I take news from Fukushima with a grain of salt. Maybe instead I should take news about the nuclear disaster constantly in progress with a capsule of iodine instead, but I’m not quite there yet.

But where I am is constantly freaked by the news coming from there—news that the mainstream media really, arguably, is not reporting. Japan still grapples with the devastation of a post-quake land.. post tsunami.. Always on edge due to continuous jolts from fault lines. The ring of fire is on fire, and has been since March 2011.

The latest from Fukushima, however, gave me a chill to my core. I ponder over the words from Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese ambassador to Switzerland..  he said another accident in Reactor No. 4 could cause a “final catastrophe of the world”.. 

Also today, another story floated around the world like earthquake debris: A former Fukushima worker believes that the ‘entire country’ of Japan could be evacuated if No. 4 fuel pool collapses.

Hear that? The entire country.
Oh I’m sorry, you’re busy watching the CHERNOBYL DIARIES trailer.. Get back to that, then… 

Words of Murata and this Daiichi worker got immediate attention after translation. Whether anything was lost in translation? I don’t know.. whether it was hyperbole? I don’t know.. Was Murata trying to just get attention of the world on Fukushima? Attention that slipped away steadily since radiation starting pouring out of the reactor and spread across the world.

Oh, and yes, if you’re on a beautiful beach somewhere along the left coast, get ready: The shores will soon be plagued by debris from Japan. It’s already hitting Hawaii and Alaska. 

It is a small world after all.

So raise a glass to luck. And hopefully Murata is wrong and our luck will not run out…

Dubbed the suicide forest, Aokigahara Forest, there are 100 bodies or so a year found by officials .. bodies victims of suicides. Many other souls that perish there go unnoticed for years…

Fear Of Radiation Treated as ‘Psychiatric Disorder’ In Fukushima…

Remember.. this wasn’t supposed to be this fast.. but lots of reports are beginning to be published about debris and wreckage hitting shores much faster than anticipated..

It’s amazing to think.. it has been 1 year since this hell on earth of a Japanese quake and tsunami was unleashed. One year. 

I thought time flew only when you were having fun..?

One year.. do we even remember the people of Japan anymore? Do we even think of the radiation levels.. wonder how much we got here…….12 months is a quick long time.

The New York TIMES reporting what so many already know: The cleanup effort at Fukushima is not going well.. It is confused .. The effort appears sloppy. One worker quoted in the times story says no one knows how even to clean up radiation.. Long term disaster in the making…a generation scarred with radiation for the ages.. 

More on the 7.0 quake, just hitting Japan, hours into 2012

Just as 2012 begins, so does disaster.. a 7.0 quake hits Japan!

Earthquakes from January 1 2011 through September … Watch in March, turn the volume up.. Good video. Hopefully nothing else immense occurs this year.. we’ve had enough.

Intriguing story about scientists publicly saying that the Japan quake was ‘in the air’ a day before it occurred..

The ocean has substantially changed around Japan since March.. and it revealed some unstable faults lines and how it could change earth. Scary stuff..