• Power outages (to come)
• Wed. Apr, 27 2011

The government has decided not to introduce daylight saving time as a way to address the expected electricity shortage this summer, amid worries about the huge costs involved and social confusion, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.

With the nuclear crisis at the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ongoing, the government has been considering implementing such arrangements nationwide as part of energy saving measures during summer when electricity consumption tend... [Read]

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• Because stupidity has no borders
• Sat. Apr, 23^rd 2011

Everything is said on the attached picture that I took in 品川駅 on my way back from the Japanese class.

It has been there for some time but I always forgot to take it to put it here.... [Read]

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• 余震
• Mon. Apr, 11 2011

Today, it has been exactely one month since the big earthquake occured. As a good(?) reminder, we enjoyed two nice aftershocks separated by maybe 3 hours only. Those (7+ on Richter scale) came after a nice 7.4 on Thursday night that brought me back to what was going on when I left...

At least, in the light of the big 9.0, my trust in Japanese building has been tested and the buildings passed, I can tell you. So, this is definitely an additional comfort when those よしん:Yoshin(afters... [Read]

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• Earthquake relief initiative
• Thu. Apr, 7 2011

Today, I thought I would share with my readers (if any) the following initiative.

A lot of them have recently flourished throughout the country and maybe this diary would be a good place to help them having some visibility. I also believe this is a good way to illustrate what is going on here and the legendary compassion Japanese carry inside them.

To start with what I hope will turn into a collection of ideas on how you (inside Japan mostly) can help, I wanted to mention the initiative th... [Read]

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