Guns, Germs and Steel
No, I'm not referring to the Pulitzer-prize winning book. Rather, this is what I can see just by looking outside the window of the junior high school staff room. Crazy, eh?
It seems the Japanese army is conducting field exercises in Ikata this week. Essentially, this means you can see lots of young men in military fatigues running around town (yes, I like this even better than when the firemen practice their drills out there!!!) They even set up tents on the JHS baseball field last night. Comically, this is the same week that the nulear power plant decided to conduct safety training drills and educational outreach in the community. So, yesterday at 11:30am, in addition to the fifty or so army officers running drills on the baseball field, there were about twenty or so nuclear scientists in full chemical/biological jackets and masks. I swear, it was a like a scene from a bad movie.
Never a dull moment around here.
It seems the Japanese army is conducting field exercises in Ikata this week. Essentially, this means you can see lots of young men in military fatigues running around town (yes, I like this even better than when the firemen practice their drills out there!!!) They even set up tents on the JHS baseball field last night. Comically, this is the same week that the nulear power plant decided to conduct safety training drills and educational outreach in the community. So, yesterday at 11:30am, in addition to the fifty or so army officers running drills on the baseball field, there were about twenty or so nuclear scientists in full chemical/biological jackets and masks. I swear, it was a like a scene from a bad movie.
Never a dull moment around here.
posted by Angie @ 11:13 PM
1 Comments:
At 2:16 PM,
JJP said…
The army dudes are part of the safety week thing. The SDF is a key component of nuclear disaster relief and all that. I always thought it was strange to see Japanese military men, since most of the men I saw in their working years were pretty soft around the middle and not tough at all.
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