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Back in Tokyo after visiting disaster area

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Brian Ferguson said:
I have done 3 shoots in Japan for a couple of Corporate clients. The parts I quoted of your post are very true. In a way they are similar. Japanese are the most orderly, polite people on Earth I believe, and part of that is a very rule oriented bureaucracy.

They turned away Doctors without Borders after the quake because they were not licensed in Japan. They love stamping papers there. But they are the nicest cohesive society on the planet. Their strengths become their weakness sometimes.

Japan is my favorite nation that I have visited in the world. I love Japan, and the people, they have been so kind to me and my crews every time I have been there. From Hokkaido to Fukuoka. I felt so much pain for their suffering from the recent quake.

That such a great country has had so much tragedy. They have treated me so well each time I visited. I knew that was the national spirit. The japanese people are so hospitable, how can you not return the karma that they have given you. I have been to so many unbelievable Japanese locations that to see any of them in disarray gives me heartache.

One of my most memorable experiences was at Hiroshima and the A-Bomb Museum it was very sobering. When I left the exhibit I was in the mall and a young maybe 8 year old Japanese kid with his elementary school group, wanted to practice his English with me. Here was this little boy who had no fear, came up to me when I was totally bummed out about what I had seen,about what happened during the war. Hello mister! Hello, Hello!

All I could think of was my Christian roots was, suffer the little children - that we all should have hearts such as these. It really cheered me up that young hearts are pure. When you are so negative a young person could make you smile.

This is not a country that treats nuclear energy lightly in my view.

I have great hopes for Japan and believe in their future.
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Great post Brian! Hiroshima's Atomic Dome memorial is such a powerful experience to see first hand.

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We will definitely recover here, that's without doubt. It's just a shame it could happen much quicker without all the bureaucracy hampering efforts or trying to save face when they should be putting pride aside to get things done.

It looks like I'm headed to LA next week to record messages of support from Hollywood talent on the 10th and 24th April, so if anyone is in the LA area on those days and would like to help out with donations of facilities, cameras or time please contact me via PM so I can begin to lock things down. I'll make a separate thread post shortly but thought it worth a mention here too.

Cheers from Tokyo,

Paul
 
I'm always entertained by the folks fighting for non-renewable energy sources,
while living on a planet with limited resources bathed by renewable energy.

Sort of like a monkey sitting on a tree sawing a branch under his ass,
and screaming at the ones trying to take the saw away.

Wrong analogy actually. Monkeys don't do that.
 
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