A Good News Source For Japan Updates

I’m not going to go from posting anonymously on here to having this blog be my personal exposé but there are people in the Japanese prefecture on Saitama and in Tokyo that were as much a part of my life as my blood relatives, having shared my life and having lived with some of them for many years.   The country is in serious shock right now.  It is hard to imagine how anyone who has suffered the severe emotional trauma of just losing everything they know including their homes and many family members & friends then having to immediately overcome that trauma to focus on dealing with the worst crisis of your life time.  But that is what must happen and is happening.   One of the greatest paradoxes of the human condition is that tragedy is often followed by humanity’s finest hour.   Leaders are not born.  They are made.   Japan will recover from this crisis because they must.  And as it pertains to topics often covered on this blog, forget about the ridiculous claims that Japan is going to default on its public debt because of this crisis.  Those people are linear thinkers who do not understand monetary economics.  Contrarily, Japan may very well be the wealthiest nation on earth and they built that success on a tiny land mass with almost no natural resource wealth. 

It sickens me to see this 24 hour “train wreck” corporate ratings game of most mainstream American media sources.  It’s one thing to report the news.  It’s quite another to show and reshow countless times the human suffering and tragedy associated with this crisis and to sensationalize in such a way that it is akin to yelling fire in a movie theatre.  We arrest people for doing that but the mainstream media often thrives on it.   Corporate news’ fascination with the morbid and gruesome is simply a cruel ratings game with seemingly little or no regard for human suffering and no regard to whether they are creating panics. 

The situation in Japan is obviously very grim.  And the nuclear situation seems to be unfolding in slow motion.  Most of this is surely because of the emotional shock associated with such trauma.  The country and its people are still trying to gain their bearings.  It’s easy to point fingers and there was and will be incompetence, but can you imagine losing your spouse, your children, your extended family and friends, and your home and then being asked to go back to work and fix the largest crisis your country has seen in the last seventy years?  If you want to get the best fact-based perspectives on what is going on in Japan, including with the nuclear crisis, I would recommend you consider Japan’s public broadcasting site, NHK.  You know, like NPR that the Republican party wants to defund in the United States so we get all of our news from the corporatocracy.