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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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1. Japan's holidays are somewhat different than our holidays

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Thu May 3, 2012, 01:14 PM

May 2012

And on May 5th, the day they shut down the last plant, they will be celebrating "Children's Day".

http://www.infomapjapan.com/japanese_holidays.phtml

It is too bad they will almost certainly be restarting most of them.

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Anxious Japan prepares for life without nuclear power [View all] jpak May 2012 OP

Japan's holidays are somewhat different than our holidays kristopher May 2012 #1

This may compel the Japanese into moving the ball that we dropped. immoderate May 2012 #2

They've done remarkably well on the conservation side. Nihil May 2012 #3

Well, it has happened; they've shut down their last reactor. kristopher May 2012 #4