I dont know Yvsa.
Right now we still dont know exactly what caused it.
Probably it will be a gas leak but who knows what happens next?
According to the Japanese govt, these things dont happen in Japan.
"its very safe"
There are about 2 million Koreans, Chinese, Europeans, Australians and Americans in Japan.
Over the last 20 years, anti-foreigner rhetoric and laws have been on the rise.
Foreigners are leaving Japan in record numbers. The Japanese tourism industry revenue is slightly below that of Afghanistan.
They cant pay people to come here.
The Mayor of Tokyo recently described foreigners living in Japan as "sneaky thieves." He then said that a Japanese negotiator who was the target of a terrorist bombing "had it coming."
They recently amended their visa and immigration laws to make it even tougher for people to live here and if they overstay their visas, they made it impossible to ever come back.
No, I dont think all Japanese hate foreigners. However, the last two generations of Japanese were so brainwashed by the govt that they honestly dont realize that they are part of the planet Earth.
Japan, materially, is the same as America. The people who live here dont know this. Their schools dont really teach history before yesterday.
They do so many things without thinking about it.they wear our clothes and eat our burgers and drive our cars and talk on our cellphones and type into our computers, but they dont realize that these are the elements of our culture.
they will talk about how dangerous america is and how our schools are just violent free-zones of mayhem, how we are all drug addicts and wife beaters and rapists and stupid and lazy and we have no knowledge of morality because we dont put our jobs before anything else in our lives, etc, etc,etc..
They dont KNOW these things about us, they just SAY these things about us to each other without thinking, the way we say "hows the weather?"
Here is a sample conversation between two middle aged japanese women on the train :
A so where did you get married?
B in hawaii
A oh was it nice?
B Oh yes, the beach was lovely.
A Have you ever been to america?
B No. have you?
b no
A well, its so dangerous, isnt it?
b Oh yes.
If you ask woman b if she went to pearl harbor, she'd say "whats that?"
I guarantee it.
There are tribesmen in the African bush who are more in touch with reality.
They say the most insulting things imaginable, and yet, because they have been brainwashed, (and they really, truly have been,) they honestly dont mean the terrible insults that they casually spit out when they DO speak english.
My first week here my boss patted my belly and said "oh, you are very fat."
I was so shocked and taken by surprise, I didnt sream obscenities and break his nose.
The guy claims he doesnt speak english and couldnt help me when I needed help, but he manages to insult me horribly during my first week with a perfectly worded english insult.
So, I take particular delight in correcting their incorrect assumptions about America whenever I get the chance.
My favorite was telling them about the American public school policy of no cellphones on the school grounds.
(Over here the kids just have their cellphones out on their desks!)
You should have seen their chins drop!
