Rebuilding Japan Proiect Engleza
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Rebuilding Japanor ruining it
Main ideas about the article:
Immediately after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th that crippled reactors at the
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the authorities in Tokyo sent up a vehicle stuffed with
gauges to assess how dangerous the leakage was.
The government abandoned the mission because the vehicle got stuck in traffic . Later,
the government declared the Fukushima incident to be on the same level of seriousness as theaccident at Chernobyl 25 years ago.
Some accusations suggest that the prime minister, Naoto Kan, has comprehensively
mishandled the daunting array of disasters that together make up the biggest challenge Japan hasfaced since the second world war.
For all that, politicians from within his own party, as well as the opposition, are plotting
to oust Mr Kan.
On April 26th Yukio Hatoyama, a former prime minister, held a forum of 64 anti-Kan
parliamentarians from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
Meanwhile, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party is also seeking Mr Kans early
resignation.
None of the main parties has offered a compelling alternative for how to recover from the
disaster.
On April 26th Makoto Iokibe and Jun Iio, the two (non-government) leaders of Mr Kans
new Reconstruction Design Council, laid out their early thoughts on how to rebuild Tohoku.
The same day, Mr Kan announced his decision to appoint an investigative panel into theFukushima chain of accidents.
With some of his party against him, and the opposition unco-operative, it is not even
clear that Mr Kan will get emergency budgets approved by the Diet, let alone be able to promotedecentralisation and sound energy initiatives.
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Terms of article:
To gauge = to adapt to a specified measurement; measure precisely and against a standard
Bureaucrats= an official of a bureaucracy
Decentralisation= the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
Petty= contemptibly narrow in outlook
Damaging= designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
Shortage= the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
Resignation= a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; the act of giving up
To foster= to promote the growth of
Party= an organizatino to gain political power
Blighted= affected by blight; anything that mars or events growth or prosperity
To plot (plotting)= plan secretly, usually something illegal
Abysmal= so deep as to be unmeasurable
Meltdown= sever overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor; resulting in the core melting and
radiation escaping
Swamp= low land that is seasonally flooded
Earthquake= shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting form underground
movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
Gauge= a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of
wire or the amount of rain
Coalition= an organization of people ( or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
Compelling= tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
Reckoned= expect, believe, or suppose; judge to be probable
To emerge=become known or apparent; come out into view, as from concealment
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In my oppinion, Japan's lack of solid leadership isn't limited to any one candidate nor are the
contributing issues that lead up to the current disaster. If the Japanese leaders can't learn this and stop with
the empty finger pointing and endless in-fighting I think nothing will change and Fukushima will be just
one more chapter in the never ending story of Japan's dysfunctional politics.
If Romania would gothrough a problem like that in Japan, it would no longer exist as a country
because we are not prepared nor economically, nor from another point of wiew to cope.
Questions:
What knocked out at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant?
What the government declared after the incident?
What perception people have about the prime minister?
Who is plotting to oust Mr Kan?
Who had created a forum of 64 anti-Kan parliamentarians ?
Who is also seeking Mr Kans early resignation?
What says Katsuya Okada?
What did Makoto Iokibe on April 26th?
What was Mr Kan's decision?
What might help the crisis in Japan?
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