Update on last night's 7.1 earthquake

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• Tornado near Tokyo kills one, injures dozens

  Sun May 6, 2012
  • Tornadoes are not so very rare in Japan: they happen every year or so, most often in the two or three prefectures immediately north of Japan (Ibaraki [or Ibaragi], Tochigi, Miyagi) and others (Chiba, Kanagawa) in the vicinity of Tokyo and in the northernmost island, Hokkaido.

• Thousands march as Japan shuts off nuclear power

  Sat May 5, 2012
  • unkn0wn1: With "big fish," you can't be referring to whales, can you?

• Then and now: The 2011 Japan tsunami

  Mon Mar 5, 2012
  • watergirl1039: The disaster was physically not national in its effects insofar as the worst effects of the earthquake were limited to the northeast of Japan and the most destructive tsunami to certain areas of the northeast coast.

• Fukushima radiation headed across Pacific Ocean

  Mon Apr 2, 2012
  • Tao of wow: Be that as it may, SomeDude68. and the sites cited are calling cover-up; your comment speaks only to the play given the available evidence, rather than the availability thereof.

• Fukushima radiation headed across Pacific Ocean

  Mon Apr 2, 2012
  • SomeDude68.: I really don't think you agree: the point of my post #5.1 was that there is no cover-up.

• Fukushima radiation headed across Pacific Ocean

  Mon Apr 2, 2012
  • Dustin-2155694: I assume you're referring to stories like http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/14/9453896-wild-monkeys-to-help-detect-radiation-from-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant and others that you can find if you search for, e.g., "Japan monkey Fukushima" using Google.

• Japan issues gloomier forecast for future tsunami threats

  Sun Apr 1, 2012
  • Momus2009: Whereabouts did you live that you are able to say "There's plenty of room inland all over the island"? There are certainly plenty of mountains and there may well be room in Hokkaido--I've never been there--but I've never seen a habitable place in Japan that has "plenty of room." Almost …

• Fukushima radiation headed across Pacific Ocean

  Mon Apr 2, 2012
  • Dustin-2155694: "We are all being dosed with unnatural amounts of radiation from Fukushima, it is absolutely amazing we aren't all raising hell about what is happening there."

• Fukushima radiation headed across Pacific Ocean

  Mon Apr 2, 2012
  • SomeDude68.: I looked through some of the links you provided (mostly numbers 5 & 6) and found a lot of ranting about cover-ups, lies, and so forth, but all of the information and links provided therein have been published in the "mainstream colluded media" already.

• Japan issues gloomier forecast for future tsunami threats

  Sun Apr 1, 2012
  • takenaka: From the second paragraph of Wikipedia's English entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-9): "And according to Demerath (2001:138), 64% do not believe in God, and 55% do not believe in Buddha."