メード・イン・秋葉原

4月30日(土)快晴 

昔から電気と言えば秋葉原。メードはいなかったけど、オタクは昔から群れていました。中学生の僕も鉱石ラジオに凝ってパーツ屋通い。1950年代の話です。電気街なのに、当時のパーツ屋はどこも照明はアセチレン・ランプ。手作りの無線機や録音機を叩き売りする店もありました。

 

ポップ・カルチャー

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Maid in Akihabara

Sat. April 30 : fine

Since early times the electrics have always been in Akihabara. There were no maids earlier but crowds of fan-boys. When I was a junior high school boy I used to be into crystal set and come to some electric-part shops. It’s an old story from back in 1950s. All the electric-part shops in those days lit acetylene lamps even if there were located in the middle of the electrics shop town. There were also cheapjack shops that sold hand-made radios set or recorders. 

 

pop culture

 

 

 

東大もと暗し

4月29日(金)快晴 

 

実は都内には少なくとも6基の原子炉があります。東大、立教大、東京都市大、日立、東芝、三菱の実験炉。規模は小さいのですが立派な原子炉。どれも旧式で安全性に問題があります。廃炉の技術が確立していないので行き場所がなく、住宅街に置かれたまま。住民は原子炉があることさえ知りません。

 

 

東大門

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Dark spot around Tokyo University

Fri. April 29 : fine

To tell you the truth, there are at least 6 reactors in Tokyo; experimental reactors of Tokyo Uni, Rikkyo Uni, Tokyo-toshi Uni, Hitachi, Toshiba and Mitsubishi. All those are small scale but still they are real. Being old-fashioned, each one has problems about its safety. As the decommission technique is not completed yet those reactors have nowhere else to go but being kept in the residential areas. The residents are not even aware of the fact that there’s a reactor near them.

 

Tondaemun

ホテル・サンルート有明

4月28日(木)晴  

有明には国際展示場があり、2つの大きなホテルもあります。付近に住人はいないし、日本に来る外国人もいないので全くの無人地帯。ホテルも空き室だらけ。シングルの広い部屋が1泊3,900円。あたりは都内で1番放射線の強い地域。立地条件的には魚市場よりむしろ原発かな？

 

豊洲・市場前

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Hotel Sunroute Ariake

Thu. April 28 : fine

 

There is an international exhibition hall and also two big hotels in Ariake. No one lives around there and no foreigners visit Japan now so Ariake is being completely no-man land. Most rooms are empty in my hotel. One night in a spacious single room is $44. The radioactivity is most exposed in this area among Tokyo. Why don’t you build the extremely safe reactor here rather than moving the Tokyo Fish Market?

Toyosu Market station

♪東京に1つ、銀座に1つ

4月27日（水）曇 

 

今日から日本へ。飛行機はガラ空き。東京や大阪行きのカンタスの乗務員たちは日本に泊まらず、香港のホテルに宿泊しているとか。銀座を通ってタクシーでホテルへ。節電中というけど豪州に比べると随分明るい。悲惨な東北に比べ不公平。受益者の東京にも原発を！ 

 

一人旅

 

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♪Only one in Tokyo, only one in Ginza

Wed. April 27 : fine

I’ve been in Tokyo since today. All the flights heading to Japan have been virtually-empty. I hear that Qantas crews flying to Tokyo or Osaka are not staying in Japanese hotels but in Hong Kong. I headed to my hotel passing through the town of Ginza. Although Tokyo is saving electricity it’s still extremely brighter than Australia. Comparing to miserable Tohoku it’s quite unfair. Reactors should be built in Tokyo, the town of beneficiary.

lonly trip

 

 

 

チェルノブイリ事故から25年

4月26日（火）快晴  

1986年のこの日に爆発炎上。旧ソ連の真相隠しで人的被害は不明。半径30kmは今なお立ち入り禁止。500の町が消え、40万人が永久避難。放射能漏れは10日で終息し、その後原子炉は石棺化。石棺の耐用年数は30年と言われ、既に放射能が再漏出中。今後55年間、2065年まで除染の予定。

女川原発

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25 years since Chernobyl accident

Tue. April 26 : fine

It exploded in flame on the day of 1986. The actual circumstances of human victims are unclear by former Soviet Union who covered up the truth. The site within a 30km radius is still being off- limits now. 500 towns have been disappeared and 400,000 people have evacuated there eternally. The radiation leak stopped 10days later and the reactor was shut into the stone coffin later. The durable period is estimated to be 30 years and radioactive has already leaked again. They will decontaminate it for the 55years, until 2065.

Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant

クレオール・クワイア

4月25日（月）快晴

 

キューバのクレオール語で歌う男女5人ずつのコーラス・グループがケアンズに。ディープで、ブルージーで、ファンキーな音楽スタイルは必見。ところで過去25年間に、甲状腺癌、白血病などに罹患した子供など約25,000人のチェルノブイリの被曝者がキューバで治療を受けました。

 

クレオール・クワイア

 

老人と海

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Creole Choir

Mon. April 25 : fine

The Cuban Creole chorus group consisted by 5 male and 5 female singers have came to Cairns. You don’t want to miss their deep, bluesy and funky music style! By the way, during the past 25 years, 25,000 Chernobyl radiation victims including children suffered from thyroid cancer or leukemia have been treated in Cuba.

Creole Choir

 

The Old Man and the Sea

 

ウオンバット

4月24日（日）快晴 

「となりのトトロ」のモデルと言われるウオンバットもイースター・バニーの代理。3人寄れば文殊の知恵。敦賀にある、放射性廃棄物のプルトニウムを燃料とする夢の高速増殖炉「もんじゅ」はトラブル続きで15年間も運転休止中。悪質な事故隠しがばれて、責任者の自殺という極めて日本的な幕引き。 

ウオンバット

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Wombat

Sun. April 24 :fine

It is said that wombat is the model of “My Neighbor Totoro” and it is also a substitute of Easter Bunny. A Japanese maxim says “Three heads yields God Monju’s wisdom”. The ideal fast breeder reactor, Monju in Tsuruga that burns radio-active waste, plutonium to use as the fuel has been out of operation for the last 15 years, having series of troubles. After having some vicious hiding of troubles came out, the manager killed himself. That is an extremely typical Japanese style ending.

wombat

 

 

 

バンディクート（袋兎）

4月23日（土）快晴 

豪州ではウサギは害獣。イースター・バニーのピンチヒッターは蟻塚の下に巣穴を掘るバンディクート。地震のないフィンランドでは地下500mに世界初の廃棄物の最終処分場を建設中。10万年後まで廃棄物を密閉貯蔵する計画。建設費も管理費も想像を絶する巨額。原発は不採算。負担を子孫に先送り。日本の赤字国債と同じです。 

フクロウサギ　

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Bandicoot

Sat. April 23 : fine

A rabbit is the noxious animal in Australia. A bandicoot that digs holes under the termite tower is sent in as a pinch hitter to be the Easter Bunny. In the earthquake-free country, Finland they have been building the world’s first final disposal site of radioactive waste 500m under the ground. Their plan is to keep the waste airtight for 100,000 years. Its building and maintenance costs are unimaginably huge. Nuclear power plants are unprofitable. The charge and responsibility will be imposed on the descendants – just like Japanese debt-covering bond. 

bandicoot

 

 

イースター（復活祭）

4月22日（金）快晴  

本日よりイースター休暇。福島は復活できるか？原子力発電はトイレのないマンションと言われます。放射性廃棄物の最終処分技術は未完成。日本では行き場所のない使用済み核燃料を原子炉の上のプールに貯蔵。だから事故が起こると深刻。原子炉の事故が連鎖反応を起こし、復活は困難になります。 

イースター島の衰亡 

受難の日　

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Easter

Fri. April 22 : fine

 

Easter holiday has started from today. Can Fukushima revive? Nuclear power plant is called “the condo without a toilet.” The final disposal technique of radioactive waste has not been completed yet. In Japan the radioactive waste is kept in the pool on the top of the reactor.　So if some kind of accident happens, it becomes very serious. A chain reaction will start off and the revival will become difficult. 

decline of Easter Island 

Passion Day　

 

豪州の電力

4月21日（木）快晴 

 

豪州のエネルギーは自由市場なので消費者は供給会社を選択できます。政府やエネルギー会社は節電や節水をＰＲ。太陽光発電には政府資金の援助があります。オール電化住宅が多いけど、ＯＺは冷暖房の乱用を避け、衣類乾燥機より天日干し、浴槽よりシャワー、電灯よりキャンドルを好み、早寝早起きです。

 

 

豪州エネルギー事情

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Australian electricity

Thu. April 21 : fine

Consumers can select their suppliers because Australian energy market is open. The government and energy companies publicize the electricity and water saving. The government gives capital support to solar energy generation. Most houses are all-electric, however, OZs avoid abusing the air-conditioners. They prefer sun drying to the dryer, showers to bathtubs and candles to electric lights. They go to bed early and get up early.

