Houston, We Have a Problem!

Is the Foreign Ministry in Japan a foreign interest entity? What about the welfare of Japanese people?

U.S. says submarine leaked radiation in 3 Japan ports

TOKYO (Reuters) – A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine which has steadily been leaking a small amount of radiation for over two years stopped at three Japanese ports, as well as Guam and Pearl Harbor, the United States and Japan said on Thursday.

Japan was notified by the United States last week that the nuclear-powered USS Houston had been leaking water containing a small amount of radiation, but was told at the time that it was unclear when the leak had started.

A statement from the U.S. government on Thursday said the Houston had been leaking radiation from June 2006 to July 2008.

During that time, the Houston docked at the Japanese ports of Yokosuka, 45 km (30 miles) southwest of Tokyo and in the southern island of Okinawa, as well as at Sasebo, 980 km (610 miles) southwest of Tokyo, the U.S. statement said.

The Leaky USS Houston (SSN-713), a Los Angeles-class submarine. They say it is “safe!” USS Houston was launched on 21 March 1981 sponsored by Barbara Bush, wife of then Vice-President of the United States George H. W. Bush. Houston was commissioned on 25 September 1982. (Wikipedia)

Both the U.S. and Japanese governments said the radiation leak was too small to cause harm.

“We do not think that the amount of leakage would have any impact on humans or the environment,” a Japanese foreign ministry official said.

The Houston may have also released a small amount of radioactivity into Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Guam, the U.S. statement said.

The radiation leak is a fresh blow for Tokyo and Washington, which has been planning to station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, the only nation in the world to have suffered nuclear attacks.

Local residents and civic groups expressed concern over the deployment of the USS George Washington after a fire on the nuclear-powered warship in May. They called for more information about that fire.

Japan said the Houston’s radiation leak would not have any impact on the plan to deploy the George Washington at Yokosuka.

“The United States assures strict procedures and prevention systems for nuclear-powered warships coming into port, and Japan is also checking the radiation levels 24 hours a day,” the foreign ministry official said.

The Houston radiation leak caused a big media stir in Japan last week, with the foreign ministry criticized for failing to disclose the leak promptly to the government and the public. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Paul Tait). Copyright the author or respective news agency.

If radiation leaks were a bad thing, why would USS Houston be leaking for 26 months?

Related Links:

• U.S. Navy Fires Captain of Japan-Bound Nuclear Warship

• The Other Victims of GW Bush’s War Racket

Korea: A Culture of Violence?

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Korea is yet another of those countries founded by ‘grandson of the god of heaven,’ or so the myth would have you believe. However linguistic evidence suggests possible Altaic origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian Steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia and China.

Evolution Stops Here:  Weapons, War, Murder

In 1945, United States and Soviet Union militaries invaded the southern and northern parts of the country respectively and established puppet regimes sympathetic to their own ideologies. On June 25, 1950, the North invaded the South at the instigation of Stalin, tacitly approved by Mao Zedong . In the bloody war that ensued, Koreans killed more than 4 million Koreans.

Today, South Korea is concerned not only with North Korea, but also with all of its neighbors namely China, Japan, and Russia, as well as its key ally, the United States.

Taekwondo is a form of martial art that allegedly originated in Korea [where else?] In 1961, the violent ’sport’ became standard military training in South Korea.
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Send your thugs to Okinawa for retaliatory action, Mr Ando!

Send your tiny tikes to Okinawa to do some good, Mr. Ando, they will have plenty to retaliate. Why not teach them to protect the chastity of the local damsels in distress, for starters, instead of condoning their antisocial behavior toward friendly foreigners (see previous post).

One recent survey by a school teacher on Okinawa found a third of his female high school students had been sexually molested by U.S. soldiers, a violation U.S. base officers have often dismissed as ‘flirting, because boys will be boys.’

Since the end of WWII, the livelihood and human rights of Okinawans have been violated by high-level noise pollution from military drills, aircraft accidents, environmental destruction, and crimes committed by U.S. military personnel.

One of the worst postwar crimes committed by US military in Okinawa was the 1955 rape and murder of six-year-old Yumiko. The accused, Isaac J. Hart, was not convicted. In 1995 three US servicemen abducted and gang-raped a 12-year-old girl; however, Japan could not try the accused servicemen at the time of the incident because the US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement gave US soldiers immunity from local laws!

Ishiganto stone (Yomitan, Okinawa) is believed to ward off evil spirits! Public domain photo by Wikipedia User:Fg2
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