Is our barbarians’ English better suited to efficient, emergency communication? Read what Minae Mizumura said in regard to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: One unlikely side-effect of the Japanese crisis has been a new critique of our use of honorifics. One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they [...]
Categories: Culture,Environment
Tagged: Brownie, Fukushima Daiichi, honorific, insider, Japan How to talk to a tragedy, language, Minae Mizumura, nuclear disaster, outsider, TEPCO, Yukio Edano
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- 18 April 2011 – 11:09
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- By BrainiYak
“Tsunami, here, in Japan?” After Japan’s 9.0 magnitude quake, I wondered why anyone would position a nuclear power plant in a violent earthquake zone, where a tsunami might hit it. It turns out the planners and regulators were just categorically stupid: Yukinobu Okamura, a prominent seismologist, warned of a debilitating tsunami in June 2009 at [...]
Categories: Environment,Ethics,Science
Tagged: 869, 9.0. diesel, Chico Harlan, cooling system, David Nakamura, earthquake, Fukushima Daiichi, generators, Japan, Japnese nuclear plant's safety analysts brushed off risk of tsunami, meltdown, radiation, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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- 24 March 2011 – 08:38
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- By BrainiYak