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Is traveling to Japan dangerous due to radiation?
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Buba Big Guns
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As someone who works in nuclear and with radiation experts, this makes me laugh 
Air Zombie Meat
Member
This forum is so easy to troll.
cosmicspooks
Member
Obviously yeah totally safe to visit Japan.
But people shouldn't be afraid to even visit Fukushima prefecture! Only a small area around the plant is a problem, and the rest of Fukushima (which is big--I'm a solid 70km away from the plant) rules!
But people shouldn't be afraid to even visit Fukushima prefecture! Only a small area around the plant is a problem, and the rest of Fukushima (which is big--I'm a solid 70km away from the plant) rules!
The Spoony Hou
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Wyndstryker
Member
Sadly things like this goes beyond the forum...
BudokaiMR2
Member
I've been waiting for my super powers to manifest but I just don't know even more.
Pretty sure my goddamn (((SOROS))) check will get here before that happens!
Pretty sure my goddamn (((SOROS))) check will get here before that happens!
You should really reconsider, OP. I had a wonderful time during my trip a few years ago and you probably would as well. As everyone else has said, it's safe. The food's safe. Seriously. Frankly I'm confused why you're putting more stock in one Trip Adviser comment than all the comments here.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Just go to Japan first, the Godzilla radiation should mutate your body so that you'll eventually be able to withstand the black plague. The terrorists might still get you though.
SlickShoes
Member
I would like your advice, but I will disregard all of it.
What an odd stance to take, Japan is fine.
What an odd stance to take, Japan is fine.
Wow. I lost brain cells reading this thread and the OP's addition to it.
This is not how radiation works. You will get more radiation flying in a plane than you will getting inside the danger zone in fukushima.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-s-safe-return-fukushima-study-suggests
To put it in context, you're getting about 5 millisieverts every time you take a long plane trip. The above is ground zero over a lifetime.
This is not how radiation works. You will get more radiation flying in a plane than you will getting inside the danger zone in fukushima.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-s-safe-return-fukushima-study-suggests
To put it in context, you're getting about 5 millisieverts every time you take a long plane trip. The above is ground zero over a lifetime.
If that's your stance, nothing in your house better be Made in China either
Going to actually recommend that OP does not go to Japan.
Reason being that as a human adult they are more than likely going to develop a form of cancer one day in the future. If this happens to OP after them going to Japan then everyone someone mentions the place OP will be like
I was persuaded to go there fifty years ago by the Neogaf. Now I have butt cancer. Thanks the Neogaf.
Reason being that as a human adult they are more than likely going to develop a form of cancer one day in the future. If this happens to OP after them going to Japan then everyone someone mentions the place OP will be like
I was persuaded to go there fifty years ago by the Neogaf. Now I have butt cancer. Thanks the Neogaf.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
no but seriously I'd go to japan to buy some children's pretend-play toys and their collectibles and their delicious snackstuff
You're joking, and if you aren't then that's just awful. But this isn't a laughing matter for me since I work and live with people who were directly affected by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
Also you post with a JoJo avatar, Araki's hometown of Sendai was one of the main cities that took the brunt of that disaster.
I'm honestly sick and tired of people just spouting nonsense about this and gloss over you know the more important stories, the people and the places that were affected by that earthquake and tsunami.
I'm out of this thread.
The difference between this an anti-vaxxing (which I'm not btw, I'm completely pro-vaccine) is that you can scientifically determine that vaxxing doesn't cause autism because we have data. We won't have data on Japan's long term effects from radiation for a long time.
I'm extremely risk-adverse (I also cut down a lot of red meat because recent studies have shown even a little bit increases the chance of cancer). So even though I agree with all of you that Japan is probably safe, I still choose not to take that chance.
TatteredHat
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edit: I'm just gonna go with troll thread instead, this is too obvious.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
So you are one of those OP...
Lol at the 1% risk. Dont get out of your house then, because the probabilities of dying are there. In fact, dont stay home either, you could also die there. Start saving for a bubble before death comes after you.
