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Kan pledges to build 70,000 temporary houses (with comment)

Kan arrived in the prefecture on board a Self-Defense Force aircraft on Sunday morning. He visited Ishinomaki city hall for talks with Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai and Ishinomaki Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama.

Governor Murai asked for sufficient assistance for people who are going through immense suffering following the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.

Mayor Kameyama requested that temporary housing be built as quickly as possible for those who have lost their homes.

Kan said the government has set an immediate goal of building 70,000 temporary houses and will speed up construction as much as possible.

The prime minister said the government will convene a panel of experts this week to study a blueprint for reconstruction. He asked the Miyagi governor to convey requests from affected areas as well as the whole idea of reconstruction.

Governor Murai told reporters that fishery and agriculture are the key industries in the affected areas, and that he hopes Kan will relate what he saw to the reconstruction panel.

Kan later went up a hill to survey areas that sustained extensive damage from tsunami, and visited evacuees at a shelter.

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#1 Comment

All the people in that area should be given party hats so they can have one last hurrah before they are too tired and sick from radiation poisoning to participate. Better to make a dying man comfortable, then to carry on about his eminent death. Why all the pretending, and busying about? While Rome burns, the people are feeding the fire with plans of rebuilding.

The only chance that Mainland Japanese have for even temporary survival, is to evacuate the entire Island. There is no fixing this in the near term. If the Japanese government cared at all for its own people, they would book every cruise line ship in the world for 3 months out until the entire island was safely evacuated. The Japanese are a homogenous culture, "which is why there are so many still left on the Japanese Mainland". Understandibly they would want to keep it that way by emigrating from the 'land of the rising sun', to the 'land of the midnight sun'. Japan is 145,946 square miles, Alaska is 586,400 square miles. Japans total current population was 127,155,556 'no doubt considerably less than that now'. Alaska's total population is currently around 700,000 -- but why should America have to be the only one to offer up Alaska -- Canada should be called upon to donate their Yukon Territory, and parts of British Columbia. Sure, it would be hard for the Japanese people to be summarily picked up and moved to a foreign land, one that is much colder and more remote than they are used to, but at least they would have a chance at saving their native culture.

Besides the obvious challenges that Japan now faces, there is the uncertain future of even larger quakes racking that area, and submerging the entire island chain. . . volcanic activity aside. ---RR

April 10, 2011

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