Here’s some appalling tsunami footage. It’s a little under six minutes of footage. The last minute or so appears to show a lot of humans in the water.
I wonder if jishuku is consistent with creating the kind of demand that Japan’s needs to create jobs and rebuild? Remember when Bush told us to go shopping?
Every day brings worse news.
I’d wondered also about what appeared to be bobbing heads in the water being swept along at a high rate of speed. Horrifying, just horrifying.
I must say jishuku seems like a far more civilized way to deal with immense tragedy than “go shopping.” Or the real emotional (and economic stimulant) response of many Americans after 9-11, which was “Let’s bomb the hell out of someone. Doesn’t much matter who.”
Not that people paid much attention to Dubya’s shopping advice, or helped out much in the subsequent war effort; beyond the utility (?) of the specific strategies, this also shows Japanese with far more of a collective sense of civic responsibility than is imaginable in this country.
Is it just me or does the font look smaller on this site in Firefox 4?
Horrible. With this sort of devastation happening all over northern Japan, some radioactive water is way down on the list of their problems.
Seems like the person who shot that video is lucky to be alive… wow.
keep posting…its great..
for the NYT you sure link to it a lot.
And no kudos for the Secretary of State for carrying Obama’s water on Libya yesterday on MTP?
you complain a lot, Ed.
Remarkable. The photographer must have thought his/her building would surely collapse into the flood. How any building survived that force is beyond my understanding.