What Happened to Japan?

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After the traumatic earthquakes in Japan killing an amazing amount of Japanese people, the country and its government was on United States television for a few days afterwards, Now I can't find anything. BBC news posts nothing, Local news show's nothing, I doubt CNN does, although I haven't seen it lately.

Sorry If I'm out of line, but I, being a huge fan of Asian culture, am worried about why we have just completely stopped "caring"?
 
Because it's technically old news by now.

All the major news surrounding Japan & the disaster has already been reported. What's going on now is just the rebuilding phase & not much of that is seen as "news-worthy".
If you are curious, I'm positive there are blogs/websites surrounding the rebuilding process & that there will be a 6 month or 1 year later report to show the general public what's going on.

Other than that, nobody has stopped caring, it's just not news-worthy anymore.
 
Its like with any type of news, is disappears within a few weeks like it never existed, currently the news here is 100% on the newspaper phone hacking scandals.
 
They had another 7.0 aftershock the other day along with another tsunami warning that was canceled soon after.
 
Welcome to the real world of news reporting, only the popular news is reported, if nothing new is happening, no one continues to report unless there is a public interest or an agenda. Iraq is currently forgotten about too and Afghanistan is currently back in the news because of assassinations (though here in the UK and presumably in many countries, Afghanistan is fairly regularly mentioned due to the ongoing casualties).
Even Libya has been forgotten about other than the odd report about the amount of money being spent and bits and bobs about Gaddafi. Nothing like the day-by-day reporting of the progress of the rebels versus Gaddafi's forces.

A few weeks ago it was the hackers hacking Sony, Codemasters, pretty much everyone (which was so OTT its unbelivable, probably the same amount of hacking was done the past few months as any month, its just because it was suddenly a popular topic due to Sony's blunder, it became suddenly so serious). Now it is the phone hacking "scandals".
There are probably several companies that have been hacked the past couple of weeks which won't have been reported because its not popular news anymore. The silly thing is, only Sony and the National Census were rather serious leaks of important information, all the other reports were relatively minor to the quite common type of attack..which was mostly the leak of non-important information or boring old DoS attacks.
 
Like other kind of news, basically I think they soon disappear and are forgotten if there's nothing appealing about the country, no matter how shocking/daring thing had happened then, the medias are responsible for offering latest reports to let us know what's going on domestically(or around the world).

But if the event that occurred before is so dreadful that we're made obliged to feel mournful about the casualties, unlike what we always see on TV it won't be forgettable.
 
Welcome to the real world of news reporting, only the popular news is reported, if nothing new is happening, no one continues to report unless there is a public interest or an agenda.
Although I think you are mostly right, there is of course an obvious flip-side to it, which is wall-to-wall saturation coverage when a news story is 'live' or 'BREAKING'. The Japanese earthquake was a good example of this, as was the ensuing debacle around the status of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. That said, the news is there if you care to look a bit harder for it. Contrary to what the OP says, the BBC has certainly not stopped covering events related to the tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown (like this for example). Similarly, there are still plenty of other news outlets that are still reporting on events in Japan.

It sounds very like the OP needs to broaden his information base and stop relying on what the mass media spoon feeds... you need to read beyond the headlines; watch more in-depth news programs (like Newsnight on the BBC for example) and not just the early evening news bulletins; read quality papers (plural) and their websites, including their international news sections; make a list of bookmarks of sites that provide links to a wide range of quality journalism (like this for example)... most of all, take a bit of time out of your day to actively explore the vast array of news that's available, otherwise it is not surprising that you are missing out on alot of stuff...
 
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If you really wanna find out what's going on in the rest of the world, tune off the CNN, MSNBC, and FOX (fair and balanced my ass), and watch BBC international or 20/20 or 60 minutes.

News media in America is just pure politically influenced garbage now, and yet people wonder why the youth is getting more and more cynical of the election/political process.
 
I've dug up an old thread I know, but this is an interesting and relevant link comparing images of the Japanese Tsunami of six month ago to how they look today. The airport one is incredible and shows how quickly a nation cane turn things around when they pull together.

http://goo.gl/TtLka
 
I've dug up an old thread I know, but this is an interesting and relevant link comparing images of the Japanese Tsunami of six month ago to how they look today. The airport one is incredible and shows how quickly a nation cane turn things around when they pull together.

http://goo.gl/TtLka

I'm amazed that in some of the more rural of the recent images that there's still quite a large amount of standing water left. You'd have thought that it would have evaporated or drained away by now.
 

Does show a bit how "dedicated" the Japanese people were to try and return the country to how the infrastructure functioned before the disaster. Remarkable work with fixing up the airport. But as TheCracker said, one can presume it'll take quite a while to restore the situation in the smaller areas.
 
Huh. When I saw this thread had been revived I was actually going to post that same link myself. It's heartwarming to see how much has been done out of so much destruction.
 
Great set of pictures!

You're right about the airport. It was awash in all directions!

GTsail
 
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Hey, look! It's JayZ's boat!
 
I watched a special that said Japan's fishing industry where the tsunami hit is at a tenth of what it once was. There was a fishing community that had 20 ships that used to go out and fish every day, and is now down to two simply because the other ships are gone.

There was only lady who came home to find one of fishing ships in her garden.

But the nation has come up with some clever ideas in the wake of the disaster...like having to peddle a bike to pump your gas.
 
We should make everyone do that! Then people won't drive as much (saving fuel) or everyone wouldn't be so fat! :lol:

That'd work. The larger your gas tank - and by association, your arse - then the longer you have to pedal to pump your gas. It all evens out.
 
and here I thought this thread was about how japan is literally shooting itself in the foot thanks in part the low birth and the fact that the aging outnumber the youth.

If you really want more quake news, I would suggest you watch NHK word:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/english

the broadcast(tv and internet) are in english
 
Japan actually did well on the recovery.
They have less electricity and asked the population to help with this.

The got people to dress very lightly in summer and use less energy on airconditioning.
They were asking people to buy new energy saving appliances which they did.
(This actually made consumption great in this time of crisis.)

Now they need to dress warm in winter to save on heating.

So in total, Japan is taking measures since the effects are far from over.
 
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