Hotels “Discriminating Against Quake Victims”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 20, 2011 06:03 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Law, Mass Media, Politics
Complaints that Japanese hotels are treating quake victims from Fukushima prefecture as radioactive lepers and refusing them board have surfaced.
Japan’s ministry of health reports receiving a number of complaints from people forced from their homes in Fukushima prefecture, saying they were refused rooms at hotels and inns, apparently on the grounds that they came from the same prefecture as the crippled nuclear reactors and must therefore be considered dangerous.
The ministry is instructing local governments to tell their hoteliers that they should not refuse lodgings to people just because they have visited Fukushima prefecture, pointing out that the radiation levels involved are tiny and pose no risk to human health.
Such discrimination may be illegal under Japanese law, which only allows hotels refusals based on infectious diseases, suspicion of criminality and, of course, lack of room.
However, in practice hotels and landlords happily discriminate against potential patrons with no real legal repercussion, and for those affected is exceptionally difficult to demonstrate mysteriously disappearing vacancies are the result of such practices.
Further complicating matters is the fact that after the quake one large hotel chain has actually begun forcing those who wish to stay in its premises into signing a contract saying they will not sue the hotel for any reason, despite such provisions themselves being illegal.
There are now concerns that Japan may start seeing widespread discrimination against those from Fukushima prefecture, with some evacuation centres now insisting refugees submit to radiation screenings.
Discrimination against Japanese overseas also seems another unpleasant possibility – a number of nations have apparently been subjecting people leaving Japan to radiation tests with the intent of refusing them entry if sufficient radiation is detected.
The case has particular resonance in Japan – “hibakusha,” survivors of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have at times been the subject of discrimination due to the hysterical superstitions the public frequently attaches to radiation.
Online, the reaction has largely been one of disgust, but with the public unable to comprehend the notion that minuscule amounts of radiation are harmless, it does not seem likely the hardships of quake victims will be end with recovery from the earthquake itself.
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Ok, thats simple: landlords out, refugees in!
This is one case I would support some heavy handed government intervention.
Well you know, Japan has a long, proud tradition of discriminating against people they see as 'tainted'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin
Why did I read Burakumin as Black Men?
wow, cannot unsee
They would not be accepting either way.
Caps, outright flaming for no reason.. typical fail trolls.
We simply kill the bat
This is very easy, just say: "You shouldn't care, after all you're already dead!".
What a load of shit. Haven't those people been through enough yet?
Yep.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I would not be surprised if certain countries saw a huge influx of Japanese moving in. I would not look down on them, as they have literally been through hell and back.
What the hell? I thought the Japanese were raised to respect and honor their fellow countrymen?? O_O
Say thanks to the mature, intelligent, and, informed, information provided by the media.
As an aside, discrimination in Japan? I am fucking shocked.
Goes to show how stupid the public at large are.
Trying to stop da Nukular germs from spreading.
*George Bush Seal of Approval*
Children loooove talking about things they can't comprehend, huh, kiddo?
damn right
if those refugees were radioactive enough to put radiation hazard stickers on them they would be dead or more fittingly undead
again i feel shame for being a homo sapiens sapiens
Shove a radioactive isotope up your ass!
Trol fag!
As if the salt scare wasn't enough proof, they involve even their own kind in the mess.
Cowards.
From what I've read the atomic bomb survivors periodically went through similar discrimination.
That they were somehow unclean or contaminated.
Guess the public is still an unthinking mob.
No shit. This is Japan we are talking about. What did you think Japan is like? An open minded society filled with intelligent people?
at least they dont treat 2d loli lover as pedo like the westerns do.
Do they allow men (realistically) to marry actual young females and own them and keep them? I would guess not. See then the man would have a nice obedient servant and can't have that
however they treat otakus like scums and freaks, there always a outcast group with all countries of the world >.>
@ Anon 11L59:- then the US are there little brothers and Europe it big sis :O
A long time ago, people did the same thing about aids victims, and black people. When will they learn?
People in the West learned. Japan is about fifty years behind in these terms though.
Baseless?
In fact, a person can carry amounts of radiation. Not harmful amounts thou in this case.
I guess they don't know how many becerels they "carry". Just a matter of hyseria and stupidity.
