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A professor from Tokyo University (number 1 in the country) gives his emotional testimony at the Diet on July 27th.

He’s ‘shaking with anger’ at TEPCO and the government; they have yet to release an official estimate of total radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant explosions and subsequent meltdowns. And I’m sure they won’t; sweep it under the rug. Or as they say in Japan; if it stinks, put a lid on it.

Professor Kodama’s Radioisotope Center has determined:

- Based on thermal output, Fukushima is 29.6 times the amount released by the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.
- Based on uranium equivalent, Fukushima is 20 Hiroshima bombs.
- The radiation from a nuclear bomb will decrease by one-thousandth
- The radiation from a nuclear power plant will only decrease by one-tenth.

And this problem isn’t just going away. Every week, they ‘discover’ more food, water, and waste irradiated covering more area. They’ve only just now discovered this contamination because they’ve only just now started checking.. 4 months later.

A big shout-out to EX-SKF; Amazingly, the only resource providing updated, bilingual news on this deteriorating situation. Also, to tokyobrowntabby for providing the English translation of Kodama-sensei’s testimony.

A very sad example of how the people in Fukushima have been abandoned by the Japanese government. It’s becoming obvious the ‘leaders’ were, and still are, completely over their head. One of affects of non-experts being appointed to positions requiring expertise. A common practice in Japan.

Also worth reading:
- Radioactive Rice Hay in Tochigi: 106,000 Becquerels/Kg Cesium – July 25th
- Radiation in Japan Spreads: Wheat, Rapeseeds in Fukushima, Rice Hay Outside Fukushima Far Exceeding Safety Limit – July 24th
- Over 2,600 Meat Cows Suspected of Being Fed with Radioactive Rice Hay – July 23rd
- Radioactive Beef from Tochigi Prefecture – Discovery Follows Hayakawa Map – July 23rd
- 240 Children in 3 Nursery Schools in Yamagata Prefecture Ate Cesium Beef – July 19th
- Radioactive Cesium from Shiitake Mushrooms Grown Indoors in Date City, Fukushima – July 15th
- Beef from Fukushima to Be Tested (Somehow) in Fukushima from Now On, But It’s Too Late For School Kids in Yokohama – July 12th

These are all articles from Japanese sources. With English translations. Read and weep..

An interview with a minister of a small church in Chiba, Japan. Mr. Suzuki is tattood, pinkyless, and basking in the glow of God’s love. Because ‘Jesus loves him for who he is’; an ex-member of the feared Japanese mafia – the Yakuza.

See the video interview here and read the article by Captain Japan – From Crime to Christ: Former Yakuza Sees the Light.
Watch in stand-alone page with 720×430 video; W A T C H – B I G G E R !

Originally released in 2004.

I’ve had my issues with YouTube in the past, but they’ve definitely bumped-up their quality of encoding recently. Not quite Vimeo, but pretty damn good.

I started re-encoding some of TokyDV’s ‘classics’ in 16×9, high definition (well, online HD). But with original 4×3 aspect ratio content, I’m always left with two ‘black bars’ on both sides of the video. This annoys me. I’ve squeezed 4×3 clips into 16×9 before, but it stretches and distorts the content.

To omit of the black bars, I shifted the video content to one side and used the remaining area for something I call an ‘add panel’, or ‘advidisement’. But this space doesn’t only have to be for adds (although, that’s probably what it’ll become); see what I’ve done with the World Trade Center Tribute, or collaboration videos with Tokyo Reporter. There are a number of uses. Although, depending on what’s in the space, it could be just annoying.

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