# Our Japanese dopers ok?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 15, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512 "2006-11-15T12:25:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/1 "2006-11-15T12:25:38Z")
[A Tsunami warning has been issued for North Japan](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6150538.stm) after a strong earthquake.
The Beeb said a tsunami would be hitting the island of Hokkaido ten minutes ago, isn’t there a doper from there/living there?
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/2 "2006-11-15T12:33:16Z")
Noted that - my first thought is **Hokkaido Brit**.
Fingers crossed that the Japanese defenses will be good enough for a 2 metre wave, but you never know.
[Here’s](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usvcam.php) the USGS page about the quake: no tsunami warning there, which is odd since they come out of Hawaii.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/3 "2006-11-15T12:35:10Z")
Woah - [tsunami warnings issued for Alaska](http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message000596-02.htm). Wake up Alaskan dopers and get to high ground if you’re in one of the danger areas!
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/4 "2006-11-15T12:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm]
Noted that - my first thought is **Hokkaido Brit**
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That’s the fellow I was thinking of. I have a mate out teaching English in Japan, but he’s well inland, an hour’s travel away from Tokyo.
Strange to think that in Japan, an hour’s travel by bullet train means so much more than an hour’s drive or train travel here in Northern Ireland.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/5 "2006-11-15T12:51:33Z")
I was about to start this thread when I got to work this morning (which is now).
Any updates?
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/6 "2006-11-15T12:52:15Z")
Warnings issued for Russia annd Northern and Pacific coasts of Honshu too - but no unusual water movement yet noted according to NHK.
Better safe than sorry, though.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/7 "2006-11-15T12:54:43Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin]
That’s the fellow I was thinking of. I have a mate out teaching English in Japan, but he’s well inland, an hour’s travel away from Tokyo.
Strange to think that in Japan, an hour’s travel by bullet train means so much more than an hour’s drive or train travel here in Northern Ireland.
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Pst, **Pushkin** , Brit’s a lady. If I recall correctly, she went to Japan to teach for a year and caught herself a case of Japanese Husband. Other than that I’m sure she appreciates your concern 🙂
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/8 "2006-11-15T12:57:45Z")
According to NHK:
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> The [Japanese Meteorological] agency says there is a possibility of a destructive tsunami in the following areas: Kuril Islands, North Coasts of Irian Jaya, North Coasts of Papua New Guinea, Mariana Islands, Micronesia, North Coasts of Solomon Islands, Solomon Sea
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### Author:  [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/9 "2006-11-15T13:04:19Z")
I just hope it won’t be something like _The Sinking of Japan_.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/10 "2006-11-15T13:11:41Z")
BBC reports a Japanese source saying the initial wave is 40cm tall and it’s made landfall somewhere I didn’t quite catch.
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/11 "2006-11-15T13:52:42Z")
[QUOTE=Nava]
Pst, **Pushkin** , Brit’s a lady. If I recall correctly, she went to Japan to teach for a year and caught herself a case of Japanese Husband. Other than that I’m sure she appreciates your concern 🙂
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Oops :o 🙂
[The Beeb](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6150538.stm) reports the tsunami as less than a quater of its expected height, so hopefully all’s well.
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### Author:  [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/12 "2006-11-15T14:04:17Z")
From CNN:
**TOKYO, Japan (CNN) – A small 40-centimeter (16-inch) tsunami has hit northern Japan after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake shook the Russian-owned Kuril islands, according to Japan’s Meteorological Agency.**
Phew!
P.S. Does a 40cm wave \*really \* count as a tsunami? Does anyone know a Japanese prefix or suffix that one could add to tsunami to make “tsunami-lite” or “mini-tsunami”? 😃
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/13 "2006-11-15T14:17:12Z")
Tsunamiko sounds like Pig Japanese for “daughter who was made at the beach and it was an eartquake moment by Jolly.”
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### Author:  [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/14 "2006-11-15T15:13:47Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff]
P.S. Does a 40cm wave \*really \* count as a tsunami? Does anyone know a Japanese prefix or suffix that one could add to tsunami to make “tsunami-lite” or “mini-tsunami”? 😃
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T.-chan (anthropomorphically)
T.-kun (ditto)
Chisaii t. (small)
Sukoshi t. (slight or little)
Karui t. (light, in the sense of having little weight, or as for food)
Saishōgen no t. (minimum)
I’m sure someone more familiar with anime would know a better _wasei eigo_ term.
Or was that really, really way too geeky?
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/15 "2006-11-15T15:50:53Z")
Every time I try tp warn Doper of Miscellaneous Geologic Doom™, I get sneered at.
See if I warn you guys next time Gojira rises from the sea! 😛
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/16 "2006-11-15T16:42:11Z")
Genkitsunami! 🙂
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/17 "2006-11-15T17:38:54Z")
What’s next? An 18" Godzilla attack?
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/18 "2006-11-15T17:43:11Z")
Dammit, I’m already two hours too late for the Gojira jokes. Damn you, Bosda. 🙂
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/19 "2006-11-15T18:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537]
What’s next? An 18" Godzilla attack?
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Don’t scoff.
They can really chew up your ankles until the daschunds bring them down.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-dopers-ok/380512/20 "2006-11-15T21:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm]
Genkitsunami! 🙂
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Bless you!
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