Nuclear Power Plant Damage by Japanese Earthquake

We have been hearing that the damage in the Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima 1 has not been repaired. On Friday, March 11, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 hit northern Honshu Island, Japan at around 3:00 p.m. local time. A massive tsunami followed and at 7:03 p.m. the first emergency declaration was issued. At 8:50 p.m., an evacuation order was issued for residents within a three-kilometer diameter of the power plant. The first, second, and third reactors automatically stopped operating, and all electricity cut off. They lost cooling function.

On the second and third days, hydrogen explosions occurred in the first and third reactors. Radioactive wastes were released into the environment, and radiation levels in the air, water, and foods registered far above normal. Cooling efforts continued, and radiation levels reduced in the environment in the last week of March. However, total recovery of the damage has not been reported as of April 3, 2011. The damage includes the possibility of a core melt down, the worst considerable situation in a nuclear power reactor accident.

When I heard this news in California, my first thought was that this damage would be fixed in one week or so. I thought that at least a concrete plan and schedule would be developed and released in three to five days. Instead, the additional damages were revealed one after another as time went by. The situation has appeared increasingly worse in the last several weeks. It surprised me. The damage and the accident could not be corrected properly in a few days despite the world-class Japanese technology of nuclear power generation.

Although my opinion on use of atomic power as a source of energy is neutral, I do have a concern due to the destructive nature of the power source. I could not help but think people need to make the right decision in using nuclear energy for an alternative energy source. The stories of damages and accidents reminded me an old Chinese story on nature. It was a tale from Zhuangzi. Even though the legs of crane birds are too long, if you cut them, the birds would not survive. Even though the legs of sparrows are too short, if you lengthened them, they would not function. The long legs for crane birds were to keep them dry while standing in water; the short legs for sparrows are for standing safely on the branches of tall trees.

I hope that the use of nuclear power generation is not an attempt to change unchangeable nature: in other words, an action to shorten the legs of cranes or lengthen the legs of sparrows. Otherwise, I hope they would establish comprehensive counter-measures for this kind of natural disaster.




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How to Use Your Eyes

Let us talk about how to use our eyes. You may be puzzled at hearing me say I will teach you how you use your eyes. You would say that you are using your eyes to watch things every day. In martial arts training, the most important, and the very first, thing to learn is how to use the eyes. It may be the first thing and the last thing to learn in any fighting skill. A person skillful at a martial art can easily know if the person he is facing to fight is skillful or not. He learns it from his opponent's use of the eyes.

Let us assume that two Japanese swordsmen are fighting. The skillful person would pay attention first to how his opponent uses his eyes. If his opponent were an experienced fighter, this person's eyes would not move much. The opponent's eyes would be focused on his eyes and would not move, even when he moves his sword. In contrast, the inexperienced person's eyes would follow the motion of his sword as he moves it. If the skillful person found that his opponent's eyes follow his sword's action, it would be easy to win by tricking his opponent.

When I was riding a motorbike, I found that my motorbike was directed in precisely the same direction as my eyes. Riding in the sharp bend of a road with an outside cliff, a rider afraid of falling off the cliff would naturally watch the cliff side. If the rider watched the cliff side, his bike would be directed closer to the cliff side he was watching. In contrast, if the rider is not afraid of the cliff edge and continued watching the direction he is turning; his motorbike would go through the center of the sharp corner and turn smoothly.

Let me bring the story back to the fighting swordsmen. The skillful swordsman could know the next move of his opponent. If his opponent watched his hand first, then his head, his opponent would be thinking to attack his hand first and head second. However, he needed to be careful, noticing his opponent's eye movement. He might be moving his eyes intentionally. If he paid too much attention to his hand and head, he would attack his body side instead of his hand and head. The skillful would be able to judge if his opponent's eye movement is fake or real by watching his eyes.

This would be useful outside of the martial arts realm. One could be careful to ask him a question if he is watching true movement or just the misleading fake action of an opponent's sword. The truth may be hiding behind the visible scene.



