The Most Dangerous Place in the world: Sitting in front of your TV.

This gets a bit ranty, but here is an update for people who don't know how to find reliable news sources (sadly, a genuine problem):

Today: Ground crews began working on cooling the plant. TEPCO (the power company) hopes to restore power to the cooling systems as soon as tomorrow, and if any of you saw the American news talking about workers at the plants sacrificing their lives to work on the problem, I am happy to confirm that is total bullshit.

If you haven't figured it out on your own yet: STOP WATCHING CNN, MSNBC, and (do I even have to say?) FOX NEWS.

Yeah...that's not where Sendai is...Not even close. SHIBUYAEGGMAN...is a night club in Tokyo.

 If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: WATCH NHK WORLD.
It's online, streaming, FREE, and available in 18 LANGUAGES.
Here's the link:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html

Some fair questions from cynics:
"Why can't I watch my countries news?"
-Answer:
1. Your countries news station can't name more than 3 cities in Japan, and even if they've BEEN to Japan, probably couldn't point to TOKYO on a map. You want to trust them?
2. Your news pundits are on a 24-hour news cycle. That means they have 3 minutes of actual news updates, and 23 hours, 57 minutes of POINTLESS CONJECTURE. What do they do in that time to keep discussion interesting? They talk about Chernobyl, and minuscule amounts of radiation understandably emanating from the damaged plant, without maintaining any journalistic, responsible sense of context. i.e. EVERYTHING emits radiation.

"But you can't trust Japanese news, wouldn't they cover-up how bad the situation is?"
-Answer:
Every country's media has an agenda. You may want to side with your country out of blind patriotism, or because you don't speak Japanese, but I do.
1) I am not Japanese. I do not have any nationalistic loyalties.
2) I have read TONS of articles, and watched HOURS of news in Japanese, and I have no reason to believe they are covering anything up. I have seen everything they have reported, confirmed by scientists and professors from Japan, America, and England, and if you can't trust an American nuclear engineer's opinion, why the fuck would listen to Glenn Beck?

I won't pretend to be the first foreign resident in Japan to point this out but:
If we here living in Japan are calm, collected, and moving on with our lives, isn't it strange that foreign communities are freaking out, hoarding supplies, buying iodine pills, etc.? What's the difference between these people and me? I don't watch the shitty mainstream media in other countries.

This is the internet age. You don't understand nuclear physics, the difference between radiation and radioactive material? Neither did I, until I looked it up and studied it. Don't have an internet connection? Go to a library. There is no excuse to let yourself be led into fear, except laziness.
If you want to understand what's going on in Fukushima, here is a video made to explain the crisis to Japanese children. (The translation isn't perfect, but it's not bad either) It's actually quite witty and may just cheer you up! So please watch!



Now... don't you feel better?
Have a great day!