03-18-2011, 04:38 AM
quote:Way over due on the request. Just hard for me to understand why experts are not already helping. the experts sure have a lot to say on the news, talking heads. Better use would be to put their heads into how to save Japan now.
Originally posted by Kapohocat
I saw this AM that Japan has asked for US Technical support.
I have visited Japan twice, both times for about a month. I really agree with KathyH about the saving face and appearances mattering with the Japanese people. It is such an honorable society that this must be so hard for the people to not feel they can trust their government. Honor and pride are really important. Dishonesty is really not taken well and is thought to be shaming and a very bad reflection on Japan. So to admit that the gov't is withholding info to them reflects on Japan's image. Hard cultural stuff to go along with the devastation. Those poor people. Having been on that coast and in Sendai up to Misawa I find it hard to wrap my mind around the images of those beaches and towns now.
I posted before and after photos on another thread here on punaweb, but worth posting here again. REALLY worth watching:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...l?ref=asia
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