Japan Pensioners volunteer to help at Fukushima
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13598607

:salute: God bless them. I think that Tepco should seriously consider their requests. :yep:

Yes, :salute:

That's a hard decision to make IMHO.

Tepco management is a bunch of gangsters and should commit collective harakiri. Ten days ago or so it was reported that they knew from all beginning on that they had three complete core meltdowns at Fukushima within the first 16 hours after the Tsunami, following them live while taking place, so to speak - and they lied and lied to the government about it, and to the public, and lied and lied and then lied more.

Line them up at the wall, all of them. Delaying the information on three meltdowns for several weeks and hide it from the nation, is no peccadillo.

Not disputing what your claiming Sky but I'd feel a lot better/convinced if I saw some proof.

When considering potential consequences in hiding this kind of things... I don't know what Japan's law says on this but in my opinion it's uncomfortably close to treason. They put their own best ahead of nations.

Tepco themselves confirmed it at a press conference, news says. Just one link (and not the one I had a week ago, I do not find that one anymore):

http://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompak...estaetigt.html

Also, it is the only "theory" that explains the symptoms of the various events like leaking water, explosions, pumped-in water dissapearing and spiking radiation levels at certain times, said German and internation experts for nuclear technology.

The latter is common business for all corporations threse days: they all are truly-non-national and sell to whomever pays best.

On the first part of what you say, use Google for some description of the Japanese system of party poltiics and company block building. Then you will see that Japan neither has a democratic state order, nor has a free market. The block-building amongst companies to form united fronts against foreign companies, and the alliance between the economy and the conservative party, remind of Yakuza-kind of structures.

On Europe after WWII, I said they were demoicracies that have stopped to be that, and turned ionto oligarchies and plutocracies. On Japan I say after WWII it never has been a democracy in the understandiong of the Greek origin in the first. That'S why I must always smile when somebody claims that it functioned so well when America brought democracy to Japan. That is a great American self-deception. :)

First one bringing me to this kind of thinkling was my mentor, trainer, and teacher, a Japanese. Later I found confirmed what he said in several different readings and reports on a multitude of issues. In the words of my mentor: "Japan never was a democracy. Japan never stopped to be just Japan." It is unique a culture in a multitude of aspects.