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360-Degree Compound Eyes

In my previous job, I was fortunate to meet many respectable supervisors who gave me valuable advice, most of which was very useful. Some of them phrased their advice in analogy rather than in direct suggestions or instructions. I found these analogies very useful, not only at the moment, but also in solving problems I had in my later experience. The most impressive advice was that I should have "360-degree-view compound eyes."

When a person becomes enthusiastic and focused on doing something, he or she tends to be narrow-sighted, leaving the person unable to see anything but the work he is concentrating on at that time. This is the moment in which obstacles are prone to hit from unexpected angles, ruining the work that was the person's exclusive focus. Having 360-degree-view compound eyes enables a person to look at a situation from all angles to better anticipate potential problems.

There is an ancient Chinese fable telling about how danger exists in our lives. Once upon a time, there was an aristocratic politician who enjoyed hunting. One day he went hunting and found a bird that he had not seen before. Wanting to get the bird, he took his bow and arrow and aimed at it.

Suddenly, the aristocrat became aware that the bird was focusing on something. The aristocrat found that there was a mantis on a leaf near the bird. The bird aimed a blow at the mantis. Taking a closer look, the hunter noticed that the mantis was trying to hunt a locust on the wood trunk.

The mantis was hunting the locust, and the bird was aiming at the mantis. The aristocratic hunter was trying to shoot the bird. He shuddered with horror because he felt that somebody or something else was trying to hunt him. He threw away his bow and arrow as he started to run. The hunter only wanted to get away from the place as soon as possible. A park guard caught him on his way back to his horse. This occurred in the national park where hunting was prohibited. The hunter was right; the park guard had been watching him as he focused on the bird.

The guard released the aristocrat because he was not a professional hunter. The aristocrat was lucky to learn to be wary of things behind him. He needed to learn to pay attention to all of his surroundings including both sides, the front, and behind him. He would not have gotten caught if he had compound eyes capable of seeing in every direction.




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Oriental Concept of Causality

My grandmother has been dead for 40 years now. I have not thought about her much until quite recently. Since I started to write articles and blog posts on Buddhism, Taoism, and Oriental philosophy, I have often recalled what my grandmother told me when she was alive back when I was just a little boy. Today, I remember that my grandmother used to mention about causality. She often said that good things would come to a person if he does good things to others. In contrast, she said that bad things would fall upon those who do bad things.

Asian concept that is largely based on Buddhism theory calls it "Inga Ouhou." The direct translation of this Japanese expression is "causality." The English proverb "What goes around comes around" has the same concept as "Inga Ouhou."

In Hiroshi's neighborhood, there was a vacant house. The house had been empty for several years. Somebody bought the house and started to repair it. In the process of repairing the house, the new resident cut the big tree in his backyard. Hiroshi was not an expert of shamanism. He had minimal knowledge about this spirituality concept. He believed that everything on earth has a spirit. Being a part of the house or the land to which the house belonged, the tree must have a spirit for maintaining balance of nature. Hiroshi hoped that nothing bad would happen to the new owner.

Hiroshi did not exactly know what had happened, but the new owner stopped maintaining the front yard. Soon they stopped cleaning the house walls and the sidewalks in the front yard.

After about a year after the new owner moved in, Hiroshi found the house was vacant again. It appeared as if the new owner ran away from the house. Hiroshi knew there was no logical explanation regarding the causality of the them abandoning their home, but he was absolutely sure it was the result of the new owner cutting down the tree.

The story ends here. My friend Hiroshi still did not know what exactly happened to the new owner. I can imagine my grandmother would tell me there's no doubt the owner's problem was caused by him cutting the tree. My grandmother would say that one never knows what protects the house, land and the surrounding nature. If one destroys the object that gives protection, the protection is lost.

My mother never believed my grandmother's words when she was young. I remember whenever my mother cut wood in her backyard in Tokyo, there was almost always something unusual that happened. Something unusual includes my father breaking his leg or her son (I) failed examination. It was almost as if driven by an invisible and unexplainable causality.

