h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hiya

Just a few words to you, my friends.
Thank you for contacting me with warm message.
You may hear more news about Japan than usual.
It's true, there are many victims and people are having tough time in where Earthquake, tsunami attacked and power station have had damaged.

But Osaka is far from those area (Tokyo is closer than Osaka, if you see map of Japan, you'll see it easily), people in Osaka are SAFE, so AM I.
All we are trying to do is to save electricity, and try to live our life as normal life so that 'finance problem' won't get worse.

As I told you, I have had Japanese problem and it's more serious for me to live here in Japan.
I don't know when I can retype Japanese. Maybe I can trust people around me and I feel safe, then I may be able to get over.

Because sooooooooooooo many information is on media, I can't find which is reliable or not true... Sometimes, overseas medias report much more useful for me to get latest information... Some media still repeated the moment of the FIRST TSUNAMI attacked the area which was happened LAST WEEK. I, and people here need the latest news and our local news, because we don't get any local news, that's also serious problem cos we don't know if there will be kidnapping, murders...... in our area.

Anyway, Thank you so much for thinking of our country and of me

Taamyu

Good to hear from you Taamyu, and to hear that you're safe. Continued

A

Hello Taamyu

On behalf of Jim and myself, to send our best wishes and that we are both glad that you are safe and well.

I have sent an email with reliable bbc links and hope that they will be of help.

Warmest wishes and regards
Katrine

Hi BigAl,
Yes, I'll try to keep posting message.
At the moment, this is one of the most comfortable places for me to relax myself.
I registered one of Japanese blog sites, but it's for response to my friends' blogs, though I can't put any comments in Japanese

It's a lovely day today here in Osaka.
There are so many rubbish reports on Japanese media.

Hi Kat
Thank you for thinking of me, so thank for JIM, too
Believe you me, I set my computer in UK time and my home Page of the browse is the Guradians (UK newspaper) and I subscribed the bbc news letter, too though I never do that in Japanese media

But it'll be very useful if you post some of information here or sent them to me

Well, I'm still alive

Thank you for all you have done for us/me

Taamyu

Hello Taamyu,

I will pass on your thanks to Jim when I hear from him next and I will try and keep you up-to-date on what is happening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12768645

Hi Taamyu!

Glad you are OK!

Hope all your family are OK too!

Very bad thing for Japan! Condolences where neccessary....


GT

Hi Kat,
for the link
I am okay. Do not worry as far as the disaster attacking is concerned.

GT
Thank you for your message
I'm fine. Fortunately all my family members have already been in the heaven I don't have to worry about my family memebers

Now they said that soooooooooooooo many foreign ppl are moving to my area, Osaka or Kyoto and far from Tokyo

It's really strange, the government says that the area near nuclear power plants are safe, the dose of the food is harmless for ppl's healthy, then why the government insists people near there on refuging from the plants, or tell how to protect from the radiation reacts?

Funny thing is that medias try to tell the present info of the places that ppl being THERE NEED, not for us, but they haven't got any electricity source expect for maybe short wave.
No TV... how to get the information via TV

And they never say about the wild animals, stray cats and dogs.... animals who are there. I'm not a PETA, but people always forget minority of the society, so the animals when we have disaster
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By the way,
apart from the disaster...
I still can not type Japanese
This time, it takes longer for me to recover than usual.
Now, I even don't feel not to see any signs written in Japanese, noisy chattering Japanese outside annoy me so much.
It's no problem to post here, but it's a disaster for me...! lol I can't contact any Japanese who don't understand English or French...
one silly woman who caused actually me this problem this time told me that even I could type Japanese, it was better for her to contact in English because she didn't have to read between the lines with my English message This makes me more and more frustrated. And that's why I refuse Japanese more than before..
One thing I'm really worried is that if I refused ENGLISH
Please cross all your fingers for me not to forget English.
I think I won't forget because you're here

It's really tough for me (so-called minority from the Japanese society) to live in Japan.
I do love my home town and some Japanese. They are special. Most ppl can't understand me. I KNOW. So, it makes me more and more negative

Anyway,
Thank you for reading my murmuring


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Hello Taamyu.,

Here is another link and I hope that it will be of help, and it's of the latest news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12802335