tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post6243965025202923223..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: Volunteering with Peaceboat in IshinomakiJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-43013397915506386642011-10-24T13:57:48.265+01:002011-10-24T13:57:48.265+01:00Thanks for the description of your experiences. M...Thanks for the description of your experiences. My wife and I are going up on Friday October 28 for a week's volunteering with Peace Boat in Ishinomaki. Hopefully the weather will be a bit cooler than down here in Tokyo...<br /><br />RichRich Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808932457785499564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-21010691148951062402011-07-27T03:08:55.409+01:002011-07-27T03:08:55.409+01:00Well doneWell doneEliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-16150420445987615442011-07-22T15:59:53.705+01:002011-07-22T15:59:53.705+01:00And a lot of the media, especially The Japan Times...And a lot of the media, especially The Japan Times, have begun to almost exclusively focus on nuclear matters to the detriment of the tsunami survivors and their grieving relatives.<br /><br />That said, the politicians were at it too - jockeying for power instead of organising the aid programmes the tsunami survivors desperately needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-37549040282868570962011-07-22T09:24:18.449+01:002011-07-22T09:24:18.449+01:00Hi Nancy,
Nice to meet you too.
We are tentativ...Hi Nancy, <br /><br />Nice to meet you too.<br /><br />We are tentatively looking at the 26th Aug - 10 Sept but might slip by a week (and indeed Peaceboat may change their schedule, which isn't yet fixed that far ahead).<br /><br />Perhaps it's not the time for smart comments about the tsunami finally knocking them into the 21st century as regards equality, but I'm tempted...James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-76260430226823525312011-07-21T10:30:44.321+01:002011-07-21T10:30:44.321+01:00Great post you guys. Thank you for keeping me sane...Great post you guys. Thank you for keeping me sane last week - it seems a bit unreal being back in Tokyo when this time last week we were watching the tide come in over the pier and those poor people were living in 3 rooms in a condemned building. Did you see that Jannick said they are now letting wimmin on the boats? Desperate times call for desperate measures! Let me know when you are going up - we are trying to work out a weekend to go back up. The invite is still there for the pizza btw.Nancy Jenkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-65677615679613404042011-07-21T07:37:52.825+01:002011-07-21T07:37:52.825+01:00Maybe it did not come across sufficiently clearly,...Maybe it did not come across sufficiently clearly, but my glibness was generally aimed at the Fukushima inconvenience (which was massively exaggerated in the overseas media), not the tsunami - which was obviously a huge disaster, but which was largely ignored in comparison. Of course even from the former, a lot of people in the immediate neighbourhood have lost their homes and livelihoods, but they didn't lose their lives...James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-90292004904925671482011-07-21T07:08:34.063+01:002011-07-21T07:08:34.063+01:00As someone who criticised you for sounding too gli...As someone who criticised you for sounding too glib about the disaster after it happened, I'm pleased to see this. <br /><br />It is a disaster on a remarkable scale.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04108945551064939734noreply@blogger.com