Japanese Seniors Volunteering to Work in Fukushima Nuclear Plant

[sleazure]

200 volunteers, so far. Although they're not admitting it, they seem to think risking their own lives is better than wasting young lives to shut down the plant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13598607

 

[james t kirk]

Wow.

That is quite the story.

 

[blackrock13]

Wow.

That is quite the story.

Double Ditto. It makes you pause and think.

 

[wetnose]

Respect. They've earned honor for themselves and their family.

 

[luckyjackson]

Makes you stop and think? That's putting it mildly. In a world of reality shows, Paris Hilton and pandering to the lowest common denominator, these people are showing us the meaninq of character.

 

[On_the_side]

Just saying ... war crimes committed by the Japanese are abundant and they continue to deny they occured.

It's the primary reason why most Asian nations despise the Japanese. They've taken this incident and many others like this out of their text books.

 

[Cobster]

Let the Japanese whalers go in and help.

 

[OnlySex]

I remember Sam Kinison commenting on a similar occurrence with Chernobyl volunteers. According to him, they were all married guys who found that the nuclear contaminated site heaven compared with the hell that they were enduring with their wives.

 

[FatOne]

Priest, a doctor and an economist are golfing one day and are stuck behind a bunch of really slow players. They are bitching and complaining when one of the guys from up ahead comes back to apologize and explains that one of their team is blind, which is why they are so slow.
Priest is mortified, being a man of god he feels he should have more compassion
Same with the doctor, being a healer.
The economist asks why they couldn't reduce the negative externalities by having him golf at night.

Send the old people in, they will be dead long before any radiation induced cancers developed, as long as they keep the dosage low.