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Butterfly Dream

While Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosopher, was taking a nap one spring day, he dreamed that he was a butterfly. He enjoyed being a butterfly and flying through the air in this dream. Zhuangzi was not aware that he was dreaming and actually believed that he was a butterfly. Suddenly, he woke up and discovered that he was Zhuangzi. As he thought about his dream, he could not decide if he was dreaming about being a butterfly or if the butterfly was dreaming about being him.

This is the most beautiful story written by Zhuangzi. It is a picturesque description of a nap on a spring afternoon, a dream, and a butterfly. The original Chinese work is a poem rather than an article. This story also contains profound implications. The philosopher describes the inner world of the human mind, which is subconsciously aware that the world is transient like his dream of the butterfly. Whether Zhuangzi is dreaming of a butterfly or a butterfly is dreaming of Zhuangzi, this world is nothing but a hologram that appears in our brain. Therefore, it is not important if he dreams about the butterfly or if the butterfly dreams about him. The butterfly is Zhuangzi, and he is the butterfly. We simply perceive the world in our brain.

This story reminds me of a scene in the movie, The Matrix. Morpheus takes Neo inside the matrix for the first time. In a space that contains nothing but Morpheus, Neo, and two chairs, Neo touches one of the leather chairs and asks Morpheus if it is real.

Morpheus asks Neo what "real" means. He wants to know its definition. He says if what is real can be defined to be anything Neo can feel, smell, taste, see, or sense in any way, what is real is simply determined by electrical signals interpreted in Neo's brain.

We see our world as our own image created inside of our brain. If we saw our world as terrible, horrible, or devastating, we would consider it unbearably awful. In contrast, if we felt our world was a beautiful, wonderful, or pleasant place, our world would become a fantastic place. Some people handle adversity better than others. On the other hand, some suffer more from the same occurrences. Their perceptions of tragedy are different in their minds.

This Zhuangzi story of the butterfly dream provides us with a splendid breathing space. It tells us that if we think the world is a bright place, it will be a nice place. It warns us not to take things too seriously. If you are too pessimistic, the world will become an unbearable place. It does not depend on how it actually is, but on how we see it.

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Multilingual Service For the Mega-Earthquake in Japan -2

On Friday, March 4, an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 9.0 hit northern Honshu Island, Japan, around 3:00 p.m. local time in Japan. A massive tsunami followed this major earthquake. The number of casualties and actual damage has not yet been determined. Although several news media announcements have provided some early damage estimates, I would rather not mention any specific figures until more is known. I would like to express my heartfelt sympathy for the people who lost their lives, their families, and their homes in this natural disaster. I was quite fortunate to confirm the safety of my mother living in Tokyo. She also confirmed that there were no casualties and only minimal property damage among my family or friends.

Cell phone and email services were unable to handle the large increase in use and became overwhelmed in the aftermath of the disaster. Social network sites played a major role in obtaining updated information on this tragedy. My family and I could watch CNN in English, China Central TV News in Chinese, and NHK in Japanese. However, these television stations were only interested in broadcasting information about their own nationalities. NHK focuses on Japanese. CCTV only broadcasts about Chinese living in Japan or visiting Japan at that time. CNN talks about Americans.




While it is understandable for Japanese news media to focus on the safety of their own citizens, I believe we should not ignore the safety of other nationalities living in the disaster area or of foreign visitors. Their family and friends must have been frustrated by the lack of information available in their languages.

I learned about this service by accident. I contacted my translator friend on another work and found she was forming this service. I took part in this service adding Chinese and Spanish posts. They broadcast the most updated information concerning the earthquake and tsunami in many different languages. They are volunteer service of foreign language translators in Japan, and my friend played a leading role in forming this service. Some of the languages provided by the service include English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and more. I was fortunate enough to connect with this service and advertise its benefits using other social network services and my own blogs. The service broadcasts updated information about the aftermath, including information regarding damages, causalities, rescue efforts, and more. Let me show you how the service works:

- You can browse the posts in different languages which show or link to updated information on the disaster in your language.

