The french media and authorities are acting like f****** tabloids, I can´t believe most of the things I´ve heard.

Sadly the media in Spain are also spreading the same toxic information.

http://www.elpais.com/

Translation from today´s headlines (march 15th, 11:51):

"Tokio, under the menace of radioactivity and a main shutdown"

But the governmnentand and scientific authorities statements on this issue are correct. In France, on the contrary, are spreading alarmism mixed with chauvinistic messages.

I'm totally speechless :(

Yeah, it really isn't helping. Thanks to the Embassy's new advice and all these claims of "apocalypse" (puh-lease!) my folks are urging me to leave, my wife wants to stay put, my children are too young to understand any of it... We've both got jobs we can't really easily take time out from and it's not like we could leave anytime soon anyhow -- my wife's passport expired about a month ago and she still hasn't had time to apply for a new one.

I wouldn't mind leaving now just so that people would stop urging me to leave/stay/pretend nothing's happened, etc. I mean, we can only take so much of it before stress kicks in. And wouldn't it be far better to spend all that media time and speculation on the more important problems; all those people who don't have a roof, who have even less food than we/Tokyo do, who are still searching for loved ones.... This power plant stuff really shouldn't be the center of attention anymore. There are certainly enough qualified experts ready to help deal with anything that happens so let them concentrate on that without all the scaremongering.

I couldn't have said better! Except that for me, stress is already kickin' it, thanks to french news and my mother who is on the verge of totally freaking out and my japanese wife who doesn't understand why we all make so much a fuss about all that when we (common citizens) can't do anything about it...

And I'm in Osaka! I don't want to imagine how it would be if I was living in Tokyo...

I'm not in Tokyo either. I'm in Gunma on the Saitama border so we're possible a tad bit closer to Fukushima than Tokyo (but I haven't bothered to measure that).

Oh and believe me, stress kicked in for me a long while ago. I think that's probably why I keep wanting buy games to take my mind off it and with every single game I want to buy winding up canceled or delayed, It's not getting any better!

What about the power cuts? I take it you're not effected in Osaka right?

So much for the bibles teachings of tolerance.

I think she is probably fake and just wants to annoy people. But with this special brand of christians it can be real hard to discern the real from the parody. It is inevitable that Westboro Baptist Church will claim that the earthquake is god's punishment against Japan because of some reason, probably something about homosexuality.

What a miserable human feeling. People like this give Christians a bad name, even though the majority of us aren't that insane.

She's a fake, guys.

Was trying to gain notoriety for a comedy deal.

Then the death threats came....

She deleted her account and went into hiding.

She should have figured 4chan was big anime fans, eh?

Fake or not, somebody just had an earthquake in her head. And judging by the way she's talking about god makes me think that a tsunami will follow somewhere else...

wot

Anyway, for sure fake. She's not the best actor and gives it away many times in the vid. TBH, I don't know if I think what she's doing is purely insensitive. People seriously think like that, images of Facebook comments and such similar to that but serious have been circulating the Interwebs, and turning out a satire of ignorant religious zealotry in the face of catastrophe...is that bad? Ballsy, that's for sure. Brings attention that people really are that insensitive and self-righteous.

I wouldn't bet on that. There are countless of disgusting videos like that one on the internet, and when things turn out dangerously bad for them, they pretext that it was a joke of course ! Suuure. Anyway, enough talk about her.

Ha, yes, Gunma is closer to the disaster area, that's true. You might also feel more afterquakes than people in Tokyo, right?

I have the same feeling: buying things to keep my mind off the whole matter. Too bad I don't have enough money for that for the moment...

Yes, we are not effected by power cuts in Osaka for the moment. Doesn't prevent chain mails to announce it... I guess there are dumb people everywhere, who will deliberately believe more in a chainmail written by somebody they don't know than in official statements because, come on, everybody knows governments and corporations are nothing but liars...

Don't believe the hype.

Here in Kanagawa Zushi. Power is off now and will be off again later on tonight. Twice a day for my area. Unless we get spared.

What's with the US freaking out? My father keeps calling me about when I am coming back because the US issued an evac to all US citizens. I keep telling him that if one wants to go there are arrangments but it's not like Japan is sinking like a boat.