up in parks and baseball fields.
Survivors at emergency shelters getting sick
NHK reporting that survivors of the March 11 quake/tsunami, are getting sick at the emergency shelters.
Officials say they are now taking steps to prevent further spread of a flu like illness.