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Michael Gakuran
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Michael Gakuran writes Gakuran, a personal blog at gakuranman.com about culture. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Gakuran's posts on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and the abandoned Gunkanjima (Hashima) island. Comments mostly point to them as sources or places of interest.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thrilling tales of adventure and stories about haikyo, urban exploration and travel off the beaten track from Michael Gakuran in Japan.
What Hacker News says?
Author mentions nuclear/acid rain, there are no reports of this. I'm following NHK as well as more lucid western stories and all of them have the Fukushima reactors as worst case not as bad as Three Mile Island, let alone Chernobyl. For English information about what's going on, there's: http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/2530/japan-earthquake... http://gakuranman.com/great-tohoku-earthquake/#live http://english…
Comment linking /great-tohoku-earthquake/
on “Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake”Submitted Daily Mail Used My Photos Without Permission and Without Payment as a story · 81 points
HN discussionHashima, AKA Gunkanjima or "Battleship Island". The kind of place that exists in dreams. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/1974/1974-html/07-... http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/hashima.php http://gakuranman.com/gunkanjima-ruins-of-a-forbidden-island...
Comment linking /gunkanjima-ruins-of-a-forbidden-island/
on “Earth from Above”Submitted How blogging is changing Public Relations in Japan as a story · 1 points
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