Thanks to Richard Smart for pointing out this Ministry of Justice pdf report on the nationalities and visa status of foreigners coming into and out of Japan just before and after the March 11 quake. I haven’t had too much time to go though this, but here’s the data in a more accessible format if [...]
Visualizing data collected from jaist.ac.jp on the iodine and cesium in the water over the past few weeks, you can see that things are gradually getting back to normal after news of radioactive iodine in the water last week. Levels of cesium 134 and 137 are pretty pretty uniform in comparison.
All levels measured in μGy/h (microgray per hour). Source data from jaist.ac.jp from a monitoring site at Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku. The graph below will auto-update according to the source, though there may be a slight delay. See also: Radiation levels per hour, or some excellent graphics over on Fleep.com/earthquake.
Data collected from TEPCO (CSV) *There may be a delay of 5 minutes before data is updated.
Yesterday I wrote a piece for The Japan Times about a couple of people who were helping make all the confusing radiation data a little less confusing. In that piece I mentioned @eroninjapan’s effort of visualizing the data using Tableau Public, a pretty slick data-viz software. Since then, Ross Perez from the Tableau team has [...]
Here are a few documents from NIRS that were translated piece-by-piece by volunteer translators today and yesterday on Google Docs. Each part was rechecked for accuracy to the source document at that time. Nevertheless, please consider the original documents the authorities as it is possible that it could be changed or revised by NIRS after [...]
See all our earthquake-related posts here. UPDATE: I’ve abandoned my previous news stream and started updating with some other people over at The Japan Times. The embedded module is below. To see old updates from before 7pm, March 16th, go here. [View the story "Selections from coverage of the Tohoku Kanto Earthquake Pt. 2" on [...]
Two days after the quake, life went on as usual in the neighborhood of Itabashi Kuyakushomae where I live. I love my neighborhood, always have since I moved in last September. It’s a quiet little nook with the perfect mix of young and old, singles and families, hair salons and vegetable markets. I was surprised [...]
You can find some great information, updates and translations from this twitter list. Or you can view them below. For Japanese information, @akky recommends this very awesome search query as well as Twitter’s blog post here which includes this list and more info. If you have a suggested addition, let us know in the comments. [...]
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