Just read the red meat part... buhahahahahaha. You are fucking scared of cancer it seems. Guess what, even trying to not get cancer, theres a high chance you will get it in your life time. The only thing you can do is go to checks regularly, and stop it before its too late if you get ot at the end. And im saying this as someo e whos father had cancer and probably I will get also.
Thats an adivise for nearly all the popular theme parks in the world though. Not only tokyo DisneySEA.
Lol at the 1% risk. Dont get out of your house then, because the probabilities of dying are there. In fact, dont stay home either, you could also die there. Start saving for a bubble before death comes after you.
Just read the red meat part... buhahahahahaha. You are fucking scared of cancer it seems. Guess what, even trying to not get cancer, theres a high chance you will get it in your life time. The only thing you can do is go to checks regularly, and stop it before its too late if you get ot at the end. And im saying this as someo e whos father had cancer and probably I will get also.
Thats an adivise for nearly all the popular theme parks in the world though. Not only tokyo DisneySEA.
Why have you not commented on the fact that background radiation in New York is higher than Tokyo?
Are you also never travelling to Europe?
Are you never taking a plane again?
I don't think there is a single government issuing a warning to their citizens about avoiding Japan due to radiation. Maybe they would point out the Fukushima area, but that's not likely a place a visitor would end up unless they specifically were interested in disaster sights.
depths20XX
Member
OP is clearly just a disingenuous troll who never had the means or real planning to go to Japan in the first place and decided to make a dumbass thread.
As a Brit, seeing what DisneyLand looked like in Tokyo during a school holiday... I had a real Haurhi moment (wow there are a lot of people in the world).
Exiting the station to say, Harajuku on the weekend was far more crowded than waiting in line to a Bruno Mars concert over here.
The advice is similar, but it's on a whole other level.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Belgium, obviously.
Yea, I totally wasn't planning a trip to Japan before this thread. /s
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=233977882#post233977882
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=233987788#post233987788
TBiddy
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Making two posts about something you want to do isn't planning a trip. Besides, if you really wanted to go, you'd go.
My man,
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=h.....69i57j0l5.6254j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
You have been told time and time again about how wrong you are about the safety. This is a country where people eat raw foods regularly and have the 2nd highest life expectancy in the world and 3rd lowest child mortality rate.
Japan is pretty much THE safe af country outside of natural disasters, which you shouldn't worry about even in the slightest.
I saw this scene before I went to Japan and thought "wow, she's silly".
Then I saw it for myself and went... o_o
As someone working in the same field it makes me weep rather than laughAs someone who works in nuclear and with radiation experts, this makes me laugh
ATXAlchemy
Member
I went to Disney Sea while on a business trip in 2015.
I can now breathe underwater due to gills growing on my armpit. DO. NOT. GO.
Don't hide the fact about your extra ear. I think it's time we stop hiding, show ourselves to the world, and join Magneto.
I can now breathe underwater due to gills growing on my armpit. DO. NOT. GO.
Don't hide the fact about your extra ear. I think it's time we stop hiding, show ourselves to the world, and join Magneto.
SlickShoes
Member
Seriously though, how was the park? Worth visiting?
TastyBread
Member
Went last year (Tokyo, Kyoto), absolutely loved it, as a brit, 2 things stood out to me. The people are just so upbeat and cheerful and nice compared to what I'm used to. And we rarely saw any bins, but it was spotless, so damn clean.
The next time I go I want to do a more countryside/temples/food exploring type of a thing.
Also quiet trains!
The next time I go I want to do a more countryside/temples/food exploring type of a thing.
Also quiet trains!
You aren't going to like this news but in the 1980's some radiation thing happened....
So that's why North West England is shit
show me your skeleton
Member
it is, they are doing this for political, not health, reasons.
depths20XX
Member
Yes, these two posts about DisneySea totally prove how serious you were about going there. So serious in fact that you decided not to go because there might be a 1% chance that you could get some radiation in you or something.
