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“Don’t panic!”“What else is there to do?”
[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaQLYPf5hM'] The video below was taken March 15 and concerns the lack of information and news about a third explosion at Fukushima (see the Wikipedia...
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Why are the Japanese such stoics? 2
This is a follow-up to an earlier social commentary post on the subject of Japanese stoicism in the face of the disaster. In that post, I wrote that a key to understanding Japanese behaviour is their...
View ArticleU.S. Navy a good ‘tomodachi’ / Ship springs into action right after quake,...
This article makes a welcome change from the articles and posts denigrating those foreigners who fled Tokyo or the country early on in the disaster. I like the title: I think for Japanese people, the...
View ArticleTo stay or to go? Different value systems
This is not a news update but a commentary. In the early days following the earthquake and as the Fukushima crisis was evolving and information was still hard to come by, many foreigners fled Japan....
View ArticleEvacuation turns into chance to help victims | The Japan Times Online
More on the “fly-jin”. I don’t think this is a clear-cut, black-or-white matter, that those who “flew” were irrational cowards while those who stayed were hard-headed realists loyal to Japan, their...
View ArticleForeign student exodus / At least 4,330 have left due to quake, nuclear fears...
Wimps! And yet again, we see the power of family pressure to leave. According to my painstaking research (viz. 10 mins of TV + reading a coupla online news articles), I’ve concluded that the #1 reason...
View ArticleWhen Japanese want to be flyjin |世論 What Japan Thinks
Jumping on the bandwagon, indeed! This survey has nothing to do with the recent earthquake, tsunami, or nuclear crisis. It is just a survey of homesick Tokyoites! The title here is just a poor excuse...
View ArticleMedia starting to tally the economic effects of foreigner flight | The Japan...
The “flyjin” story has legs, it seems. After reading Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr, a number of years ago, I’m not convinced that tourism from overseas has ever been all that great or economically...
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