To what extent is the way of knowing the most useful in determining the significance of the threats of Fukushima Daichi generating plant?

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Youn Jae Lee G11

Theory of Knowledge

To what extent is the way of knowing the most useful in determining the significance of the threats of Fukushima Daichi generating plant?

         The magnitude of 9.0 earth quake from under sea hit the eastern Japan in March 2011. It was the most powerful known earthquake in Japan, called the “Great East Japan Earthquake”. The 128 ft of tsunami struck and swept everything in Tohoku, and people lose their lives and house. Following earth quake, the tsunami attacks the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and caused a number of nuclear accidents, the radiation coming out because of cooling device problem. So, the enormous information about Fukushima Daichi generating plant is overflowing in the world, through mass media such as internet, news, and TV after the great disaster in Japan. However, much invalid information which has not any evidence is come out and create an air of anxiety in the world. Those factors make people difficult to determine what information is valid or not, and makes people unrest. To determine the significance of this event from invalid information, the combination of reason and perception are available to know actual fact and interpretation from the other four ways of knowing.

          In this disaster, the important knowledge issue is the significant information about Fukushima nuclear plant from the Japanese government. The way how Japanese government treats with the information that flood in the world about the generating plants in Fukushima damaged by tsunami is very important to realize the significance of the threats of the Fukushima plants to people.  People in Japan including foreigners were in chaotic situation and worry to survive in this event. After the earthquake, the foods such as rice ball, sandwich, noodles, bread and waters are quickly disappeared and suffered with less food supplies from markets. The videos and photos about earthquake in near Tohoku and the place swept by tsunami were repeated every single day of the week at that time. Lack of detailed information, for example, the spread of nuclear plants into the water makes people surprise and anxious, so people try to buy spring waters. The various issue was over Japan during the chaos, Japanese people followed the rules with having a sense of public order, they bought different type of food one for each to have equal production for each person. Rather than screaming and worrying about the disaster, ‘the people ‘attitude keeping the rules and buying food orderly takes care of people in near eastern of Japan.

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The overflow information about Japan earthquake was issued every single time in Korea mass media, and increased my relative’s apprehension. Without knowing actual situation in Tokyo where is safety place, they called us to come back to Korea, so our family except my father went to Korea for a while. I think it was a wrong emotion caused by exaggerated information from media without searching actual radiation level in Japan. When I watch news in the Korea, I only see the harsh disaster of earthquake, tsunami and high scale of nuclear power plant in the TV program through my eyes. ...

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