 

circumstance of Australian energy

♪どうせ私を騙すなら、騙し続けて欲しかった

4月20日（水）曇

 

市職員が海岸通りの植え込みを剪定。根元から切り落とすので剪定直後は丸刈り状態ですが、あっという間に新芽を出して、1カ月で元の姿に。「原発被災地は20年間人が住めない」発言に「人の心が分かっていない」と非難が集中。政治家は嘘が大切。嘘でも信じたい、甘い言葉が欲しい。そんな国民性。

 

丸刈り

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♪I wish you would have cheated me eternally

Wed. April 20 : cloudy

 

Municipal workers have trimmed shrubberies along Esplanade. As they cut down plants on their elementary part all the plants are clipped short just after the trimming, however, they sprout quickly to form their former feature within a month. The Prime Minister said “No one can live in the disaster areas of reactor accident for 20 years” and lots of Japanese accused him saying, “He does not understand humanism.” Telling a lie is important as a politician. People wish to believe a good thing only even if it is a lie. They just want sweet words. That is a Japanese nation.

clipped short

ダブル・アイランド（2人の島？）

4月19日（火）曇  

29日に挙式する英国のウイリアム王子夫妻の新婚旅行先？携帯やＴＶはない島ですが 1泊17,500ドル（170万円）。王子は14歳の時ダイアナ妃と一緒に滞在しているし、先日もサイクロン「ヤシ」の見舞でケアンズの南の町に来たばかり。ブラッド・ピットやキアヌ・リーブスも泊っています。 

ダブル・アイランド

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Double Island

Tue. April 19 : cloudy

Is this the honeymoon destination of Prince William who is getting married on April 29? There are not cell phones or TVs on this island but it costs $17,500 per night. The prince stayed here with his mother, Princess Diana when he was 14 years old. He just visited the south towns of Cairns for an inquiry of Cyclone Yasi several days ago. Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves have stayed here as well.

 

Double Island

 

 

アシスタシア（赤道桜草）

4月18日（月）快晴  

素朴な春の山野草のフタリシズカ（2人静）そっくり。名もなく貧しく美しく。原発事故で国土が狭くなり、経済活動が停滞しても仕方のないこと。安全と健康が第一。官民学とメディアの「100年に1度の大地震、大津波」というデマに惑わされず、東海大地震と浜岡原発事故に備えるべきです。 

東北の山野草　

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Asisutasia

Mon. April 18 : fine

Aasisutasia looks very similar to a kind of Japanese simple wild flower from spring, Chloranthus serratus. No fame, no fortune but beauty. The reactor accident will make the country narrower and the economy cannot help but stagnate. Safety and health are the top priority. You should be prepared for the Tokai Great Earthquake and Hamaoka reactor accident without being misled by the demagogy being spread by the official, private and academic sector and also media, “This earthquake and tsunami attacks are once-in-a-hundred-year disaster.”

wild flower in Tohoku

 

日本支援バザー

4月17日（日）快晴

 

ケアンズの多くのレストランや商店ではレジに日本支援の募金箱。あちこちの教会では日曜ごとに日本の被災者のために祈りが捧げられ、青物市場でも支援バザーが行われています。ワーホリの若者たちが古着や古本を売っています。衣類は女物しかないので、1冊2ドル（180円）の古本を10冊購入。

 

モロッコのバザー

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Japan aid bazaar

Sun. April 17 : fine

A lot of restaurants and shops have settled the collection boxes for supporting Japan on their cash desks. People prey in churches for Japanese victims every Sunday. Japan aid bazaar is being held at green market as well. Working holiday makers sell their second-hand clothes and books. As there were only ladies’ clothing I bought 10 2-dollar books. 

 

bazaar in Morocco

地産地消の大切さ

4月16日（土）快晴

 

飛行場の近くに地産マーケットがオープン。シティーの青物市場は週末3日間の営業ですが、ここは平日も営業。営業品目は青物、食肉、魚介。豪州東海岸の北外れにあるケアンズは洪水でしばしば孤立します。何はなくともライフラインと食料。そう言えば、ケアンズは豪州の東北だった。関東の電力も地産地消を！

 

八戸の魚市場

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The local consumption of locally produced goods

Sat. April 16 : fine

 

A market that sells local products has opened near the airport. While the green market in City is open 3 days at the weekend, this new one is open 7 days a week. They sell vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. As Cairns is located far-north of east coast in Australia it is often cut off by floods. The most important things are nothing but lifeline and food. Yes, Cairns is Tohoku ,or north east in Australia. The electricity consumed in Tokyo should be produced locally.

 

fish market in Hachinohe