Is Japan done for by the todays earthquake?

[PCHeintz72]

I wonder if that was the plant that had some minor glitches in the computers on New Years at the start of the millenium... it forced them to do a clean shutdown. IIRC my understanding was no actual damage occurred.

[Spokavriel]

No damage to the reactor but the building it was in all the outside walls and roof are now gravel from the support equipment that blew up.

I would believe the Wrath of God but it would IMO be over the fact Japan has laws that do not allow their citizens to protect themselves. Not even knives. But that's still trying to guess the mind of god and well there are allot of kami that could be thought of as contributing to this without going with kaiju.

[Uldihaa]

ANN has a list of confirmed anime, manga, and videogame notables up.

Looks to be a combination of Twitter and blog posts being used to 'find' them.


EDIT: Confirmed survivors.

[Spokavriel]

Confirmed status? Confirmed survivors? Confirmed Dead?

[Circe]

Confirmed status? Confirmed survivors? Confirmed Dead?

Confirmed survivors, from the looks of it.

[Spokavriel]

Some are green some are black. ::sigh:: And neither at the top nor bottom do they provide a key. But having both Green and Blue links it makes you think the Green has to have significance. Good to have a list. Could have been better if it were more clear in what it was saying.

[Uldihaa]

"The following members of the anime, manga, game, and related industries have checked in via Twitter or other social networking sites to report being alive and well after the March 11 earthquake (Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin): "

[KonokoHasano]

Despite all of the destruction, I strongly believe that Japan will be able to rebuild. It might take a long while, but I still believe they can do it.

[Dumbledork]

Most of the mangaka live in Tokyo, I believe, so there probably won't be that many missing if any.

[Dumbledork]

Here's a list of mangaka that have survived.

Aguri Igarashi
Ai Shimizu
Ai Yasawa
Akemi Takada
Aki Kanada
Aki Toyosaki
Akio Watanabe
Akira Amano
Akira Ishida
Akira Toriyama
Arina Tanemura
Asami Shimoda
Atushi Kousaka
Atsushi Ohkubo
Aya Endo
Aya Hisakawa
Aya Hirano
Ayahi Takagaki
Ayumu Asakura
Bisco Hatori
Chako Abeno
Chihiro Suzuki
Chika Umino
CLAMP
Daisuke Kishio
Daisuke Namikawa
Daisuke Ono
Echiro Oda
Emiri Kato
Eri Kitamura
Fumiko Orisaka
Go Inoue
Gosho Aoyama
Haruka Tomatsu
Hayao Miyazaki
Hidekaz Himaruya
Hideo Ishikawa
Hikari Midorikawa
Hinako Takanaga
Hiroki Yasumoto
Hiroshi Kamiya
Hiroya Oku
Hiroyuki Takei
Hozumi Gōda
Humikane Shimada
Hyouta Fujiyama
Jun Fukuyama
Jun Mochizuki
Junichi Suwabe
Junko Mizuno
Junko Takeuchi
Kana Ueda
Kanetake Ebikawa
Kanon Wakeshima
Kappei Yamaguchi
Katsuyuki Konishi
Kazue Kato
Kazuhiko Inoue
Kazuya Minekura
KENN
Ken Akamatsu
Kenishi Suzumura
Kenji Kamiyama
Kenta Miyake
Kia Asamiya
Kikuko Inoue
Kishô Taniyama
Kiyohiko Azuma
Koge Donbo
Kouichi Yamadera
Kouta Hirano
Kurea Aida
Lily Hoshino
Madhouse Studios
Mami Kosuge
Mamiko Noto
Mamoru Hosoda
Mamoru Miyano
Masashi Kishimoto
Masaya Onosaka
Masakazu Morita
Marina Inoue
Maaya Sakamoto
Mayu Shinjo
Mayumi Aida
Megumi Hayashibara
Megumi Nakajima
Megumi Ogata
Mel Kishida
Mick Takeuchi
Minako Kotobuki
Minori Chihara
Mitsuki Saiga
Miyu Irino
Nao Yazawa
Natsuki Takaya
Natsume Ono
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Noriaki Sugiyama
Urobuchi Gen
Rei Hiroe
Reno Amagi
Rica Fukami
Rica Matsumoto
Rie Kugiyima
Rie Tanaka
Romi Park (Paku)
Ryohgo Narita
Ryotaro Okiayu
Ryuji Gotsubo
Satoshi Tajiri
Sayaka Ohara
Shinichiro Miki
Shouichiro Hoshi
Shoutaro Morikubo
Tadashi Agi
Taiten Kusunoki
Takagi Motoki
Takahiro Fujimoto
Takahiro Mizushima
Takahiro Sakurai
Takeharu Ishimoto
Takehito Koyasu
Tamiki Wakaki
Temari Matsumoto
Tite Kubo
Tokokazu Sugimura
Tomokasu Seki
Tomokazu Sugita
Tsubasa Yonaga
Tohru Fujisawa
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Touko Akiba
Ume Aoki
Usamaru Furuya
Yana Toboso
Yasuhiro Nightow
Yoko Hisaka
Yoko Kanno
Yoshitoshi ABe
Yui Horie
Yukako Kabe
Yukari Higa
Yukari Tamura
Yuki Kaida
Yuki Kamatani
Yun Kouga
Yuuichi Nakamura
Yuu Asakawa
Yuuki Kaji

[CRBWildcat]

Just one disaster after another... blast it.

[Wyrd]

There is something a bit more on topic to talk about. It sounds like the cooling systems on one of the Nuclear Power plants is running out of power. I'm hoping it has a solid automated system to shut it down if that power gets lost before they can re-establish that part of the grid. I haven't heard why they cannot use the Power Plant's own power to power the coolant systems though.

I've found out the answer to this one. Normally, the reactor does power its own pumps, but it was automatically shut down when the quake was detected to reduce the possibility of a melt down. If things had happened like they were supposed to, the reactor would have been thoroughly inspected for damage before being brought online. However, first the external power backup for the pumps failed, then the diesel engine back-up generators failed, then the battery back-ups failed, and they had to switch to external pumps to pump in seawater mixed with boric acid to cool things off and forcibly and permanently shut the reactor down. At this point, it is no longer possible for that reactor to be restored to a functional state without being completely rebuilt, though some of the support systems may be salvageable.

Essentially, the system had three redundant backups, all of which failed. Not even Starfleet requires quadruple redundancy .

[Crescent Pulsar R]

In other words, it's full of fail. Were all of those safety measures made in China, or what?

[Spokavriel]

Actually considering the age of that particular facility Those "Safety measures" were probably implemented with equipment Made in USA in reaction to the Chernobyl disaster. Its a plant that is that old.

[Wyrd]

In other words, it's full of fail. Were all of those safety measures made in China, or what?

Did you know that there was a nuke dropped on American soil? I forget how long ago it was, but three of the four failsafes preventing it from being dropped by accident or going off failed. Only one failsafe stayed intact, with the bomb buried deep enough that they were terrified they might trigger the bomb in the process of digging it up. Some times, no matter how prepared you think you are, nature/reality/God/whatever likes to rub your face in the fact that you are never completely prepared.