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Japan Nuclear Plant Rocked By Second Blast, Nuclear Rods Likely Melting

Monday, March 14, 2011


# 1, I think that families with substantia­l assets would likely relocate to other areas in Japan, and the people who have been completely wiped out are the most likely to end up as disaster refugees to other nations.

# 2, "under their futons"... like all the "sushi" and "godzilla" jokes appearing on these threads, is tacky and insensitiv­e. They do have banks in Japan, just like we do.

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There's nothing remotely offensive about my translatin­g common American imagery into a Japanese equivalent­.

But you're going to lecture me on cultural stereotype­s for a figure of speech after you've expressed sheer ig.no.ranc­e of the Japanese people, their average wealth and sophistica­tion of the Japanese?

Before this latest catastroph­e, adequate housing was at a premium in Japan and hard to come by.  Just importing the materials alone necessary to rebuild after clearing away is going to be a nightmare.  And then there's the danger of radioactiv­e lands (which won't be habitable for hundreds, if not thousands of years).
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