On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:25 AM, 'CuSO4' Yung wrote:

> In her blog, Momoi said since she spent many hours in Akiba in her
> early part of the live (read : not lately), she went to offer flowers
> in front of SoftMap.
>
> When she was offering flowers and praying for the dead, many media
> people took photos/videos of her.  She asked them not to do that
> several times, but the media kept pressing, and asked if she was the
> victim's family or friend.  She had to run away from the scene, and
> some of the media still chased her for a couple of blocks.

They knew who she was (the media), right? It would seem odd for them  
to be harassing her for the hell of it, no? For them to take pics and  
ask her questions, unless they were doing that for everyone there,  
it's a bit odd (unless they had an idea on who she was).

> IMHO, I think the media will not keep pressing her with questions if
> she did not ask them not to photographing/videoing her.......

Maybe, maybe not. I mean, I think they were already asking her  
questions before she asked them to stop taking pics and vids? Then  
again, media is media, regardless of where one is in the world. It's  
hard to judge the situation without having seen it.

> PS2. During this morning's Iwate-Miyagi Inland M7.2 Earthquake,
> Stephen and I was in Hyogo-prefecture, and we did not feel anything.
> We only knew what had just been happened when all TV stations
> immediately switched to live broadcast of the earthquake.


Hyogo is pretty far away from the earthquake, though, isn't it? It  
would have been difficult to feel and realize that it was an  
earthquake. I can imagine what it's like in that area; my thoughts go  
out to the people that have been affected tragically by the earthquake.

--Tim