
This is the first time that the TAF was cancelled in its nine-year history. However, given the fact that the country just underwent an earthquake that pushed the island of Honshu eight feet to the east, and sped up the planets’ rotation by 1.6 microseconds, it’s beyond justified. This simply isn’t a time for exuberance and pandering to the media. In a time when basic necessities are scarce and the threat of radioactive chaos becomes increasingly dire, the country needs to focus on what’s really important.

At this point, radiation levels are so high that Japan’s Self Defense Force have been dropping water from helicopters to keep reactors cool, and plan on using a high pressure water cannon to cool Reactor 4. The country stopped sending in the Self Defense Force’s ground units, for fear of exposure to high radiation levels.
This is only the top of a list of problems to befall the nation in the past day, which range from Magnitude 4-plus aftershocks in Chiba to evacuation requests from abroad. At the present, we can only hope that this threat can be averted, and Japan as a nation can begin healing, and rebuilding.