Destroy All Onions!

It’s about time for bed. Not a lot to report today, as once again I spent all of it inside, watching the coverage on tv, most of which I wrote about earlier. There were no more on-screen arguments on NNN, which was a shame. As the day has gone on, the news has alternated between pictures of the destruction in the north, diagrams of how nuclear reactors work, and reports of trains running or not running. Well, and one cardboard model showing how the sea bed had shifted. Where the western media like to use computer models for everything, the Japanese TV prefers to hold up cards or models, or even write things on a whiteboard (which took ages, because Japanese is so complicated to write).

The planned power cuts never did come to this area, but apparently my happen tomorrow. But another insight into the mentality was provided by the fact that Marty had to submit his tax return this morning – the deadline was not extended unless you lived in a town that had been impacted by the tsunami. This may be because the government is now even more desperate for money, but it’s still a bit wierd.

In other news, the Belfast Telegraph were in touch today, and included some of my stuff in this report. BBC Northern Ireland also called for a chat. Don’t know how to follow that, so I won’t. G’night.

Tags: Earthquake, Tokyo

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