What kind of odds are you getting. One to one I think you still have a
sure bet. I know I wouldn't give those odds.
Hell at eight to five my money still goes on Japan. They will recover God love 'em.

Originally posted by HunkaHunka

Originally posted by FreeSpeaker
As long as the whole island is not blanketed with fallout, then I'm with you.

How would you be able to tell though? With snow all over the island, fallout would be hard to see with the eye

Huh?

You don't see radiation.

I'm refering to the possibility of a major cloud of radiation covering vast amounts of Japan's land making it unihabitable.

Let's have a quick update and see how the "bet" is going:

Japan - Back on top in the auto industry.

Middle East - Calling for the destruction of the Pyramids.

Japan - 1
Middle East - 0

As we can see the advanced culture expressed in Japan has resulted in healing, recovery, and advancement. The retrograde Islamic culture results pain, destruction, and ignorance.

I am still betting on Japan.

I live and interact with the people of Japan daily. Yes, it takes them a while to get it together due to some uniqueness of the culture here. Yet, despite all the problem Japanese society is facing, I still think Japan will pull though somehow. The people here pretty much know what has to be done. There are just some cultural process they need to go though in order to make it happen.

Yet, people here do seem willing to skip some usual, and very traditional, cultural processes in order to move things along.

The biggest problem currently is politics. The politicians are being a stubborn road block to getting anything done. They are really struggling to, not only make wise decisions, but make any decision in general. Noda is making tough decisions and many of his decisions are highly unpopular over here. People really hate this guy.

We got a national election coming up in which the Japanese people will choose a new central government. There are rumors Japan may end up with it`s first minority government in post war history. That might be the wake up call the politicians need.

Hope and pray that Ishihara doesn't get in.