- If you have specific information you need, post the request in the group in your language. A translator will pick up your post and respond to your request.

- The translation work in relation to this disaster is free, since the group is formed by volunteer translators.

If you hope to access to the detail of this service and the link, please refer to my blog post on March 12, entitled "Translation Help for the People in Need on Mega Earthquakes in Japan.", as the link provided below:
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Anyone who needs his/her urgent message to be translated, in relation to the recent mega earthquake in Japan, please use #honyaquake found in twitter.  http://twitter.com/

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任何人需要翻译他/她的紧急消息，与最近的日本大型地震相关，请使用 #honyaquake。http://twitter.com/

Cualquier persona que necesita que su mensaje urgente sea traducido, en cuanto al enorme terremoto reciente en Japón, por favor use el #honyaquake.  http://twitter.com/
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Multilingual Service For the Mega-Earthquake in Japan

Re-posting for the people who are still in need for language help.

Anyone who needs his/her urgent message to be translated, in relation to the recent mega earthquake in Japan, please use #honyaquake found in twitter.  http://twitter.com/

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Our Daughter Xuer became 2 years old - 2

Mega earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Plant problem are hitting Japan.  I believe that we should not forget relaxation of this kind of time.  I decided to post three more pictures of our dog, Xuer.

I wish these pictures would be able to bring some relaxation and smiles to the people who are suffering.



Xuer wearing all  of her favorite.



She was asked to "sit and stay".  That is why she looks a little tensed.

She looks like a white fox in these pictures.

White fox is a part of God in Japanese Shinto Religion.

I learned recently that a white dog also carries a spiritual power to protect good from evil.

Our family including Xuer, with spiritual power, would like to send our best wishes to the people who are suffering from recent mega earthquakes in Japan.

With regard to Xuer's mysterious spiritual power, please refer to the following posts:

http://zheninternational.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-our-new-family-member-gave-us-1.html
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http://zheninternational.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-our-new-family-member-gave-us-7.html













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Translation Help for People in Need on Mega Earthquake in Japan

Anyone who needs his/her urgent message to be translated, in relation to the recent mega earthquake in Japan, please use #honyaquake found in twitter.  http://twitter.com/

今回の北日本大地震に関連し、外国語のサポートが必要な方はTwitterの#honyaquakeを参照下さい。http://twitter.com/

任何人需要翻译他/她的紧急消息，与最近的日本大型地震相关，请使用 #honyaquake。http://twitter.com/

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Our Daughter Xuer became 2 years old

When I say "daughter", I refer to Our dog, Snowy.  However, she is very important family member.  She is our Lucky White Dog as she gave us this house we all are living.

For the details, please refer to the following posts:
http://zheninternational.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-our-new-family-member-gave-us-1.html
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http://zheninternational.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-our-new-family-member-gave-us-7.html

She became 2 years old on February 22.  My wife, my wife's mother, and I gave her several birthday present.  We, all three, talked and planned together the largest birthday present to her this year.

Since she was brought to this home, she was naughty.  She took down a drape of a window.  She broke several chairs.  She destroyed one sofa and a love chair. After one and half years old, she became very nice.  She does not make any mistake in our house, she does not destroy anything any more.  So, we decided to take out her kennel and give her entire freedom inside of our home.

Only the problem she still has is mails.  She gets excited to see mailmen.  Whenever a mailman comes, she barks like crazy and try to get mails.  It is okay to get mails.  The problem is she breaks mails by biting.  We built special anti-Xuer mailbox and our protection to the mails was complete.  We decided to take away Xuer's kennel.

The position she is sitting in the photo right is the place where she used to have her kennel.  We took it away.  She is now totally free to go anywhere in our home.  She does not have to be put in her kennel when other family members go out.  She is "FREE".





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