In the news yesterday

The good news is that the amount of radiation in Tokyo right now is only about half as much as that in Moscow, according to a group of Russian nuclear experts who have come to Japan and measured the level of radiation in soil on the premises of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. With this scientific evidence, they are advising their government to lift the warning against travel to Japan.(Yomiuri Shinbun).

The bad news is that an opposition group within the Democratic Party of Japan are capitalizing on the disaster to pursue their bid to take over the much coveted post of Prime Minister.


Speaking of higher radiation levels, according to an article in a recent issue of a Japanese popular magazine, the amount of radiation measured in a water treatment plant in Tokyo around year 1964, was about ten thousand times higher than it is right now, because it was in the midst of the Cold War, when nuclear experiments in the Pacific Ocean were common events, and the radiation supposedly spread from the South Pacific Ocean. But this fact was not made public back then.


Changing the prime minister and the cabinet now will only further slow down the relief and recovery efforts that appear to be very slow even now.
Don't they realize that now, of all times, is not the right time for a power struggle. It's disgusting and ugly.