SOME people in the West learned. You need to visit some conservative forums to witness some of the ones who didn't.
even so, I don't find anything wrong with testing. A small amount of radiation is fine but the density of radioactive material is still greater the closer you go to the plants. It being safe depends on it distributing through the air. Everyone should be fine but testing would probably be a good idea. I'm not the type that cares about invasions of privacy or insults like that, as long as I'm not kicked out or refuse for something stupid or untrue.
No matter where you are on this planet, there will always be some "bad apples" around.
Thrie, not if we stop allowing the lie of religion to be taught to children.
Don't they know that CAT scans and such give off radiation too? Yet they aren't treating them as radioactive... Hell even your microwave gives off radiation and some older TVs! Even your cell phones! Almost everything electrical gives off some form of radiation.
There was a guy posting on the forums asking if his mail that came from Japan was safe... and that saddens me... Yes the mail is safe and even IF it did it wouldn't be enough to do anything.
Wish people would quit being stupid...
@Gogetters
"There was a guy posting on the forums asking if his mail that came from Japan was safe... and that saddens me... Yes the mail is safe and even IF it did it wouldn't be enough to do anything."
OMG, i LOL so hard I fell off, seriously... sometime stupidity is funny.
People who work in Hotel and Hospitality industry in Japan looks like they failed in Science.
@Gogetters
Yeah, well modern TVs also emit radiation. It's also sometimes refereed to as VISIBLE LIGHT and known to physicicts as electromagnetic waves. The process of emitting EW is called EW radiation or radiation for short.
Microwave ovens don't emit ionizing radiation either. They emit UHF radio waves (a.k.a. microwaves) which are as harmful as the amount of burn damage you can do with them (which also applies to all other EW). It's impossible for such an oven to emit radiation by accident. That would be like trying to power an entire city with a 9V battery. Alpha, Beta and Gama waves are pretty hard to produce, despite what some people would have you believe.
Read carefully, troll. The victims were listed as safe, not your irradiated-omg-must-overreact kind of bullshit.
Not long after the begging of the Undead Infected came to be..
Is this the same dumbass posting again and again?
Yare, yare you must have no lifeXD
Can't blame them for being paranoid.
Can blame the media for exaggerating things up.
I would disagree on both points. Of course you can blame people for staying ignorant, and of course you can blame the media for feeding that fear for profit.
Seriously...
If one unlucky brat shot enough neutrons to become radioactive, this guy is just a dead meat in few minutes ... ;)
Yes, I can blame them for being ignorant and incapable of basic critical thought. Stupid is usually choice, unless you are a retard (as in medical diagnosis, not a petty insult).
I feel it must be corrected. Small amounts of radiation IS in fact dangerous to babies and young people in early development. Phones are very dangerous to developing babies, you just won't find the phone companies sharing those studies. So don't ever pretend that having a little bit of radiations is 'fine' because it's that level of thoughtlessness that has allowed our culture to become so utterly mindless.
BUT. This is just ridiculous. I understand the radiation screenings in general based on the situation there. The radiation even in some metropolitan areas is over 100x what it should be, so yes, these people DO have legitimate concerns. But turning them away because they are from a certain prefecture as some type of 'solution' to any potential issues is just heartless and assholic.
They should all just wear HEV suits, then.
i recommend that cute girls wear the test plug suit from evangelion!
You are fucking retarded. There is ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation......guess what radio-waves are....non-ionizing... unless your sitting under a fucking high wattage ant. (500watts+) it will do nothing to you... non-ionizing only passes energy on to cells, molecules,etc a 5watt cellphone isn't going to cook your insides sigh... The only people that are effected by non-ionizing radiation are people born with electromagnetic hypersensitivity......non-ionizing radiation is given off in microwave ovens at high wattages as an example, and I hope I don't have to explain how a microwave works.
Now then ionizing radiation is the one that damages dna, destroys the structure of molecules, etc. And that's bad for all people. Its worse for kids because they have a smaller surface area. The reason its bad for the elderly is because there natural dna repair systems have gone down in effectiveness....the younger adults have a easier time with radiation because of dna repair.. and a little bit of ionizing radiation wont kill you. Hell the sun gives off ionizing radiation in the form of UV...Ionizing radiation is even one of the key components in mutations for evolution ...and I think humans and other animals have been under the sun for millions of years.....lol
and like everyone said by the time you could "infect" someone with radiation you would already be dead.
