Getting information about Japan during this disaster
I’ve been doing my best to relay information to people back home.
The overseas media has been, by and large, both delayed and inaccurate concerning things here. In the best cases, they’ve poorly worded things in such ways that it sounds like dangerous levels of radiation have reached Tokyo (they’ve not). In the worst cases, (do I need to even clarify that it’s Fox News?) they’ve listed a night club in Shibuya, Tokyo, among the nuclear power plants in Japan.
Most of the information I’ve been sharing has come thanks to the tireless efforts of a few bloggers and journalists in Japan who really deserve gifts of sports cars once this whole thing is over. Here’s my list of places to get info (mostly twitter – sorry about the weird twitter links, but I wanted to make it easy for people who don’t usually use twitter).
Sandra Barron
NHK News (in Japanese)
NHK Streaming Video in English
Time Out Tokyo
Michael Gakuran
and his blog with live updates here
Matt Alt
Ambassador John N. Roos
Nicholas Coldicott
Roy Berman
You can also follow me, though it will be mostly retweets of the above and failed attempts at humor
