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Tony Smyth at Top of Mount Fuji
27 Mar2017

Irasshaimase! Welcome to my blog

March 27, 2017. Written by Tony Smyth. Posted in Blog

The image above is me on the top of Mount Fuji shortly after the sunrise. Note the gloves and hat – even in early September, when it’s hot and humid at ground level, its cold with a nasty wind chill factor on the top of Fuji-san, even after sunrise. It didn’t stop me getting sunburned on the way down though!  You can see more photos of that trek here on my other site Tokyo Tales 365.

This blog will mostly cover themes that occur within my book ‘Fukushima and the coming Tokyo Earthquake: and what it world mean for a fragile world economy’. These include aspects of Japanese culture such as the ‘group mentality’ and conformism, denial, and evasion of taking responsibility. Other themes will include Japans bureaucracy, how Japan started to develop nuclear technology, involvement of the yakuza in clean up operations, earthquakes and tsunami, rebuilding work along the Tohoku coast, fears about radiation levels, citizens returning and being forced to return to contaminated areas near the ruined Dai-ichi plant.

Other themes will talk about Tokyo, both past and present, Japans economy and aging society, the consequences of a large quake hitting the capital, both nationally and internationally.

A third area that will be explored is energy requirements worldwide as oil becomes scarce, the future of nuclear power, renewable energy, global warming and the effects of fossil fuel usage, particularly oil.

In most cases this blog will cover new developments related to these themes. Occasionally I’ll introduce Japanese themes that are unrelated to those in the book, but may be of interest to those with an interest in Japan. The ‘Bubble Era’ or the sarin gas attacks for example. If this of interest to you be sure to bookmark this site.

If you have question or would like to know more about one of these topics feel free to contact me.

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu

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    Allan

    March 28, 2017 at 2:09 am | #

    Looking forward to your book!

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    Tony Smyth

    July 16, 2017 | #

    Hey. Yes its just been finished. Hurrah. BUT I’m off to Europe tomorrow so will release it a few days after I get back. Probably round August 9th. A book launch needs many things coordinated to improve publicity and I can’t do that from Dublin/Berlin. Besides which I’ve been incredibly busy these last 10 weeks, not just physically but mentally. A well earned rest and many pints of Guiness sounds good to me. Thanks for the interest.

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    Jonathan L.

    July 16, 2017 | #

    Hello Tony, I’m kind of curious — any news about the editing on your book?

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    Tony Smyth

    April 27, 2017 | #

    Thanks Jonathan. Its been finished for a while, its just the guy doing the final conversion to ebook format is very busy, hence the delay. It will be out on Kindle first then on Smashwords. In print on Amazon a bit later.
    I’m already researching for the sequel to it which will basically argue that the current economic paradigm is broken and that major change is ahead, whether we like it or not. Provisional title is ‘Inverting the pyramid’ plus it will have some subhead which may come to me as I write it. We live in interesting times.

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    Jonathan L. Seagull

    April 27, 2017 | #

    Your book looks really interesting, I hope you release it on Kindle Unlimited!

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    GJS

    April 21, 2017 | #

    Blog up and running. Keep people informed, this stuff is real and a threat. Looking forward to the book as well.

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