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I am referring to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant where the the Japanese Government has given it a grade of serious danger equal to Chernobyl.

Here is the latest,

Now the Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government’s policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the National Police Agency, and METI to combat “rumors” deemed harmful to Japanese security in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

The government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality.

Source: http://japanfocus.org/-Makiko-Segawa/3516

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So what? Every government is censoring their media, or were you thinking that US is some god-blessed exception? LOL

 

Anyways, I'm not concerned even a bit about that memos and request. The government has to be in some control over situation. What is much more disturbing and important to me is that they are poisoning Pacific Ocean with their nuclear wastes which the nucler operator didn't want to recycle for decades out of greed. OK, I read Dogs and Demons book afterall and understand how japanese govs and business work so this case is totally in line with their usual way of solving things. But this time it's not like their own problem only, they are giving poison to all the Oceania and American coast!

Yes they have been through all those catastrophic events, their economy is hurt and they can't even use the Treasury notes because US  "not recommend" them to. I fully understand and feel for them! They do not want those very huge costs to utilize the wastes (which now is becoming mandatory due to events and publicity) so they deciced to use Fukushima disaster as simple excuse and "write off" the wastes to the ocean? It's no different from what like some embezzlers using fire events for. Why WE all should pay the price for their own greed and failures? Why American media so silent about this, what's national interest here? Is it some sort of agreement to keep Japs from selling US debt? I don't know surely why, but this is so sick and wrong :



While against this kind of stuff.  I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing it specifically for the reasons stated.

That the information is just "Really wrong".

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2988/is-nuclear-power-safe



Panic would definitely make things worse.