I may not be knowledgeable on several aspects of radiation, but only a moron would deny that cell phones are extremely dangerous with long-term use. I don't need to have people tell me it's not true or there are studies funded by phone companies that say it's not true. I can feel it. Every time I use a cell phone my head hurts, and that's not 'normal' or acceptable. Whatever you wish to call it, radiation, radio waves, whatever comes out of the damn thing is harmful over time. I can't talk on them for long periods of time anymore without using speakerphone. So don't pretend they're harmless.
Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you know everything. I had cancer and was treated by people with degrees as well, I still seemed to have more common sense than they did about it. So not to denigrate the work you did to earn said degrees, but degrees mean you can regurgitate. It says nothing about whether or not you can actually think and recognize patterns.
If you're irradiated, you're irradiated. Being in close proximity with people can cause issues even with relatively small amounts to those with weakened immune systems. I'm not saying these people deserve to be treated like lepers if they have a small amount of radiation, because obviously they don't. Small amounts of radiation is a negligible concern in the short term, but so many people are being retards about nuclear radiation, calling it 'media hype' that I wanted to point out the folly of just denying it outright. Recognizing it as the potential threat it is in this situation is just common sense to anyone who's not in denial.
I wouldn't say that guy has a degree probably just read shit off wiki or something off the net, because I too read that same stuff he mentioned a while ago while curiously browsing google :p
So why do the hospitals check Fukushima victims for radioation before even letting them into the building? I'm pretty sure there must be proper scientific reasons for that.
again houselife you are a moron lol pick up a book at your local uni or even fucking wiki it.....you probably have an electromagnetic hypersensitivity...its not the radiation its the electromagnetic field the the device emits that's giving you the head ache....2-5 watts is what a cellphone puts out omni-directionally which means you aren't getting shit for radiation....
sigh...recognizing patterns if you have no background in a field recognizing patterns isn't going to do shit for you correlation does not equal causation fool. Next thing your going to say is astrology is real science
Again radiation is not infectious...sigh the only thing that would be "infectious" is if they had radioactive particles on their skin or clothing...they test for that so they know who needs the decontamination bath
Its people like houselife that spreads misinformation because they feel its right instead of having any scientific facts to back shit up.
And this is why I work in a lab away from stupid people -_-;;...because I want to punch stupid people in the face till my hand breaks...
No. Only a moron would make baseless claims even through all facts point in the opposite direction. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health
Yeah, well people also feel "auras" and "spirits" even through there are no such things. You may want to research on the subject of the "placebo effect" which can make you feel things that don't really exist.
Incidentally, the magnetic waves from your speaker are also generated through electromagnetic waves. You know, that's why they call them electroMAGNETIC.
The human mind recognizes patterns very well. So well, that it recognizes patterns where there are none. Cue for ghost hunters, alien hunters, conspiracy theorists, etc...
Radiation posioning is the DAMAGE from radiation. Radiation doesn't really stick in your body, it's really, really fast. By the time you blink, it has already come and gone 100 times over.
Then you may want to start with recognizing the threat of background cosmic radiation which is showering you all day long. And part of that radiation is ionizing, the kind that destroys your DNA and causes radiation sickness/death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwmpdFJijn8
25% cell phone radiation penetration into adults brain, 50% 10 years old brain and 75% penetration in 5 year old skull.
I was only able to find that it increases brain activity and causes brain cells to multiply more, but that there is no proof that that is a bad thing. Although I would think altering the brain activity of an infant would be bad for brain development.
just because radiation penetrates the body doesn't mean shit it depends on type and the output power...hell all kinds of weak radiation penetrates the human body on a daily basis a lot of it comes from space...we are not made out of lead...
Remember the old Laurel and Hardy shorts where Stanley would get hit on the head with a brick and there would be no reaction until 15 minutes later. I believe it's the same phenomenon.
@18:12 I believe it's called electromagnetic hypochondria.
Or rather, I just made that term up but it describes him perfectly.
Oh, btw I'm a clinical lab scientist and also have a degree in electronics/radio technology
Here:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
Get some education.
PS: The irony of your avatar.