Posted on 07/07/2018 8:47:32 PM PDT by American Quilter
Flooding and landslides have claimed at least 51 lives in western parts of Japan, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
Rescuers were searching for 46 missing people on Saturday. Millions have been evacuated across more than a dozen districts, with Japanese officials urging an additional 4.72 million to leave their homes.
Over the past five days, the country was slammed with so much precipitation that rain levels in some areas were two to three times as high as the monthly average for all of July, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Most of the rain had stopped by Saturday night, but the weather service expected flooding to continue.
Among the dead, two elementary-school girls and their mother from the Ehime district were sucked into a mudslide, according to Kyodo news service. Another woman in the same district was found dead on the second floor of a home hit by a landslide.
In Hiroshima, a mudslide set off a fire and killed a child, Kyodo reported. Another man there died when he fell off a bridge into a river. A third man drowned after he was swept into a Hiroshima canal.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told his cabinet on Saturday to take “every measure to prevent the disaster from worsening by taking advance actions.”
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Oops, my mistake. The article’s author is Sara Dorn, not American Quilter!
Sara Dorn is Japanese for American Quilter.
LOL! Hi, Graybeard58.
Will be praying for those who are the victims of this horrible disaster. If they need help I hope they know we will be there for them
“.....an additional 4.72 million to leave their homes.”
Not a small problem.
In Japan it will go smoothly at least. All they have to do is paint lines for the people to follow and get some old folks to direct them in the right direction.
LOL.....
If you mean that they have an orderly society, then you are correct. If you mean something less complimentary than that, then you should feel free to go over there and lend your services.
I work for a company that has offices — my colleagues — over there, and having been there for a couple weeks myself, I would gladly trade the people that live there for an equivalent number of residents in many of our big cities here — it would certainly be a net improvement in overall intelligence and civil behavior.
In the aftermath of the recent devastating Tsunami, lines were painted or cones put up for the people needing aid, and they kept to it. I saw some pictures of the area 1 year after the Tsunami juxtaposed with pictures of New Orleans 5 years after Katrina. I don't need to tell you which one was in much better shape.
My daughter spent her early childhood there. She had a difficult time when we came back to the states because she was use to the order of Japan. With her it was the playgrounds. The Japanese kids line up to go down slides or for swings or such. Here the kids would bully her back and she did not know how to handle it.
Once when I was over there while in the service we went up on a pedestrian bridge to watch all the people showing off in the intersection below with their cars and motorcycles. There were a whole lot of young Japanese kids up there on the bridge. All these young folks started to suddenly move off the bridge. My buddies and I were wondering why when along comes this little old Japanese guy with a uniform on tapping the rail with a club. We moved off to of course. I doubt a little old guy could move a whole group of young folks off a pedestrian bridge by simply tapping on the rail in this country.
I was at Yokota AB in 1983. A friend lost his wallet one night while ‘out on the town.’ He went back the next day to the bar. Someone was sitting on the bench outside, guarding his wallet. He tried to give a reward, but it was refused.
Of course, the same guy was out another night, and looked down an alley where three men were beating on another. The three came after my friend, and beat him, as well. The police told him that it was yakuza, likely collecting money.
The Yakuza has been around a long time and will stay around for a long time to come. Interesting bunch they are. I use to think that they were more overblown than actually relevant, similar to the La Cosa Nostra. Now I know better. They are around, there are a lot of them, and they are more widely spread than most people can imagine.
There was a half burned up Pachinko parlor near use when we moved there in the 90's. It was odd because the Japanese normally tear down and rebuild very quickly. This place just sat there. A guy I knew who was married to a local told me the reason no one would touch it is because it was the result of some turf dispute among local rivals in the underworld (Yakuza). No one would touch the place.
The Yakuza has ties to the Norks. I'm sure they make a lot of money with the illegal trade that goes on keeping Fat Boy Kim fat and happy and drugs and guns coming in Japan.
I live in Japan now working at Iwakuni currently, and yeah this nation is very orderly and safe to the point I can leave my house unlocked without the fear of my things being stolen.
While roaming around Japan for a few weeks last year, we were in Hiroshima. My wife inadvertently left her bag (with ID, money and credit cards) in a restroom. We were sauntering along about 1/4 mile from it through Peace park when an elderly lady who was the attendant came up to us and graciously returned her purse intact. She would only accept our thanks.
We used to “live” in WDC. There the purse would have been “gone” in a split second.
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