What a Quake would Do to You (4)

It is quite complex why I am not thinking about leaving. In a way, I really like where I live and I have developed some routines to clean, exercise, eat. That's the ultimate balance. I don't want to give up my comfortable life. In addition, if ordinary Tokyo residents can handle this, why can't I?

Also, after reading some very good link about nuclear plants and radiation, I can pretty much comprehand there is no great danger in Tokyo. For those who lives 30Km radius around the plant, evacuation is necessary, but 250Km away tokyo should be ok.

Life as usual in Tokyo, I ran, went grocery shopping, went to work on bicycle. No one behaves differently from every day life. I was a bit angry with the foreign media coverage, people in Tokyo are trying their best to live the normal life, foreign media are exaggerating for program rating. What is the deal? I had to reply to many friends/relatives' are-you-ok emails. Some friends who's never contacted me for ages wrote me email or facebook messaged me "should I deliver some foods to you?".

Most of the news in Japan are calm and to the point, there is no need to create extra panic. Oh well, on the otherhand, perhaps overly sensentionalization is actually a good thing to push the authority to work harder (for example, the news media in Tanwan miraculously pushed the government to speed up the process of refugee care). This is not happening in Japan, Japanese are very supressed, suffering is expected and accpeted. Delivery of food and materials is kinda slow.

In fact, Japanese society is run by the philosophy of big-state-small-citizen. The existence of individual is to support the bigger picture of the state. The state is taking care of everything, as a citizen, your job is very simple. You only need to be law-abiding, sensible (that is, being a Japanese ;-) and paying tax. You can see Japanese are calm and not losing any manners during this traumatizing time. The authority will sure take care of everything eventually, they think. They are educated this way, they are living this way, they will be doing this forever without coming up with out-of-box solutions.